Originally posted by Forumfall

Originally posted by VultureSkull

Originally posted by Forumfall

it sure is back like a rotten zombie. This game will always blow no matter what. I have played shooters with more immersion.

 

Blows for you rocks for others, for all we know WoW rocks for you, courses for horses doh!

 

Nice assumption but I don't play WoW. AoC blows and nothing you say can change that fact.

You have me at a disadvantage sir, please let me know what you play if you dare!

You are obiviously aprehensive about what you play, otherwise you would have said "i dont play WoW, i play ......" Could it be that what you play is far worse than AoC?

It is easy to come on a public forums and make comments like you have, and run away when challenged like a coward!

Originally posted by VultureSkull

Originally posted by Forumfall

Originally posted by VultureSkull

Originally posted by Forumfall

it sure is back like a rotten zombie. This game will always blow no matter what. I have played shooters with more immersion.

 

Blows for you rocks for others, for all we know WoW rocks for you, courses for horses doh!

 

Nice assumption but I don't play WoW. AoC blows and nothing you say can change that fact.

 

You have me at a disadvantage sir, please let me know what you play if you dare!

 

You are obiviously aprehensive about what you play, otherwise you would have said "i dont play WoW, i play ......" Could it be that what you play is far worse than AoC?

It is easy to come on a public forums and make comments like you have, and run away when challenged like a coward!

 

I believe Forumfall was/is a Darkfall advocate.  AoC is leaps and bounds ahead of the cesspool that is Darkfail.

   So far so good for me. I've been playing a bit over a month now and I'm really enjoying it as a Ranger. Something about the combo system just sits right with me. Like someone else said, it rocks to some, doesn't to others.  LOVING the city building so far. My guilds city is under fairly constant attack and its keeping us happily busy. Fortunately the guild Im in rocks and the social aspect of RPing is flipping amazing. LOl go figure RP would be so good on AoC of all games. 

 Could someone please refer to my post on page 4 and answer my questions, as nobody else did?

Also I have an additional questions, have any new servers been created? Or are any new servers being planned? If I do return I would like to start on a fresh server.

Funcom is a company that turns games around into diamonds case in point anarchy online.

Were mistakes made, sure.

Im trying to decide whether to activate my box now or wait for 1.05.

I personally believe there was a need for a trial. people were practically screaming for it, to have a go at funcom for offering that is rediculous.

Originally posted by Zathoral

 Could someone please refer to my post on page 4 and answer my questions, as nobody else did?

 

Also I have an additional questions, have any new servers been created? Or are any new servers being planned? If I do return I would like to start on a fresh server.

New servers created? Hell, people in the official forums are still asking for more character transfers to be made available so they can get off their dead servers. They're even so desperate, they're okay with paying for transfers.

Originally posted by Drachasor

Originally posted by donjn

Right now the game plays like the game that was advertised. Why talk about the $60 you say you blew because the game was not right almost a year ago, instead of putting that money to use and giving it a second shot? But no, you would rather "pick and choose" the sentences of a few people that wouldn't be happy if gold bars fell from the sky and ignoring the abundance of positive comments in this thread..

I am so happy I am not a negative person..

Plays as advertised?  I'm just an average consumer and didn't heavily check out AoC admittedly, but I from what I got it was supposed to be a Conan-esque game.  Why then when I read this thread are people talking about itemization again and again and again?  Gear not looking cool SHOULD be an non-issue, but talking about getting cool gear should also be a non-issue, by and large.  Conan was not about get epix, and in fact the central characters don't have much gear at all.  To turn that base into a heavy gear-based game seems very foolish to me.  They should have gone another route and found a more appropriate way to reward players.

Its a slippery slope. People complained because gear did not mean anything. Now that Funcom wants to make it mean something people are saying it will be too much like WoW. The new director assured us that the change will not be drastic so that skill still means more than gear, yet gear upgrades are worth it.

The new patch that addresses these issues isnt even out yet. Arent we jumping to conclusions?

Originally posted by bryan1980

Originally posted by donjn

Originally posted by bryan1980

5.  No real content at endgame

What a brutal stereotype this game has. A total cliche.

Currently, AoC has more raid content (6), and better pvp choices than WoW did at this point of its life...

It has become so "cool" for people to say "XXX MMO has no end game"...lol

And that is just not true.  AOC's entire endgame raids can be done in about 6 hours.   And the comment about WOW was not true at launch, and it certainly is not true almost a year after launch.   Whenever someone compares AOC to WOW, they don't include all the 5 man dungeons in WOW, but they split up the AOC content to make the number as high as possible.

Back in the day, you could do WoW's endgame in about the same time. People called it content because they would run the same raid over and over and over and over again for gear. Gear gave WoW the appearance of having a deeper end game.

Then you throw in the fact that there is no progression in AOC..  gear is totally borked and the dungeons don't progress.

I never said those things. Who are you quoting now????????????????

You can throw out meaningless numbers all you want about the number of dungeons and twist them any way you want... but the fact remains that the majority of AOC players at endgame don't do anything but run around doing meaningless pvp.  In WOW, at the one year point, there was clear guild progression through endgame raids that had loot and difficulty progression.

Again, you are saying WoW had more of an endgame because of loot variety.  In patch 1.05 AoC is addressing loot. Therefore people may end up running raids and dungeons in AoC day after day after day just like they did in WoW.

WOW also had about 6-8 different zones that had quests for lvl 60 characters.  AOC has 1.  WOW had repeatable quests and reputations..  AOC doesn't have anything but meaningless pvp dueling.

Please tell me the 8 zones in WoW that have had level 60 quests. Were their dailies back then? I dont think so. Are you counting areas like Winterspring (lvl 55+), because if you are, I should be able to include AoC level 70 areas as an 80 area.  Repeatable quests and rep grinding are overrated and boring, unless you like grinding Furblogs in Felwood for hours.. Also, please tell me how AoC pvp is meaningless after the new patch?

It's funny you said ' wow at launch'... this is one of my biggest problems with AOC... they are just so slow at adding anything.  The game is now almost a year past launch, and people still think of it as a newly launched game.

I never said "WoW at launch", I said "WoW at this point of its life"

Originally posted by donjn

Originally posted by Drachasor

Originally posted by donjn

Right now the game plays like the game that was advertised. Why talk about the $60 you say you blew because the game was not right almost a year ago, instead of putting that money to use and giving it a second shot? But no, you would rather "pick and choose" the sentences of a few people that wouldn't be happy if gold bars fell from the sky and ignoring the abundance of positive comments in this thread..

I am so happy I am not a negative person..

Plays as advertised?  I'm just an average consumer and didn't heavily check out AoC admittedly, but I from what I got it was supposed to be a Conan-esque game.  Why then when I read this thread are people talking about itemization again and again and again?  Gear not looking cool SHOULD be an non-issue, but talking about getting cool gear should also be a non-issue, by and large.  Conan was not about get epix, and in fact the central characters don't have much gear at all.  To turn that base into a heavy gear-based game seems very foolish to me.  They should have gone another route and found a more appropriate way to reward players.

Its a slippery slope. People complained because gear did not mean anything. Now that Funcom wants to make it mean something people are saying it will be too much like WoW. The new director assured us that the change will not be drastic so that skill still means more than gear, yet gear upgrades are worth it.

The new patch that addresses these issues isnt even out yet. Arent we jumping to conclusions?

Different people, I assume.  Further, you have a crafting system, gear with stats, and other things screaming out that gear is supposed to mean something.  Naturally some people are going to look at that and wonder what is up if gear does almost nothing.  The confusion could have been avoided entirely if the gear didn't have stats, however.

Originally posted by Palebane

Itemization? Jezus, it really is all about loot for alot of you, eh? I quit because the community sucked. Try to patch that.

Well ... O.K.  I started this thread to inform people of my new experiances with the current game in hopes that they would "try it again" ... Hmm ... Oh yeah ... Funcom is offering a Free Trial and working hard to 'fix" the game in hopes of getting people to "Try" the game sooo ... yeah ... we are trying to patch that for you.  However any constructive criticisum or ideas you have to help "patch that"  would also be greatly appreciated.  I for one hope you get what you want. :)

Originally posted by afoaa

Originally posted by bonobotheory

And yours was the only post that made any sense. I'm not really directing this at you, since you're not being a wanky fanboy.

 

Well I am a "wanky fanboi" of Robert E. Howard which is why I have issues with the game.

And then I am so mystified that they have this incredible graphic engine and then they dont use it to make people look good. The art direction in this game is just so weird, they have the graphics and the skill to make things cool and then they dont USE it?!?

Its just weird.

And in trying to get people to come back they are making the game more and more like WoW, and we all know how that will end up.

afoaa good stuff thanks for your input, however,  based on the combat system alone this game will never be anything like WoW.  Not to mention the breasts, decapitations, blood and gore, and yes the graphics. I'm guessing your talking about the itemization and gear stats when you make comparison to WoW. Also I see that you later describe what you mean by making the art less bland and your describtions of how it should look sound awesome, I for one would love to have half naked slave girls at my feet as I nuke some clown into oblivion, hopefully they change to and/or implement that art style.

Originally posted by Rabenwolf

Originally posted by Guillermo197

Originally posted by warty

all well and good but nobody wants a trial. they want to have free time on their already existing accounts to see if content has been added where they quit, and maybe some CE items that were as advertised. and well, that apology. satisfy those criteria and most (I will atleast) will be likely to try it out.

 

i dont need a trial where I can get to...level 20...remember that bit before about the launch? LOL the idea is just ludicrous

 

The Vet Return will come. They are probably waiting till patch 1.05 is released.

It would be a smarter move too. Why let vets come back now, while gear, stats, attributes and skills still mean jack sjit?

It's better to have that addressed first with applying patch 1.05 to live and then reinviting old players back to the game.

Not to mention that Commons District will be launched then too, wich fixes the last content gap.

That way they will have a much higher chance of getting old players to resub again.

Just my 2cents

 

As a former end game vet, former AoC guild leader of a disbanded 200 man guild power house , nothing short of complete redesign and company change will bring us back. The fact is that the game is still instanced, and Funcom just isnt reliable. AoC is not worth coming back to and the vets are quite scarred from their previous foray into AoC.

Sorry your not able to forgive, I'll bet your a former SWG pre-CU player as well. You word your reply as if you speak for all vets. I am a veteran of the game and I am not so scarred that I can't give the game another try, so please don't presume to speak for all of us. As far as Funcom being reliable I would say they proved their reliability with a lil game called AO, an eight year old game which people are still playing to date.

Originally posted by Palebane

Itemization? Jezus, it really is all about loot for alot of you, eh? I quit because the community sucked. Try to patch that.

They allready did and it's called a PvE server^^

AoC is not back, you're back in AoC.

Which is not completely irrelevant, but damn close.

Originally posted by SaintViktor

Resubbed and I was pleasantly suprised how well Funcom has made AOC a much more enjoyable stable game.  Good work guys! www.youtube.com/watch So far level 18 POM on Ironspine lets go go go!!!

Opinion definitely differs on this, but I most surely enjoy the open world part after you leave the starting area a lot more.

It's less linear and the world pvp makes it for a much more heart thumping experience.

Originally posted by Tjommis

Originally posted by Palebane

Itemization? Jezus, it really is all about loot for alot of you, eh? I quit because the community sucked. Try to patch that.

 

They allready did and it's called a PvE server^^

I agree PVE servers have a much better community then the PVP servers for maturity.

Set is the server I am on and it's very well populated with a great community.

AOC is MUCH improved, and with the new devs it is going in the right direction

I just dont think I can play this game. Iooked at the game checker thing on the internet. ( I forget what its called but its by Nividia) and It says I can play this game on minimum specs. I think not though ause i was going to play a game called Alliace Of Valiant Arms and the screen just froze in game cause my card. Someone tell me if i can play this game, my card is nividia SLI Geoforce 7100/620i. Thats all.

Originally posted by bloodyboy435

I just dont think I can play this game. Iooked at the game checker thing on the internet. ( I forget what its called but its by Nividia) and It says I can play this game on minimum specs. I think not though ause i was going to play a game called Alliace Of Valiant Arms and the screen just froze in game cause my card. Someone tell me if i can play this game, my card is nividia SLI Geoforce 7100/620i. Thats all.

Sorry, but it seems you might as well wait until you get a new computer.

Originally posted by SaintViktor

Resubbed and I was pleasantly suprised how well Funcom has made AOC a much more enjoyable stable game.  Good work guys! www.youtube.com/watch So far level 18 POM on Ironspine lets go go go!!!

Heh nice song. What are you up to now and how are things going? Ironspire as a new fresh start server I always thought had a lowish pop, but looking at Yellow Gremlin it has a very sustantial amount of characters on there.