AO is starting to come back alive, its just the US timezones is when everyone logs off. Seems to be a mostly Euro player base right now, so it would appear dead to some people when they would log on.

Most US players like pretty things and the old AO engine wouldn't be called pretty to some players right now. I know a number of players just waiting for them to release the no engine and wouldn't come back right now.

Originally posted by Hydroblunt

Originally posted by Javafan

Originally posted by Hypodermica

What is amazing to me... is that Funcom never listened enough to it's fanbase until they got all new developers and the game was already... dead (Post Lost Eden).  Yet, these people defend their abusive father like their lives depended on it.  Sad.

 

Game wasn't destroyed by LE or the froob invasion :)

It was destroyed by the players that after this update became fair game and did not have the "immunity" they had before the update.

 

The game was dying & finished way before LE or AI.  Shadowlands killed AO as it swayed it from the sci-fi theme to try to compete with WoW.  Shortly after, Funcom focused on AoC and let AO deteriorate.  Shadowlands was pretty much grinding Hecklers, whcih got old quick  As a result, whatever players liked Shadowlands ended up going to play WoW.  Others quit prior, like me, cause the AO that I was enjoying was killed by that expansion.

In retrospect, it's pretty obvious that Funcom makes really bad & stupuid decisions.  They had an amazing game in AO, which was quite successful.  They dropped the ball every which way and conitnue doing so.

This

Every veteran AO player since the beginning knows that was the killing blow to the game, it was a complete turn around from what the game was about. Sci-fi game with a grid to move between cities and then you move to some Everquest themed environment that has no real connection to what was on the original story line.

The guy who was the Game Director for Shadowlands was the main GD for Age of Conan and look where that game went after he completed that game... 

Wrong server buddy...

Played on Scylla with Dark Star Syndicate back in the day as Grakkazza.

A lot of older / former AO player felt he would ruin Age of Conan and they were correct on that assumption. He completely ruined Anarchy Online with it's first major expansion with a Fantasy expasion turning the game into another Everquest.

Seriously why would they consider him again just bobbles my mind.

Originally posted by CaesarsGhost

Wow... that makes me want to relive my Engi who grinded up to level 237, and was capable of making Stilletos...

Only if you were actually able to get to 237...

Originally posted by Erillion

To the OP :

http://goonfleet.com/showthread.php?t=78453

Pulleezzee tell me that it was not YOU who just got scammed for 80 billion ISK !

Someone wanted to insta fly a Titan and wanted to join Goonfleet (of all groups !!) to get one.

IMHO its most likely a fake post and it never happened, but stupidity is endless and scams of that magnitude HAVE happened in EVE before.

Have fun

Hahaah that is fake.

Will be a while :( They are going to cost 9 billion or so.