Hey guys, I waited a year for AOC but when it orignally came out players were giving it crappy reviews, I was wondering if it's developed since then?

Thank you

wow, thats a pretty wide question. Would be great if you specified your concerns a bit more. I made a review some time back that probably should be of interest to you. www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/227890/A-detailed-AoC-review-Raid-and-Siegeing-a-must-for-true-reviews.html

To sum it up, performance issues are all gone. Bugs are pretty much under control. Content has also been pumped up pretty nicely. Also multiple gameplay altering changes have been made, such as faster combos and new PvP systems. Other stuff still pending is Dx10 and the itemization revamp.

Originally posted by xenoscalibur

Hey guys, I waited a year for AOC but when it orignally came out players were giving it crappy reviews, I was wondering if it's developed since then?

 

Thank you

Hi !

Yes, Age of conan is a much better game now.

FC has improved / tweaked the game alot, in both / pve / pvp /class balance / new content etc etc.

Latest patch FC released was huge and very good check it out --->

http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=110900

FC will also launch another new huge patch in around 2.5 - 3 months ( 1.05 ).

1.05 will have Itemization, revamped Gemcutting, Tarantia commons ( new lvl 70-80 zone) , new high lvl dungeons, alot of new items etc etc. HUGE patch with alot of good stuff !

Check this videos ----> ( trailers of the new zone Ymir's pass and new lvl 80 dungeon Xibaluku )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flHaCyQWojE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT55Du_pT-o

Age of conan is a very good game and i would definitely recommend you to buy it ;)

Age of Conan is doing good. I resubbed about a month ago and I play on and off. I made some new alts and play when I feel like it. I actually found a new class I like to play besides Barbarian which is the Guardian. Bashing people with my shield is hella fun :D

The only annoyance I have experienced now is that some of my new alts have had problems with their Night quests and can't finish them. If you run into this situation, just /petition a GM and they will fix it. So far, they are pretty quick to respond and fixed my quests.

The game has pros and cons. 

It's stable and now with mergers has a few servers to choose from with solid populations.  To a new player there is a lot of content.  The graphics are still great and the music is great too. 

The bad?  As an MMO experience, it is very average.   If you are interested in crafting or guild building look elsewhere.  The PvP system has very mixed reviews (you might hate it or love it).  Itemization has still not been fixed so if you are looking to advance your character with cool loot this is probably the worst choice for an MMO.  

So ya, worth a shot if you haven't played it.  At a minimum you'll enjoy it for a month...most people do.

Originally posted by Litigator_AB

The game has pros and cons. 

It's stable and now with mergers has a few servers to choose from with solid populations.  To a new player there is a lot of content.  The graphics are still great and the music is great too. 

The bad?  As an MMO experience, it is very average.   If you are interested in crafting or guild building look elsewhere.  The PvP system has very mixed reviews (you might hate it or love it).  Itemization has still not been fixed so if you are looking to advance your character with cool loot this is probably the worst choice for an MMO.  

So ya, worth a shot if you haven't played it.  At a minimum you'll enjoy it for a month...most people do.

 

Guild progression??

Guild City Progression takes alot of work, guilds that have been around since launch are just finishing up their full Tier3 cities. Then of coarse there is guild raid progression and once you have a T3 guild city keep you can claim or siege a battlekeep. You need special pvp resources from Cimmerians End in order to build/repair your battlekeep which is also a guild effort in all aspects (claiming/defending or attacking/gathering resources/etc). Crafting has seen some love with boe recipe drops, cutlure armor recipes and much more. They are also releasing more for crafting in the next update, especially the gem revamp.

Itemization will be coming in the very large 1.5 update.

If you didn't play at launch, no need to discuss what the game's status was then. I played at launch, quit and just recently returned. Huge improvements have been implemented and when DX10 arrives ( test videos available ) it will blow 99% of MMO's away in the immersive category.

Pros:
Extremely immersive environment: ( Music, Graphics, Sound, NPC dialogue and interaction and so on )
Fantasy, but not too fantasy ( Tired of elves and dwarves? AoC is all about human players, much like Asheron's Call  )
Probably the best animation and spell graphics of any game, coupled with superb sound compilation ( Spells with booming bass explosions )
Mature gamer content ( Swearing, nudity and drunk people pissing off the dock )
One of the few MMO's where all classes can solo most content ( Plenty of solo quests as well as solo dungeons )

Cons:
AoC Launched with a full plate of problems which means Funcom had not one task but two to overcome during postlaunch development
Still has bugs from launch such as ( Pet pathing issues, broken quests, broken game world aka can still hide inside walls and getting your character stuck in certain areas is somewhat common )
Can't even pay to transfer characters ( Server to server )
Alien skill and mechanics system ( Trying to figure out what items are better than others is beyond annoying )

Originally posted by Jasma

wow, thats a pretty wide question. Would be great if you specified your concerns a bit more. I made a review some time back that probably should be of interest to you. www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/227890/A-detailed-AoC-review-Raid-and-Siegeing-a-must-for-true-reviews.html

To sum it up, performance issues are all gone. Bugs are pretty much under control. Content has also been pumped up pretty nicely. Also multiple gameplay altering changes have been made, such as faster combos and new PvP systems. Other stuff still pending is Dx10 and the itemization revamp.

That says the game still sucks! The game was not fun and is still not! Solve all the problems with a POS and still get the flies?

Originally posted by ganbee

Originally posted by Jasma

wow, thats a pretty wide question. Would be great if you specified your concerns a bit more. I made a review some time back that probably should be of interest to you. www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/227890/A-detailed-AoC-review-Raid-and-Siegeing-a-must-for-true-reviews.html

To sum it up, performance issues are all gone. Bugs are pretty much under control. Content has also been pumped up pretty nicely. Also multiple gameplay altering changes have been made, such as faster combos and new PvP systems. Other stuff still pending is Dx10 and the itemization revamp.

 

That says the game still sucks! The game was not fun and is still not! Solve all the problems with a POS and still get the flies?

 

ummmmm...okay..
 

Originally posted by Litigator_AB

The game has pros and cons. 

It's stable and now with mergers has a few servers to choose from with solid populations.  To a new player there is a lot of content.  The graphics are still great and the music is great too. 

The bad?  As an MMO experience, it is very average.   If you are interested in crafting or guild building look elsewhere.  The PvP system has very mixed reviews (you might hate it or love it).  Itemization has still not been fixed so if you are looking to advance your character with cool loot this is probably the worst choice for an MMO.  

So ya, worth a shot if you haven't played it.  At a minimum you'll enjoy it for a month...most people do.

 

Age of conan has atm 41,720 items in-game.

So yes, there is alot of "cool loot" in-game. ----> http://aoc.yg.com/

Originally posted by Jasma

Originally posted by ganbee

Originally posted by Jasma

wow, thats a pretty wide question. Would be great if you specified your concerns a bit more. I made a review some time back that probably should be of interest to you. www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/227890/A-detailed-AoC-review-Raid-and-Siegeing-a-must-for-true-reviews.html

To sum it up, performance issues are all gone. Bugs are pretty much under control. Content has also been pumped up pretty nicely. Also multiple gameplay altering changes have been made, such as faster combos and new PvP systems. Other stuff still pending is Dx10 and the itemization revamp.

 

That says the game still sucks! The game was not fun and is still not! Solve all the problems with a POS and still get the flies?

 

ummmmm...okay..
 

Thank god for someone not playing so called good game for a repliy

Age of Conan lost most of the critiques during the 10 month population decline and now only the loyalist remain, some stuff changed (bugs, tech issues) but overall this title is still a third-rate bargain bin game, the diffrence between other bargain bin games and AoC is that AoC charges you full price for a subscription.

If anything wait until free trails which are due soon, though my recomendation would be to wait until the expansion as that is where Funcom has been investing their time and the expansion may give AoC some identity. Right now AoC's only identity is the great graphics MMO that lost 800,000 players for being bad, set in the Conan world.

Originally posted by finaticd

Age of Conan lost most of the critiques during the 10 month population decline and now only the loyalist remain, some stuff changed (bugs, tech issues) but overall this title is still a third-rate bargain bin game, the diffrence between other bargain bin games and AoC is that AoC charges you full price for a subscription.

If anything wait until free trails which are due soon, though my recomendation would be to wait until the expansion as that is where Funcom has been investing their time and the expansion may give AoC some identity. Right now AoC's only identity is the great graphics MMO that lost 800,000 players for being bad, set in the Conan world.

lol...Yeah right, no resubbers and new players...

www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/191/view/ratings

forums.ageofconan.com/forumdisplay.php

forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php

Open your eyes will you!

I have heard testimonies and the statements that people have been coming back in masses for 5 months now but since Funcom hasn't said there was growth yet, I'm sure they are losing more people than they bring in.  Also it is pretty funny how little Funcom changed the game and now they all of the sudden have a 100% vague positive reaction from lowbies.

The OP asked how AoC is doing, and by any standard definition the only response is "Not well at all."

 EDIT: Age of Conan is still the beta test for the 360 version that will probably never come out.

Age of Conan is still failing day after day. Nothing you can do about this fact.

Originally posted by finaticd

I have heard testimonies and the statements that people have been coming back in masses for 5 months now but since Funcom hasn't said there was growth yet, I'm sure they are losing more people than they bring in.  Also it is pretty funny how little Funcom changed the game and now they all of the sudden have a 100% vague positive reaction from lowbies.

The OP asked how AoC is doing, and by any standard definition the only response is "Not well at all."

 EDIT: Age of Conan is still the beta test for the 360 version that will probably never come out.

 

lol. Okay boss you are right boss... :D

Did you even open this thread www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/191/view/ratings. Ohh gee, seems like those guys not only are resubbers (as oppose to Noob), but one of them is also a 17 years MMO veteran. I am sure he also must be completely wrong, boss? Those damn FCers, nothing but a bunch of crooks and thiefs... lol

Edit (cut paste from the trhread):

Gravarg writes: As the game is right now, it's the best MMO I've ever played! That's coming from over 17 years playing MMOs! 
 

Here comes the hillarious part, our very own WARboi in the AoC forum also decided to add some comments on AoC:

finaticd writes: This game was released and resembled a money scam rather than an MMO, after re-subbing 9 months latterI didn't see much improvement. Don't believe the hype, it's close yet so far away.

lolol, did you really write that just now? So you did open the thread, but you just chose to not read the part where a 17 years MMO vet just flat out says that AoC is the best he have had in all those years. My god I am laughing so hard right now. You truly are special and I think you need another star as well as the mmorpg comedian award for that.

Originally posted by Forumfall

Age of Conan is still failing day after day. Nothing you can do about this fact.

And your avatar shows us how credible you are. Can you possibly show me how it is failing day after day? Is it maybe a ton of negative reviews after people returned to the game? No. Is it reports from Funcom that they are losing scrips? No.

Have you played recently? I doubt it. And that is what counts. Make a real decision. Play for 30 days, and tell us how the game is failing. For now I will put your post in the same place your avatar belongs.

Thanks.

I don't believe testimonials as they are easily tampered with by shrills and viral marketers. I was working for a small company where people wrote negative information on various review sites so I created some positive testimonials, the first week I worked there. No shame in that.

EDIT: I Was just a medical office manager at the time so I could only imagine what a company with a professional marketing team would be capable of. 

 I left AOC a few months after launch angry at how many bugs, and how poor the game ran.

I returned last month greatly impressed with how many bugs have been fixed and how smooth the game runs now. AOC has greatly improved preformance wise. 

The combat is better then any other avatar mmo. I have become so sick of the wow style combat like lotro, war, requiem, all these just feel the same with different skins. AOC combat feels more real, it's much more physical, and the graphics are very realistic. I am also sick of the cartoony anime style mmo. AOC is tops for the combat and graphics, now streamlined smooth running.

AOC is not my "be all end all" mmo. There are elements I will always miss from good ole SWG, but AOC is a blast to play and stunning graphically.

The new devs also are taking it in a good direction with the rpg and item changes.

O....and if you think I'm one of those "marketers" feel free to troll my history back when AOC had released. I was very negative about the game state. My main mmo has been EVE for 3 years now. AOC is my bloody violent fun second mmo.

Originally posted by finaticd

I don't believe testimonials as they are easily tampered with by shrills and viral marketers. I was working for a small company where people wrote negative information on various review sites so I created some positive testimonials, the first week I worked there. No shame in that.

Because of something you do, it does not mean EVERY single piece written is the same way. But, thanks for pointing out your credibility. You being a "trust-worthy" source is definitely questionable now.

EDIT: I Was just a medical office manager at the time so I could only imagine what a company with a professional marketing team would be capable of. 

But that is just it, because of something you did, you think everyone is on payroll for that product. Get real here. All I know is if you are willing to point out it is something you do, well, it really brings up reasons to question you on why you continue to post here. 

Who is paying you now?

Again, I cannot reiterate enough how much better the game is doing, and how much more fun it is to play.

I also received ZERO cents to say that...

Cheers