Age of Conan

After WoW came out, there was a void in MMO history where NO GOOD MMO was on the market.

I remember 2005- 07 was the worst wait for a MMO.  Everything was in development and the only worthwhile MMO to play was WoW.

Then AoC comes out, i had been anticipating its release due to the hype and features promised.  I thought this was going to be a traditional MMO with a wide open world and immersive content.  When i first logged on, i thought i had found my new addiction.  I played vigorously and loved every second until i got off the island of tortage and looked at my map

First of all, the instances didn't really bother me.  The lack of content bothered me. Once i glanced at my map and saw the limited places you could visit, the addiction broke. Most of my 30-45 leveling was done by grinding because there were no quests to be done.  Another thing that disappointed me was you got your first cloak at level 40!  And by then everyone was running around with your red cloak you got from sanctuary.

AoC has a fantastic combat system and great graphics.  Thats just about it.  I have to MAKE my self log on and get levels because im hoping there will be some reward to siege PvP.  But in the end, this game feels more like an online role playing game, misssing the most important element.

Im aware you cant have stellar graphics with an immersive world and hundreds of people on the screen,  but if your not going to have the MMO element in your game, don't call it an MMO.

I agree that WoW content is years ahead of AoC ...about 3 years. I am willing to allow and support a game that has the basic framework to become a great game. As you mention in your post, AoC has that framework. We just gotta let it mature a little

After 5 yrs. in development, you would think all that content would have been in at launch time. We as a MMO community need to take a stand against these dev companies that over hype their games and release them with only half the features.

As for as AOC not being a huge open world game because of high tech tits and ass, that's a step back in my opinion. FC could have took the other path and settled for lesser graphics, not WOW type but lesser, and made Hyboria a huge open and dangerous world.

Add in all the things they promised would be in game from the get go and you would have had one amazing mmo that could have been at the top of the list for a pretty long time.

Thanks for your opinion, maybe they can improve it in a few months and I know alot of people will still play it. Might try it out but now I'm not so sure, when WAR comes out that has top spot.

RF Online - letdown

Tabula Rasa - letdown

AoC - not really a letdown - but no staying power

WAR - *cross finger*

guess i'll be playing WoW for another 3 years and/or till WOW2/Diablo Online comes out ;)

Give AoC time .....after we beta tested AO for funcom it took till the next expansion before it got right....a year or so......come back after the first expansion and see whats it like then

Originally posted by Zerocool032

Most of my 30-45 leveling was done by grinding because there were no quests to be done. 

You must be playing a differnt game then I ...

/shakes head

What keeps me enthusiastic is patch day which is so very often these days, each patch improves the game by leaps and bounds and their future road map to the game may be what we wished was in at launch, but if they had waited till the features were All in, we wouldnt get to play right now, we'd be waiting six months to play and then we wouldnt have all the player feedback on their future plans that helps make them leaps and bounds above what they innitially planned. So I think everything happened for a reason and I will continue to play and enjoy having been there when it was the bare bones of the game and got to watch it flesh out into an even better one that will, have staying power for years to come.

Originally posted by Balthaazar1

What keeps me enthusiastic is patch day which is so very often these days, each patch improves the game by leaps and bounds and their future road map to the game may be what we wished was in at launch, but if they had waited till the features were All in, we wouldnt get to play right now, we'd be waiting six months to play and then we wouldnt have all the player feedback on their future plans that helps make them leaps and bounds above what they innitially planned. So I think everything happened for a reason and I will continue to play and enjoy having been there when it was the bare bones of the game and got to watch it flesh out into an even better one that will, have staying power for years to come.

You are out of your mind ; these so leaps and bounds are fixes to the game that should of had happened in Beta. oh wait there wasn't one, just their showcase of tortage( which is the only fun part of the game). I waited 2 years for this game,  and the only thing i got was a pretty bottle with nothing in it.

Originally posted by musicmann

After 5 yrs. in development, you would think all that content would have been in at launch time. We as a MMO community need to take a stand against these dev companies that over hype their games and release them with only half the features.

As for as AOC not being a huge open world game because of high tech tits and ass, that's a step back in my opinion. FC could have took the other path and settled for lesser graphics, not WOW type but lesser, and made Hyboria a huge open and dangerous world.

Add in all the things they promised would be in game from the get go and you would have had one amazing mmo that could have been at the top of the list for a pretty long time.

We are not only talking 5 years in development. We are talking 3 years after Wow. Think about how much the computers and gpu`s have developed since that. And wow is really not all that. Its a fairly simple game, with casual rpg and a whack`m mole gameplay. A game launched in 2008 after 5 years development should be able to beat Wow in all aspects. Instead the game is step backwards in almost every part. I agree completely that Funcom should have prioritied different in development. Simple more fluid graphic, with emphasize on design and artists inspiration instead of newest shader and dx version. Less instances. Less loadscreens. More stats( or - at least some working stats). Alot more items. And focus on making the combat system sublime ( the concept have the potentiel to take the genre in to next tier, and if Funcom had a team working exclusively on this part for 5 years it could have been something realy speciel).

Last week i found my first 2 "random" blue items in AOC - both dropped in the same instance. I ran down to the AH eager to make a small fortune. Only to find that those 2 blue items was the only blues at all. And offcourse there was dozens of both  - price completely stomped to nothing...