Age of Conan Buddy Keys now available

[KeithTalent]

So I just started downloading this game (thanks again Powernick!!) and have about 7 hours of downloading.

Does anyone have tips for a newbie to try and get maximum enjoyment and experience out of the trial (which class to play, etc.)

:beer: in advance!

KT

 

[Glavinsolo]

I'd appreciate a key if one is available.

 

[drebo]

I'll take a trial key if anyone has one they wouldn't mind parting with.

 

[A Casual Fitz]

Hey, I'd love to get 2 keys for my friend and I to try Age of Conan if anyone still has one or two.

 

[darkrisen2003]

This game still has players? I thought everyone said it flopped?

 

[BassBomb]

Originally posted by: darkrisen2003
This game still has players? I thought everyone said it flopped?

It did

 

[Scrimmy]

Originally posted by: BassBomb

Originally posted by: darkrisen2003
This game still has players? I thought everyone said it flopped?

It did

Oh yeah, it did. This was definitely my biggest disappointment of games for 2008 and I generally have very low expectations of most games so I tend not to be actually disappointed too often.

Funcom has always been great at making a really well thought-out immersive world (Anarchy Online was amazing for an MMO when it came out) and lots of genuinely new ideas (AO's missions were the first instanced content in an MMO), but technically just awful. AO will go down in history as one of the all-time worst MMO releases, and there's no shortage of competition there.

AoC had a lot of the same issues: great graphics, incredibly detailed and immersive game world, and lots of great ideas like the melee combo system and some really interesting hybrid classes. Seriously, is there a cooler class idea than the Herald of Xotli, a cloth-wearing melee mage class that uses a two-handed sword and transforms into a demon?

They're a really ambitious company in terms of a willingness to try something new and not do exactly what everyone else is doing, but it makes it all the more disappointing when they can't pull off any of it, so you're teased with lots of great ideas that come out half-baked and horribly imbalanced. I'd love to see a game designed by the Funcom design team but programmed and balanced by, well, anyone with a clue and some strong game coding and balancing experience.

 

[darkrisen2003]

I wonder how the White Wolf MMO is gonna turn out. I am really scared to see how they do it. I love the pen and papger RPG's ( Especially Werewolf. )

 

[FuryofFive]

id like to try it out. if there are any keys still available, can you PM me one

 

[Scrimmy]

Originally posted by: darkrisen2003
I wonder how the White Wolf MMO is gonna turn out. I am really scared to see how they do it. I love the pen and papger RPG's ( Especially Werewolf. )

This is one I'm really curious about myself. I think it's encouraging that CCP Games, the company who makes EVE Online, is doing it, though, as they're definitely not a company that's afraid of making a deep, complicated games. They also seem pretty happy with EVE as a niche game, so they seem less likely to completely dumb it down for a mass market audience.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: FuryofFive
id like to try it out. if there are any keys still available, can you PM me one

i believe you can get a 7 day trial off the website; i liked it - for a week enough to buy the full game and play 30 more days


-for $10

it reminds me of what happened to Helgate: London ... Awesome concept and spectacular visuals-
.. but bug ridden

worst of all Hellgate had an awful demo and AoC has none ... then there was the issue of LACK of high level content for subscribers

they finally fixed all this for Hg:L ... just as they shut down end of this month

still, AoC has *got* to be fun for a month .. i know i got weeks out of Hellgate; i am still playing it in Stonehenge, Level 40 engineer.

 

[WraithETC]

They raped my class then they made all my time spent crafting armor worthless.

Luckily this amount of time wasn't all the much

 

[A Casual Fitz]

Great game so far, a few minor improvements over WoW. I haven't gotten far though, only level 10.

 

[ibex333]

I'd like to check out the game. If anyone has a key, please send it my way. Thanx very much.

 

[Scrimmy]

Originally posted by: A Casual Fitz
Great game so far, a few minor improvements over WoW. I haven't gotten far though, only level 10.

Yeah, the first twenty levels are extremely well done, maybe the best early-game experience of any MMO yet. The story's really interesting and fun with some great quests and encounters, and the combination of zoned and instanced content means you can always do whatever you're in the mood for.

Things start to fall apart in the mid-late 20's, and the bottom drops out for good around the time you're ready to leave Field of the Dead.

 

[KMFJD]

The first 20 levels are very well done, it's fun up untill about lvl 30 then it starts to become a real grind and the game is very empty. The gfx are amazing, love the gameplay, there just is not enough content in the game.

 

[Glavinsolo]

I'd try it out if anyone has a cool funky doodad buddy key