Funcom: WoW is McDonald's, AoC is steak

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

6-26-2008 @ 3:13PM

siorai said...

The problem with AoC is that you're basically paying to play a Beta at best, but many times I feel it's more like an Alpha. So many little things that are broken it's just annoying to play. Maybe AoC will be steak and wine in another 6 months to a year, but for now? It's a bloody slab of flesh that was barely shown the grill and a glass of freshly crushed grapes, skins and seeds included.

6-26-2008 @ 3:14PM

cjshrader said...

To be fair, weren't people saying the same about WoW when it first came out?

6-26-2008 @ 3:37PM

Asa said...

cjshrader - Yes, the first few months of WoW weren't pretty. I still remember opening day there was a bug where whenever you looted a new item that wasn't already in your bag you got stuck in the looting process for 5-10 minutes. It was funny seeing all these level 5s crouched by corpses everywhere you looked. But honestly I've also played MUCH worse releases. Vanguard is the first to come to mind ... even 2 months after release it still felt like you were playing a game that was in beta.

I have only spent about 1 hour playing Age of Conan, so my opinion isn't well formed, but I wasn't all that impressed. Even with that glaring bug I found WoW to be instantly enthralling.

6-26-2008 @ 10:19PM

Pzychotix said...

Yeah, but what's the point of comparing AoC to what WoW was back then? The fact of the matter is AoC NOW is pretty bad, while WoW NOW is pretty good and polished. Unless AoC can get it's act together within a month and fix itself, WoW is still the better game to play at the moment.

Add your comments

Your comments:

Remember me

E-Mail me when someone replies to this comment

Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments.

When you enter your name and email address, you'll be sent a link to confirm your comment, and a password. To leave another comment, just use that password.

To create a live link, simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will make it a live link for you. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use <p> or <br /> tags.