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NO SUPPORT

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: June 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I'm sure the game would be great if I were able to play it... Upon receiving my copy of the game I loaded it and attempted to create an account. The registration key that came with the game doesn't work, it simply states that there is no offer for the key- so I can't play it.

Upon getting this message I sent 5 emails to the technical and customer support for funcom and didn't hear a reply from them for 3 days. when they did reply they said that I should contact the customer support for the company from which I bought the game, here's the catch- I bought it privately on Amazon.com, how would Amazon.com replace the key for this? wtf?

I explained this to funcom and haven't heard from them since- it's been 4 days now. The customer support for this game is terrible! I'd probably have better luck trying to get a bunch of monkeys to write Shakespear!

disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: June 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Had high hopes that were shattered already. As far as launches go, it wasn't that bad and I have seen many worse but the game was just not ready for release plus even when ready it isn't deliverying on many promised things.

- heavily instanced everywhere
- Sieging will be instanced (not even ingame yet) with caps at 48 vs 48 which kills the concept they promoted of being a mercenary for hire by guilds in sieging because most guilds will have plenty and probably people waiting since the siege time is known.
- Nerfing and dumbing down class damage to the point that shield switching will not be needed hence taking away the challenging aspect of pvp.
- Crafting system is a mess with every "fix" causing 1 or 2 more things not to work. Also, don't plan on being unguilded or in a small guild and being able to craft high end stuff because at later crafting stages you have to use a workshop which is based in guild cities and based on what tier of a city it is at.

If you are gonna buy then I advise waiting a few months then rechecking on the game. The graphics are amazing on my system but I'm not the type of person that cares much about graphics and more about gameplay which there is nothing innovative about this game at this point.

Would have been a 2 except for the graphics & audio

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: June 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

A graphically beautiful game with awesome audio. But that is about where it stops. Almost everything is broken including statistics (INT, STR...). How can an RPG even work without stats? It can't. They released this game way too soon.

Everything is also zoned and instanced. So it doesn't feel like a world at all. It feels like a 'take this path' single player game where you run into passing player now & then. Exploring is out of the question as you will often find the raw edge of the world or fall through the ground.

Oh and the PvP system doesn't exist. It is just a constant gankfest with no scoring or point to fighting.

This is one of those games I wish would have taken off. But since they released it early things are pretty much perma-broke. People & gold farmers have already cheated their way up to 80s and the gold farmer spam is already out of control at less than a month after release.

DirectX 10 was advertised and is still not supported. Guild towns aren't working. Sieges aren't working. It just goes on. Oh and don't even think about trying to run this game on anything but this year's hardware. The minimum PC specs are totally off. You need an 8800GT video card and dual core CPU just to get in the game.

Sorry MMO, after two months of play...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: June 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was a beta tester for this game and was extremely hesitant about even purchasing the game after being in it. The open beta was a nightmare... But with that being said when the game launched I was impressed with the overall stability of the servers as well as the performance of the actual game. My frames per second weren't nearly as horrid as it had been in beta, which was a large concern of mine.

The overall game content is immersive and fun. The first 19-20 lvls take place in Tortage which is an island. They have a day-night play period, the day is for multi-play with other people and night-time is for the single player story driven portion. I feel that this helps newer people get more involved in the game, and also allows for ample time to learn the base mechanics of gameplay. My wife plays the game with me and she isn't a hardcore gamer at all, but she genuinely enjoys the game.
There are areas that were rough at launch, and are still being worked on... But, thats what MMO's are. Contoniously evolving games. Nearly all the dungeons have been revamped with better loot tables and the bosses/spawns have been altered too.
This is for all the people that hate instancing, I understand some people extremely dislike it for PvP purposes... But unless you are on a pure PvP server you really don't have to worry about people "zoning" to get away from you since the big combat is in the Borderlands fighting over the Keeps.
The instancing portion is irritating for some, but you can switch instances to get with your guild mates or group members to achieve the quests you want to, or to just hang out. I can't give the game a negative rating for that, since it was made known even before launch that everything was instanced to an extent. PLEASE don't think of the instances like GW... Because its not, you see people running all over the place and it is a true MMO. They just cut down on zone degredation by creating more, allowing for alot of people to be in the same areas without having to sacrifice server stability/performance.
The only gripe I have right now is with Guild cities... Most of the functionality is not in the game yet, and I think that they didn't honestly belive that everyone would be throwing up Keeps and buildings in the first month.
But overall I think the game is great! If you are an adult looking for a mature themed MMO. Give it a try... Or maybe wait a month or two and pick it up. Let the small kinks be worked out of the system first and then try it. The choice is yours.

EDIT: After playing since launch, and leveling three characters into their mid 60's-70's I have cancelled my account. From 50-80 the grinding becomes RIDICULOUS. For someone that is a casual player the monotany of the grind will be to much to bear. I was able to stick with it for awhile, because I was trying to let my wife catch up... She couldn't, she saw the leveling wall right after she hit 60 and said she wouldn't continue on.

Also the functionality of player towns is a complete joke, and the prices of constructing all of it and upgrading is completely insane as well. If you have over 500 people and guild dues I see it being easy... But whats the point of that since you can only have around 50 people in a zone at a time before instance performance starts to slow down to a crawl.

Trade skills are a severe pain, requiring you to either look for nodes or to farm animals to no end.

On the surface this game looks great, but after you play it for awhile you can see that the game has severe issues all across the board.

Hopefully in a year the game is playable, but by then it won't probably matter.

Should Still Be in Beta

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 26
Date: May 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Anyone who remembers the launch of Anarchy Online knows what a debacle it was. Broken infrastructure, missing features, persistant bugs, massive downtime and non-existant customer service. Sadly, it seems Funcomm learned NOTHING from the experience. The repition of "All launches are like this" from Funcomm and it's supporters are getting tiresome, since I can think of at least four major MMORPG launches in the last few years that were virtually trouble free.

If Age of Conan actually provided everything it claims to it would be a five-star game. Possibly six months from now it will be an awesome game and a wonderful, immersive experience. But if you buy this game now you're paying a Funcomm to beta test their product, when it should be the other way around.

There's certainly nothing here that has me rushing to cancel my Lord of the Rings Online subscription. If you're waiting for a "WoW killer", this ain't it.

amazing...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 16
Date: June 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

First... some people are complaining that the game is instanced and zoned.. Meaning a small map of a larger map. The devs at funcom have always advertised that it would be this way, Yes they could have had an open world much like SWG or Vanguard, but decided against it for mainly 2 reasons.

A. Large open maps Cause massive lag, because instead of content being in several smaller zones, you have all that content including players in one open area wich creates lag. Also to add to solve this issue they added instancing of the zones, where if there is too many people in one area, it makes a copy of that zone to reduce lag and maintain the quality of the game.

B. Open ended maps would have brought the Graphics down to the point where the game would not have looked fresh and new.

Now on the Game... very involving gameplay, the combat system requires you to pick your direction of attack, either left center or right. Combo's are basicly speacial that require you to swing in a certain direction in order to fire. some complain about it being button mashing...but if you think about it it keeps you busy playing instead of staring at your cooldown timers waiting for your speacial to come back up.

GFX are stellar... maybe not the best you'll ever see, but for a MMO these are the best.

Quest's are voice acted till lvl 20, then after that main story arch quests are as well. Some would like to have the voice acting for every quests but that woulda drove up the cost of making the game. Most quests are your basic collect this, kill that, deliver this type deal, but in your main story arch there are some options wich directly effect your charachter from there on. Questing in AoC feels more like an RPG than any other MMO i have played.

Definately NOT FOR CHILDREN. There is nudity and very graphic violence in this game, some of the fatalities are just sick...this game is far more bloody and violent than Grand Theft Auto in some reguards.

Overall a fun game, it's a mmo and relatively new so some things are not working as of yet, but in due time i see it coming around, so take a look for yourself.

Looks nice, but boring

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: May 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was excited to get into my first real MMORPG only to find frustration and tedious repetitive gameplay. Having never played WoW or other games of this type, I was expecting a large world I can roam freely and meet others... instead I got a game that feels like an on-rails console game that happens to have chat. Installing it was a tedious affair as well... takes about 2 hours on average (because of additional huge update downloads required immediately after install). Don't bother if your computer is at the lower end of the minimum specs required. And this is definitely not a game worth upgrading your system for to play. I know this is very early to be posting a negative review of this game, seeing as it's only been public for about 5 days... but really, there are many bugs that prevent you from going further in certain locations unless you restart or change class, but apparently not everybody is having problems as some have already leveled close to max. The game was definitely over-hyped. I only recommend this game if you are really into Conan lore and can wait a few months for them to iron out the kinks. At the moment, the game is boring, frustrating and dissappointing.

Don't believe the hype

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: June 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Don't believe the hype; this game is a huge letdown. The box claims "DirectX 10" compatible, but DX 10 won't even be supported for months. End game PvP that was one of the major selling points of the game is not even included, player cities are broken, high level PvE content is scarce, stats are broken, gear offers no benefits and all looks the same as you level, gold sellers are already plaguing the game, and they didn't mention that voice acting completely stops after level 20. The developers are not patching anything important after 3 weeks and make minimal effort to communicate with the customers. There are so many bugs, broken quests and content that was promised and not delivered that it's just depressing.

On the positive side the music is good, and the graphics are good. Too bad that doesn't make a game fun.

Not a WOW killer but something new

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 32
Date: May 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Entertaining but... Takes a while to figure out movement. Movement is frustrating because it is jumpy and you can get stuck a lot. Memory requirements and system requirements are large. I found holding down mouse buttons is much smoother than arrows.

I died at least 25x in 1st day so soloing is not very friendly but I didn't mind too much. Camping an issue in PVP area rez points w/ no chance to rez. The help page says you can petition a game master and this type of camping will be punished. I logged out for a while and they were not there when I got back on.

No crafting or auction hall / trading post in early levels (negative).

Parents be warned there is nudity and lots of blood (Mature rating).

Good game but WOW is better. I will update review after some more time (level 9).

All Hype, AOC does not deliver

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: June 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This has to be the most over hyped game in the past couple of years, AOC desperately tries to copy wow and put their own spin on it. It's downfall isn't that it copies wow though, that's the only thing keeping it from being complete trash. It's buggy, ugly, has terrible loading times and it tries to act fresh, even though it's just another stale mmo. This is worse then most korean mmos. Play LOTRO/WoW or wait for Warhammer Online.

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