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Worse MMO I've ever played

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 39 / 55
Date: June 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It has great graphics, and the combat system seems unique and like it might take skill - at first.

But as you get into the game, you find that many things are actually completely broken, and other things just aren't well thought out at all. If you like to gank people, you might like this game, because the combat system is setup in a way that makes ganking extremely easy.

All damage is AoE damage, which makes combat sloppy. Unless you are grouped with someone, you damage them. Thus, it is near impossible for people to team up against a ganker without making a formal group, because if you attack the ganker, you also attack the guy who is getting ganked and would be your temporary help at dealing with the guy. There are no single target spells that all you to control your damage. AoE is great a good bit of the time, but in some situations it downright is awful and crowd control and other things which require working together are non-existant. If you are a healer, you do not have any single target heals. You have only group AoE heals. Thus, you can't heal anyone not in your group at all. Again, all these things work in favor of gankers, and if you are a ganker you will be in hog heaven.

Which btw, my first time stepping into the game outside single player mode is exactly what happened. I spent the first hour of the game getting camped by groups of people 10 lvls higher than me. It does however get better after lvl 20 for the most part. But if you can't handle being ganked repeatedly while trying to level, make sure you roll on a PvE server. Even those who come from other MMO's and play PvP servers might want to do so. Yes, it is that bad because of the way the system works that promotes it.

Extremely immature community as well. I think that might have a good bit to do with the time of the year, and the promoting of gankers.

The forums of the game are extremely monitored. Not for bad language, trolls or anything that makes a community suck. But rather for anything they think makes them look bad. Even mentioning you've cancelled your account in a thread will result in the thread being deleted, and the person possibly banned.

I've played MMO's for years, dealt with many releases and understand the problems. I'm also a developer, and thus also have an understanding from the other side. Current release is what you would likely expect to see in beta testing 6 months to a year before release. Even the stats on items don't half way work, so getting gear doesn't even do much of anything.

Don't recommend it at all for atleast 1 year.

Not worth your time....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: August 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Maybe its me but all MMO's lately seem to be the exact same but this game is HORRIBLE! I was in the beta and was pretty excited about it honestly. I bought it when it came out and played it quite a bit. The crafting sucks, the social sucks, huge bugs(which is to be expected when something is released.) and the worst part....3 months after release the design crew has systematically destroyed this game. More things are broken now than at release. I was very disappointed. If you want something fun and solid with good crafting with hardly any bugs I would try LOTRO

Biggest grinder ever made. All the items look the same. Creative use of maybe a total of 20 total armor sets in marketing.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: August 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The conent in this game literally runs out at points and you have to aimlessly grind mobs to level.

With dwindiling numbers on most all servers, finding groups for end zone quest lines is completely impossible. And the 1-80 levelling experience is absolutely dependant on these quests for experience points.

SO you end up having to repeat "villas" (can you say badge runs, only they start at low level, 5 tiny instances that all look the exact same, with boring goals such as "collect valuables in villa verde"). This will get you a 5th of a level every 6 hours on a timer.

OR you can mindless kill random mobs at 1000 experience each, for a total of 1.3 million to level, you do the math on the kills needed for that.

The armor is blatant false advertising.

Think world of warcraft, level 1-10 armor sets, with different stats at level 80.

TERRIBLE weapons and armor selection.

For former warcraft players, I will give you an idea of the games size, think elwyn, westfall, duskwood, redridge, felwood, and blasted lands.

Thats how small it is, about perhaps half of one wow continent.

They try to disguise this with lengthy zone in and zone out load screens.

Mounted travel, is around the same speed as running on foot.

Mounted combat, doesn't allow for use of abilities, only standard weapon swings, which are very weak attacks and meaningless in pvp, players regenerate health faster than normal swings take it away one must use combos to kill an opponent, and cannot on a mount.

Can't recommend this at all, boring, buggy and no rewards worth the play.

Do not purchase

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: July 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is horribly imbalanced. The graphics are so-so, I expected more. PvE is a joke as hate generation is based on who does the most dmg, not generated via skills. PvP is also a joke b/c classes are imbalanced and several classes have skills that don't even function in pvp or past lvl 10.

Questing is chaotic, spontaneous, irregular, inconvenient, a mess. Monster spawn is everything I've said about questing. The crafting system is horrible and does not lend to player trading except with trading materials...which everyone has access to gathering. Player economy is strange and very basic--it does not feel like much thought went into trade and social interactions other than PvP.

Money gains via questing are not equal to level. So, if you're a new character saving up for your first mount (available at lvl 40) You will have about 1/6 of what you need in order to buy that mount by level 40. Because player trading and the "AH" are not a great functioning system, it's unlikely you'll get a mount until you are in the mid 50's.

Overall, I give this game a very low rating. It feels like it was put together with very little thought and organization. And this game is not readily available to all players as the requirements to run the game are steep.

Save your money for something better.

Waste of Time and $$$$$

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: July 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It's just sad had much Funcom had to work with here, but they fell flat. The graphics engine is great IF you have a top of the line machine. Class Balance is non-existent. Customer Support is a joke. Not worth a single penny.

Nice graphics, but just graphics, no customer service, no good gameplay

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: July 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

wel this game have nice graphics but has no customer service, no good gameplay, all the game is doing crap quest, crap instance and if u want get a team to do instance is harder and wasted time, guild ppl arent friendly, well and the game in just 1 month and half from mmo rating drops 8.4 to 7.9 what u think about that and 60% of ppl quit.
well i let u know something if u want to try it play, and if u gonna play in pvp server play in tirrany or deathwhisper(my server) cuz all other pvp server have less than 1k of ppl and there is very hard to get team

sincerly
Lord Kovenant
Deathwhisper 46 assasin
Deathwhisper 10 Guardian
shadowblade 36 assasin (this server sucks)

If your system can't quadruple the minimum reqs don't bother

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 23 / 32
Date: June 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My husband and I bought this as an alternative to the monotony of WoW. Our systems meet the suggested requirements (and doubles the minimum req's) even when setting everything to lowest detail possible, the video lag was crippling.

Unless you have better than a 512MB video card and 4 Gigs of RAM, you will likely be disappointed in the experience. Most of our friends had the same problems and quit as well.

Disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 25
Date: June 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was all excited about this game, but it was a major letdown after I left Tortage (the starting city).

Here are some of the things that annoyed me the most:
- unbalanced classes - not having a class may be better than being a Dark Templar for example, plus any class may be nerfed suddenly at the moment, with or without it being in the patch notes
- horrible bugs that still haven't been fixed - for example: don't roll a female char - your weapon speed is 1.46s, males are 1.2s - this means female chars combos take longer
- heavy instancing - unless you are staying in the same zone and in the same instance of that zone, I hope you like looking at the content loading screen
- lack of community and ways to communicate with people in-game - its like playing Oblivion, but online and laggy
- gathering and crafting system - most boring and tedious of any game yet (including EQ2) - that is the parts that are working, because a lot of it is very buggy or missing
- combat system - combat is not really enhanced by mashing 5 buttons with a small pause between each, the pause drives me insane
- stats and gear - tests have shown that, in most cases, you might as well be naked, or are indeed better off naked
- traveling - most people travel by suiciding, that says it all
- bag space very limited - have fun going back to town to sell things far too many times, and I pity you if you didn't get a promo bag to start
- help - need in-game help? you need to stay logged in while petitioning, good luck person #492!

Fun stuff:
- great graphics for first areas
- more adult themed than most mmos - small amount of swearing and nudity

Check out the forums too - it is mostly a bunch of people saying "I really wanted to like it, but I am leaving and here is my constructive criticism," followed by fanboi rants about how no mmo is good when it comes out, funcom is doing their best to fix things, aoc is trying to be different, etc.

Review of the service

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 28
Date: June 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I paid for a preorder and then $5 to download the client early and do the free preview. So the day comes to start playing the game and I cannot download the patch. So I go to the store to pick up my copy and install from the disks, same problem, the patch is a no go. So I go to the website expecting a little technical support, however none of the topics really covered my issue (which is the 620 gig patch getting to between 20 and 150 gigs and then no longer downloading at all). So I check the main forums and there are quite a few people there having the same issue, but there is no post from any sort of official source about how to resolve the issue. I disable my virus protection, open all the ports on my router, download updates, plug the connection directly to the computer, nothing works. I e-mail billing but by the time anybody gets back to me 6 days of my 10 day preview have gone by. I ask for some form of refund and they tell me they can't do that. Finally after two or three e-mails asking why I should be expected to pay for "Preview access" when I have not been able to log in, somebody finally credits my account for another 10 days of time.

In short the support for this game is terrible, and while I was not entirely nice in my e-mails to Funcom, they made no effort to be nice or give me more than three sentences of their time. Frustrated players who would like to log into your game but can't, are not people you should be snarky to in my opinion. In any event, I never got to actually play the game, which I hear is fun if you like PvP. So take my review for what you will. I never got into the game because of some issue on my end or their end, and I never received any real assistance, so I just gave up.

Technically Poor - No Support

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 23
Date: June 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The gameplay of Age of Conan really has potential, but unfortunately the entire experience is marred by the most technically inept implementation ever. The installation goes refreshingly fast, but that is where everything starts to fall apart. While the program occupies 2 DVDs worth of content, you will immediately log online and download almost 3 DVDs worth of patches that take HOURS to install. Pray you have a fast fast fast computer and really high speed broadband.

Once the system is installed things start out OK. It is not as user-friendly an introduction as World of Warcraft (the current "gold standard" of RPGs), but you'll figure things out quickly if you've played an MMO before. Continuing to play, however, is hit-or-miss. I have about 6 friends trying this game. Every one of them has had frequent crashes. On my system, the game freezes after about 5 minutes of play , guaranteed.

There is NO customer support for the product. You can e-mail FUNCOM, but don't expect to get any reply at all. I've posted in the forums and no one has reported ever getting any reply to a question, whether its about a technical issue or possible fraud capturing passwords. This is just unacceptable.

The game advertises on the bos to be "DirectX 10" compliant, yet its been announced that DirectX 10 support will not be implemented until the fall.

This game is not worth your time, money , or frustration.

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