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High potential brought down by incompetent company

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It is hard to believe that people working now at Funcom even ever made this game this far. The release version didn't differ from Beta4 much and the release version should be considered as Beta5. It has game breaking bugs, exploits and it is unstable. Every time they make a fix, they break more than they fix and issue emergency patch which again usually breaks more things. The company is smokescreening a lot and the story the game promises is nowhere to be seen. They even dont have ETA for the story which was to be main selling point of this game.
Good:
- Very nice graphics and music
- Nice special effects like sandstorms etc.
- If it worked and had the promised story, it would be best
Bad:
- Unstable
- Game breaking exploits and bugs
- Horrendous, almost nonexistent support
- Programmers who break many things for each thing they fix
- Its all eye candy. Content is non existent
- Story is non existent
- Mid to High level game is broken, non existent and plain boring
- Major incompetence from the company in every aspect of development, programming, customer support and QA dept.
End result?
Wasted opportunity. A game that could have been best but was brought down by over hype and incompetence. Will stay as hall mark of how not to do MMORPG

What, no zero star rating?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This just in, FunCom changes their corporate name to UnfunCom and their game to Arbitrary Online. I have played this game for little over a month and a half since its release and I have to say that this game is the worst game that I've ever played in the history of bad games. I've played through four updates, which have made the game less and less playable after a long amount of server downtime. There are many obvious bugs that make play tedious, and there is no major goal to obtain as everything in the game is completely relative. PvP is horrible, there are no trade skills as promised, and I am not the only one who feels this way. Check the FunCom message boards for more.

From a long time Fan

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Having spent the last two months playing this game can I just say this - 'Run! Don't stop, just run! Do not even think of picking this game up.'

The core aspect of this game is quite good, however it does possess some serious problems, principly would have to be the publishers Funcom. Its a brutal hard world out there in the land of MMORPG and Funcom has proven over the last two months it has little idea of how to run a MMORPG or how to maintain an online community.

Repeated blunders by Funcom in both coding as well as in informing the player base have shown this company to be incompetant at best, criminal at worse.

Game Pros : A bueatiful, graphically stunning world with a potentially rich back ground story set in a futuristic setting on an alien world.

Game Cons : Bugs and plenty of them, we're talking massive game stopping ones and after 2 months of retail this just shouldn't be the case. Customer support is also virtually non-existant and what little there is has no concept of customer relations. Many possibly redeeming features simply do not work. In fact entire classes of players simply do not work.

If Funcom got its act together and dedicated some serious resources to this product it would have the potential of being a great MMORPG but thats along way off in its current state.

Dont waste your $, or your time.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Even if this game was free, I doubt I would continue to play it.
The company that created & maintains AO, 'Funcom', honestly has the most horrible customer relation skills out of any gaming company I've ever worked with. The game looks gorgeous. And it's designed so that the first dozen levels or so get you hooked. But then it's horrible. The company doesnt care about it's players, never fixes the bugs in the game (which were of minor concern to the players) without causing 20 more horrible bugs that are just innacceptable. Save yourself while you can, invest your precious time into something else.

Just painful to play

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Massive lag, frequent disconnects, and a company that apparently has no idea how to properly patch a computer program, and has no idea what the term "service" means. I feel that having this game active is the same as giving the makers (Funcom) permission to pick my pocket each and every month.

Save your Money, please.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

AO was a prety picture and idea that missed the mark horribly in translation from Funcom's mind to my PC.

They have delivered close to nothing they have promised, the game in it's current form is still as buggy as most closed BETA tests, the community is a seriously embittered group of people, and the game, flat out, does not provide any more bang for the buck then other, far more established, and stable, titles.

In short, AO is a flop in my mind. From it's humble beginings with Funcom not adept enough to create a SECURE billing webpage -(yes, we had to tell them it was unsecure), to the last patch which was the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back - as it actually made it so players could not damage monsters.

- did I mention they patched this on a Friday and left it, untouched, till Monday morning?

- did I mention they use a test server to *test* patches, and the meat of the server screamed at funcom to NOT realese the patch.

Sadly, we keep hoping Funcom will learn from it's mistakes, but they are not. These mistake keep happening over and over and are now the standard, as opposed to the exception.

In general, if you are considering buying this item, do this instead:

1. Take a fine work of literature.
2. Get all excited about reading it.
3. Tease yourself with what it has to offer.
4. Put said book in the blender, on "puree"
5. Settle for trying to eat the book and see what you get from it.

This is what the current crop of AO players have done, we have settled for less, worked around bugs, and generally tried to make an unplayable game playable. We failed, and received little to no help in the process.

In short, save yourself some time and frustration and steer clear of Anarchy Online; it had potential to be a quality game until Funcom effectivily ruined it with inexperience, bad judgement, and simple ignorance.

Extremely laggy and bug ridden.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game should not have been released for at least another year. This game is so buggy, people should not even be purchasing this game, its still the same as it was in beta...the game is so laggy in towns you get down to 1-2 frames per sec and are virtually standing still while you run. Extremely bad coding in this game.

Going Downhill, Fast.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The first time i enterd AO it was the usual "oooh aaaah" that any new game gives you, but especially MMORPGs. After a few lvls you start to feel the game, the whole game as of now is do "random" machine generated missions where the missions are in a different area but they all have the same dungeon layout and they all have the same objective, just kill baddies and get the the pick up item, do this a few hundred times then you will understand how boring this is.
AO WAS also very unstable, it does make you crash now and then (in my experience) but it is pretty stable after many patches. Each patch seems to add new bugs and new exploits for the already lvl 160+ exploiters to take ahold of and get even more ahead of the average lvl 50ish players.
The memory leak is still at large over 3 months after release, it "eats" up your RAM then when its full starts using your virtual memory to store things, making it very slower compared to using RAM, so you will have to re-log with your char every hour or so for mediocre machines.

This game had such potential

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: October 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was a huge fan of this game, I couldn't wait for it to be released and I pre-ordered it a month in advance. Just a bit over 3 months after release I'm here to say I'm extremely disappointed in the way the game came out. I was a staunch defender of the game in the early release, telling others to wait it'll get better things will change. Sorry to say, things didn't get better, things didn't change.

I spent about 2 months as an advisor in ARK in the game, I saw the inner workings of their customer support first hand. They didn't even have the basics available, let alone the advanced tools, needed to run a game with this many people playing. The Advisors are great people that really care about the game, but they don't have the tools needed to do customer support. I really hate to say this, but unless something amazing and miraculous happens in the next few patches, this game is over for me.

I really love this game though, and it has terrific potential, but the bugs, exploits, lack of content etc. has turned me off.

Avoid at all cost!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: October 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

With masses of MMORPGs coming out, you will do best to avoid Anarchy Online. The game promises much but delivers nothing. You are forced to do constant boring money runs in so-called missions that include nothing but killing some mobs and that gets pretty old pretty fast. Add to this poor stability, lots of bugs and self-centered development team. AO is a flop. I've been there. You don't have to.

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