Reasons why I don’t like Age of Conan

My second AoC post and probably my last one as well.

This is not going to be a review of Age of Conan as there are plenty already. Also, I’m not going to do a comparison as there are probably plenty already to. These are just my thoughts after playing Age of Conan for a few hours. Please bear in mind that all this is in a level <20 perspective, so game experiences could change after that!

• the game is very linear, the paths to goals are preset and you are not able to wander off into the woods, etc…
• there are still loads of bugs
• characters are not balanced yet
• every new character has the same starting location, so it’s the same levels all over again when you roll a new char
• the visual system is nice but way to heavy on most systems, mmorpgs are not about graphics
• crafting only starts at level 40 ????
• you don’t know when you’ll get new spells or feats and at what level
• most of the time you level without noticing
• sticky walls and items
• invisible walls and items
• even more sticky invisible walls and items
• I hate the jump animation, it looks like monkey that gets caught while masturbating
• speech and missions vocab is nice, but who cares, just gimme my gold and XP
• the combat system is nice for a while … then it’s just 1 - 2 - 3 3 - 2 -1
• those damn invisible walls!!!!
• all characters look alike, I don’t know what a player, npc or enemy is … until they attack!
• it didn’t dare to try, but pvp has to be a nightmare for beginners … spawn campers fest it is!!!
• exclamation marks and question marks … where did we see that before
• after a while the minimap is cluttered with grey and orange arrows, question marks and other dots … wtf
• you don’t need to search your quest objectives … the minimap does it all for you. Next time, let the combat be automatic as well please, so we can watch tv instead of gaming.
• you need experience before you can climb a ladder???? Oh well, putting 80 points in there, trying the ladder … and I fall right through it. Well not enough xp I guess … or just another glitch in the system.
• Death penalties … stacked … I’m dead again already
• you get logged out after being idle to long
• now … why can’t I cross those stairs? Aah, I’m running to much to the left of it and didn’t notice THAT INVISIBLE WALL!!!!
• to many character look like ‘Jean-Marie Pfaff’, anybody seen Kelly around?
• the aggro system doesn’t function properly
• the buddy invite system doesn’t work, probably because non of the trial accounts would ever become a payed account …
• …

This really isn’t my game and to bad it wasn’t possible to test this game first before spending +€40 just to see that after a few hours of gameplay I’m never going to startup this game again.
Oh … and why are all those reviews so promising about this game? You can’t just ignore all of these negative aspects just because it’s a more, and maybe a bit unique, combat system (and not it’s not totally unique either)!!!!!