Age Of Conan: Hyborian Adventures / Others ?

[gizbug]

Game is horrible. Don't waste your money on it (coming from someone who played it for 2 1/2 months).

 

[Wreckem]

Originally posted by: JPB

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: JPB
If you are referring to me...yes, I pay cable net.....and cell phone. But if I am going to pay $50 for a PC game, I am NOT going to continue to pay Microsoft a monthly fee just to keep playing it.

you don't pay microsoft...

why pay for cable when you bought the tv? OTA should be good enough.

You are trying to compare two completely different things. Purchasing a TV does require paying for cable service.

For a game...after it is purchased, it should be yours to play as long as you want. Once its paid for, its paid for. Should not have to keep paying for it.

By what you are saying, I buy a TV....purchase cable to watch tv. Then...while I am paying for cable....keep on making monthly payments on the TV even though it was already paid in full ?

You are paying for access to the servers and continual development. MMO's are in a constant state of change. Free content is added, in addition to the retail expansion packs.

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: JPB
I guess people learn something new everyday. See...I didnt know that MMO servers were ran by the company. To be quite honest...I have never even played a MMO. I will agree that this is different than other types of multiplayer, which I am used to. I see your point though, the fee is to keep servers running and new content. Ok..I agree with that.

So in the end, I guess you were right. :thumbsup:

But I still wouldn't pay the monthly fee because its a broken game. Now if it were not *broken* I would have to think about it.

Yeah, the whole thing with MMOs is that the servers are maintained by the developers/publishers of the game, and that content is continuously added. You don't pay $50 plus a monthly fee just to keep playing the exact same game you bought a year ago.

If you've never played an MMO before, but are intrigued I would recommend giving World of Warcraft a shot. It is very accessible to first time MMO players, while still having enough content and depth to be attractive to hard core MMO players. It's not as popular as it is because it sucks...

 

[Sentrosi2121]

AoC = PoC
And the comparison between Vanguard and AoC is not true. Vanguard wasn't fun from the beginnng. AoC at least had Tortage.

 

[KMFJD]

Originally posted by: Sentrosi2121
AoC = PoC
And the comparison between Vanguard and AoC is not true. Vanguard wasn't fun from the beginnng. AoC at least had Tortage.

I had fun until i hit 70....i can't fathom leveling the last 10 levels in Kenshatta...ugh every patch breaks more than it fixes, every patch the game slows down....

 

[Skott]

Leveling 70-80 is quite fustrating for the solo player in AoC. Because many of the the quests in the game require you to fight elite mobs this game just screams for group play much of the time. This was intended on FunComs part to force people to group up. More MMO developers are doing this a lot more nowadays. This isnt good for the solo player although you can solo your way up to L80 but it'll take you longer to do so and obviously some classes do it better than others. I wouldnt say the game is crap or broken but it does have issues like all MMO games tend to do. FunCom does fix things but as been mentioned often the fix creates a bug somewhere else. Its not going to be a WoW killer thats for sure. Not in its present state anyway. It can be a fun game though. I think in the end the best advice I could give any perspective buyer would be to try and see for yourself if its for you or not. And dont play it to just level 20. There's more to AoC than just Tortage and its levels. Personally, overall I'd give AoC a 7.5 out of 10. (I should note I dont believe in perfection and I am somewhat harsh about rating games so in my reality a 10 doesnt exist) AoC does have a lot of potential if FunCom does what it needs to but that can be said of most MMO games in general. The question is will they do it? Only time will tell.

 

[gizbug]

80 and bored. Sums up Age of Conan.

 

[KMFJD]

Originally posted by: Skott
Leveling 70-80 is quite fustrating for the solo player in AoC. Because many of the the quests in the game require you to fight elite mobs this game just screams for group play much of the time. This was intended on FunComs part to force people to group up. More MMO developers are doing this a lot more nowadays. This isnt good for the solo player although you can solo your way up to L80 but it'll take you longer to do so and obviously some classes do it better than others. I wouldnt say the game is crap or broken but it does have issues like all MMO games tend to do. FunCom does fix things but as been mentioned often the fix creates a bug somewhere else. Its not going to be a WoW killer thats for sure. Not in its present state anyway. It can be a fun game though. I think in the end the best advice I could give any perspective buyer would be to try and see for yourself if its for you or not. And dont play it to just level 20. There's more to AoC than just Tortage and its levels. Personally, overall I'd give AoC a 7.5 out of 10. (I should note I dont believe in perfection and I am somewhat harsh about rating games so in my reality a 10 doesnt exist) AoC does have a lot of potential if FunCom does what it needs to but that can be said of most MMO games in general. The question is will they do it? Only time will tell.

I had a lot of fun 1-60 , i like the pvp as well, have a blast pvping in large battles, post 60 is when it get's bad i think, i like the combat system, and the graphics are the best i have seen in an mmo. There just isn't enough content post 60...plus so many people have left, it feels pretty empty on Deathwhisperer now.

 

[Skott]

Originally posted by: KMFJD

Originally posted by: Skott
Leveling 70-80 is quite fustrating for the solo player in AoC. Because many of the the quests in the game require you to fight elite mobs this game just screams for group play much of the time. This was intended on FunComs part to force people to group up. More MMO developers are doing this a lot more nowadays. This isnt good for the solo player although you can solo your way up to L80 but it'll take you longer to do so and obviously some classes do it better than others. I wouldnt say the game is crap or broken but it does have issues like all MMO games tend to do. FunCom does fix things but as been mentioned often the fix creates a bug somewhere else. Its not going to be a WoW killer thats for sure. Not in its present state anyway. It can be a fun game though. I think in the end the best advice I could give any perspective buyer would be to try and see for yourself if its for you or not. And dont play it to just level 20. There's more to AoC than just Tortage and its levels. Personally, overall I'd give AoC a 7.5 out of 10. (I should note I dont believe in perfection and I am somewhat harsh about rating games so in my reality a 10 doesnt exist) AoC does have a lot of potential if FunCom does what it needs to but that can be said of most MMO games in general. The question is will they do it? Only time will tell.

I had a lot of fun 1-60 , i like the pvp as well, have a blast pvping in large battles, post 60 is when it get's bad i think, i like the combat system, and the graphics are the best i have seen in an mmo. There just isn't enough content post 60...plus so many people have left, it feels pretty empty on Deathwhisperer now.

I agree with you about post L60 and all but after L70 it becomes even worse IMO.

 

[Joeydubbs]

I have a question for those who have played before...how long does it take to level? Sounds like the biggest complaint is lack of content in level cap. WoW was a bit like this at release but I remember it taking me a long time to get my first character to 60 in WoW...I must have spent a month just in Ashenvale and running Blackfathom Deeps mostly cause I enjoyed it...now it seems MMO's are a race to the level cap...

 

[Joeydubbs]

bump

Big patch just released, is this game stable yet? The Conan world really intrigues me but the multitude of AoC = PoC comments makes me hesitate to try this one out...

 

[Lumathix]

Originally posted by: Joeydubbs
bump

Big patch just released, is this game stable yet? The Conan world really intrigues me but the multitude of AoC = PoC comments makes me hesitate to try this one out...

What's in the patch? I don't want to access the website at work?

 

[Joeydubbs]

PVP patch in addition to a bunch of class balancing and bug fixes, new upper level content, claim they fixed the memory leak bug...

 

[Joeydubbs]

i suppose the lack of interest in this thread sorta answers my concerns

 

[Pepsei]

yeah the game is now called "I am legend" mmo

 

[HumblePie]

Did Vanguard beta.

Everyone said, oh it's just a "beta" client. The release patch and client will fix EVERYTHING. No more bugs, better running, no mem leak, tons of content. Everything will be balanced.

Vanguard sold, supposedly according to Brad McQuaid around 200K copies within that first week.

Myself and most others quit before the first 30 days of play expired. The game went from selling supposedly 200K copies to having about 20K subscriptions after the first month. Epic failure.


Guess what AoC did?

The exact same thing. However, a few more stuck around AoC, for whatever reason I will never know, instead of jumping ship with in that first 30 days. I think it's because AoC has Tortage which IS good, but that's about it. It gave people a sort of hope I think that maybe there was more to the game after Tortage or the game would be patched to that. so AoC sold more copies initially than Vanguard did, but in the end, it's still the same. Epic Failure. I think it has about the same amount of subscriptions or close to it as Vanguard or when Asheron's Call 2 closed down.


Also to those that say MMO's never fail... They do and do it often.

 

[JD50]

I remember back when the game first game out itemization was horrible, has that changed at all?