Originally posted by NasherUK

Large seiges in AoC will never work smoothly for one main reason.  They put far to many polys into character models, modern PCs just simply cannot process data that fast.

OK, Nasher its time for you to try a siege again. I did sieges yesterday and FC have really gotten around to shoot most performance issues. But I agree with you though, it is even more of a challenge to get Mass PvP or GvG to perform smoothly in AoC due to the advanced graphics and more. Anyways, work well now.

lol.. Avery makes this forum better than the AoC forums. I would say the MMORPG guys don't deserve that the way they look after the AoC fanbase. Constantly showing us the finger with reviews that just so fcking off the facts that its hillarious.

Originally posted by marius1231

Hey,

Thanks for you reply. This can be seen as a pre-study to find out more about the game, and any input are valuable for me. I will be sure to take your advice into accordance in the future as the game has been updated, but for this study I am trying to find out what went wrong in the first place.

Marius

Little heads up. I did your survey, I don't know if you can tweak your questions and answers at this point. But first question on AoC was, "Do you think AoC had too many bugs and stuff at launch?", yes or no. Remember there is a ton of players now that was not even in at launch. So maybe third answer alternative should be "I was not in at launch".

You want to use the link functionality to get that link live. Anyway when that is said I think you should specify that you are after comments on AoC in it's current form. Otherwise there will be plenty of outdated trolls that will cry their head off on the performance issues they had like 4 months back.

Originally posted by NightBandit

Originally posted by Frobner

Who ever said that the first 20 lvls were not good ? 

And then we have a "player" coming saying the game is now great and isn't evern passed starting area....

Im sorry but the starting area is probably the MAIN reason I will never come back to AOC.  I played it now like 50 times since CB and I really hate the place now.   The desig of AOC as a linear game is just one more proof how badly things have been handled from start to finish. 

Its just badly designed game in core mecanics.   Personally I would have made many starting areas and made a nice 3-4 way DIFFRENT storyline with speech at the core quests instead of spending 10 gb on it in Torture.

I have to agree with you here and I will not be fooled, these games companies need to get it right from the off and not 6 to12 months down the line when they finally start sorting out the big issues.  I always try and go back to see if things have changed about 9 months or so, but i'll not be ever going back to any Unfuncom game again, two games and although AOC did not suffer from the same problems as AO did they have not learnt at all, fools...
 

I went and tried Vanguard and they have now brought a new stat area/island which introduce some nice noob items which give you a good start off the isle, but again I am reluctent to re-sub until they sort the high end out, which they appear to be doing atm.  I think if the OP has a better rig you should try VG and then you will not go back to AOC.

I need another sandbox rather than linear game i'm getting bored out of my tit's with all the junk which has been thrown at us over the last two years. I have returned to Eve just to get some playtime in.

Are you insane.. Thats two different league of games. I have played botha and AoC is so damn great compare to Vanguard, even from start. Regarding rest of your moontalk above, I think you need to calibrate most of your staetments. First of all, AoC performs great on all rigs of minimum requirements or more today. Second, 95% of MMOs today have had a 3-6 months performance increase period before getting fully up to speed. So why not allow AoC the same. AoC by the way have the heftyest graphics of any MMO out there. It does certainly not make sense to be more forgiving on games that still runs last decades technology. I agree with OP. AoC have had so much stuff improved over the last 3 months that it is sick. FC keep up the good work.

Hey I just bought one of those really cool Snow mammoths that got patched in with last patch. Awesome beast!! But, pretty much just after I got it I came to think of my old box and my In-Game exclusive, which I had totally forgotten about. All the time I had this cool War Mammoth and I did not know about it. Anyways, I have a mammoth now so I thought I'd give my exclusive away just to be a nice guy. So now the question is, who wants it? If you pull out some really nice AoC or Conan stuff, Cool links, old artwork (Franzetta, Valeiro, i.e), Cools snaps or vids from AoC, I'll hand it over to you.

lol, maybe I am overestimating the worth of this thing, but hell lets try. I am a man of my words.

Originally posted by ganton

If your having to grind mobs at lvl 37 your deffinetly doing something wrong. It used to be you would have to grind mobs in the 60's and 70's in the villas but now go through ymirs>TR>Atzels and you wont have to whatsoever until your in your upper 70's, and not even then if you can get all the group instance quests done.

I think the real problem here is you feel the leveling is too slow. Sorry but thats the way the game is designed, it would get boring to damn fast if you could get to 80 in a few days... If you want a game like that I suggest you try out Guild Wars.

I think even the 60's are filled up with quests now after the new area, Ymirs Pass came out. A couple of patches before the Ymirs Pass update, also the Eigopal Mountains got like 13 new cool quests for that particular level range. I think after 70 though is still somewhat thin.

So to talk about the topic of the post. Who's more off, JediJeff or Pezz? Funny enough I kind of feel Pezz, mindless as he seem, to be closer to the right grade of AoC than Jeff, who's supposed to be a professional reviewer. Comments?

Originally posted by LuckyPuppy

I've recently purchased AoC had some good times, but it often feels to me like a single player game.

I played WoW before and it had quite a few dungeons (instances) for groups of people. People often group up for these. I am level 28 now in AoC and have not yet seen a dungeon, nor have I heard of people grouping for one.

It is possible that I am playing in the wrong zone - Kopfhseh (not sure about spelling) province ( Cimmeria server)

best to all.

There are tons of dungeons in AoC. SOme of them (on lower levels) you can do by yourself (or with a group). Some of the later ones like Cisterne, Sanctum, Main System, etc etc... starting in late 30's are must be in group dungeons. These are really fun by the way. What server you on what level/class?

I got this weird purple Twohand Bludgeon Hammer with some kind of lightning effect on. Looks great when I drive it into the skull of the badguys (a lot of electric effects). Have not seen anything like it before, anyone else got an equivalent weapon?

Probably a good read for some of the guys that have not been in the game for a while. Nice interview.

Originally posted by imbant

Originally posted by IKShadow

Originally posted by Arawon

Darkfall is a sandbox game AOC is not. DF has deep crafting...AOC does not. DF has ships individuals can sail....AOC does not..  AOC impact on DF....none. Full looting is a minimal part of what DF has to offer .

 

omg man you still dont get it DF does not have anything .. wait for game to be released then tell us what DF have.

As for now DF have a lot of promises thats it and nothing else.

 

I agree.

And we still have no idea when AoC is going to come out of beta so lets all just wait until they both release with the features they have promised and then we can judge.

You would not just pull that out of your ass because you have a giant DarkFall Avatar stuck to your forhead, would you?

Originally posted by Teran1987

How do they really expect a whole lot more people to just buy a game they can't even try? o.O There's no trials for this, and the only way in on a free no strings account is via buddy key, and that you have to get from subscribers, and evidently there aren't enough loaner subbers for the amount of people who want buddy keys.

Is this another bright idea bought to you by the idiots at Failcom?

A lot of people open a magazine. Read about the game, like what they read and then go to buy the game. { Mod Edit } if you think you like the game buy it. If not buy something else. It's not FC's job to carry you to Hyboria and start the game for you. You play if you want to!

Originally posted by Scaredgirl

Originally posted by Silencium

I thinke this is the longest thread in mmorpg for a longe while. AoC have to be worth somethinge just for that reason. I mean, the amount of people that have interest in this game is just insane. I see more AoC post than WOW post. strange

 

Yes. The fact that this thread is so long must mean AoC is doing very well. Good reasoning.

Don't you think that maybe the 10/10 in the thread title pisses people off and they feel like they need to correct it?

Most people rate AoC 6/10, like it or not.

You are aware of that all users have voted AoC to 7.09/10 here on this site?? So if you want to say something on what most people thing you could at least have referred to what most people thing, which would have been above 7/10.

Myself I give AoC a good 8/10. I have no doubt about AoC moving up to a solid 9/10 when DX10 comes around.

US PvP servers with high action is Tyrrany, Deathwisper, Cimmeria. These are nobrainer servers for players that must have tons of other players around to have fun. If you however want to choose community and servers that rather are on the rise I would suggest Dagoth and Bluesteel. Several very good guilds on those servers. For EU servers there are also several, but I'll let a EU guy answer on that.

Originally posted by Soupgoblin

Originally posted by ScamMan

I played WAR since release and liked it quite a lot in fact. Had little of all those tech issues some people complain about and RvR was a blast... the first couple of week. After that RvR just went away. I don't know what happened but that game just can't give me what I want which is massive Multiplay. Even after server transfer I am still stuck in nomansland. So then I bought AoC to have a taste on their 48 vs 48 Siege. I have not gotten there yet, but I have had a few days in the game so fare and I must really say FC has really done a great job here. I know many people have comments to content later in the game, but hell so fare it has been a long while since I have had so much fun in a game.

 

If you didn't like the dwindling population in Warhammer, you won't like AoC. AoC is all about hype and marketing, which doesn't take the place of decent gameplay

But if you enjoy poorly made games, with little to no end content, a lousey community, and shoddy customer service, you should have a blast.

*Cough* I might be out of order here, but I belive he said he's digging AoC. Seems like you are a bit late to save him. lol

PezzBomb, the new Patch with Ymirs content get easily a 9/10 from me. The rest of the game is still 8/10 for me, but as I said the new content is 9/10. Great work from Funcoms side.

Originally posted by levsix

After fixing the HoX somewhat they have now destroyed it. Reading the forums and the patch notes reminds me about why I quit. And unlike a lot of doomsayers and AoC trolls, I really gave this game a chance and achieved a lot.  There just isn't enough variety, it gets extraordinarily repetitive. There's no depth.

So I would probably disagree with you on most posts, but hey then again I am playing it because I ultimately like it. Not all people can dig all games, so try the next MMO coming oyt (whenever that is going to be). 

Originally posted by Soki123

Hi, I read somewhere theres going to be a free trial down the road. The wife and i want to try this game out but don t want to pay the $40 yet. Anyone know if the free trial will be soon, or if the price is getting reduced?

Thanks

Come on don't be such a stickler. You and you wife will have a blast on this one over Christmas. Couples give AoC in  general high grades.

Look, noone is looking to old numbers to calculate 150 000 to 200 000 active players. In a Quarterly report a company will always predic what next quarters report will look like in terms of revenue. These are the numbers used to make this calculation. FC says we think we will make all in all 8-10 Mill USD in Q4 and these are the numbers that predict as much as 150000 to 200000 players.