Age of Conan's Alternate Advancement demystified

This is one of those things that should have been in place, at the start.

So when are you going to stop complaining and beating up on the developers? From what I have read Funcom have been making great strides with the game since launch.

Respect it for what it is and move on.

I haven't ever played the game but I wish Funcom the best of luck. Have been giving it thought to trying it out. They have yet to give a release date on the expansion from what I have seen so perhaps now is a good time to jump in and see the game first hand.

Seriously, if you haven't played AoC over the past 1.5years and you still bitch and moan about the state of the game - please stop. Why should this feature have been included upon launch? This feature is uncommon and it's cool to be added at all. AoC has apprenticeship too, which also exists in other MMOs and was added post launch - but it is there now and really, that is what matters if you are considering trying it out.

I've been on/off AoC since it went live. The craptastic launch and seriously lacking quality of the 20+ content was why I first quit. I returned to the game 2 more times and each time quit again due to low server population and activity. I resubbed to AoC a month ago and brought three of my friends along for the ride. We are each enjoying the game and playing numerous times per week. Servers are modestly populated and always active. Guilds are recruiting (sometimes at spam levels, which is annoying) and the community is engaging, helpful and passionate.

Each of my friends started with the Unlimited Free version and within a few days subscribed to the 12mo plan - which reduced monthly sub fee to approximately $9. I plan on playing regularly and plan to purchase RotGS. Yep, I like the game enough to purchase the upcoming expansion.

AoC is a fantastic MMO with greater range of options, more sophisticated and ambitious game play and creative expression, superior graphics and lower monthly subscription than the majority of the competition. Plus, you can skewer, behead, bludgeon and incinerate your enemies in glorious DX10! State of the Game = Awesome.

My 2 cents.

just a BTW.

Time cards = 13$ for 60 days online, that year sub is still a rip off.

So much good stuff being said about this game now, that I am seriously thinking of reinstalling.

Yep time to reinstall AoC and check it out again :)

guys.. check the official forums... just a thought...

oh yeah found it.. check this out:

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=213650

this guys sums it up pretty good.. typical shortsighted funcom's approach.. it's like they graduate some 'lets do without thinking' college or something..

Anyone know if there is a decent Oceanic population anymore?

Im thinking of re-installing but my old server Gwahlir (sp?) doesn't exist anymore so will need a new one.

I don't want to go through all the hassle of a re-install then patching if there is no one in my region playing anymore tho

That sounds like a fantastic mechanic to me. I may dig up a trial to see if the client still crashes on my system. If not, I think I'll give the game another go once this change gets published. I'd love to be able to take a character to max level and already have an alt that's part of the way there, that I can advance slowly while still augmenting my "main".