I tried to come back to the first MMO that ever got me hooked on the genre, Anarchy Online.

Well I resubbed, downloaded, installed, loggen in and then 10 minutes later un-subbed & uninstallled.

The graphics I can handle, not much of a problem.  But the lag was horrendus.  I don't get how people can still play this.  And it's server lag, nothing I can do about it.

On top of it, I asked whether they added an auction house or mail system.  People responded "LOL this aint WoW".  Yeah cause only WoW has a good market/AH and mail system.   It's amazing that something practical gets bashed by the AO community.

AO is a great game but I cannot get back into it.  It needs an overhaul & real support.  Funcom needs to wake up and release an Anarchy Online 2.

Yeah the whole "this ain't wow" thing would be very annoying to me... people are so desperate to be different WoW they'll take whatever they can get even if it's something bad. I don't think I'd play an MMO without an AH.. I played Guild Wars and it was a disaster trying to sell stuff or buy stuff by just using a trade channel that was constantly getting spammed.

Originally posted by Hydroblunt

I tried to come back to the first MMO that ever got me hooked on the genre, Anarchy Online.

Well I resubbed, downloaded, installed, loggen in and then 10 minutes later un-subbed & uninstallled.

The graphics I can handle, not much of a problem.  But the lag was horrendus.  I don't get how people can still play this.  And it's server lag, nothing I can do about it.

On top of it, I asked whether they added an auction house or mail system.  People responded "LOL this aint WoW".  Yeah cause only WoW has a good market/AH and mail system.   It's amazing that something practical gets bashed by the AO community.

AO is a great game but I cannot get back into it.  It needs an overhaul & real support.  Funcom needs to wake up and release an Anarchy Online 2.

There is an auction house, what purpose is there for a mail system.

I 100% Agree! AO was my first MMO ever and imo still has the most imagination of any mmo to date. I tried coming back and played for about 2 months last year sometime. The graphics did rub me the wrong way, but not to the point I just had to quit. The most frustrating is the outdateness of the leveling. Sure getting into a group and just doing QL200+ missions or grinding on Hecklers was fun, but after playing your more modern MMOs where you can solo quest to max, the game just seemed dull in that sense.

I still love the class design. I mean it's your typical tank/caster/healer/pet class game, but the way AO had it, it just felt very original even still.

To be honest I much rather seen an AO2 then and AoC or even TSW they are working on now. ALthough I do enjoy the crap out of AoC and so far TSW sounds very interesting, nothing best the good ol setting of Rubi-Ka, Shadow Lands, and the endless conflict of Omni vs Clan.

Hopefully one day Funcom will return to the MMO that I fell in love with.

hek nubz

Originally posted by heremypet

hek nubz

It's posts like this that bring hope to the human race.

 its sad to say but, apart from me experiencing no lag, the ao community is pretty rotten lately. these 10 year olds only care for drama, its pretty depressing to read the official forums for rimor (rk2) with all its personal fights only cause of a simple game. then theres also the ppl who defend their most played profession, they think they have the right/knowledge to tell anyone not agreeing with them that they are nubs and should gtfo 'their' forums (the prof forums). and the most sad part is the devs actually listen to those who bitch enough, i dont know what they are thinking when they say they want to get rid of Aimed Shot and power up pistols yet they introduce an Aimed Shot pistol ....

Originally posted by Means

 

Macrosun still found time this week to start work on an in-game mail system.

 

Means is the game director, Macrosun a dev. The quote is from last friday: forums.anarchy-online.com/showthread.php

Some players may think a mail system to be "WoWish" and thus bad, but that doesn't mean the developers agree with that viewpoint.

Other than that I think AO has some of the more displeasant forums I have encountered, but definetely not the worst. The forums are also not representative of the game, all in all I've found the AO community to be kind and helpful for the most part. Lowlevels is unfortunately another story because the rotten apples can get away with a lot because of being anonymous, which makes them more vocal/abusive.

Originally posted by aleos

Originally posted by Hydroblunt

I tried to come back to the first MMO that ever got me hooked on the genre, Anarchy Online.

Well I resubbed, downloaded, installed, loggen in and then 10 minutes later un-subbed & uninstallled.

The graphics I can handle, not much of a problem.  But the lag was horrendus.  I don't get how people can still play this.  And it's server lag, nothing I can do about it.

On top of it, I asked whether they added an auction house or mail system.  People responded "LOL this aint WoW".  Yeah cause only WoW has a good market/AH and mail system.   It's amazing that something practical gets bashed by the AO community.

AO is a great game but I cannot get back into it.  It needs an overhaul & real support.  Funcom needs to wake up and release an Anarchy Online 2.

 

There is an auction house, what purpose is there for a mail system.

There are player stores which require you to travel to clan cities.  Damn annoying.

Mail system to send money & items to your alts instead of constantly asking for transfers from other players.

Originally posted by Brezjnev

Originally posted by Means

 

Macrosun still found time this week to start work on an in-game mail system.

 

 

Means is the game director, Macrosun a dev. The quote is from last friday: forums.anarchy-online.com/showthread.php

Some players may think a mail system to be "WoWish" and thus bad, but that doesn't mean the developers agree with that viewpoint.

 

Other than that I think AO has some of the more displeasant forums I have encountered, but definetely not the worst. The forums are also not representative of the game, all in all I've found the AO community to be kind and helpful for the most part. Lowlevels is unfortunately another story because the rotten apples can get away with a lot because of being anonymous, which makes them more vocal/abusive.

imo the forums are fairly representative of the community since the ao forums are THE place for news/updates for the game, not the homepage or any fansite.. everyone goes and talks on the official forums. ofc the community ingame is better, but it was way better a few years ago when i first started. I guess there werent any ppl back then who played the game so long they ended up being bitter ao junkies

Originally posted by Hydroblunt

Originally posted by aleos

Originally posted by Hydroblunt

I tried to come back to the first MMO that ever got me hooked on the genre, Anarchy Online.

Well I resubbed, downloaded, installed, loggen in and then 10 minutes later un-subbed & uninstallled.

The graphics I can handle, not much of a problem.  But the lag was horrendus.  I don't get how people can still play this.  And it's server lag, nothing I can do about it.

On top of it, I asked whether they added an auction house or mail system.  People responded "LOL this aint WoW".  Yeah cause only WoW has a good market/AH and mail system.   It's amazing that something practical gets bashed by the AO community.

AO is a great game but I cannot get back into it.  It needs an overhaul & real support.  Funcom needs to wake up and release an Anarchy Online 2.

 

There is an auction house, what purpose is there for a mail system.

 

There are player stores which require you to travel to clan cities.  Damn annoying.

Mail system to send money & items to your alts instead of constantly asking for transfers from other players.

you dont have to ask other players since the game is free now you can create an alternate account and set up a middle man to transfer credits and items. it gives you the coordinates of the location of the items you buy im sure.

Well youve obviously been playing too much WoW. AO is still a very good game, and it is great because it dosent hand everything to you on a stick like most newage mmos. And the player shop/GMS is brilliant and makes more sense then an auction house.

Originally posted by Hydroblunt

I tried to come back to the first MMO that ever got me hooked on the genre, Anarchy Online.

Well I resubbed, downloaded, installed, loggen in and then 10 minutes later un-subbed & uninstallled.

The graphics I can handle, not much of a problem.  But the lag was horrendus.  I don't get how people can still play this.  And it's server lag, nothing I can do about it.

On top of it, I asked whether they added an auction house or mail system.  People responded "LOL this aint WoW".  Yeah cause only WoW has a good market/AH and mail system.   It's amazing that something practical gets bashed by the AO community.

AO is a great game but I cannot get back into it.  It needs an overhaul & real support.  Funcom needs to wake up and release an Anarchy Online 2.

What lag? If its a server lag how comes I dont have any?

Yes, there are spikes sometimes, but nothing that much or often that would spoil my play. I did sec42 recently and if my game could run smoothly there - I say its your PC, sorry.

How long ago did you play if you dont know about GMS? And how comes you dont know that you can make free account for transfers, no need to bug anyone? No, its not a perfect system but its working.

If you just popped in game and asked where is your AH, I dont wonder players responded with "this is not WoW". I dont justify them but I understand. There are too many WoW kiddies demanding instant gratifications that came to AO lately..... you cant be surprised if people get fits at single mention of WoW feature.

AO does have good market, the fact that you didnt take any time to check on it but started to demand AH reeks too much of spoiled WoW player IMO.

The one thing AO doesnt have is spoonfeeding and catering "me wants NOW" kind of players - and I hope it will never have.

Edit: deleted. someone beat me to it.

I just joined again yesterday but so far people have been perfectly pleasant to me and I haven't noticed any new problems. The game runs nicely on my 2-3 year old 8800. OP have you tried going to your card options and turning on all the bells & whistles AO leaves out of its own option screens? I have found this actually makes things better for me.

I did notice my AV flipping out while the patcher was going. Can't imagine how that would translate into poor game performance once patched but who knows.

 AO is very cpu intensive, your graphics card doesnt really matter. also when u play it in vista u can experience VERY bad performance, i had it too. but apparently not all vista users have that. im back on xp anyway till windows 7 comes out

Originally posted by pompey606

Well youve obviously been playing too much WoW. AO is still a very good game, and it is great because it dosent hand everything to you on a stick like most newage mmos. And the player shop/GMS is brilliant and makes more sense then an auction house.

Hey kid, I was a big AO player back in 2003-2005 as a PAYING player, before the froob invasion.  I played more AO than WoW, you don't know what ur talking about and probably upset because you cannot afford the latter.  I'm actually playing Eve Online now.

Auction House in any random MMO is better than the player city shop options.  Let's see, to buy something you need and collect it in an AH system takes less than a minute.  To do the same in AO takes 10 minutes.  To send some items to ur alt in any random MMO with a mail system takes less than a minute.  To do so in AO takes 5-10 minutes, or maybe a few if you run two clients and have a froob transfer toon.

Sorry, but AO is not even the game it used to be before that retarded Shadowlands expansion and WoW coming onto the scene.  It is still a great game with great depth, cool class design and a unique tradeskill system but it lags behind the rest.  The server lag is what really killed it for me as well as the obvious lack of players. 

Funcom needs to overhaul this game and preferably build Anachy Online 2 where everyone starts from level 0.

Originally posted by 3on1

 AO is very cpu intensive, your graphics card doesnt really matter. also when u play it in vista u can experience VERY bad performance, i had it too. but apparently not all vista users have that. im back on xp anyway till windows 7 comes out

I have a core 2 duo 3.1 Ghz, I can run 2-3 clients of WoW, Warhammer, Aion or Eve Online.  Im pretty sure it's not my CPU.

The game has severe server lag, everyone in the game knows it.  It used to run smoother on a weaker computer in Omni trade being packed to the hilts.  It's obviously on Funcom's side.

Well, I was looking to try this game out. I guess I shouldn't?

Originally posted by cc170

Well, I was looking to try this game out. I guess I shouldn't?

Of course you should.

It's just like every game - some people will love it and others won't. It all depends on what you are looking for in an MMO.  It won't cost you anything to try it out.

For me, its still the most  in depth customization for characters I have found. You can tweak so much stuff to match your playstyle.  Just don't expect awesome graphics. The game is ancient.

There is tons of content - the world is huge, even for froob(free) players, and it's soloable to max level if you are into that sort of  torture or solitude.

I haven't been able to play recently due to real life issues, but  the community is  more or less the same (if not slightly more mature minus the few jerks that are found in every game). You get out of it what you put in. If you ask a polite, intelligent question, you will get a helpful answer.