Age of Conan

WAR is out. WoW expansion coming in 6 weeks. AoC has a new man at the helm. He has given an update on what they're working on.

I see comments along the lines of both "this will turn it around" and "too little, too late". So I wanted to throw up a little poll to see whether people's thoughts and hopes are the same or differ a lot.

The question: is it too late for AoC to become a healthy game? Let us know both what you think (will they go down or manage well?) and what you hope for.

WTF, what s all those complicated sentences.

Anyway, I don t think it is too late for AoC.
Personally I don t like the gameplay, so I won't play it even if it was the most complete and bugless game in the world, but they still have time to fix it for all the people that might be interested.

Its WAY too late for AOC.  They launched this game with TINY little areas, instanced at that, with a VERY linear feel to them.  They piled on top of this loads of bugs and performance issues.  They then took the "MOVE, DELETE, BAN" posts option to deal with the rising negative feedback in the forums.  I am pleased to see that treating an overwhelming majority of customers this way DID NOT pay off long term for them.

I think its a little sad for people who put 'i hope its to late for AoC' because what are they getting from that apart from feeding their inner troll. I do think it is to late but i really hope not as the game looks pretty fun and im thinking of buying it.

Considering the last 3 MMOs i bought failed imo (TR, Lotro, WoW).

Originally posted by orzo

Its WAY too late for AOC.  They launched this game with TINY little areas, instanced at that, with a VERY linear feel to them.  They piled on top of this loads of bugs and performance issues.  They then took the "MOVE, DELETE, BAN" posts option to deal with the rising negative feedback in the forums.  I am pleased to see that treating an overwhelming majority of customers this way DID NOT pay off long term for them.

LOL... I think the 400000 playing AoC disagree with you. I used to have your condition, then I went to WAR and I got cured. I am playing AoC right now.

Game won't die, but it takes years for a game or company to recover from the bad taste in gamers mouths left by the terrible first 3-4 months.

And I mean terrible, in every aspect FC just did a very very bad job.

Originally posted by CobraSolidus

Originally posted by orzo

Its WAY too late for AOC.  They launched this game with TINY little areas, instanced at that, with a VERY linear feel to them.  They piled on top of this loads of bugs and performance issues.  They then took the "MOVE, DELETE, BAN" posts option to deal with the rising negative feedback in the forums.  I am pleased to see that treating an overwhelming majority of customers this way DID NOT pay off long term for them.

 

LOL... I think the 400000 playing AoC disagree with you. I used to have your condition, then I went to WAR and I got cured. I am playing AoC right now.

Pretty sure that was a carefully trumped number released in Aug covering up to June 30.08.  A game with 400k subs isnt researching server merges. Or are you just kidding?

It's too late for the gaming to be a GREAT game, but still can be a good game

- Great music

- Great graphics

- Great quests

- Fun Classes

- No PvP

- No end game

Originally posted by Syno23

It's too late for the gaming to be a GREAT game, but still can be a good game

- Great music

- Great graphics

- Great quests

- Fun Classes

- No PvP

- No end game

This may very well be true.  It may be a GOOD game in 10 months.  A great game would require a core overhaul and thats not going to happen.