Subscription page slow? Something cannot be slow if it doesn't exist :D

Was is hard to think to give time to players to subscribe, like until 31st? So servers would not be overrun by us poor lemmings. If we would have 1 week or so to subscribe, we would be able to play meanwhile?

Ok, it seems I was not fair in my judgement. I created an account in the US server, although the high ping makes it harder to play, I am very happy with the chat, and how it is moderated. Thinking that the game will be soon hard wiped, I don't consider it a great loss to start anew. May the EU mods 'rule' in the chat and ban anyone whom they don't like. I thank the player who suggested to move to the US server. I suggest for those who get banned RO or from game to do the same. Soon with the hard wipe, the US server will be a heaven safe from Russian insults and communist moderators.

Those who like to chat between games, a warning to you: Today in EU server the mod banned someone for writing 'lol' too many times. There was a good joke everyone liked, people wrote 'lol' 'lmao' etc. One guy probably liked it so much so he wrote it a few times. Mod banned him :P

The joke was:

They invented a machine which will allow fathers to share the pain of the mother during giving birth. In the hospital they test it on a husband whose wife is giving birth. First they start the machine's strength at 10%. The doctor asks the husband if he feels any pain. He says no. The doctor increases the strength more, meanwhile the mother's screams can be heard from next room. The husband tells again 'I feel nothing. The doctor gets frustrated and increases the machine's strength to maximum. The husband again tells 'sorry doctor, but I feel no pain, and her wife screams louder and louder.

Next day they find the neighbour's body who died horribly in pain.

Nah, I cannot grow a spine and cannot learn to take a joke, especially after a 'white' gang robbed me, but the police arrested me instead 'for stealing my own computer', just because of my dark skin. I take racist jokes seriously, sure it is easy for you pale skin to tell me to learn to live with it. But no, it is hard to live with it.

It's so good to hear from you CarIR, you are one the few WoT mods I respect. These examples I gave are from WoT EU server. When the servers were together, you, Iggy (although he is not a mod any longer), lordduck1 etc. were keeping the chat clean, and the bans were deserved.

But the situation in the EU server is different than old times. I don't know how it is in the US server, but in EU server non-English languages permitted/tolerated in the game chat.

You told you don't know the exact situation, so:

Some Russian players started to make fun of us EU players, like how bad we play etc, thus in Russian. Then swears started. We told it to the mods, one of them told he understands what they tell. We expected a warning or chat ban, nothing came. I was really offended at some Belarus player's 'joke' about dark skin (not being a white but dark skinned person makes me sensitive to such topic, sorry). I started to talk about Belarus, how much the people have to suffer there etc. In anger I used this sentence: 'When the hell did Belarus change its government from bloody communism?'. (I am sorry if this is considered as a swear in MMORPG forums as well, I don't think it is.). Immediately afterwards I got banned RO chat for 1 week. The Russian who were swearing at us were so happy about this. A player started to protest about my ban, he talked about freedom of speech, he didn't swear, nothing bad, just was writing about that everyone has a right to tell what they are thinking, and he got RO banned as well.

I wrote about it to the support@, and I got banned in exchange for that... So I went to the eu game forum, made an illegal post about my ban, and got my forum RO ban for 1 week as well. In my other account I tried to contact the guy who defended me, but surprise 'The person whom you.... banned...'(can't recall what was written exactly in the message error window.)

I watched the game chat 2 days, some time playing some time reading, in order to see the behaviour of the mods. The stuff I noted down and wrote, the insults and bans, or no bans, are all written in my last post.

I am sorry that I am full of anger, and don't want to insult you CarIR. However the new mods behaviour is untolerable. I understand that the game company is Belarus, so Belarus and Russian players are treated better. But this doesn't give them the right to take away our 'freedom of speech'. If they can swear, insult us, then we shall be able to swear, protest against the injustice as well.

Yesterday I got banned from WoT for 1 week, because I told 'bloody communism' in the main chat. Right after I got banned, a poor fellow, whom I don't even know, tried to defend me. Just after he told something about freedom of speech, he got banned as well. Please forgive me if this sounds like trolling, I don't want to start anything bad, but just to warn other players.

Here is some information from wikipedia, under the section 'freedom of speech' > Internet censorship:

The concept of freedom of information has emerged in response to state sponsored censorship, monitoring and surveillance of the internet. Internet censorship includes the control or suppression of the publishing or accessing of information on the Internet.^[43] The Global Internet Freedom Consortium claims to remove blocks to the "free flow of information" for what they term "closed societies".^[44] According to the Reporters without Borders (RSB) "internet enemy list" the following states engage in pervasive internet censorship: Belarus, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Myanmar/Burma, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

World of Tanks is made by Wargaming.net, a Belarus state controlled gaming company.

Other ban types and lengths:

Making fun of French tank drivers > warning, if repeated 1hour-1 day chat ban

Making fun of Italian infantry > warning, no ban if repeated

Blaming Polish players with cowardice, repeated times > no warning, no ban

Dark skin jokes > no warning, no ban

Willingly team-killing > 3 days ban

To talk about Russian tanks being stronger (That's not true in my opinion, I was very happy with my German Tank Destroyers) > warning, 1 week ban

To talk about US tanks being stronger > no warning, no ban :P

The reason why I got banned, to call communism bloody > 1 week ban

To talk about freedom of speech, without swearing, without flaming > 1 week chat ban

To talk bad about Jews > 5 years of game ban (That one is deserved, and as a dark skinned person I completely support such a ban)

(I am sorry for the links from wikipedia, I don't know how to remove them. Can a moderator remove them please? I apologize for being a chat newbie not knowing how to do it by myself)

I am a casual player, and do not have much time to play, because I have to work. I do not know how the 'experts' are rating games, I can only tell my opinion about a game. I believe that someone needs to play a game himself rather than to choose according to ratings. I left AoC when my character became level 79, very close to 80.

Well, I had great hopes for AoC, I still wish that it reaches the full potential this game can have, I wish that Solareus was wrong, and the AoC advocates are correct. However, the things some advocates told are not correct. AoC doesn't have any '100 men enjoying full pvp in gigantic siege warfare'. There aren't many 'exiting dungeons for 24 characters'. Well, sure they are more exiting than a pac-man dungeon. The crafting in the game is pointless, cause it is still broken.

I understand that many people had the hopes that this game would be a WoW-killer, and they are frustrated that it isn't. However AoC isn't a crap either, I played many MMOs till now, and I believe AoC had a much better start than WoW even.

I believe that the game suffered from poor leadership, which didn't listen to the problems of the players, but rather aimed for much bigger income by 'enlarging the boobs'. When I last logged in with my level 79 toon, and saw that there was none around to play with during evening hours, i definetly understood that Funcom was doing something wrong.

I just hope that they can keep fixing AoC, so me and my guild-mates can return to it.

When this game came out years ago, it didn't have an alternative. Historical realism has been set aside loooong ago in order to keep the `balance`. Well, with the realism factor gone, why to play such a game with such poor graphics??? Battlefield 1942 has a lot better graphics, is faster, a lot more fun and you don't pay a monthly fee (And it also doesn't offer any more realism than this game).

Another question is: Which game offers realism about world-war 2 ??? Soldiers: Heroes of WW2 or Faces of War (both strategy games) offers the most realistic combat (but only for tanks, soldiers still have hitpoints). Does anyone know any realistic WW2 game at all?

I must salute the players who kept this game alive though. It has one of the friendliest communities. Eager to help or teach any moment, they add a lot to this game. Without them there is absolutely no reason to play this game.

Last problem I can recall now is the buggy engine, which cannot be fixed for years. There are still hackers using `radar` which shows any enemies within 2 km, and the devs cannot do anything about it, other then hiding the fact. Somewhere in my old computer I still have a few screenshots taken by a hacker, which shows a line of red dots on the radar, who are actually panzers trying to reach a village through a forest. And next he simply bombs the poor guys, who don't have any clue about how did the blenheim bomber saw them there.

Whenever a new patch comes and I feel like playing that game, I look at these screenshots and give up wasting my money and time. Not worth imo.

If this game earns a 10 out of 10, so why did all the members of my guild leave and several servers are empty now? None of them left because of the bad comments in mmorpg.com.

Maybe their wives and kids pleas, not to spend all their free time to grind from level 20 till 80 :P

I give 10 out of 10 to the fanboy who wrote that `advertisement`, for valiantly defending a game even its `captain` abandoned (I cannot even recall his name, what was the name of the rat/captain who left his place in funcom?).

As I recall WoW needed a few months to be stable. And I recall to have left WoW for a few months because they couldnt solve lag problem for a month. At the end of a month away from WoW, I solved my lag problem by myself ( I remember so long Blizzard customs service blaming our ISP, they admitted bad routering after a year).

Age of Conan definetly needs that time as well. Yeah we cry, yeah we flame. But there will be still a lot who will play, and Funcom will use their money to improve the game out of beta status. So far I didn't see any game who didn't have a bad start. I am sure things will become better for AoC as well. However...

However there is something not right with Funcom. They don't listen to the bug reports, but are trying to listen to the whiners. And they change things according to whiners. That's wrong. You cannot spoil a baby by giving a sugar each time she cries, at the end she will cry just to get attention.

Also I worry about the `bug fixes`. 9th patch today, still main bugs are not fixed. They simply cannot fix it. But they keep giving false comments. `We will fix it this wednesay`. That was told by someone high from Funcom. And...? The bug is not fixed, there is not even a comment about it !!!

Age of Conan is a good game, and has lots of potential. But right now it doesn't deserve the time I spend/waste. I am a casual player. After a tiring workday I cannot afford to betatest a broken patch which ruins my entire night.

See you Age of Conan and all Conan fanboys who will tell `You will not be missed`. Hopefully we can meet in 6 monthes when/if the bugs are fixed.

(Why so much whining? Cause I wanted to play AoC and relax tonight. But Funcom screwed something again, and game kept crushing for everyone in the party whenever we entered a fight.)

vista32 2gb ram Core2quad 2.4, 8800 GTX here

2 weeks ago I was playing with 50+ fps, which was actually not needed even, cause this is not a FPS where you need that high reaction time.

Since last patch I can play with 10~ fps. If I play with 2 other casters and we start AoE, we all crush to log in screen. We were told to talk with our ISP... with 1 playing from Sweden, other from Moscow, last from Turkey. I cannot even understand how they dare to blame our ISPs.

With the stupid idea of `if you damage a mob more, you get the loot`, it became impossible for low levels to kill the bosses for their quests. Level 80s outdamage poor guys and get the kill so often. This became such a serious problem as most of the few quests available are meant to kill someone/something, which is camped because it drops good loot which can be sold. (Boss items were supposed to be `not tradable`, so high levels cannot farm and sell them at trader)

if Funcom doesn't fix...

Can they fix anything at all? 7th patch to fix alchemy, still bugged. Only 1 of the level 70 feats on my character list is working. Lag became so bad.

I cannot believe just 2 weeks ago I was defending this shit game.

That 8.4 is a just score if you play only 1-20, and probably he didnt play after that last patch which screwed the game  (Several players outside UK experienced server kicks every 2-7 minutes).

The `patch` claims to solve the problem and we dont get kicked. But now there are 2k-17k lag spikes every 20~. The answer we got for that problem was to check our ISP and open some ports. I asked the guy how come guildmembers from Moscow, Sweden, Turkey and Ireland experience that lag spike same time if its our ISP or ports.

I want to play this game, I liked it so far. Yeah I grinded after 55, the hundred quests I did gave me just 2.5 levels. I still want to play with all the bugs... But cannot. Now I must sit here and write, cause there was only 2 persons out of 25 in our guild, who could play normally today. The others simply logged off, most of them will not renew their membership after their time ends. I still cant decide. Great game, if you can play.

After todays patch, the problems and protests became so high that Funcom cannot censor it anymore. AoC definetly is in beta stage, and we are paying for this. Still, if it will be a good game at the end, I wanna pay.

However censor, and trying to hide the massive problems... cannot be done to a paying customer. We are not swearing, we are not flaming. Just because we are complaining about the server `rollbacks every 2-7 minutes` (which started today), we are considered `whiners` and censored. I am sure some people will come and start typing `You are whining bla bla bla` in a few minutes. But I will still try to warn people who are thinking about playing AoC. The game is in beta.

At last I read a review wih a lot of truth about this game. Good work. The game is going through difficulties like any other games had at start.

What worries me is that Funcom doesnt concentrate on the bugs but is trying to `balance` the game. 6 patches, and some basic bugs aren't fixed, but our main tank got nerfed badly. Funcom is not telling any word about `hidden` nerfs, you just play and find that you were nerfed. That sucks a lot, I cannot trust them.

Performance is truely `strange`. I play the game superb, no big problems except lag spikes and necessity to change an instance after a rare crush. However friends with a lot better comps than mine are crying they crush every 5 minute.

Btw if you like the melee in this game, go buy a G15 keyboard :P

I know you are trying to tell the truth, but you get anger in return. Thats their problem, to accept or to reject the facts.

For those who are thinking so low of AoC, may I ask you something, which game are you waiting for? Warhammer, which is so many monthes away still? WoW? ok you can play it, noone is forcing anyone to play any other game. I personally am bored from WoW, so I didnt want to wait several monthes more until Warhammer comes, and nwo I play AoC. Others didnt like AoC, so they cancelled their accounts and stopped playing (Great thing to do if you have 30 days of free play) BUT

But we have the freedom to choose. We can choose whatever we want. YES, funcome lied in advertisements. There is no directx10. Game becomes grinding after level 54. There are few dungeons wihch work at all. There are bugs everwhere. The game is censored by putting clothes on npc girls and removing sexy emotes so its nto a mature game but teen game now. And the list goes on.

However which game didnt undergo such a stage? I remember my preorder WoW account could only be activated 1 week after start, and Blizzard didnt even care (And WoW was full of bugs at that time as well). So what ? in so many years WoW became the top of the mountain, at least in the area to fill their designers pockets.

So what do you suggest? Shall I stop playing AoC and sit at home watching TV after a tiring work day?

There are so many games, Anyone has the freedom to choose anything he wants. And all advertisements lie, no game gives what it offers.

I have fun with my Priest of Mitra in this game, so much fun. There are soo many bugs, true. Half my feats are bugged, the others are wrong or weak. I still love to play it. This game had the greatest idea a all years healer can dream about. You heal with your damage. Incredible. Superb Fantastic.  or maybe not because even that feature is bugged. Who cares? I am having fun.

Dont lie, tell the truth, and dont be afraid to tell.

Right now all classes need bug fixes and tweaks. So its too early to tell anything about what will happen, which class will be fun. My experience is PvE only. The game is completely different in PvP so these will not help you.

Tomorrow they are going to change Demonologist (poor PVE after 40) and Necros (Aggro and damage problems). Necros look like a single party of their own. We'll see after tomorrow.

Priest of Mitra brings a complete new alternative to healing, you heal with your damage, the more you damage the more you heal (Bugged now, but works great). You dont just stay back and look at Hp bars anymore, you look into screen and think how to inflict mroe damage :) Incredible. I didnt play any more fun healer class since 15 years.

Tempest of Set, nuker. Was really hard to mid level (i assume 50 as mid). Descent CC like grounding. Can do hell of a damage which take aggro from guardian sometimes.

Guardian is strong, we had 2 guild members who were about to cancel their subscriptions, but they wanted to try Guardian first. And now they still play. I sometimes forget to heal them, their hp bar goes down so slow if they can take mob even boss from front. The fastest levelling class I saw.

Barbarian. hard to play hard to solo. Dies easyly. But if he acts like a rogue, he chops and slashes and kicks. Friends who play barbarians fall into frenzy after some time. `Did you see how I chopped his head off? And the next one I buried my axe into chest...` We keep him talking over TS like that, and all we see is a rain of blood.

Assassin. Incredible at night or some dark dungeons. A glass vase at daylight and sunny dungeons. Our last assassin stopped playing after Sanctum, so I assume its a boring class even with lifesteal.

Ranger. Doesnt have a pet and needs to enter melee after a few shots. I assume that class is a killer in PvP. Why? I saw ranger with crossbow taking 70% of a boss in 1 shot just after fight started. The rest of the encounter he spent running from boss while guardian was swearing at him trying to regain aggro. Hard to solo, they even beg me (PoM/Tos) to go to even basic missions.

Dark templar... Someone else needs to explain, I didnt understand how he fights. I saw once a 45+ attack a 50~ boss and survive doing `strange` combos.

Herald. Strong in daemon form, dies as soon as his daemon form ends. But powerful in daemon form, truely powerful. Once we watched our HoX attacking wrong mobs, we expected him to die, but he chopped until last one of them. Well the last one caught him after his daemon form ended so needed to res anyway.

Just a quick word about Priest of Mitra, Tempest of Set and Bear Shaman.

According to dev track reports and current feats, they have the following purpose:

PoM Primary Healer (Right now a good playing ToS can easyly heal same as PoM at level 50+)

ToS Mana filler. Nuker

BS Stamina filler Melee

That doesnt mean ToS or BS can heal bad. PoM is slightly advantaged.

For some reason Lvl 60+ groups take 1 PoM and 1 ToS, but I"ve seen Shamans so rare. Can anyone tell me about their server? And if there are less Shamans around, why, any ideas?

When you sent an item or money from trader, it was getting duped immediately. If 100 people didnt notice that they were giving all their money over trader, and their money was staying in their pocket... I dont know what to tell about these 100 persons.

Well you can tell that all these people made a visit to the guild boss to give money 1 by 1 instead of sending from trader which is in every starter place... then yeah the guy would be innocent as Snowwhite.

Just I want to ask the defenders of this guy 1 question. How is it possible not to notice Item duping by 100 person?

I myself, found a nice item for my friend, sent it to my friend from trader. A strange magic and we got 2 of the item. My friend called GM and 1 answered 1 hour later (Now it takes days till they asnwer :( . At that time people were screaming over OOC channel how to dupe items openly.

That was day 1 after opening. These guys became level 80 and didnt notice what we noticed at level 10? Come on.

I didnt take part in AoC beta. I simply entered preorder play one week earlier.

And whola, the first thing we noticed IN THE FIRST DAY was that the traders were duping items and money. My guildmate was one of the first ones to report that to a GM. After that day we got periodic server announcements from GMs about not to use bank duping EVERY DAY. It was no bigsurprise when the traders were taken off.

Maybe you missed that daily warnings, maybe a few missed, but did 100 people from your guild missed that?

You sir, are a liar, and I am happy that you got banned. I wish all those who help you willingly get banned soon as well.

(They announced about traders in 3 languages even, in case you dont know english and couldnt read the warnings :P )

First of all: If the game doesnt run smooth, dont blame the company, cause the game runs very smooth. We are playing 8 friends together and the only one who had a problem was because he was playing from his laptop on abroad (Our comps are not super high but most can play with max details.)

2nd, the game is fun except dungeons. Dungeons are extremely boring, huge and repeating. Many people have great fun. I especially enjoy the fact that quest item drop rate is 90%.

3rd, this game is not WoW killer, we will enjoy this for a month or two, but then there is not much to do. I dont know if you guys noticed it or not but the entire game area is pretty small. I got level 41 in 6 days, and I already saw levels 80s at the end of friday.

I dont understand why some people say `this game is super cool, incredible, fantastic ` etc. Are you getting paid for this or what? That is an average everquest copy, nothing special.

And I also dont understand those who tell `the game sucks, will be another SWG failure, nothing works`etc. You are wrong, that game is not bad, point.

Now go to play with whatever game you like to  play, Conan or whatever. If you dont have anything else to play with, name your hands Candy and Handy, and make a triple with your stick. Just stop fooling real players with wrong information.