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Do not order from Amazon

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: May 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

DO NOT ORDER FROM AMAZON IF YOU'RE GOING TO GET THIS GAME. I pre-ordered this game March 13th, 2+ months before its expected release from Amazon and today is the 22nd of May and they still have not shipped it. They still do not have an ETA on when the game will be shipped.

Now, on to the game.

Sure- this game has amazing graphics, but its a waste of time and money. The current state of the game is more like a beta testing then it is an actual release. There is no player economy as of yet because they have had the 'trader' NPC disabled for quite some time now, and have not given an ETA on when it will be enabled. Many quests are bugged and cannot be completed, and one of the zones, Field of the Dead, has a stability issue which causes users to crash every 5-10 minutes. I've been unable to log into my character for more then half the day now because every time I try to load in, the game crashes. My computer exceeds the minimum requirements sevenfold, and even with my settings set to low, the game still crashes. The user interface is a joke, players are unable to see where their group members are on the mini-map unless they are within ~50m of eachother- even then it is still a hard task because group members show up with a minuscule dot.
All in all, this game was released waaaaaay too prematurely. I don't know what the heck Funcom was doing during their 'beta testing'... I could only guess they were too busy focusing on what in-game items players would receive from buying the game from different locations. This game gets a C+ at best.

Thinking about buying this for somebody? Do yourself a favor and save the money, and do them a favor by saving them the frustration and wasted time.

Thanks for nothing Amazon

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: May 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

As the person before me said... the game is great... Amazon is not.

Thanks for nothing amazon. I preordered this weeks ago and now you "cant locate the item"?

Buyer beware... DON'T TRUST AMAZON WITH YOUR PREORDERS

Worse still is that since the limited edition is sold out I may never be able to get my hands on it due to Amazon's incompetence

Very nice start

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing Age of Conan now for a little over a week and I have to say - I'm having a blast.

The Good:

The quests are interesting both in execution (ie - what you do) and in story. The voice acting is good though it gets a bit sparse once you leave Tortage. The game is easy enough to get the hang of but as you gain levels and skills, new options open up to you, which in turn lead to new challenges.

I love the skill system - allocating skill points as you level to customize your characters strengths and weaknesses in addition to the customization allowed by feat selection. It's little touches like this that really make the game feel fun.

Character creation is extremely nice - quite a few options and a VERY editable face make sure you don't run into too many people that look just like you. I do have a minor quibble about it (see below under The Bad)

Graphically the game is awesome - sprawling wilderness, cliff faces, water that moves like water should, bustling villages and cities... prey animals that aggressive mobs will stalk, attack, kill and eat. In addition to LOOKING alive the game FEELS alive to me as well.

The classes are all pretty interesting and take a slightly different approach to some of the traditional roles. I can't say I'm an expert on these as I've only played a few classes past 20 but, looking at the feat trees it seems that every class has, in addition to their primary function, some sort of utility as well - usually in the form of supplimental DPS or a group buff. This is nice - hopefully gone will be the rogue of WoW that's essentially a 1-trick pony (3 trees to determine how you'll DPS in melee). I say hopefully, because I honestly don't know how it plays out at higher levels.

The Bad:

First and foremost - despite the M rating a majority of the players that I've encountered so far are ANYTHING but mature. I'll leave it at that. That is my number one gripe and, in my opinion will do more damage in the long run than any botched patch, laggy interface or any of the other things I'm about to list.

Tortage - It's great at first. It's interesting, draws you in and, as mentioned before, feels alive... at first. By level 19 I could hardly wait to leave. I felt chained to that damned island and wanted nothing more to do with it. That's not to say that the areas were bad - if they WERE I never would have made it to 19 but you're essentially stuck there until you're done there.

Character Creation - Weird huh? Both good and bad - this is really more of a quibble than a full up 'bad' point. You get to pick these really cool body markings and facial marks as character options. But what you don't get to do is pick their color so far as I can tell. If you can, I wasn't able to figure it out. Some of the markings just look silly in their default color but would look quite nice if you could tweak that. That's basically it. Oh - and when you're done making your character you automatically go to Tortage - see above.

The other 'Bad' things are a grab bag of the usual things that plague an MMO on release - sketchy servers, questionable initial class balance (they seem alright to me, just some tweaking here and there should put things right), certain skills don't seem to work quite right and performance issues. It's very strange to go from 40 fps to 11 fps and you don't change anything. You run around, things are smooth, you keep doing your thing for about an hour... suddenly you chug down to 11fps... and then 20 minutes later you're doing 40 again... I'm not techincally savvy enough to understand the whys and hows.

Anyway - I would recommend this game to anyone who enjoys a good solid MMO. Note - based on the community though, come with thick skin and a healthy stomach for toilet humor. Lots of it. All the time (unless you leave every public channel in the game).

Oh - one more thing. The Bow that Amazon gave us is just about useless to EVERYONE in the game save rangers. Whereas everyone that preordered this game from ANYONE else got an awesome mount. I'm feeling pretty pissed about that to be honest, but that's not the game's fault - I blame Amazon for being lame, overselling their preorders and not even shipping mine out to me until 2 weeks after it was supposed to be here. In short - the bow is as lame as Amazon.com preorders.

Haven't recieved yet

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 17
Date: May 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I ordered this on April 28th and yes I was one of the stupid ones that did not register immediately (did not think I had to). So I'm sitting here on May 22nd waiting for a game that should have shipped on the 20th and it still has not shipped. Never again! I was told by customer service that they had not received enough copies...

Dissapointed and Upset

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: May 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The second falls onto the shoulders of the online companies where the game was pre-ordered from - the companies did not provide the pre-order keys to the customers until EA was already closed out. Amazon provided the keys right away so there wasn't much worry with Amazon falling into this group. (This was stated by someone else)

Yeah right, I pre-ordered back in March, never received any pre-order key. Amazon still hasn't responded to any e-mails, and I might receive something by June 9! WOW, this is horrible service. And because of this I will never order thru Amazon again.

Fool me once shame on me.....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 17
Date: May 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I guess it is a bit unfair to give the actual game 1 star but there is no where to review Amazons total blundering of thier handling of the AoC CE pre orders so Funcoms AoC review here reflects my reaction to Amazons lame attempt at being in the PC game market. I did recommend in an email to FunCom that they may want to take a closer look at who they partner with on pre order deals.

Chaos

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 31
Date: May 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

So far all I've seen is false advertising. The benefits of pre-ordering the game were advertised as 3 days of play before the official release and an in game mount. It turns out, that contrary to the early game play advertised for pre-orders, you also had to register and buy the extra time. That wouldn't have been a problem if they had mentioned it. Instead I found out when I set up my log in and found out there were no early play spaces left. From what outside sources have written, it looks like you also don't get the mount they promised if you pre-order from certain sites like Amazon - from Amazon it looks like you get a bow instead. I don't think they meant to falsely mislead folks, but if they can't communicate well enough to get people into the game, what is game play going to be like? Heaven forbid if you need to talk to someone. You can't even get to their site now because they redirect you to their community page because of heavy volume. Even if you'd bounced through their unmentioned hoops early enough and were set up to play the early play, you couldn't reach the site to play at the moment.

From J. Kaye's Book Blog

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

This game has tremendous potential; but for now, it has way too many glitches and bugs that need to be ironed out. I spent too much money on an upgrade just to get the game to work properly.

Sweet combat system and superb graphics especially compared to WOW, but it's highly demanding hardware wise.

Drawn Out, but fun

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

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is overall a wonderful game, it' just the first 20 levels seem like they go forever, even with the Collector's addition ring if you are not playing a class that you feel comfortable with. Plus I don't know where I can buy armor, so I can't do anything until I get heavier armor and a shield, because I'm a Blood Templar.

Fun, but still a bit buggy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game, but it's still very buggy in parts. My computer is a decent amount above the minimum but I still suffer from slowdowns at points (although nearly everyone has lag in the main city). And several graphical glitches are present although one is pleasing (boobs clipping through the shirt aren't too bad in my book). Combat system is pretty fun, though I wouldn't call it anything new (similar things have been done before).

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