I think we needed this to clear up a few things and I know alot of quitters post in here

Really it came down to gameplay. Playing a ranger that is designed for long range attacks, and being more of a lone wolf type character, is kind of hard to play when you hit 80. Everything is a raid dungeon then or an elite dungeon. The elite thing was really stupid, since if you like to solo yer kind of screwed.

As for the PVP aspect, soloing is great, of course when I left, it still wasn't working correctly.

No end game content and PVP that is actually worthwhile (guild vs. guild, etc.) makes a dull game.

Uhh.. I would play if i had a gfx card that could run it?

I did not ever leave, but if I am going to talk about what I think was most annoying, then that would be the Out of Memory errors and some of the now fixed bugs.

As I said in the other post I quit the first month due to bugs. The game would constantly crash or I would get that evil 10k something something lag spike. It got to frustrating to play.

Came back late November early December and was night and day. I enjoy the game now.

I'd have to say it was the fact I was level 80 in two weeks and had absolutly nothing to do but pvp because the end game "raids" sucked so bad that crafted gear was 300x better in stats, on top of that i was a PoM and being as my healing spells were as good as health pots upset me.

Originally posted by pronet

I'd have to say it was the fact I was level 80 in two weeks and had absolutly nothing to do but pvp because the end game "raids" sucked so bad that crafted gear was 300x better in stats, on top of that i was a PoM and being as my healing spells were as good as health pots upset me.

Maybe you need to go out sometimes.

As for me, because of the bugs. When the game came out i could hardly play it on the computer i had back then. Got a new computer not long after but i didnt bother with aoc thinking it would still be buggy as hell.

I recently went back and i'm happy i did.

Gameplay?  PFFT!!  Bugs?  PFFT!!

Try... Business Ethics.

Well, I'm still playing and enjoying the game, but a good number of friends have left, which I'll summarise -

Friend 1 - assassin - left because of bugs (incl. problems with hiding).  Went to War, but not so pleased there either.

Friend 2 - left because of lack of content, but was difficult to make out through his ranting about not getting a particular piece of armour to drop :/

Friend 3 - left because of the break up of a relationship, so out-of-game issues

Friend 4 - left due to getting messed around with billing and issues surrounding DirectX9 update

Friends 5&6 - left because of issues surrounding the update of DirectX9.  They have said they may return one day.

Friend 7 - Left because of lack of players on the server, and didn't want to play a single player game

Friend 8 - avid RPer - think he left because of the lowish number of people to have RP fun with, including the departure of friend 4

Friend 9 - Explicitly stated it was due to bugs, but his guildmaster had been a bit of an ass earlier, so this may have contributed.

Friend 10 - Left fantasy MMOs altogether and is waiting on The Old Republic and Fallen Earth.

Interestingly, a couple of friends have also returned following an earlier departure.  They both said that they left, fully intending to return later when the bugs were ironed out....so put that down as technical (resolved)

I still have hopes that players 1, 5&6 will return, but we'll see....

first time I left was because of buggy patch followed by crap customer support and then once the issue was fixed boredom set in

second time was just boredom

I left mainly because of the ganking. I just couldn't get anything done - it became impossible to level. I was being constantly ganked by higher level players so couldn't fight back and couldn't level to get to the point where I could fight back.

And don't suggest that I reroll on a PvE server. I wanted to particpate in open world PvP - I just didn't see how I could go about doing that.

Really very simple gameplay. Having left Anarchy Online, I felt like AOC was meant to be played by people with intellectual disability.

Mainly because it felt like it was in the early stages of beta when it was released, there were too many bugs and glitches for my liking, there was little content towards the later levels and end game just didn't seem worth reaching.  Lastly i never felt like i enjoyed the game, i was sitting there just leveling for the sake of it, there was nothing new or exciting about the game for me, it just felt like i was playing something i'd played a few times previously.

bugs, content,

On a side note if they payed me 50$ I would give it a 2nd try.

 The 50$ i payed for the first try was not worth it.

Bugs, lack of content, boring, no pvp system in place, the "inovative" combat system was a joke compared to what they originally were going to do.  Severe lack of polish... They were many and of all the games I have played then quit, AOC is one that I really do not miss and have no desire to reinstall.

I left because AOC felt like a single player game. The fact that all zones were instanced really annoyed me.  I don't mind some minor instancing, but the entire game was instanced. 

-Instances
-System requirements
-Stats on gear the didn't do anything
-TERRIBLE itemization
-Unfinished features
-The thought of having to redo all of Tortage again if I wanted to level an alt (ie. single starting area)
-Was already playing an mmo I liked better (not WoW)

- Not enough content

- Boring endgame

- Crappy Instances

- Terrible Crafting System

Left and came back later.

Nice and flashy package - Too bad that it is almost empty and what little was in there was not what I wanted.

i think u should put also system requirements in the poll.

i would still play it if i could. and im sure the population will increase time by time when the system requirement isnt a handicap anymore.