Will the game die? Once it ceases to be profitable, yes. But until then? No. It will retain its small player base so long as they continue to pay, though it isn’t likely that people will return now that the terrible and widespread word of mouth has ruined its reputation. Even WAR fared better, retaining 300,000 of its initial 750,000 subscribers.

The facts are available to you. If you want to deny that this game is extremely lacking in popularity, I would suggest that you refrain from doing any research. The results may disappoint you.

The only redeeming thing about you writing this article is the probability of you being one of the mindless wankers waisting their lives in WoW. What a shame that is, or perhaps on second thought, its blody brilliant, as it keeps many jerks from entering other MMORPGs, including you it seemes. I usually do not respond to shit like this, but for you i make an exception.

Looking at this today, this article contains nothing of the truth about how AoC has developed, but luckily there be still a number of players out there who has a mind of their own. Every game of this type starts off having issues, but they develope over time, something this article tend to miss.

The all brown is just Stygia. The other two areas are a bit more colorful but still feel barren compared to what went on in Tortage. I wish they had junked the idea of a MMORPG and just make a full adventure game with the engine and make the whole game like Tortage with the option to have you friends multiplay with you. It would have could have been great.

In addition adding in things that should have been in the game upon release a year + later isn’t exactly showing gamers that you really mean what you say. Just because DX 10 is going to beta doesn;t mean it will be live before the two year mark is even up.

This game is gonna fold up in a year or two and there’s not really much you can do to save it.

I’m surprised you found the graphics “brown” and boring though. After Tortage there are so many diverse areas with snow, jungle, desert or grasslands – make your pick.

For a guy who never played you hit the hammer on the nail, To all those who say the game isn’t dead and all the issues are fixed(the failncom employees) , if you guys would have paid attention to all the complaints in the forums instead or banning and erasing them maybe the game would have beaten WoW. I played AoF(F as in Fail) was in a guild left for about 6 months and came back around February to see what all the buzz was, to see if failcom listened to there customers/subscribers, and my guild was gone. Every last one of them was gone we had a city started and stuff. So I know you failcom employees are blowing smoke up peoples a$$’s again. Quit it!!! me and every last person who played the game are sick of failcoms bull$#!7.

“Age of Conan is now, for all practical purposes, a walking and half-naked corpse shambling toward a dark horizon.”

Excellent review, Played it for 20 hours then unsubscribed
I hide the collectors edition box because it reminds me about the wasted money
I was involved in the Beta and it was obvious then that their was a shitload of work needing to be done yet they still released it.

Vanguard will always be my MMO