All they had was an excellent marketing strategy making the first 20 levels of the game really interesting, full of content with talking NPCs so professional game reviewers would all go lyrical about it, and many peeps would buy the game also in the promise of “cool fatality moves” and a pixellized boob here and there… But after that the game becomes an uninspired, aimless drag where you have to relog your machine every few hours because of a memory leak bug they can’t manage to update out of the game, and the quest log doesn’t hold too many quests so can’t just take em all at once and wipe entirely areas in a go, they make you have to manually walk back to take quests in portions and walk back again and walk back and again and again and zzz…….

One waste of money, one sorry excuse for something that could’ve been really cool if they’d only had a few more creative brains over at funcom’s. Game binned, “next”…

http://www.gadgetmadness.com/archives/20080527-conan_the_barbarian_combat_ready_atlantean_sword_recreation.php

I played wow since closed beta before this game launched and I like it much better. It takes a little time to get used the the play style and differences in interface but is very polished for a new MMO release. Although every MMO on release has it’s bugs as does AoC currently

If you have a capable computer, I’d suggest giving this game a try

I have no problem with people liking AoC, to each their own but this being the internet people have to do their Nazi minded opinions on everybody,but I tried this game and thought it was pure crap. Though I don’t like pvp much in mmos, cause for one I don’t need to make up for life issue by ganking somebody 10000 levels lower then me… (which no matter how you whine about it, its not justifiable) and before you whine about me not giving this game a chance, I was in beta for awhile.

Incoming death threats, mass cussing etc…

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Oh yea I used to work for Game Crazy and they trained me as a manager but never opened my store on schedule so I got laid off and the dickface manager at the store I trained in took that job because it was way closer to his own home and I know him and the regional manager were in cahoots to do that so I have a vendetta against them.

Still, I wish Funcom would make available the game for online purchase. I have my $50 bones to pluck down, but I can’t get a hard copy of this anywhere. I can download the 13GB client in about 45 mins with Comcast Blast 16Mbps. Kinda dumb of them to not fill a supply on an actual contender to WoW. I knew about this game in late 2006 and I was still a WoW head, but I told all my guildmates, just wait until Age of Conan, and Crysis. Well by the time Crysis came out I had stopped WoW and pretty much lost contact with those guys but I knew that AoC was something special. I really fail to see why I have to go buy a hard copy of a computer game of any type in this day and age. I understand completely about console games, but people who know about this kind of stuff and have a decent connection to the web or can wait for a long download should not be subjected to retarded out of stock signs for computer games at Wal Mart. Give us the option to sit at home and download our shit.

I guess I am really mad because since frigging 2006 I have been waiting for this game, telling everyone I know about it, changing my WoW music to the music from Conan the Destroyer and rerolling a Tauren Warrior with a ginormous sword just to get a feeling for Conan, and signing up for every newsletter and beta test just to be passed over. Kinda sucks for me since I don’t ever preorder, but still, I just want to play, right now…

I am glad that there might actually be a game worth my monthly fee though, and glad for the success of Funcom.