How many people quit AoC then?

Got a lvl80 barb in the free month, so decided to give it another month just to see if they would give me something to do... after seeing them do what can only be described as self-sabotage their game over a couple of patches whilst dev posts hinted at end game taking months before they were ready to introduce it I packed it in and went back to WoW, now awaiting WAR.

Hedge, the only thing they got right is to maintain a consistent lie in the preview videos leading upto release about stuff which still isn't in the game. I feel sorry for the blue collar programmers/artists etc at Funcom, marketting has really made a mess of their hard work.
 
Hedge said:
Say how long you lasted, or if you are still there :)
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I played a lot in the first week as I got the early release. Levelled every character to at least 10 with most to 15-20. Took a Barb to 25 then got fed up with it.

Loads of reasons but it never pulled me in. I stopped with about 12 days of play time left.
 
Played for about 3 weeks if my free trial but didnt play much in that time getting to level 25 i think. Found it a complete grinf and the game being buggy etc.

Just all compounded and decided to go back to WoW after being away from it for 2 years. Got a Level 34 Warlock there at the momment and enjoying it.

Looking forward to WAR and hopefuly it will be decent.
 
I played for 3 weeks, got PoM to lvl 80, last 30 levels were horrible, just grind grind grind. Instances sucked, proffesions were broken. I think the sigle player experience was quite good, i cant say the game was bad, but end game was not existent and I decided to quit. Now I'm back playing WoW this game is just soo much better, i know that some ppl say its gear grind but thats what i like about WoW, nice gear, and nice mounts :)
 
Played through the free month with an open mind, subbed for a further month but just didn't enjoy it. Another missed oppurtunity I feel.

Sub Cancelled.
 
AtreuS said:
Levelled an assasin and a ToS to 47 each and lost all interest after they nerfed grey elite mobs. I was happily solo farming sanctum for some better armour hurting no one and they cracked the nerf hammer HARD.

(after playing anarchy online for 5 years and seeing what they did to that game i should have known better from Funcom :rolleyes: )
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Similar here - I had got to 50 or so and just wanted to complete my armour set when they nerfed that chance out of me. I was sick of looking like a gimp, feeling like a gimp and just.....well, once I got to 50 the content dried up and there was no chance I was gonna grind for exp. I can do quests until the sky falls down, but I refuse to just kill stuff just for exp.

So, I lasted about a month. Lack of 50+ content. no chance to look like an individual and the fact my guild felt the same and they all stopped too.

Funcom once again dropped a nut on this one. They did it to AO too.
 
I quit after the first month, but i think that was mainly because i had other games to play like Mass Effect, Assasin's Creed and GRID.

I resubscriped so i could see more of the game, melee combat is still fun. I don't like loot farming, so AoC's **** stats and equipment don't bother me. It can be ridiculous, in a funny way.

But if i'm going to be honest i don't think this game will ever be right. If funcom couldn't get it right through development, beta, then live servers, then they probably never will. Need more quests, better pvp, and the instanced areas kind of spoil the magic. Good effort though.

I'll keep playing it though untill WAR is out, it will kill some time.
 
Hedge said:
The thing that just suprised me so much was the totally crap items... i mean.. they were seriously crap. +0.2 to defence from flying objects or some crap.... what the hell.. is that good? i didnt even know!
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There's also the fact that on many occasions, you can find 2 items that are 10 - 15 levels apart and they both have identical stats :D

The itemisation really is terrible, from the stats and the fact that no-one has any idea how they work, to the identikit graphics!

Funcom: "Oh, you can build a truly unique character with body sizes, eye brow height, chin size"

Yeah, just a shame they decided to stick everyone in the same damn clothes. The unique body feature was a good idea until you realise that you'd never notice the changes until you get within about 5 inches of the player.

My guardian spent about 20 levels in silver mail armour, all of which looked identical. Then at level 50, the armour changed....from silver to gold, but with exactly the same models! I never stuck around long enough to see what full plate looked like.
 
I managed to get a assassin to level 24 about 2 weeks in before my interest levels fell sharply.

Stopped my subs straight after that.

Disappointed to say the least.......
 
Quite funny really, just shows that hype isnt everything.
I still remember reading the wow forums the place was swamped with "AOC WILL KILL WOW" "AOC PWNS ALL" "WOW IS DEAD ZOMG AOC!!!!1111" and so on.
Week after release it was back to "ZOMG NERF LOCS" or "Resto is imba whine thread" and so on.
 
Like any mmo really it's going to take time to settle it's just aoc suffered some pretty bad bugs and balancing issues and asuch the masses left (not blaming them) before it's up to standard. To be honest it clearly was released 6 months too early and that's a shame as if it hadn't been it would have been a much better game for it. As it stands I still enjoy it though lacking end game atm, it will come there is no doubt about that and Im prepared to stick with it. Plus having gd fun lvling alts with guildies.
 
I would have joined up to warhammer in a heartbeat had it been based on 40k. Alas I have my fill of high fantasy with aoc.

Edit: Just read about THQ having 40k Online in progress =D happy days. Vigil games though...don't think they have any previous games to their name.
 
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Played out the free month got my assasin to 70 then quit. Lack of quests and items mainly and also frustration with my class.
 
played about 2 weeks before i stoped sub and uninstalled. going from wow to this was prob what did it, it didnt feal as good a game as wow and never rally grabed me.
 
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