Age of Conan

I've been playing this game since may 17th and I love this game, i've loved it since the start. I might crash every now and then, but I did that when I played WoW and LotrO as well, and shit happens, so I don't really mind.

In my opinion, I think that Funcom is doing a great job, I don't really understand what people are complaining about. I mean in the first 1,5 month they added patches 2 times a week!

And GM's usually respond quite quickly and help you out, I've never had to ask a GM for help, but some of my guildies have and they've recieved help quite quickly and the GM's have been really cool and nice.

Oh, yeah, people whine about "loads of bugs", well, I haven't seen thart many bugs, and If I do encounter a bug, so what!? It's a game. nothing is perfect. I know WoW, after about 4-5 years(?) still has a lot of bugs, Age of Conan has been out for about 2 months and Funcom is working actively on fixing every bug that gets reported.

Only proplem i've noticed so far is that between lvl 55-60 it might be a bit hard to level, but there are several repeatable quests that scale to your level. And there's a new area coming up soon called Ymir's Pass(for lvl 55-60) wich will take care of that "issue".

And yes, I am really into R.E. Howards books and I love the world of Conan.

So I give 5 thumbs up for this game out of 5 possible!

Jusy creating alts is fun, since the destiny-quests are different for every archetype(soldier, priest, mage and rogue).

I know I'll stick to this game for a long time.

EDIT: Oh, I forgot to add. Kids? You know that every MMO that has been released has had issues, right? That no MMO that is to be released will be perfect at launch. I'm gonna sit back and enjoy the flame war and whining that will erupt when WAR is finally released, when people realise how buggy that game will be(not that I know anything, not in beta), but I do know that every single MMO that is to be released will be more or less buggy. It's a child desease, happens to the best even. So relax, have a coke and try to look pass the flaws(since they come with every MMO) and try to enjoy the game as a whole(I mean that to every MMO out there, not just AoC).

AOC has way too many issues to count ;(.....   So much potential wasted........

The game simply doesn't work for me, from core performance issues, to core gameplay issues. Itemization that absolutely sucks and makes no difference what so ever.  Random loot table stats that were obviously never QA'ed.  Feats that don't work. Classes that are still broken/borked.  No polished content beyond Tortage, and Tortage being repetitive garbage because EVERYBODY does the SAME EXACT ****, and the night time bull crap garbage makes this game nothing more than a pay to play single player with an AOL chatroom on the screen.  A completely linear and non-explorable world, made even more linear and non explorable by the recent "invisible walls".

I lasted for 2 months until I was bored senseless.  Add to the above a support staff that isn't capable of tying their shoes. Am I a hater?  Yes, I hate the fact that FunCom is so ****ed up that they released such a half baked product. 

Look it's not just about missing content, but poor coding and optimization.  Their QA is laughable, their support is equally amusing, and don't get me started on their borked loot tables or broken dungeons for end content. 

Massive sieges?  More than 20 players and the instance laggs to hell and people are frozen booted/reconnected from the zone continuously.  Massive my a**.  I don't think they could have made this much worse if they had tried. 

This looks like a product with good intentions but poor execution due to a company being disorganized and not holding people accountable.  This is the second game I have watched them make a mess of.  Gaute screwed the pooch on this one and wasted a chance to capture a big portion of the market. 

Yes again, I am pissed about it.  This had the potential to be greatness, but they ruined it.  Baah, sorry guys.  Wasting my breath here I am sure.  But I just needed to vent after I uninstalled the game tonight. 

Originally posted by Krayzjoel

AOC has way too many issues to count ;(.....   So much potential wasted........

It's not the issues, bugs, or even the lack of content that bother me so much.  It is the company attitude towards the customers and the Conan license.  In their eyes Funcom > Customers and Funcom > REH.

Niether approach is healthy for business, and frankly, the people who are not pissed off about this are either a little submissive, or a little naive.

I can honestly say as a veteran of 10 years of MMORPG that AOC is the worst one I've played though it is close compared with CoH.

AoC isn't bad .. just need more stuff to make it appealing.

Everything seem awesome, but I can't keep from getting bored in the game

Originally posted by dougmysticey

And for those who say it is like WOW, quit smokin the dope kids. It is NOT like WOW other than the fact it has elements that are common to almost ALL MMOs to date, INCLUDING many games that came BEFORE WOW was a sparkle in Blizzards eye. These things have just become staples of the standard MMO genre (fantasy anyway) and are not unique to WOW at all. If that makes it similar to WOW or a clone of WOW then 90% of the games out there are, even EQ, AC, and DAOC (Not sure how Blizzard time traveled to work that out but hey-go figure).

Ok, let's hear it smart ass. Let's hear why AOC is worth playing seeing as we are all so drugged up that we dont know what we are talking about. What's different about AOC? Im just dying to know what these differences are. And does it really need to be explained to people every couple of posts that people are not saying that WoW is the innovator? What people are saying, if you had bothered to read or comprehend it, is that WoW has set the benchmarks in quality for all fantasy MMOS to be compared to.

If new MMOs are released and cannot at least even match the quality of the existing MMOs on the market, especially the one that is currently dominating the market, why would anyone even play the new game in the first place? Pardon me from being old fashioned about these concepts, but new games are supposed to offer something NEW or at the very very least give us improvements on existing concepts that justify the price of the box and subscription. When a new game comes on the market and just provides the same old nonsense that is already out there, albeit in a more badly designed and overall less functional package, is anyone surprised that people try it and say 'thanks, but no thanks' and consign it to the bin?

If you want an idea about how a company should at least aspire to innovate and improve on the common elements that have been there for a while, then have a look at some of the WAR concepts as outlined in the videos that are widely available on youtube. Just to take one small example, WAR will seemingly improve on the tired quest idea of 'Kill 50 goats' to succeed in the quest, as the server will count kills before you even touch the quest. So you can complete the quest before you have even had the quest. Now executing these innovations are a different matter from simply talking about them and only time will tell as to whether WAR gets it right, but what is certain, is that if the WAR customer service sucks, has terrible chat, party and guild interfaces and the core elements of the game are borked like they are in AOC, the game will fail anyway.

As has been said a million times before, we all expect new MMOs to have lots of bugs. This is not unique to AOC. What is specific to this game however is that the aspects of the game that were supposed to improve the genre are terrible or not even implemented yet, so we are basically left with a standard fare fantasy MMO that fails to meet the standards of the existing competition. It seems that the people that are sticking around with it are the masochists who dont mind doing kill and gathering quests for the billionth time as long as the scenery is a little different. Those of us who expect new products to offer improved levels of quality and interesting new ideas have all jumped ship and are waiting to see if WAR delivers on its promise.

So, if anyone needs to stop smoking dope, its those who are so cringingly supine about their gaming experiences that they will accept and pay for any old crap as long as it looks different and has a few stupid gimmicks thrown in to make it seem different from the existing material.