@flhrci:

That could be said about many many things. But according to their PR department they were small things and the consumers are to blame for listening to the hype.

RaynR

Haha oh dear, i was looking forward to playing AoC when i came back from overseas but it sounds like there won't be a game for me to try? It looked promising :( Oh well many more MMO's for me to try :D

EmeraldCockroach

@Wahrheit:

That should read DX10 version. Which they promised but never delivered.

flhrci

@Wahrheit: Exactly, this is why Funcom kept their mouth shut till the release day for the general public to figure out that your paying for Guild Wars with persistent loot.

PsycheE

I gave up officially last night. I paid for a month of never playing, and was about to get billed again. I tried to like it, just got bored though.

ChimDeathmonkey

"They'll also be showing off features of the DirectX version of the game..."

Wait what? Is there a Mac version of this game? o_O

@PsycheE:

This is the strength of WoW having an engine that even old computers can handle. MMOROG without massive just isn't a good idea.

Wahrheit

Probably already too late for AoC unfortunately. Not that it'll die before the end of the year, but alot of people left due to lack of content. Now there's a lot of competition. WAR comes out next month. WoW has WotLK coming up and anybody who's still up for grabs in the MMO market will be playing that.

DissmalScientist

The retention rate is shot. This game cannot be saved unless they recoded the whole game to get rid of lobbies and drastically change the gameplay to fit those needs.

But then, 90% of the people can't handle a non-lobbied zones as their rig probably can't render 40 people at once.

PsycheE

At first I thought the title meant GameCube, and I was like "WTF? Didn't see THAT one coming!"

SavidDaunders

too little, too late.
So long AoC. Good riddence ya PoS.

flhrci

They disabled /who?

*chuckles*

Rookerith

@Tubatic:
@invictus2006:
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought that.

SanjiX

@DashTheHand:
It already has theres hardly 1k people on a server at peak times. Than its gotten so bad that theyve disabled /who and given no reason. And if you look at xfire numbers its down 90 percent

acrana

What conditions must be met to make a sword a bastard?
The anvil and the hammer that forged it were out of wed-lock?

How did the sword live with the shame? It must of been frowned upon back in those days...

Mr.Monkey

Once the novelty of bare chested women wears off, I believe the population of this game will probably take a nose dive.

The game and company is as clunky and impaired as the FunCom that introduced Anarchy Online was.

DashTheHand

See when people say GC the first thing that comes to mind is the Game Cube...now that would be a shocker

invictus2006

Wasn't there supposed to be an Xbox 360 version of this? I would love to play another MMO, but I sit in front of a computer 10 hours a day at work, so coming home and playing a game on my PC is not ideal.

Calavera302

. . . how do you put Age of Conan on Game Cube . . .

shuddup, its early here

Tubatic

It's a shame that they released so early, it's a game that really showed signs of promise from what I played. I hope it can pick up players again once it's become more polished, but with Warhammer as a new entry it'll have even stiffer competition.

Also I'm in the WOTLK beta and having heaps of fun, so WoW can't be written off either.

Ladi

@Mr.Monkey: Yeah, I asked the same question the first time I played Eternal Darkness.

Bernard McGraw

This game was pants, 30gb worth of pants too.

Winterbringer

@Mr.Monkey: Actually a bastard sword (i think) is a sword that needs to be used with both one or two hands depending on the strike preformed. This is different from using a one-handed sword or a two-handed sword where the combatant does not change how many hands he uses. I read this in some book though, so i could be way off. and i'm not sure about the name.

On a side note wow this is quite off-topic

smuckers is good

I think AoC was rather silly.

First off it tried to go 'high graphics' setting a high minimum spec bar.
Example of how successful this is in most MMOs? Hello Vanguard!

Not to mention that magic casting was pretty much standard fare while the much touted melee is little more than Dance Dance Revolution without the upbeat music. The fact they tacked the melee system onto the bows didn't make a whole lot of sense to me and didn't feel very good.

The direction and shield system is interesting but mainly falls on it's face as everyone just spams the specials (yes I know they're directional) and just put their shields on one per direction without changing it much.

Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware of the surprising depth of the shield and direction system (it's 3D!) but most don't.

There's one or two good ideas nestled in there but on the whole the game didn't really entertain me, especially the single player game... uh... I mean Tortage. I know people loved it but as a social gamer, I found it pretty lacking.

Truth be told, I'm likely being over the top and perhaps even harsh in my criticism but meh. I guess I feel there's something in there that makes me like it enough to make comment but not enough to actually play it or enjoy playing it =P

Geminosity

Hmm, about that "thirty magazine covers" thing.
I noticed that Beckett Massive Online Gamer just did a second consecutive cover on AoC and the lead article is a thinly-veiled advertorial on "Why you should play this game."

I think Funcom's strategy is to keep suckering new players and float on the box sales until they can get this thing onto the 360 or some kind of stable condition on the PC where it will quickly slide into second- or third-tier MMO status with a meager playerbase.

It riles me that they charged for early access to a pre-Beta game, still haven't added features that are advertised on the box, yet continue to peddle this POS to the unsuspecting.

Silverbackne

I just wish someone would make an MMORPG that's actually fun to play. Not something where I click, manage some crap, then watch my guy auto-attack.

Conan had promise, and fell flat.

No one seems to want to innovate at all.. and why should they! The biggest MMORPG of them all at the moment wasn't an innovation at all, and it's making megabucks. Blizzard has effectively cockblocked any and all MMO innovation. Just like they do with every genre they "control".

When the bar is set so low as to what you got to do, to make lots of money, no one is going to try hard. Because all they want is money.

otimus

Fact of the day: After announcing that Age of Conan has got an active player base of 410,000 people, FunCom's stock dropped by 20.49%.

My biggest issue with Age of Conan is rather simple - it didn't manage to get me emerged in the world, and no DirectX 10 client or end-game content will be able to fix that.

ZillionDollarSadist

@smuckers is good: I know what a bastard sword is, a sword of unconventional size, between one & two handed...

My tongue was in cheek...

Mr.Monkey

The game is dying right now, and I can't be more pleased

RaynR

Come to think of it, if Blizz managed to make a more mature-only server and showed off topless avatars, AoC would probably lose the rest of its playerbase.

To be honest, I really wasn't impressed with the brief scant I had with AoC. If I'm playing a fantasy game, and everyone is a clone of each other, its kinda boring.

DashTheHand

A good question for them would be, Why are the exact same (seven year old) cheats and hacks for Anarchy Online currently available in Age of Conan?

Another one, Why have you let the gem duplicating in game for well over one month and not banned players who have duplicated multiple sets of armor for many, many characters?

Why have the guilds who have used these and other exploits to build their cities (duping construction materials - the same way as gem duping is done) still in game?

Same could be asked of another exploit to complete Harvesting quests with less than the required number of rare materials.

Ogknee

MMO on gamecube? like phantasy star? oh wait >.>

Shockadin