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Originally Posted by melicant  I've been taking my time in AOC (level 79, a few alts sub-20), and despite a few minor bugs I've had a really enjoyable time in AOC so far. I started with a fairly large group of MMORPG veterans that mostly either:
A. Power gamed to 80 and now log in every few days to farm resources or do random pvp. They are generally bored, but probably wouldn't be if there was more than a handful in the guild at level 80 and there was a reason to pvp. None of them have quit, but they don't log in that often and are waiting for the pvp patch.
B. Quit before level 30 because they just didn't like it. A lot quit before level 20, which kind of surprised me because 1-20 was done pretty well IMO.
Every single person that quit was sub-50. Out of the dozen or so that quit, 8-10 didn't even make it out of tortage. A lot of them thought the 1-20 content was horrible for some reason, and a lot of them quit based on what they heard the end game was like... all of which they read on the forums or heard from the people that rushed to 80. Word of mouth is what got Conan so many early subs, and word of mouth is what's going to kill it unless they do something fast for the players that rushed to 80, and for the casuals that are now experiencing the 60-80 content. |
Well said ... the majority of my guild falls under "A"
In fact we have been so bored with AoC's End Game that we have taken advantage of the free play available in EQ2 until 7/31. It has been a really fun way to keep our guild connected/active with each other. We still raid twice a week in AoC and should unlock T2 tonight since Funcom reportedly fixed Vistrix and his teeth. Hopefully T2 will renew our interest but I am not holding my breath because I (like many others) picked up AoC for the end game PvP and well um yeah ...