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• • What if WAR was $5 a month?

  • I think the cheapest "MMORPG" is around 9.99 on a special deal for LOTRO (unless you bought the lifetime account anyways).  Even EQ was 12.99 I believe, AC was at that price for a long time (not counting multiple month discounts).  I think it was EQ2 that lead up the 14.99 a month price and the others followed suit.

    Really, 14.99 a month isn't a bad price, most companies have discounts to get it down further for multiple month subs...  I'd rather see them drop the box price than the sub price, we all knwo they get their bulk money from subs and not the box (or offer a significantly less expensive download).

  • Posted: 10/07/08 3:45 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • THE BEST DAY EVER!!! 5 REASONS WHY AOC IS BACK ON TOP!

  • He has one thing right, this game is nothing like WoW or EQ2...  Those are actually playable games and would be insulted to be called similiar to AoC :)

    I went back to EQ2 and the game is so much more fun now that I realize how bad a game can really be...  Sometimes it takes jumping at the 'grass is greener' stance to realize how wrong it can be...

  • Posted: 9/17/08 9:25 PM
    Age of Conan
• • THE BEST DAY EVER!!! 5 REASONS WHY AOC IS BACK ON TOP!

  • sorry, even if they did everything on your list, the game would still be pathetic.

    The whole foundation of the game is flawed and unless they somewho mystically grow a clue, they won't fix it.

    Massive PvP seiges my arse, 40x40 is NOT massive, sorry.

    Shame they didn't take the good things from SB and rework them with modern tech to fix the exploits, but I guess that would of taken far more skill than they really had...

  • Posted: 9/17/08 1:20 PM
    Age of Conan
• • Anarchy Online new engine

  • They could pull every dev from AO and their other MMO in production and they couldn't 'fix' AoC...  AoC is flawed from the ground up because they completely lost what made AO good, the skill system for a button mashing, hand destroying, PoS variant of EQ...  with boobs and blood...

    sorry, not enough for this player.  The only reason AO never really caught on with me was because of their disasterous launch...  I know they've improved it (I've got a froob account), but none of my friends will really play it because of that launch...  I know several people in my guild broke the discs and threw them in the trash after the game absolutely refused to install on their rigs (for no real reason either).

  • Posted: 9/09/08 2:09 PM
    Anarchy Online
• • AOC's future

  • at the low levels, AoC is great.  Good game play, not TOO much clicking/button mashing, etc...  but as you level, the shine begins to wear off...  Once you hit 50, it became a real grind with the only future you saw ahead of you were the villas in the noble district...

    The combat system was only about 1/2 thought out with the concept of burst damage (and over powered healers), making some classes seem too powerful, but the changes made to them made them irrelevatn in PvP because they couldn't out damage a fly, let alone a ToS healing...

    Dungeon instance...  sheesh, who made these things?  A blind man with no sense of creativity???  They are horrible, silly and boring.  Tank and spank, tank and spank, tank and spank...

    Even the graphics aren't that great (I still think EQ2 has better graphics), the messes don't always line up, leaving seams between the hair and head, the faces are atrocious, the hairstyles too...  I think the blind man who did the dungeons must of done these too...

    Tortage...  The highlight of the game, at no other point in this game did I have more fun than on tortage.

    Massive PvP...  yah right.  Even shadowbane got that part right.

    There was absolutely nothing revolutionary about the game, they took a great system (AO) and threw it out, rather than fixing the few MINOR problems it had and releasing a great MMO, they took a step backwards to release a patheticly unimaginative, poorly thought out, horribly developed, bad version of an EQ clone.

  • Posted: 9/05/08 12:37 PM
    Age of Conan