Is Age of Conan a rousing success or a stinking failure?

"Stinking Failure"? Sensationalist tabloid BS. I expected better from you, Massively. Complaints like "bags are expensive" and "my armor looks the same"? If shopping and looking pretty are what you need to have fun, AoC is not for you.

I really don't understand all the hate for this game.
Does it have a few launch bugs. Yeah. Are they keeping me from playing the game, no? The most I have to do is relog if I play for 5+ hours to fix the "grey map" problem. Do I have to wait i a queue for a hour when I relog no. Let me think, where was it that I had to wait in a long queue when the game crashed on me.....

Mounts are expensive. So what. In EQ1, WoW, and Lotro if you take away the broker system it is impossible to have a mount by your desired level.

My gear at level 30 looked a lot different then my gear at level 5 lol, or even at level 20.

They are currently trying to get their heads around balancing the classes but it must be tough since if you read the forums EVERY class is broken. What mmo released with good class balance and skill trees that never needed repair/adjusting?

Who cares about stock prices. Since when does a stock broker decide whether a MMO is good or not? Up, down, sideways, I don't care. Only "financialish" flag I would ever look at is company layoffs and Funcom is doing the opposite. They are hiring.

On a end note, I'm not a "fanboy" of any game. I play a lot of different MMOs and know a good game with a lot of potential when I play it.

I really don't understand all the hate for this game.
Does it have a few launch bugs. Yeah. Are they keeping me from playing the game, no? The most I have to do is relog if I play for 5+ hours to fix the "grey map" problem. Do I have to wait i a queue for a hour when I relog no. Let me think, where was it that I had to wait in a long queue when the game crashed on me.....

Mounts are expensive. So what. In EQ1, WoW, and Lotro if you take away the broker system it is impossible to have a mount by your desired level.

My gear at level 30 looked a lot different then my gear at level 5 lol, or even at level 20.

They are currently trying to get their heads around balancing the classes but it must be tough since if you read the forums EVERY class is broken. What mmo released with good class balance and skill trees that never needed repair/adjusting?

Who cares about stock prices. Since when does a stock broker decide whether a MMO is good or not? Up, down, sideways, I don't care. Only "financialish" flag I would ever look at is company layoffs and Funcom is doing the opposite. They are hiring.

On a end note, I'm not a "fanboy" of any game. I play a lot of different MMOs and know a good game with a lot of potential when I play it.

I am a fan of City of Heroes. I played SWG for about 3 years.

I played my ranger in Conan up to level 42 and picked up the horse.
I have a hard time with the complex active combat system. I was doing ok until they added 2 more directionals. This is the best combat system out there and players with more skill will have an edge.

The travel isn't that bad. The world is rich and lush so running through it is a pleasure. The wild life reacts like they would in real life. Even the quest system doesn't allow high level players to roll over lower level elite content. I wish I knew how the stats impacted player performance so I knew what I was trying to stack to make my character more powerful.

The game is new. The guild system seems fairly solid and will get better as players learn more about it.

I was dreading rolling a Priest since the ranger was hard to play. I didn't want to role over all that newbie content again. Oddly enough I really enjoyed it. The paths for each arch type are different and over lap at the same time.

This is a game for mature players, not twitch based snot nosed kids.