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Originally Posted by Manseed  So I've probably put in about 8 hours this weekend.
Basically there are just too many parallels to Vanguard's launch for me to buy this game. The PVP feels like a mini game. |
Maybe because the PvP sessions this weekend are Aoc PvP minigames!
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Originally Posted by Manseed The performance problems are going to be crippling. |
That might turn out to be true, but there are quite a few people who have suffered very few issues in regards to performance. Furthurmore, many of the problems seem to be caused by people running the game at settings too high for their hardware. (not to say the client doesn't need a lot more optimization)
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Originally Posted by Manseed I'd probably tool around with this game if it were free, but it doesn't appear to have any depth whatsoever. |
You could not possibly, objectively come to this conclusion with the tiny bit of AoC you got to experience this weekend. Did you spend your feat points? A lot of people didn't even realize they were there. I'd say it's as deep as any other MMO on the market (meh, maybe that's not saying much).
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Originally Posted by Manseed I played a Ranger and every single one of my attacks looked exactly the same. What's the excuse for that? Simple UI stuff that goes against the "windows grain" just shows lack of attention to detail. |
I'm not a fan of the UI. The chat system drives me batty but it's not a game breaker for me. Character animations are some of the best I've seen in the genre, if not the best. But I can't comment on Ranger because I have not put much time into the class. All subjective though.
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Originally Posted by Manseed I don't get all of you people who are going to buy it in hopes that it gets better. Would you buy a car with a broken transmission because the dealer promised he'd fix it later? |
A few reasons. People are sick of WoW and what's currently available on the market and looking for something different, or at least new. WARs delay only compounds the desperation. Many people are not having the game stopping issues with AoC some seem to have. Others feel by the time they reach the higher level content, whatever might be missing at launch will be in and ready. AoC will cost you $50.00, not the $15,000+ car sale example you give. If you play and blow through all the content in a month, it's cheaper than going to 10 hours of entertainment at the movie theater. Lastly, some people (gasp) are actually enjoying the game, class imbalance and all.
My two cents