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I don't play AoC anymore, I just come here to read the retarded comments you post.

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If you went out and bought AoC, I think that would give a great deal of entertainment at your expense to pretty much everyone but you, please don't say you were not warned.

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I dunno Alarie, like Kin said, it's the se retarded posts that keeps bringing me back to Massively.

I agree. It's only £9.99 on Play.com here. I might just order it and if the game is as shockingly terrible as the naysayers claim then no harm done. In any case, it seems most people at least regard the 1-20 experience to be a solid experience and I'm sure that alone is worth the new sticker price.

If not then I'll move on. Life's too short to get an aneurysm over a game.

Because Funcom has lost our trust. Doesnt matter if the game is awesome now or not. They played us around before the launch promising alot and delivered nothing in the end.

I think a poster above gave you some tips to avoid trolling, nonetheless a response! That's where I step in.

If you could just calm down a bit, I think the general impression (but not the only one to acknowledge the fans) is that the game is lacking and there are better alternatives out there. If I'm way off the mark then feel free to correct me.

A lot of the comments at Massively are somewhat tongue in cheek, so I'm surprised you feel the need for some sort of social commentary. I chuckle when I write mine, I hope some people find it amusing too, if not their loss.

People got burned big time by Conan, and FunCom were completely unresponsive on their forums, just didn't care, players were shut out. Similar thing to the SWG NGE.

So what do people do? Yep, they give it a slating so others don't make the same mistake. Rather than 'hating on a game' they are just giving a frank review and trying to make sure other consumers don't get sucked in the same way they feel that they have, which when balanced to some of the marketing claims offered by the companies to get you to buy the game in the first place, offer two extremes. It's no different from you telling your friends, just on the internet.

Should we give these companies a second chance? Sure, but on your terms, it's your $15 so you decide how to spend it and given you have a general impression of the game, you need to see pretty substantial improvement.

For what it's worth, poster to poster, you'll probably like the start of the game, some of it is fun, but on the whole it feels like playing a French video game from the late 80's, it looks good, but you just can't figure out the reason to play it. Later on you'll probably think, is that it and you'll wonder why some of the design decisions have been made. You'll probably think the game world is devoid of players (thus the server merges) and also that the quests a are horribly straightforward.

When people play MMO's they are looking for a longer term commitment to gaming than a console game, but the thing is you just don't see problems until later on, and after that you get the feeling you wasted a lot of time.

If the comments here make you think twice about that, then that's good, because as you can see there are definitely issues with this game. If you feel you want to try it, go for it, you've heard what the issues are, I wish you luck.

Through the murky filter of the internet, the best intentioned posts can come through as very straightforward. If you read each with that in mind, it doesn't come across as quite so severe.

People at Massively are fans of MMO games. It's not a crusade or vendetta against 'this one game!', it's an appreciation of the genre as a whole. After all this is the place where you post your thoughts about MMO's right? and this thread is devoted to the persistent issues FunCom are having to provide a half decent well populated game?

So far from 'getting worked up' about the game, it's just a place where you can give your opinion. Rightly or wrongly both positive and negative opinions are permitted. I've never understood people who claim you you can post positive things about a game and if you don't like something, you are wasting you time, you need to move on, get laid or a life or something like that.

Remember the point above, it's a MMO site, so people are going to offer opinions wherever they can. It's much better to have people posting here, than to ignore these stories because they have a negative opinion. I'd hate to read just positive comments, walk out buy a game and then try it at home to realize I'd been duped by some clever marketing assets and a very distorted perspective.

The guys at Massively appreciate both sides of the story, and I'm sure a lot of people lurk here and don't post (which is a shame) are the same.

I felt the need to post in response because some people say you just have to smell the roses when commenting, I'd like to point out that, in this case, these roses are planted in a substantial quantity of horse shit.

Sorry, didn't bother reading.

I got to 'if you could calm down a bit...' - Pot meet Mr Kettle. Seriously, that's some funny sh@t even by your standards.

Keep it up Mr Angry - while Mr Happy, Mr Tickle and Mr Rush were my favourite Mr Men when i was a kid, you'll certainly do in a pinch. Just a tip, keep it brief - it makes you sounds less 'obssessive'.