Now all you can do is grind mobs.  Clear the camps as the mobs give Inf and drain the Kegs as those give Inf as well.

 XFire can be viewed the same as as the Nielsen system for ratings.  No way to check every household, but it does allow a system which shows trends.

When AoC lauched, there were massive amounts of people playing.  It was evident in the number of instances available and AoC was ranked #4 on XFire.  Now as population has shrank, so has the number of instances, and so has AoC's ranking in XFire.

Does it give us an exact number of population?  No not at all.  But it does show the trend which is consistent with what can be viewed in-game.

1) Interface still has not been changed.

2)  Ever since the "temporary" gem fix went into effect crafting has hit rock bottom.

3) With said crafting woes there is a bigger recession in hyboria than on Earth.

4) There have been some improvements in this aspect.  but IMO there is just not enough quests.  Don't get me wrong, you CAN quest most of the way to 80 now.  But if you or doing Alts then you will be doing the same quests.  Just not enough to give the players different options yet.

As for end-game seiging, most of it is at a standstill currently as Guilds are holding off till after merges in an attempt to obtain a new plot.

5) Still the same, though they say the 2 new dungeons coming out will be different.  Time will tell.

Originally posted by ScamMan

Originally posted by Jackdog

even in DX9 AoC is one of the prettiest games on the market.

AoC graphics = 10 out of 10

if graphics = game play this game would have 10 million subs. I remember another game that relied on pretty screenshots to sell, in fact here is a link

www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/21867

screen shots might sell a box or two, but if the rest of the game does not measure up the players don't hang around long.

 

Hahaha... First of all those pics look seriously outdated, Hahaha..Look here dude

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No comparison at all. For the gameplay though I think your point is very poor. I happen to think that it's better to see screenshots from what you actually will see in the game than getting fooled by BS comercials that they have for WAR and WOW. The realism in those movies are not even close to what you'll see in the actual game.

The point that he was trying to make has to do with the fact that the screenshots from 'Dark & Light' were from 4 years ago.

At that time it was truely cutting edge graphics.  But that is all the game had going for it and now it is gone.  If Funcom is not carefull AoC could possibly follow the same path.

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