That's a shame.

I really think we're going to see quite the turn around for AoC this year.

Personally, I wouldn't have touched it at release, but now that I'm playing, w/ the merged servers and vastly improved stability, it's quickly becoming my "main" sub.

I've brought 3 people along with me. In their first 2 weeks, they've done nothing but gushed over how fun and clean the game is.

I've said this before, but anyway...
Getting players of this genre to give a game a second chance is hard enough. The fact that FC made promices (on the box) that weren't implmented until much later (and some still arent) will make this one of the steepest up-hill climbs ever.

I don't see them in the same boat as, say, Tabula Rasa though. There is still a vastly larger and more dedicated playerbase then TR ever had. Plus, recently, there has been a large number of players returning to a surprisingly more fluid feeling game.