Age of Conan, First impressions from a regular guy. This game @&$*!#$ Sucks

Well I decided to take a break from EvE online and after a 5 year wait try my hand at Age of Conan. I had pre-ordered the game months in advance and I even signed up for the prelaunch which started today.
I down loaded the AOC client about 3-4 days ago not knowing that my $90 deluxe version would be in GameStop yesterday, so I had that on hand and I have to say it looks great the box and everything inside it.

I did my last patch before the game was to go live about 10 after the game went live and I was chatting with some friends on vent who were already in and they were say OMG it looks great, you’re going to love it and so on and so forth. Download completed and it was compiling and BANG, corrupted conanpatcher.exe file.
Well I took a deep breath and checked the simpleconfig file and did a verification on my files and they all came up clean, NOTHING WRONG WITH THEM, Bull Shit.

So having the disks on hand I uninstalled the downloaded version and installed the disk version, 30-45 minutes later it was ready to patch AGAIN which took another 2.5 hours and I thought I was ready to go.

I log on and it moves all the way to the character construction screens. I see the GUI (Graphical User Interface) screen. That’s the picture on top. I get the boards and everything to make a character, but no way to see it.

Well I said fuck it, I did a random character to see what the "game" was going to look like and just to play a little while. I was pissed to see that when I got to the "game" screen I got the same GUI interface and Black in the middle.

Now I have a great system, works great, so that’s not it. I wonder who might of JACKED UP the code to give me and I'm sure a few people this problem. I think that after 5 year of work and some delays that it wouldn't be ready for the original launch, which was what, suppose to be 3 months ago and they still have a fucked up game. What a disappointment.

Please people I implore you, DON'T buy this game for about a month, and DON’T go what I have had to go through the last 8 hours. Save yourself the frustration. FUNCOM IN MY EXPEREANCE YOU'VE HAD AN EPIC FAIL

38 Comments

Comment by Bad_Panda on May 17, 2008 at 7:22pm: I feel your pain as MMOs are my fave game experience. I hope it get sorted soon for you.

Comment by Ardwulf on May 17, 2008 at 7:32pm: Works fine for me.

Comment by haulboss on May 17, 2008 at 7:45pm: Well if anyone can think of a way to fix the problem, seeings as funcom support site is no where to be found, it would be a great help to me

Comment by Ardwulf on May 17, 2008 at 7:46pm: Okaaaay. That just happened to me when logging back in. I got around it by changing graphics settings to Low, saving, then changing them back to high. Try that.

Aside from this, I have not had any technical problems at all. The game seems pretty good, too.

Comment by Korvix on May 17, 2008 at 8:06pm: I agree the game sucks.

But for other reasons.../shrug.

Comment by Brown Mug on May 17, 2008 at 8:16pm: It's incredibly foolish to believe the game would work flawlessly out of the box. I remember back in the day when WoW had similar launch problems. All new MMOs do. Give Funcom a chance. Hopefully they'll iron out all the major wrinkles in a few weeks.

Comment by DemiGod on May 17, 2008 at 8:17pm: Am I the only one that noticed he only said to avoid the game for about a month?

Comment by Therealgigabyte on May 17, 2008 at 8:52pm: Dunno about the OP but my install worked First Time, Every Time.

Comment by Dave on May 17, 2008 at 11:48pm: I'm playing the download version as I haven't picked up my retail box yet and it works great for me. If you get it work let us know.

Comment by Mephfistus on May 18, 2008 at 12:02am: Yes mmos have "rough" launches but you know what?

-Conan has been delayed twice officially. Originally it was supposed to be released on October 31st of 2007 (Funcom claimed that the game could have been released but gave the official reason of re-thinking the combo system and adding polish for a outstanding finish), then even the March 29th date was pushed back to May 20th.
-Funcom has a history of awful launches, ie. Anarchy Online. You would think a company would learn from its mistakes.
-The file planet so called "open" beta was handled awfully, from both a professional as well as a technical stand point. This alone should have been the "Canary in the bird cage" of what was to come launch day, week, month, year (I say year, because supposedly this game was ready for launch last October and at this rate of progress it may be a couple of years before we see a decent game shaped from this).

This game has had more then enough time to get its shit in place. Truthfully I wish everyone who bought this game the best of luck in playing it and if you are truly enjoying Age of Conan then have at it and go touch yourself a titty or go decapitate some cultists. If you don't enjoy it, then don't attempt to shovel shit into your mouth saying it is ice cream.

@ DemiGod:

Oh gawd, I completely missed that. You are really good at that, maybe someday you can fill us all in on how to be as good as you at reading comprehension. You should give your self a fucking pat on the back because you did a great job today!