Age of Conan

Why Age of Conan failed?

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1. Gaute Gadger

2. Lack of clear game design .

3. Lack of funds.

1 Usless stats gear.

2 Unfinished (post lvl20)

3 the constant patching where they broke more than they fixed.

1. Wrong gameplay design - AOC was clearly designed by people that dont know much about gaming.

2. Horrible game client - Badly coded. Focus on high end graphic on cost of game world expansivnes

3. False advertising - Lying to customers. Selling features that are not actually in game.

Depends what you consider a failure. It's still going and probably will continue for many years to come. But as for why it isn't as popular as, perhaps, it should be:

1) lack of mid-high level content

2) extremely damaging mistakes made by GMs

3) lack of a complete PvP system (although the PvP itself is very good).

It's a shame - I really enjoyed Conan, it's definitely one of the better MMOs out there. It's just a shame it wasn't released a few months later with all of its promised features.

Why did it fail?

Same reason every other MMORPG has failed in the last few years.

It was released unfinished and poor technical quality.

1.) it was unfinished /broken

2.) there was well nothing after lvl 20 or so

and third and final one was

3.) lack of customer support when the game did frequently bug out (imean if you are going to release a bugged heap of crap at least hire enough GM's and techies and what to deal with it)

1. Inconsistencies between what was advertised and what was provided.

2. Poor performance of the game engine on recommended or higher systems.

3. Insufficient in game content at higher levels, which resulted in dramatic changes in the playing experience (from quest driven to pure grinding).

1.  Poor focus.  Never focus on glitter and gloss before completely the main core.  This game focused on graphics first and content last.

2.  Piss poor business practice.  Funcom printed features on the game box before the features were complete.  They had bad customer service.  They also lied a lot.

3.  Poor coding.  The game could not be patched properly to fix issues because the coding is porrly made.  Graphical performance was horrible , even on the best of PCs.

1.From start unstable servers

2.Bugs

3.Lack of content at high lvls

4.Extreme loading screens

5.Small liniair maps

6.Unbalance classes 1 class cold kill 20mobs while some could barely kill 1 mobs.

7.Boring grind quests

8.Wax museum most mob's/npc's wait to be slaughtered, poor AI.

9.limited players per map instance

10.Wrong sounds in wrong areas like tropical sounds in ice area's

and many more faults.