Having been very interested in Age of Conan before launch and really getting into it, buying the pre-order (and all that stuff you do when you're excited about a certain video game). When the game launched I was initially Impressed unfortunately after the first 20 levels or so I was amazingly dissapointed and after my first month decided to quit due to the amazing amount of bugs, class balance issues, lack of content etc.

Now Warhammer is not a game i followed, infact the only news i heard of it was when they were cutting some content from launch. But i'm still keeping an open mind. I just want to know how they compare and whether it would be worth me playing it after my bad expereince when Age of Conan,

Thanks.

I think anything is worth playing after AoC, that game crashed and burned and from what I'm hearing the servers are becoming barren really fast. I say go for Warhammer they should have a free month like the mmo's i've played have had. What ever happens I guess just happens for you after that.

Warhammer was the opposite for me. I was initially unimpressed, but it has grown on me. It's definately a better game than AoC. Both of which are still inferior to WoW, but it's a nice change of pace.

I think this game will still create some strong following. Its from the DOAC guys I beleive, its going to have some kind of polish on it.

"Warhammer was the opposite for me. I was initially unimpressed, but it has grown on me. It's definately a better game than AoC. Both of which are still inferior to WoW, but it's a nice change of pace."

Both have their ups and downs.

I don't know on what server you play in warhammer but we have LOTS of people on mine (Wastelands) on both sides and i never get the feeling of being alone. In fact sometimes its a problem when you just want to cross an RVR zone...

On topic : Both are great games but Warhammer is far more polished than Age of Conan even at this point. AoC might become a good mmo... in a year. Warhammer is good, right now.

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I don't like either AoC or Warhammer,they fucking suck ass in comparison to WoW,hands down.GB shouldn't review Warhammer or any MMO cause none of them play it enogough to get a full view of it.

Of course certain things will need to catch up to the complete polish of WoW having been out for 4 years...but even at launch I like Warhammer more than I ever liked WoW. If you're hard into the pvp, Warhammer rapes WoW completely...especially with all the things you can get. Hell your guild ranks up just like you do and gets bonuses for it when leveling too...and between your base abiltiies and talents, you also can spend Renown points from pvp (sorry, RVR!) every time you gain a rank putting a point in a renown tree to increase your stats or give you yet even more bonuses..so its very deep in customization.

"I don't know on what server you play in warhammer but we have LOTS of people on mine (Wastelands) on both sides and i never get the feeling of being alone. In fact sometimes its a problem when you just want to cross an RVR zone...

On topic : Both are great games but Warhammer is far more polished than Age of Conan even at this point. AoC might become a good mmo... in a year. Warhammer is good, right now."

On my server I'm on destro side, and its very high population, sometimes I gotta wait in a queue to enter -.- never all that long but its annoying a bit. There always seems to be plenty of people around, it just takes forever to get into scenarios than some of the other servers I just experimented other characters on. I'm sure everything will balance out and catch up soon, the game is still brand new, and will still be new a year from now, mmos in their infancy always need more time to blossom than other games. Even with that, I think warhammer is waaay better than WoW is, especially because its just something new,(if you like pvp) and AoC I thought was a good idea at the time, but it just has a lot of problems and even today has more still than warhammer at launch..so I'd say warhammer is the one to go with.

Waiting in a scenario queue isn't so bad because you can run around and quest/open RVR/everything else while you are waiting for your scenario.  After you're finished you're deposited right where you left the world and entered the scenario.  Awesome. I'm on a pretty populated server (i've had to wait in a server queue a few times) and last weekend I played for several hours straight and was getting into tier 2 scenarios around every 20 minutes or so.

The RVR in WAR is awesome and I love the way they made it the major emphasis in the game.  I played wow for 3 years since launch and quit because the PVP in that game is absolutely terrible and imbalanced.  It became a grind to me... and I hated it.  Unfortunately, all of my MMO friends are still stuck grinding battlegrounds for honor and marks so they can get their PVP gear so they can compete in arena.  I come into work on Monday and my co-worker tells me how he got his new belt and how he accomplished it by playing Alterac Valley 40 times... How is that worth $15 a month?  I will admit that PVE end game content in wow is awesome... if you have the time to dedicate to it, which I don't.  With WAR, I can pop in, run around for a while, kill some dwarfs and pop out.  It's great.

About AoC... I played it from launch for about 2 months.  It was fun, I don't regret playing it, but something drew me away and I didn't want to go back for whatever reason.  I never really got into PVP in that game and maybe that was a problem.  But from what I hear... things were bad.  But Conan was awesome... and I really liked it.  I just like WAR better.

If you are into PVP and can't bring yourself to give up your full arena season wow chars... just fuckin do it.  You really aren't having that much fun.  Come play WAR.

Well WAR and AOC are different in many ways.
I was in the same boat as you with AoC, preordered CE, beta, etc and loved the game. But quit after about level 50. Although it was an extremely fun game.

But im not gonna bore you with a comparission.

I suggest you read the GameFocus, G4TV or GameSpy (because they spent the most time on it) and see if you like it. (It will give u some beginning impressions)
Or check out some of the Gamespot Gameplay vids, if ur kinda interested, wait for the demo to come out.

But if u do like fantasy MMOs, you surely wont be disapointed.

"Well WAR and AOC are different in many ways.
I was in the same boat as you with AoC, preordered CE, beta, etc and loved the game. But quit after about level 50. Although it was an extremely fun game.

But im not gonna bore you with a comparission.

I suggest you read the GameFocus, G4TV or GameSpy (because they spent the most time on it) and see if you like it. (It will give u some beginning impressions)
Or check out some of the Gamespot Gameplay vids, if ur kinda interested, wait for the demo to come out.

But if u do like fantasy MMOs, you surely wont be disapointed."

"Having been very interested in Age of Conan before launch and really getting into it, buying the pre-order (and all that stuff you do when you're excited about a certain video game). When the game launched I was initially Impressed unfortunately after the first 20 levels or so I was amazingly dissapointed and after my first month decided to quit due to the amazing amount of bugs, class balance issues, lack of content etc.

Now Warhammer is not a game i followed, infact the only news i heard of it was when they were cutting some content from launch. But i'm still keeping an open mind. I just want to know how they compare and whether it would be worth me playing it after my bad expereince when Age of Conan,

Thanks."

I also bought AoC, as well as a 2-month time card. Biggest waste of money. Enjoyed it for 2 weeks, but since the frame-rate was so iffy and the specs so demanding I immediately stopped playing. Waste of $80+.

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WAR beats it, imo. Hard. I hated aoc, I am loving every minute of WAR.

AoC was the biggest waste of my money ever

AoC is really bad compared to WAR in my mind. After lvl 50+ in AoC you were just random grinding, with no reason to continue.

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"Warhammer was the opposite for me. I was initially unimpressed, but it has grown on me. It's definately a better game than AoC. Both of which are still inferior to WoW, but it's a nice change of pace."

Warcraft has had years of patches to it's advantage, I'm hoping Warhammer will catch up with updates. Although it's amazing what they've done at launch!"

AOC had a lot of potenetial but fell woefully short.

WAR had a lot of potential and has, to this point, met initial expectations. Time will tell if they fix the problems that do exist in the game. I imagine they will. While it's not as polished as WOW at this point, it's certainly a progression of the MMORPG genre, which is something I can't say about AOC.