Age of Conan

I'll start by saying I've never played AoC, but I've seen the screenshots and gameplay trailers, and the graphics here are miles ahead of WoW and WAR.  Why does it seem so many people are flocking to WAR over this (despite the fact that WAR is brand new)?  Why doesn't this game boast the most subscribers over WoW (which has over 10 million?!).  Is the gameplay flawed/what's the deal here?

It's like looking at a chick's picture on the net and she's some Brazilian super model, but then you meet her in real life and you kinda go...

Really, there's so much WRONG with it that the graphics are pretty much all it got right. And maybe the combat, but that's more of personal taste.

It's a combination of broken/flawed gameplay and idiotic devs who either don't recognize that it's broken, can't fix it, or don't care, depending on the specific issue at hand. I haven't played it, but this is the general opinion and you can find examples strewn throughout these forums.

Originally posted by Bruticus_XI

It's like looking at a chick's picture on the net and she's some Brazilian super model, but then you meet her in real life and you kinda go...

Really, there's so much WRONG with it that the graphics are pretty much all it got right. And maybe the combat, but that's more of personal taste.

I agree.

For once, OP. Listen to the mmorpg people, for once we make sense. Don't waste 65$ and then have Funcom steal your money! Not worth it!

The ratings are entirely because of how Funcom has managed the game from release til now.  The game was released with many features broken, or in some cases outright missing.  Some of these are things that are actually on the box (DX10 & pic of drunken brawling on the box but not in game, etc).  Really simple things like stats weren't even working and took way too long to fix.  They've been stringing people along with promised feature after promised feature after promised content, but almost nothing of actual substance has been added since launch.  And now, they're already talking about an expansion when the basics of the main game aren't fixed.  When people press Funcom for answers, the response is always the same - "we're aware of it and don't want to give a deadline since we'd hate to be wrong, but trust us, lots of good things(tm) are coming!"

*If* the game had been managed properly, it could have been great even with a lot of the features missing.  It was pretty fun for awhile, but the single starting area gets old and the gameplay is a bit boring as you get toward the high end.  And unfortunately, much of the game itself is pretty much designed to avoid socialization - you're completely solo the first 5 levels, and after that you're kept in instances with a relatively small number of people, except when you do your storyline quests which are also solo (up to level 19-20).  At first, I loved the idea since it made for a good story, but then I realized that it completely removes any sense of community for the first 20 levels and that feeling seemed to carry on throughout the rest of the game.

Um... yeah, so just a couple things that bugged me. 

 AoC sucks overall, but don't buy into the good graphics argument. Even it's graphics are not that great, especially animations and overall performance. If you're one to buy into the "more polygons=better graphics", well I could name dozens of games that are GPU intensive and have much better graphics than AoC. WAR and even WoW's graphics are much better overall than AoC's because they use more than 3 colors and incorparate art into their graphics. Art trumps polygon-counts everytime. Want proof? EQ2 was released less than a week before WoW, with a graphics engine that even now is GPU demanding. Where is EQ2 now compared to WoW?

@OP: Rating a game is not just one value, there are different areas when you can give a value:

Graphics
Fun
Sound
Community
Role-Playing
Performance/Lag
Value
Service

 Many had followd AoC for long time and was really hyped about it.

When it released it did not meed the expectations of those who thought AoC would be the 1 and only MMO giving them everything they wanted.

AoC did not meet those expectations. So I think many went in here and gave it a zero rating.

All hype aside; aoc is still a good game. 

Great grapics. Great animations. New approach to melee combat. 

Only site where is AoC rated so low is mmorpg.com. If you check forum here you can also see why. There isnt any other forum close to mmorpg.com AoC section (in the terms of useless posts, lies, spam and insulting). These people also rate AoC so low.

There are serious problems with AoC, but far from you can see on these boards.

Problems of graphic is, that you NEED great PC to handle it. And to run AoC on mid PCs, you need to make some tweaks (because of AoC bugs).

But if you check more important stats on mmorpg.com and thats "Most popular", you can see that AoC is still no.#2!