Age of Conan's servers being cut by over half

@Shangheli: i thought they dropped the 360 port

Anarchy online 2 would be pretty sweet, though I would imagine WoW would decimate that one, too. I was never an MMO fan, but decided to try out AoC for the brutal combat (which was awesome) and the PvP sieges (which were non-existent). I dropped it a month later due to all the bugs, balancing issues (women were PURPOSEFULLY programmed to do less melee damage than men. wtf sexism much?) and overall lack of support.

I hope they continue with their excellent adventure series "The Longest Journey," though heavy-story games like that are not for everyone.

They never dropped the Xbox 360 port.

Why does it matter if an MMO beats WoW or not? They don't make a profit unless they do?

People need to change their perceptions of the MMO industry. In the console industry, we don't expect every game to sell as well as GTA before it's considered a success. WoW is an aberration among MMOs, not a standard.

Women doing less melée damage isn't sexist, it's biology. It isn't sexist when I say far fewer women have the capacity to bench 300 lbs than men. Maybe in a simplified video game world cosmic equality in everything exists, like DOA ladies throwing 250 lb men 15 feet in the air, but in what I call the real world, there are real differences between genders. Humanity can't go forward by pretending that people aren't born with natural advantages and disadvantages don't exist.

Funcom wanted AoC to be brutal and real, and it is reality to say that the aggregate female population is not as physically strong as the aggregate male population.

"...but in what I call the real world, there are real differences between genders."
Idd! Men are more physically capable but women have natural buoyancy that prevents drowning!

You pay for it?

Last time I checked, it was a free MMO. What the hell are you paying for?

I beta tested that piece of crap, Anarchy Online, and they didn't listen to ANYTHING we beta testers told them. When it launched, it was a total, complete mess and chugged like a slide show on most computers when any large number of people were online. Of course, that didn't last long. People dropped out and frame rates increased, but revenue decreased.

Of course, AO beta wasn't anywhere near as bad as the Star Wars Galaxies beta. We SCREAMED at them to fix a number of things, and they rushed it to market with all the flaws intact. Look at the result: Several revamps, and it still failed.

Why the hell do these company do beta tests if they aren't going to take the testers' suggestions into consideration?

The core game is free to play, the expansions require a sub.

You must be kidding right? Anarch Online has been "free" to play since ages. They don't charge for playing it anymore. You may want to check that credit card of yours again because you're paying 15$ to something else...

Okay, who can tell me how to get the expansions for free then? Because you can't.

Makes you think they might be connected, right?

That is exactly it, You went through Tortage thinking this is going to be Great Oh crap I can't wait. Then you finally got out and it was like riding in your friends Ferrari to your brand new Ford Pinto.

The voice acting turned to grunts, the quest became horrible grinds, it was plagued with bugs, and if you dared to level diligently the quest ran out and you were just stuck there. Then there was the mediocrity of your moves, no variation in abilities, your whole world was brown, or green. It just got so boring so fast. I mean beheading people was great, but after a while cause everything else was so lack luster it just felt gimmicky.