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Wait, or expect frustration

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 78
Date: May 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I just cancelled my pre-order of this game. Have been (trying) to play this product in beta and it is the most buggy software I've ever seen. In addition, Funcom is providing 0 technical support at this time. I'll wait until the product has more polish if I purchase it at all.

Amazon sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 23
Date: May 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game appears to be very nice in every way. Amazon just informed me today that "it could not find the product I ordered". So nice to inform me of this after the game has come online. The purpose of pre orders is to get the game when the game comes out (or within the 3 day early access period). Thanks for nothing. Now apparently the price is about 50 bucks more than the pre order price and I don't see any hint of the bonus stuff I was promised...... I ordered it over a month ago and they wait until today to send me an e-mail.

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.

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...

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.

Sad, So much promise...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: June 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought the collector's edition and if you do too, you can have the enjoyment of not playing the game like I did. Don't get me wrong here, the game plays after a very lengthy scan of the local data files. But all those "in-game" exclusives aren't on your character. You'll hit the [...] wesite and find that there aren't any useful support options. I recommend you do what I did and Google your problem. With any luck you'll stumble across some 3rd party message board where you'll find a post about the "/claim" command that gives your character these items.

Sadly, the support infastructure is soooo bad on this MMO, that you'll spend a lot more time trying to fix stuff and looking up solutions then you will playing the actual game. The forums for the game do exist, but there hidden in the subpages of AgeOfConan [...]... good luck. It's like a quest in itself.

Now I haven't even touched on how buggy half the game content is, and how broken the classes are. These aren't unique problems, like a bugged quest here or there. That kind of stuff is expected, no MMO escapes that. But this is a whole new level of bugs. For example, it is quite noted that the assassin's hide spell (stealth) is a 50/50 hit and miss affair. When I say hit and miss, I mean, you'll get all the fancy annimation and to the player you'll look hidden. The annoying fact, comes when you realize that the MOBS didn't get the memo...

"Dear Facemelting MOBs,

Yes all 5 of you, please note that player "RogueGinsuDeath200" is stealthed, please do NOT attack him unless he unstealths, or gets too close to you. He should not be detected from 6 game meters as his "Hiding" skill is maxed out. to do so would greatly embarass the game developers, and they in turn will convert all of you into neurtal NPC squirrels."

If you're stealthed, you should not be detected in the same manner that you would be if you weren't "stealthed". A rogue that can't hide, that's like having a warrior that can't swing a sword.

While this game has a lot of potential, there is NO doubt in my mind that in it's current state, it should not have been released. I'm not new to MMORPGs; you will get bugs here and there, regardless of the title/developer. But this is the first time I've seen the actual character/class set fundumentally flawed. That said, if you want to give it a shot, go for it. Who knows, maybe they'll fix it up enough to make it enjoyable.

In the meantime, here's a pointer keep the sercret "/petition" slash command written down, you'll need it to contact your GMs.

The Age of Conan has not yet Arrived!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 19
Date: May 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Collector's Edition

Don't waste your time or money! I expected somes bugs and glitches but this is downright UNPLAYABLE! The bugs - nonfunctional trading posts make an economy impossible. The glitches - constant gray outs on the minimaps and incredible lags on every server I tried (4 - both PVE and PVP)make gameplay difficult!

What really finished it for me was the crashes! Everytime I changed from night to day/ day to night - CRASH! Almost everytime I sold items to a vendor - CRASH! And even sitting there waiting for the lag to catch up so I could continue - CRASH! Not just a simple crash either - 50% of the time I had to reboot my computer!

Amazon, you're full of it!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 19
Date: May 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I preordered this in January. When May came around it was kicked out because they failed to send me any warning that it was out of stock. I was able to get on the early access and was happy as could be until Amazon screwed everything up and failed to get me the collector's edition. Now its in stock after I had to shell out some cash to Gamestop for the regular version of the game. You're unbelievable Amazon! How many emails did you send me, all of which said your not getting any copies. WTF! Well I learned my lesson. I'll never preorder or trust Amazon again.

Age of poor customer service

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

In game moderators banning people left and right in game for utilizing terrain to defeat mobs. Forum Mods banning and deleting any post that is critical of their game flame or not. In game issues like falling through the world and your petition for help spans for days without response. No directx10 what so ever. System spec to run game are wrong on the box. Very poor support for 32 bit systems.No responses to emails to their supposed service desk and the list goes on and on. Do your self a favor and pass on this game. The 50$ you save will be better spent in your fuel tank.

Coulda been excellent

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game started out great, some bugs but that's to be expected, I'm not going into the trial program cause someones already explained that. Here I am, couple level 80 characters now, the only place for an 80 is Kashetta, it's more croweded by the day, Ok I can deal with that, then they start messing with the balenceing of characters, they toughen the bosses to where it's near impossible for a group to kill. They nerf the characters cause ones stronger than another in pvp so we cant have that. Lets not listen to the non pvpers, lets not fix the quests that are broken, lets not fix the tons of places to get stuck in the landscape that /stuck wont get you out of..... now the last patch they did, NERF all the gems toughen the bosses yet again! ect ect, lets just say out of the 300+ person guild I'm "in" theres maybe 10 on right now and non of them are me. I can survive the bugs, you know the tons of bugs when a game launches, just like EQ2 and all but their going nuts with the nerf bat and the "lets toughen up the bosses".

SO while the game is cool I love the fatalites and all, the rest is just messed up.

Oh I forgot the part where the people that preordered got a cape, only for them to give the special cape to everyone, and the totem home code you got from a game magazine they decided to screw those people too by giving them out to everyone.

I wish they'd would work on it cause the game is going down fast, people leaving left and right.

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