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Summary: Dont waste your $, or your time.
Review: Even if this game was free, I doubt I would continue to play it.
The company that created & maintains AO, 'Funcom', honestly has the most horrible customer relation skills out of any gaming company I've ever worked with. The game looks gorgeous. And it's designed so that the first dozen levels or so get you hooked. But then it's horrible. The company doesnt care about it's players, never fixes the bugs in the game (which were of minor concern to the players) without causing 20 more horrible bugs that are just innacceptable. Save yourself while you can, invest your precious time into something else.
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Summary: From a long time Fan
Review: Having spent the last two months playing this game can I just say this - 'Run! Don't stop, just run! Do not even think of picking this game up.'The core aspect of this game is quite good, however it does possess some serious problems, principly would have to be the publishers Funcom. Its a brutal hard world out there in the land of MMORPG and Funcom has proven over the last two months it has little idea of how to run a MMORPG or how to maintain an online community. Repeated blunders by Funcom in both coding as well as in informing the player base have shown this company to be incompetant at best, criminal at worse. Game Pros : A bueatiful, graphically stunning world with a potentially rich back ground story set in a futuristic setting on an alien world. Game Cons : Bugs and plenty of them, we're talking massive game stopping ones and after 2 months of retail this just shouldn't be the case. Customer support is also virtually non-existant and what little there is has no concept of customer relations. Many possibly redeeming features simply do not work. In fact entire classes of players simply do not work. If Funcom got its act together and dedicated some serious resources to this product it would have the potential of being a great MMORPG but thats along way off in its current state.
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Summary: What, no zero star rating?
Review: This just in, FunCom changes their corporate name to UnfunCom and their game to Arbitrary Online. I have played this game for little over a month and a half since its release and I have to say that this game is the worst game that I've ever played in the history of bad games. I've played through four updates, which have made the game less and less playable after a long amount of server downtime. There are many obvious bugs that make play tedious, and there is no major goal to obtain as everything in the game is completely relative. PvP is horrible, there are no trade skills as promised, and I am not the only one who feels this way. Check the FunCom message boards for more.
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Summary: don't even think about it
Review: This game is utter bs Please don't waste your time on it.
Rating:
Summary: Deserves less than 1 star, but that's not an option
Review: Do not be fooled by the over exuberant reviews of this game,
it's in horrible shape, and every successive patch that
"attempts" to fix this only makes it worse. The bugs present
upon release have yet to be fixed, and every new patch adds
an interesting array of new ones to play with.
In short, do not buy this game.
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Summary: Waste of time and money
Review: I would have given it a zero, but there is a minimum of one star. I am very surprised that this game has made it to the US market, as I am sure it violates a very large number of fraud, false advertising and consumer protection laws.
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Summary: A real great game with bugs
Review: You better get to know you are playin an MMORPG where u are not able to play solo!!!
Rating:
Summary: Don't bother with this one. Save your money.
Review: My advice? Don't buy this game. It's not worth it. Really. If you want a sci-fi based MMORPG, wait for a better game to come along, like Star Wars Galaxies. If you do buy it, here's my review-- First off, ignore the minimum specs on the box. They're a joke. Use the recommended specs as the minimum. Trust me. I have an AMD Athlon 800MHz processor, Windows ME, over 30GB of drive space, and had 256MB RAM and a Voodoo 3 3000 when I started this game-- far above and beyond the specs on the box. I STILL had to upgrade my video card (GeForce 2) and add another 512MB RAM to get this game to run properly. You have been warned. For the first month I played, the memory leaks were hideous. Lag in cities was so bad, that I was getting on average 0.1-0.5 frames per second if I either turned a corner or got near another player. For the most part, these problems have been fixed (in my experience, at least-- someone else might disagree), but they made the game unplayable for a long time. Once you get past the nightmare that is installing and patching this game, you get into the world. At first, everything is new and exciting, as it is with any game. By level 20, however, the sameness of the world-- the same 5 mission descriptions, the same 10 dungeon layouts, the same flat terrain with the dull colors, the endless treadmill of upgrading the same armor and implants you've had since level 1-- all become clear. There is no content to this game. No social structure, no backstory, no NPC's to interact with (except merchants) or get quests from, no storyline. The trade skills--something I love to do-- are all broken, or pointless, since what you make is the same stuff you can buy in the stores, and for less hassle than it takes to make them. Missions are repetetive, and dull. PvP, from what I have heard, is broken, and a grief-filled nightmare. Their latest patch, 12.6, has rendered the game unplayable for a lot of folks, and they're angry and cancelling in droves. Right now, even the fansites are dropping like flies and players are cancelling right and left. This is not a game I would recommend at all. Buy something else, and save yourself the frustration. I wish I had.
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Summary: Save your money
Review: Ok for starters the game is graphically beautiful. Basically you have a list of professions you can chose from. You pick one..start playing it and just when you are really enjoying it..Funcom changes it or breaks something and you have to wait until the next patch. Basically you are paying to play a BETA product hands down with little to no input. Save the money and play something that was tested.
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Summary: Whatever you do DON'T waste your money on this game!
Review: Don't buy this game. It is totally bugged, if you want to see how bad things are go to ao-basher.com People are mass cancelling as we speak. The fan sites are even cancelling. I would be surprised if the game lasted anothe 2 months. Most of the good reviews were from Beta, or at least before the latest patch. Which was done on a FRIDAY (stupid) and totally destroted playability. They even admitted the new patch added alot of bugs yet did nothing about it. I can sum up Anarchy Online in two words... "TOTAL GARBAGE" Former 46 level agent
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