I was wopndering if someone could give a through input on the state of the game. Like the developers where its going? Is it gonna die? Hows the pop? This would be much appreciated by plenty more then me

game is going well on the atlantean server (not sure about hte others)

there are plenty of people all over the place, i didnt play during anarchy's hayday but as far as i can tell its well populated

things are being updated regularly as far as game patches

look forward to a brand new game engin comming soon (not sure when though)

its a fun game if you dont mind a complicated game, hopefully the new engin will fix the "made in the 90's" graphics, the video of the new engin sure makes it look like it will.

from what i can tell this game is far from death, unless they scrap the new engin, which i doubt they will

What about being free? Is it good to be free our do the p2p people have like 3x more stuff then me therefore i suck ballz in game?

Well it's a small game compared to giants like wow but the population seems fairly steady on rimor the server i play on,  the game world with expansions is rather large so at times it might look deserted but places like Borealis (neutral town) tend to be rather busy.

As for having expansions or not, yes they will make a huge difference but that does not mean you can't have fun in the game without them, of course it depends on your playstyle, if you plan on solo a lot you can do so easily since missions can be set to the difficulty level of your choosing, having the expansions might let you solo tougher stuff (higher level), as for pvp i can only speculate since i never do any but not having the expansions would make a rather big difference i could imagine.

To me i could not stand playing ao without expansions now that i'm used to the benefits, but it sure gives you a nice trial period if you like to test the game

there is still plenty of stuff to do as a free player...although

you wont stand even a slight chance against paying players in duels or other pvp

you will be missing out on a lot of very fun things to do

but...for your first time playing...go free for a while, at least untill you understand the game a little

oh an the atlantean server is very populated...

Thinking about trying this game for a month being playing eve for the last year and getting board of it need something a bit more fun to play. Is it worth starting a free account to try the game out for a month or so? Also whats the comunity like in game?

Game is going to hell. The development staff is getting sent to work on new games. There is no customer support what so ever. If you have a problem and need to contact funcom or a gm wait time varies from weeks to the end of time. We had no chat in game for over 18 hours  the other week. Age of Conan is funcoms gem now ao is going to get screwed even more in the coming months. Here is a sample of the misery funcom gives its customers. Problems like this are common occurence in ao. forums.anarchy-online.com/showthread.php

Well, you could link to posts like that on any games forum. I've just started playing AO and so far it has less grumbling in the chat than any MMO I've played. So I can't believe there is that much dissatisfaction.

I only wish I'd stuck with the game a couple of years ago when I first tried it. You'll have to play it a few hours to really get into it, but once you do, it's great! Surprisingly there are plenty of people around the froob areas too. I get asked to group all the time. Grouping has helped me up the steep learning curve too.

In a nutshell, give AO a go!

Originally posted by Mahlo

Well, you could link to posts like that on any games forum. I've just started playing AO and so far it has less grumbling in the chat than any MMO I've played. So I can't believe there is that much dissatisfaction.

I only wish I'd stuck with the game a couple of years ago when I first tried it. You'll have to play it a few hours to really get into it, but once you do, it's great! Surprisingly there are plenty of people around the froob areas too. I get asked to group all the time. Grouping has helped me up the steep learning curve too.

In a nutshell, give AO a go!

You know if warcraft had their chat servers down for 18+ hours the people would riot. The players of ao have to put up alot of BS to play this game and won't see this level of incompetence in just any game or on any forum.

well i want to try something else out apart from eve though atm there  isnt any good games i really like out :(.

While i enjoy AO's features and the game seems populated for grouping the graphics kill any type of immersion i could have in this game it looks like Nintendo 64 made a MMO seriously.

Stick to eve till AO's graphic update.

Everyday i log into AO to log off pissed an hour later cause my avatar clips through a ramp or i get lagg with a computer than can easily run AoC WTF!?!?!

Other than the graphics, bugs, terrible UI the game is ok -_-

i'll gess i'll wait till that happens or when WAR, SGW or jumpgate comes out

I was waiting for the engine upgrade to try out the game again, but it seems it would never happen, or not before WAR release.

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Originally posted by Aguitha
I was waiting for the engine upgrade to try out the game again, but it seems it would never happen, or not before WAR release.

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