With all due respect to the OP, I wish people will calm down a bit. The last time we saw such unrestrained hype was towards the release of AoC and that failed at release for the pure reason that there was abundant over expectation and such over expectation can never be lived up to.

Calm down a bit and you might not get disappointed, its just another MMO, hopefully a fun one but it will have many faults and problems with it. Its not gonna recapture the experience we all reminince on in our first mmo experience but it should be entertaining....just ease up on the hype because I dont want another game that goes dead within 2 weeks because the hype wackos get upset that it wasnt quite the ecstasy they hoped it would be.

The up an coming pvp patch will make mini games totally random...a new mini game match and a 'sound' when you get the access to the mini game....great pvp update by FC but almost 2 years too late...will i buy another fc game, never....never....never. I dont care about the concept as the concept of AoC was awesome and even the combat system is the best but come on...anyone who played aoc will not this company has no idea about pvp....at all and their new direction in pve is total grind (look at aoc expansion it was just a pure grind fest requiring hours and hours of exploiting or months and months of grinding).

okis nice, thanks. so without junk im looking at around 12 gig max then.

thinking of returning but have space issues on my lovely vista rubbish...what is total size of the game now, with all the patches etc.

thanks

thought about going back but seems my entire account doesnt exist anymore since the GOA gave up and passed it all to another company.

A little update. so after a number of years i read this post and returned to try wow again. I have classic and burning crusade and 3 lvl 70 characters so i resubbed to try it before i purchase wotlk.

I would say my experienced wasnt a pleasant one as i immediately ran into issues. I couldnt get into instance groups because they would only take people with a certain 'gr' which, i found out, means gear rating. I watched global chat over a few days and noticed that all raids and instance groups required people to give their gear rating and also achievement rating so basically for the new or returning player it means they are unlikely to find a group willing to take them. 

I like pvp so wanted to check out the pvp content and basically unless i upgrade to wotlk i had nothing to purchase...except for buying the grand marshal set which would have been a down grade to my current gear (and yet my current gear wasn't good enough for groups.....).

i attempted to use the dungeon finder and had no luck but this is probably because people were running end game stuff so basically i could see a divide between end game players and those just lvling up to get to end game....very little focus on mid to end game content although there was still some groups/raids going but even though they were lvl 70 (or below instances) they still asked for lvl 80's with a certain gear rating and achievement because they were farming those instance for some kind of daily grind or someting, not too sure but i know the content was closed to me.

I did some mini games and at my lvl found i was out geared or out leveled and considering they took that gear away i was pretty annoyed that there was no options for me (already have the lvl70 dungeon gear for my alts).

Not only this there was a VAST amount of new content and things i should didnt know, which isnt too much of an issue and expected but whenever i asked for adivce or help the response was along the lines of 'noob stfu' or 'you google break?' or other comments that i probably cant put on here. I did think it was maybe the server i was on but then when i joined the cross server battlegrounds people had the same attitude and all seemed a bunch of hateful people.....mmos i guess, starting to think that maybe i should give up the mmo altogether :)

nice post and something i was thining about as i tried a 10 day trial and all i saw in the LFG was people asking for raider who were pretty well dam geared, experienced and i just wonder how easy it is to start from scatch. 

I used to play wow, got BC, so thinking of coming back and was thinking of doing it when catalyst comes out...rolling a golin and starting from first base but will i also need to purchase WOTRK in order to play the catalyst? if this is the case the initial start up for this game would be fairly high, sub free+ 2 expansions (have the basic and bc).

I would have liked to see a new class so i could have a complete new start. Reason i would go for a gobbo is cause all my old characters are alliance so it would give me a new story line and areas totally new from the very start. Used to play on aggramar although i really like pvp and a more 'mature' community...any recommendations? Also decent guilds to look out for that are pro-pvpers or raiders but not anal in their approach.

I am currently playing AoC and raiding t3--all end game content but just fed up of funcom:)

Originally posted by arrisb

This may be incorrect but:

http://www.play.com/Games/PC/4-/14371283/Age-Of-Conan-Rise-Of-The-Godslayer/Product.html

 

Anyone know of any other company doing it for around the same price? I dont trust play.com they were the ones that screwed up so many of my preorders before, at the last minute that I wont buy from them ever again (they also kept phoning me and asking me to photocopt and send them my bank account details.....dont trust them one bit). I have looked on amazon and its around £27, cant see any others with expansion listed yet.

Originally posted by websterm999

This site has keys. All you have to do is register and you get your key.

 

http://www.videogamer.com/features/competition/15-01-2010-952.html

Thank you very much webstern
 

Ah shoot missed out on a chance to get a key:) if anyone else has a spar then beam me up ! 

Couldnt believe the comments Daveospice said about the community.......then I read the reply of warty and thought, 'yeah i thik Daveospice its most probably right about the community afterall'.....

I never had one lag issue or DC problem or anything like that in my entire WAR experience and I played on both of the high population servers'; order on one and desto on the other and had two lvl 40s on each side so i put some time in. People that complain must be running the game on old laptops or something...the graphics were not so great so its very nice to see the improvements here. But the reason I left the game still hasnt changed, people at end game will still rather fortress farm than have some decent pvp combat. The only reason i left the game was because of the farm trains and that is it....nothing to do with lag and i dont believe i remember anyone complaining about lag either.

Its an mmorpg...if you want a pure pvp game then try Halo or something....

Originally posted by Zeppelin4

I'm a bit puzzled on the post that claim it is another asian grinder. I started a new character today and I'm already level 10. My wife's son started yesterday and he is already level 18. Unless it really slows down by a lot this game is on par with what I remember Wow on release. I get the feeling from most forums I read that the new generation of gamers want everything easy, fast, in the least amount of time needed. The problem with that is I find it very boring and most online games these days seem to follow that pattern. :(

I think you missed the point of the post, the issue isnt it being easy or not but a lack of early lvl quests. In addition I found none of the quests to be particularly immersive, even the main quest line that I followed. The only interesting bit was a navigated flight through the Abyss. I find it odd that the initial quests are like this but I guess having played a variety of othre games over the past few years the initial quests have been amazing in comparison, (lotro for example) but i dont see the point in contining to discuss this, in fact using this forum at all because it seems any opinion anyone says comes with people insulting my mental capacity, being abusing, changing what is said and basically not understanding the principal of discuss.

this was what put me off the game ...if you cant fill out the start area with quests then what is it like later on? most games its the other way around, you have a strong early game and not much to do at end game but this just doesnt have much to do. Yes it doesnt matter if you get a quest to kill x number or you just grind x number...but why they heck are grind quests the only things they can come up with, even runescape could do better  than that. And bloodaxe if you dont like discussion then dont use forums....

I was suprised at the small amout of quests even at low lvl....so ended up grinding a few trash to just lvl a bit and move to next area, if that is what the game is about then im already having second thoughts about it. Also I couldnt find any pvp minigames....is this a serious pvp game without any mini-games? just once zone to fight in?.....sounds very restrictive

Yep Im totally bored and found the game very unineteresting but this is what happens when CB is just at starting/low lvl...they should have given us a bash at mid to end lvl then we would really get the feel of it and experienced more than the 'press1' 'press 2' press 1 again'.....any game is boring at early lvls....I wanted to see what the real combat/combot/fly was all about

Originally posted by mbd1968

This thread is killing me... I'd decided on cleric but now I'm considering chanter... dammit...

yep same!...thing i find most annoying is that i know i wont really find out in beta which to go for because they are so low lvl we wont really know until end lvl. It is a shame this coming beta event would gives us a shot at end lvl characters so we can try a few and also end game stuff

It would be wrong to assume that everyone that makes a small avatar is doing so to get the upper hand in pvp combat. People just have to accept that some people like to play small type characters/races. Dwaves, gnomes, imps and, of cause, in this setting, fairies, pixies and sprites. Not everyone wants to play a 6foot giant:)

hmmm I forgot....peter pan

Daemok made a few good points and in my own experiences of mmos i also see the same pattern. Lots of low to mid lvl healers about but rarely see them active at end game due to people playing their mains. but I think poster above really hit the nail on the head....its a choice between a melee healer or a nuker healer; melee= chanter and nuker=healer.

I would normally go for a melee-healer as I don sometimes like to get stuck in there, espcially since my normal class is a warrior type and, for example, I had a Warrior Priest in WAR and that was fun. years and years ago I played a ranged-healer in wow and that also was fun so it is a tough one and I think i will just try them both out at beta and see, maybe do the chanter this weekend and do the cleric in open beta to test them both out....only way for sure really.

one thing i do think about is that all of the debuffs that a chanter can put on someone, there is a class that can unbuff them...the cleric. In comparison you cant do anything about the direct damage of the spells and abilities from the cleric....actually thinking about it another cleric can do because they get circles of protection from elemental type attacks, which is the main attacks of a cleric.