AoC combat was and is still great. But nowadays nobody wants to use brain…They want a combat where they have to spam left mouse button all the time till they get some loot. Every game where you have to click 3 or more buttons to do a combo would fail in sales. Thats the sad reality.
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That.
That and the fact most current MMOs aren’t RPGs at all and all you can do is grind the same mobs over and over again for currency without any goals or real progression. People are just shutting off their brain and auto-grind (see Throne and Liberty) i dont know something’s wrong. Matrix Error 404 lol
Not to mention something else that is often overlooked. Most modern MMORPG’s are a completely bland and uninspired high-fantasy ffest. F off with your elves and hamster-people that float three feet into the air when you jump and land as if carrying a parachute. I want not only a world with realism, but also one that is deeply inspired by different CULTURAL TRADITIONS. That, for me, is what makes a world feel real, responsive, and immersive. AoC absolutely shines in this aspect. From the music, to the scenery, the storylines, and the character design. Everything fits and is obviously drawn from real-world inspirations. Sure, we have for a large part Howard to thank for this, but surely also the original game designers, who did such a phenomenal job at translating all of that into the game (especially for RotG). I have tried many games in the genre, and nothing comes even remotely close to AoC in this aspect.
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You guys need to understand that no matter how much you moan or complain that funcom will never add any future changes or updates to this game. Abandon all hope before playing.
We should demand and start a petition for an Age of Conan 2 remake with advanced systems, this game is more than just a game worth saving it’s a game worth remaking and done right could be one of the best mmorpgs that is on or coming to the market, I’m sick of all these pretty Korean MMO’s where’s the grit and blood? It’s all high fantasy not like the dark look of Conan we all desire…
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Dream on, my little dreamer 
I forget why private servers cannot exist but I really wish we could have them. That or another Saga server. It’s been years and it is the last time I really enjoyed this game. Fatpom!
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Officially I think it falls under the ‘theft of services’ law. Basically a private server for a game still active would steal money away from it even if they don’t charge anything since if you’re playing on a free server, you’re not on the official one where you could spend money.
lol funcom isn’t making money off aoc are they? People cant even sub to the game.
stop lying
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There’s allot of money that goes into pushing out new updates, just keeping the servers running alone costs thousands. Re-use saga both pvp & pve (unsure of how many times throughout the year, just so new players or undergeared players can catch up to the veterans, maybe re-release legacy items to purchase in item shop maybe behind a chest such as runes exile rune as an example, veteran tokens or just bring them back to subscribers, morphs, ) - create a thread or post [Host community-made event] with both PvE and PvP elements once a year have the event funded by using donations from the community and others who are interested. I do understand most of this sounds like but if we all come to the terms that money is the biggest thing and funcom needs to profit releases that make money is their priority; a simple update like new content wont fix much things like; bugs, core mechanics, weapons and abilities not working as intended, and an actual look into feat trees what abilities work and what doesn’t, billing & payments, character server transfers, atlantean shards as part of login rewards, would only be worth it if they were profiting as Moriala mentioned.
People still subscribed, buy chests, pots, and if something releases; would invest both time & money so I don’t think this game is dead but not seen as a good investment… but if we stop purchasing they will probably shut down all servers; and if we keep purchasing things the servers will be up but still the game will be slowly declining.
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if at any point they decide to close the servers they should just make the dev tools and server files public. its a waste for them to abandon the game
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AoC had to compete with WoW, EQ2 and Warhammer Online which was also new. And it still got millions of players and lasted all this time.
If there was active marketing, the game would easily have 500k players regularly. But when there is no marketing whatsoever, we get nothing. Hundreds of millions of PC gamers in the world have never played an mmo yet and even more play mmos, but never tried AoC, never seen it’s gameply or have never heard of it. We like to think other players go on forums and gaming sites but the truth is that the majority of players just play the game.
1- active marketing, new social media campaigns, offer incentives
2- every AoC account that has ever existed gets an email with a comeback reward and 30 days of premium time FREE
3- start a kickstarter (if Funcom needs funding - for a new expansion that will also add some new content to all the old zones)
4- create a new cinematic trailer for AoC that can be aired everywhere
These are not hard things to do. FC began to back away from AoC once TSW started being developed and even more so afterward. That was a big problem for AoC, especially after Godslayer released. We need to keep the momentum.
AoC could easily be a 30 or 40 year old mmo with 100s of thousands of players or more. I’m just happy it didnt shut down like WAR did. Unique mmorpgs are rare and AoC was always special.
And while Tortage was great, the game could never completely be like Tortage and it’s fine that way. Border Kingdoms and Sieges need to be priority. Bar brawls should come back. Have Live Events each week/month for players to work on and it sends them through older zones.
So many things can be done. Forget Conan Exiles nonsense. And forget TSW. Funcom, your only chance at redemption is to put everything into AoC. Do that and you will make a ton of money. But it takes time/money/development to make that happen! Don’t give up on us! We won’t give up on you!
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if someone made a private server with tweaks I’d support it
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Worth saving, but with the following due to low player base atm:
- a release for PS and XBOX - this would attract both new and old players who play mostly on consoles (I would buy it)
- cross-play enabled on all systems
- up the level cap to 100th, with new quests and end game content
- graphics upgrade and new quests / rewards up to level 80 (or 100, as mentioned above)
- proper PvP upgrade, perhaps a new map just for PvP and PvP events (players PVE only optional with quests within also)
Game started strong but went downhill due to lack of end game content. Still has the best soundtrack in any mmo out there, one of the best combat systems and great lore.
With Dune release, I doubt it will happen, but all the above, if implemented would attract a lot of players, since mmo market right now is, quite frankly, a mess and at least Conan has a strong fanbase to join, if a console release is ever implemented.
That, or just release a revamped AOC solo game out, same content as the online one, but quests adapted and end game adapted to a solo/co-op game.
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Is this game ban VietNam’s ip on steam platform?