Cerberus guild

For gods sake...Funcoms CS is gettin horrible. Yesturday, I got stuck in the floor...when i tried to do a /stuck....it didnt move me... /terminate....didnt move me. I petition for help...normally these things are answered within a short while...no such luck here...I wait for 3 freakin hours before logging off! When i log on, an ark had indeed come...oh..if I only had waited 2 more hours!

Then today (Oh...both of these times i wasnt using Vol..i was using another character...) I was playing around outside...fooling around with the leets..the little scamps! Anyway....i got killed by....something...no really, I got killed by nothing! Nothing at all....Im then sent back to a reclaim booth....in enemy territory....in the middle of a buncha gaurds....in a very remote place. So here I am...in a death whell...petitioning my little head off...all the while waiting for an ark...ANYONE to come to my rescue....."Hi! Are you in a safe pla..." "OF COURSE IM NOT IN A SAFE PLACE!! WHERE DOES IT LOOK LIKE I AM?" tis the conversation betwen me and an ARK....30 minutes later....

So...as you can see...I....am....PISSED!

Right now my finger is on the "Close account" button...yall want me around? Talk me outta pullin the plug!

leaving the game should be a decsion made by you and not by others. i understand you are frustrated and if you are tired of the way FC handles things then quit, that's what i did. it is not fair for your friends to keep you here if they know you will not be happy playing the game anymore. sit down and weigh the pros and cons of AO and then make your final decsion based on these things. and besides you know all your friends are gonna tell you not to leave.

I know what their answer will be...Personally...AO is really starting to let me down. It's just the same ol thing.."level, level, level, level, Upgrade imps, upgrade equipment, attend guild meeting, level, level, level, level, level......etc

The only ive been here this long is for two reasons...Shadowlands..and my friends here. Shadowlands didnt fix the above problem so my friends are the only reason im here still...with Everquest: Evolution only 30 bucks...its a good time to return to the family i knew so well there...but still....

I think a lot of people are frustrated at the moment. There are many bugs affecting everyone, not just in Shadowlands, and the poor ARKs must be run off their feet. Then of course Funcom's policies and rules and lack of standardised enforcement and general attitudes...

You have to decide what you really want from a game, if you're getting it, if you ever had it, will it return one day, and can you survive that long.

I remember reading once someone asking critically of another person why they sit around during their whole play time socialising/chatting--basically paying a lot of money for a 3D IRC. For that person, they were getting what they wanted, though. An interesting environment and a way to socially interact.

Decide what you want and if you can still find fun here.

3D IRC... nicely put

if AO was a no-internet-connection-needed kind of game, i wouldnt have spent more than a few days on it i guess. if i play offline i play Max Payne, Hitman or even a run or two with Colin McRae Rally. in AO its the chat and the communication with other players that intrigues me and keeps me going. the fact that you can work together in groups, make friends, trade, explore together and do quests (although the quests in AO are rather lame) alongside buddies is what makes this world great for me.

so you can call it 3D IRC... im fine with that. hanging at merc camp for 10 hours is basically the same as hanging in BY16 Tir City ... you just fight while you chat that's all.

... but i do feel that Funcom has made things a bit hard for us with Shadowlands. mainly because guilds have been split up with people off on their own doing different quests in different playfields far-far away. like, dragging a guild from Scheol and into Penumbra and beyond is one hell of a job. the hours you need to put into camping to drag all your friends with you into the next playfield is tremendous.

i agree with Flamforge... we all have to deside what makes AO good/bad, and deside to play or not.

for now i play, and im still quite happy about it. i have been in-game since December 2001, so its almost 2 years now. what worries me is the fact that only the hardcore AO players may still be here when we hit 2004... so how hardcore are you? how much do you love this game and the community around you? thats the question......

Well..frustration is everywhere these days..and im in that same situation as most..Things dont work..etc..
But..the reason i do stay,is cause im one of those that likes to just chat..I dont really need to be doing something all the time.
And call me a fool,but i think all these things will sort out given time.
I cant Complete heal or heal in some situations,cause then im aggro magnet,but i still hang in there.Hoping it will sort itself out,and given time it will balance out to some degree.
If u are one of those players that want to move around,do guildthings,play a bug free game..then AO has failed.
SL has broken many guilds appart,half of the people are in SL and the rest on RK.All 200+ want to get SK,get lvls.and get furter in to the SL.This is many guilds prob these days,and that is also given time gonna sort out i hope.

But i do hope you stay Volais.

I might as well comment since all Ive ever done is talk about how I hate people leaving and losing touch with close friends and blah blah blah.

I'm not suffering from any new bugs or frustrations with the mechanics of the game as such. I do enjoy my time otherwise I wouldnt play. People is all I play ao for but people come and go, it's a fact of life. I've actually found it mega hard in the past losing people I've gotten to know personally but after two years of makin friends I've never truly met, I've kinda gotten used to people vanishing without trace. I still play but not with the enthusiasm I once had.

I think if I was a hardcore gamer, then I'd be lookin for a game which pleases me or I'd enjoy ao in a different way but because I'm not, ao isnt makin me any happier and I'm slowly startin the look more towards RL cos ao does take up a huge part of free time. Before I played, I had plans to pursue my martial arts and fight in competition. I'm not gettin any younger and still have this plan at the back of my mind. Time will tell.

People leave and find other things to do, it's natural so Volais, if you'er not happy and find something which makes you happy, then leave. There's nothin wrong with you keeping in touch on here with everyone and by other means.

Excellent replies from everyone above but I will chip in too.

I _have_ hit the cancel button, but it is more of a protest with the state of SL than anything else, i.e. I fully expect things to have improved by December when my current subscription runs out, so I intend to renew it. In the unlikely event that things haven't improved then I possibly won't.

In the meantime I have taken a back seat and not logging on so often to keep my frustration/boredom levels down.

In truth the only reason I have kept playing is:

1) Time invested. Getting to 200 was hell. I now have a 6 month old son and there is no way I can invest the time needed into another MMORPG, and I feel like it is wasted effort if I quit, so it is AO or bust.

2) The people. Freuty/Binabek are RL buddies, and the rest are good people to hang about with.

3) The potential. Shadowlands has awesome potential, it is just the bottlenecks causing so much frustration right now.

4) Cost. I have only bought about one game since I started playing AO in June 2001 (although I will be buying Warlords IV in Nov).

5) Fun. Rare, but it happens.

6) AO was my first MMORPG. You never forget your first.

Anyway, as Addice said you need to list reasons for staying/going and see whether the reasons for staying are good enough.

He is 6 months allready??!!

God...they grow up so fast....i thought it was just 2 months since he came to this world..geezz..time goes fast eh?

Auropia wrote:He is 6 months allready??!!

God...they grow up so fast....i thought it was just 2 months since he came to this world..geezz..time goes fast eh?

Aye, it seems like just yesterday I was talking to you about him in a dungeon in Avalon.

Where does the time go?! (by the time I finish typing this yours will probably be at school )

heheeheheh almost

(and sorry for stealing the post,wasnt my intent.Just so exited when babies are mentioned hihi)

about the bottlenecks.

I was REALLY close to quitting 2 weeks after shadowlands launched.
Sitting around watching questmobs die, running meaningless quests had just filled the frustrationcup to the brim. I could not bring myself to log on for 2 weeks after that because i loathed the game.

Then one day i logged back in, to see what was happening.
I promptly went back to RK and chatted abit.
Went to EFP and got in a spawnteam with storm, we proceeded to kill all the mercs after a few hours spawning. I had a blast! It was fun.

So I started hanging about on RK abit, doing some missions and some raids, and after a while thought about returning to SL. When I got back to Elyseum it was almost empty. The questmobs was alive and chatty, and the frustrationlevel was waaay lower than it was during the crowded launch. Im now almost in adonis, and have not encountered much trouble of any kind. ( NB: i don`t do garden quests. )

If your getting frustrated, just take a breather, and there might be a chance its fixed when you get back. If you can`t handle being in the back of the line however, you should consider if this is the best way to spend your time. Thats what its all about really, how do you want to spend your time...

Not much to add to the above, exept ; breathe deep, be cool and do what your insides tell you to do.

We are still gonna be here, in one shape or another