Originally posted by Greeve11

Rather disappointed with the game, for many reason but most importantly-

1. The leveling. After 20 theres no doubt about it quests become rare and the XP is lacking even from the ones you run into. Grinding isn't necessarily my thing. Though someone can argue that grinding mobs is no different than grinding quests but straight grinding is monotonous.

2. Crafting and gathering. The game almost makes me feel like I need to level these two, and when it came down to it I had 200 Iron Ore that took nearly 30 minutes (Or more) to smelt into bars. There's an issue there. I've also heard of people spending over four hours just doing work orders to level their craft. This doesn't settle well with me. The drop rate on required fluxes is unsettling as well. I've had to drop over 100k Kinah on Fluxes just for a shot at making a blue item, just a shot...

3. Bag room/space. Very lacking and you're expected to pay mass amounts of Kinah to expand your cube. My bags are always full because of the gathering materials/gems I'm always picking up while leveling.

4. Certain mechanics. In my opinion some abilities need to be taken off the GCD. Like a Gladiator's Crippling Cut for example. Sprint causes my character to fly across the screen occasionally (Well, more than that) when used. Ranger's Stunning shot deals 200-400 damage but I've have it crit over 1k. There was another post about this I believe. Random numbers are random and don't make sense.

5. Queues. I'm not into waiting 2 hours or more to get into the game. I'm not sure why they opened with so few servers, especially with the game being out for a while in Asia.

6. Channels in the 1-10 and 11-20 zones but none for the zones above that? It's hard enough to muster the intention of grinding, but when I do I have to worry about large masses of people all over doing the same.

7. Gold spam. This is out of hand. And I need to log onto their main site to place in a ticket! This is ridiculous. I can block all the spammers I want but it seems like theres an army of them.

8. Lag. Constant disconnections are happening left and right for many players. Once again, with the game being out for some time you would imagine they have a pretty hefty revenue to make the game smooth and solid, but apparently not. The other night the server randomly came down without word as well, which will also lead me to my next point

9. Communication. When the server went down we received no word at all on the status of our server for 4 hours. When word finally came out, it was a Twitter update. This is very- VERY poor communication with customers. Forums were packed with threads and no one knew what was going on at all because after a certain point we couldn't even see the server lists. Another issue is there are no updates on the launch client. Nothing at all. When servers are down for maintenance.. I wouldn't know. It would just tell me I couldn't connect to the servers and kick me off the game. This causes a lot of confusion. Lastly, petitions need to be carried out through their website- wtf? I begin to wonder if they even have any game masters at all.

10. As mentioned earlier. No in-game support.

11. Chat. The opacity and font cannot be changed which is a bother for me as I find the text to be far too large and even with my chat filtered I find it difficult to keep up with legion/party/whisper chats. The lack of a command list irks me as well.

12. Triggered emotes- these are just annoying...

13. Oh screw it, you get the point. I won't be returning until serious changes are made.

Blizzard employee! Don't believe the noob!

The game is pure FAIL

Originally posted by DarkRidera

leave the links up, hope this thread gets locked pointless stupid troll thread.

lol so having  a negective opinion makes me a troll?

So only fanbois is aloud on these forums?

Is it just me or does this game look really shit?

Discuss...

Richard Garriott belongs in the trash like the rest of those knob heads at Failcom

Website can be found here http://dark-disciples.co.nr

Originally posted by Stradden

Originally posted by WSIMike

So I read the first few replies and...

lol... "Whoosh..." is all that comes to mind.

But it's a great example of a guideline when posting on message forums...

Many fans/haters are too busy foaming at the mouth waiting to tear into any post they can to ever figure out whether the tone it was written in warrants it or not.

I particularly love how there are those who regard any comment they don't like or don't agree with as "whining". That always gives me a nice chuckle.

Anyway... I didn't mean to violate the holy sanctity of your precious game by posting a tongue-in-cheek observation/commentary on it.

My apologies. I must have lost my head.

Although the closing question of my OP was a serious one :).

 

you seem to have choesen to ignore my inital response, so I`m going to answer that particular question directly, although I want to be clear in thef act that I do not feel that AoC gets an inappropriate amount of coverage.

In gereral, there are a couple of ways that an article comes about. Sometimes, yes, the company says `we`d like to talk to you about this`. When this happens, I will either agree or not based on whether I think that it is a topic that our readers would like to hear about. Don`t mistake this with a blind `sure, I`ll put up your promo material`. That`s just not how it works. That being said, sometimes interviews or articles are about something being added to the game or similar and sometimes they`re more confrontational.

More often though, I approach a company about wanting to do an interview about topic X. None of our AoC articles recently have been presented by Funcom. The 3.0 interview was just that.. information about a major update. Following this kind of thing is not unusual. Beyond that, I suppose there`s the review we posted (giving the game a 6.0) and Ben`s interview with a  guild which had both positive and negative points.

I think though that your argument loses merit when you actually look at the numbers presented in my original response to your post. Try as hard as you wantt, but not everything is a conspiracy.

Strange that you can get exclusive video interviews with Erling from Funcom, however with the offical announcement of SWTOR MMORPG.com brings us zero video interviews.

Being a site dedicated to MMO's i would have thought you guys would be on the ball, guess i was wrong. Seems Gamespot bet you to it.

LOL! Fanboy!

Originally posted by Umbral

 

Well I already said it in another post, but I will say it again...

Age of Conan has issues and still need at least one year/maybe an expansion to be great, it has good art, unique combat, a great lore, fantastic music, great graphics, but it need more balance, more content/zones, depth, fixes and polish.

But as someone said :  "This review is just the reflection of the state of the AoC-forums on this website. It's a coward article hiding behind the community."

The review is offensive, it lacks information and a subjective sense of judgment .

It is a personal and emotive review, not a profissional and informative review, the player base has the right to feel offended.

The lack of respect (for the player base) and perception ( about the "few emotes") showed this is not a serious review.

The funny thing is, now even the official content of MMORPG.COM matches the majority of parcial, offensive and misinformed posts of MMORPG.COM forums.

 

...
 

Just face it, the game sucks and it got the review it deserved. Its luckey to even get a rating of 6...

If SWTOR took atleast 1-2 million subs from blizzard i'd be happy

Originally posted by hilmar07

Is Age of Conan worth getting? I would like to try games before paying for them, if anyone has a buddy key or a trial key then please can you spare one?

No the game is shit

ROFL!!! Very Funny

* * *  NEW CONTENT UPDATE FOR 2/10/2010 * * *

• All classes can now get hair cuts from your local barber!!!
• Facial expressions from NPC's (happy/sad)

IN DEVELOPMENT

• DX10 is still under construction (it's been 2 years but i think we might just have it this time, promise....)
• Ymir's Pass I promise, I promise if will be applied to the live servers next patch!

OMG! That's got me coming back to AoC! Glad Funcom are adding smiley npc's to the game.  Finally Funcom are listening to the community and adding the smiley npc's.

Originally posted by AOCtester

http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=94869

"If you still or want to support Funcom by continues paying your monthly fee even if you don't play it at the moment write your self on this list, I want to make a support list and show we relay care for Funcom/Age of Conan and support they work"

Buy more than one copy and sub for multiple accounts to give Funcom the money to fix something !!

Plz guys !

OMFG! Failcom must really be in trouble if morons are posting this shit. ROFL!!

Originally posted by ProfRed

This only applies to the US/Non GOA version of the game.  GOA and EU have a longer grace period.

Mythic actually went through with cutting off the grace period this morning at 7am after their site had clearly stated it would last until the 22nd.  Anyone who ordered from Amazon most likely won't receive their key/game until early next week and will be locked out all weekend.  They did not announce this until the orders were already shipped yesterday and the day before. 

This is horribly bad business and I am really dissapointed in Mythic.  I expect this kind of crap from EA or Funcom, but it is uncharacteristic of Mythic.

If you need to play this weekend, all online shippers that I know of will give a full refund if you refuse the shipment when it arrives.  You can then go out today and pick up a retail copy to use, but because of this Mythic's first weekend sales will be innacurate.  The lady at Amazon.com said she had already talked to many people today regarding this.

Heads up! There are reports that Amazon.com customers will be able to get trial codes to extend the grace period. Someone at warhammeralliance.com said they will be available after 11am today so if you are with Amazon.com call and try to get a trial code. I haven't confirmed this, but it seems legit because a number of people are talking about it.

This is from an IGN thread.
Quote:
The "Warhammer" phone number is

703-934-0169

call them and get the extension code ... after 11AM EST Again this is unconfirmed, but the phone number is some kind of Warhammer support line.

LOL Mythic must be taking customer service lesson from Funcom

Originally posted by OrionMan

Gents I am baffled by the maturity in your respons. The motivation for this post was to share some information with people that kind of has a repetetive respons thing going on. I can not see why this rather friendly and inteligent post invoked such degenerate respones. Anyway the information is available now ... I am sure you will have fun on it :)

Have fun with it playing on a server with a population of 20 ppl

Originally posted by Paragus1

Originally posted by DthRevan

If i wanted to play a mmo with cartoon graphics i would play WOW again. LOL i don't understand why ppl think WAR is so far ahead, it looks dated and the animations are craptastic.

 

 

Because the best graphics in the world don't mean shit if your game is broken.

Looks like a shit to me, time will tell how much of a fail this one will be as well. I dont understand why these companys dish out shitty mmo's full of bugs, no content or just shit in general.

If i wanted to play a mmo with cartoon graphics i would play WOW again. LOL i don't understand why ppl think WAR is so far ahead, it looks dated and the animations are craptastic.