Yup still playing too Still as before trying to hold off on lvling so have been concentrating on grinding my professions (armoursmith + alchemy) - which need a serious amount of mats , lvl 43 now so still plenty of lvling to enjoy when my new pc arrives
Most of the AoC players I know have been impressed with the game, but have slowly returned to WoW, mainly due to bugs and server crashes. There are some rumours out there (unsubstantiated) that the game was rushed out as cshflow at the company was critically low, hence all the 'fall through world' UI failures and lock ups that people are complaining about. The general feedback I am getting about AoC is that it is nice when it works, but not as complete as WoW? How does that compare to other people's experience?
I agree with what you say Tealeaf, it was rushed out imo but I have no clue if it had anything to do with cashflow or not. A more likely reason would be because they were trying to release it a good few months before WAR and WotLK.
I find the patching atm excessive and it's waaaay more than was ever done at the release of vanilla WoW or TBC BUT I'm quite happy to live with it for now, as the game is such great fun to just potter around in and has some great scope for end game pvp and raids.
My thoughts on the game are that it is a great game easily one of the best MMORPG's in a long time but......
The rumor about it being rushed due to cash flow is no rumor its fact, so that already weigh's against it , ontop of that there are alot and i mean alot of bugs and just general programming fallout but some are forgivable some are not.
Funcom also blatantly lied about some features now i know most will probably be added via patches or expansion but showing stuff that was confirmed ingame on launch then upon login in you find its not there and get no reply from funcom whatsoever.
I could make 2 pages of likes and dislikes but i wont my point that im trying to make is that Age of Conan is a great game but Funcom are a crap company plain and simple they learned nothing from there AO days and have no connection with there community whatsoever. You see most people are not only leaving because they game is broken in most places but also because and support from Funcom is more rare than cheap fuel.
Myself im a Necromancer so instanly you are all expecting me shout IVE BEEN TEH NERFED and i have the Nightfall tree isnt worth the pixels it takes up anymore and id rather stick my balls in set's mouth than spec reanimation. Another thing ahh you know what i think you get the picture.
Do i like AoC the game...yes, Will i play it and have fun for a while......yes, Will i stay with it aslong as i did with EQ/EQ2/SWG/GW &WoW....probaly not.
Do i belive that alot of the "negative" views towards funcom are justifed YES!!!.
All in all tho a good game that i would recommend to friend but not right now as i belive its gonna need a few months to get steady.
Here's something a threw together in literally 5 minutes, im aware there are spelling mistakes and words missing plus the end cutting didnt really turn out how i would of like but they its stupid little vid and funny...well to me anyway.
Still as before trying to hold off on lvling so have been concentrating on grinding my professions (armoursmith + alchemy) - which need a serious amount of mats 
, lvl 43 now so still plenty of lvling to enjoy when my new pc arrives 
