So I have attended a wedding recently. I love weddings because one: it is a celebration of love and love is to be shared, and second: I am an excellent, eager dancer and I can go wild on this occasion (the magic ingredient is vodka). Turns out I have been seated next to a guy that, apart from running his own business and being a dad, was an avid MMO gamer. His fatal flaw was not being able to settle for one game, one character and he was constantly shifting from one MMO to another without being able to, in most cases, even leave the starter zones. Seriously, at one point he had 8 subscriptions running to a major MMOs with gaming time available to him being less than 1-2h per day. Having learned that my play style was "one MMO, one character - go" he got really interested in Age of Conan since he never have tried it before, but he has been Conan fan for a quite a while (mainly due to comics and paper&dice RPG). Our chat went something along these lines:
- I always roll on RP servers when I can, Hyborian setting must be incredible on AOC RP servers right?
- um....we don't really have RP servers. I mean anymore..we used to.
- ok, so how is raiding in AOC? The combat system is bound to be making raiding something more than button mashing,
- yeah...well I don't raid so I wouldn't know really.
- fine, so what do you do then?
- I pvp,
- what is pvp like in AOC?
- it is mostly instanced, it is called minigames.
- oh nice, I do like those in WoW
- well, not really like in WoW, think smaller, like 6 man
- right, so arena based pvp then
- no no, like 6 vs 6, something like capture the flag in FPS,
- WoW has that too. I have really enjoyed those BGs with my team from PVP guild I used to be in.
- well in AOC you can't sign up with a team, it is random.
- WHAT? What do you mean random?
- you sign up and kinda get a set of people for your team,
- but you can still join with a friend or two?
- no
- what? why the hell not?
- I don't know.
- so if you don't pvp with a group what do you do?
- mostly when I log on I do instance runs or minis,
- instances are cool, does AOC has that classic tank-healer-DPS stuff?
- yeah, but I don't do group PVE, I run solo instances,
- solo instances? What are those?
- like regular instances, but only you and mobs, and smaller rewards in a form of tokens. You can still get epics for those tokens,
- and you are paying for it?
- I do, but you don't have to. To be honest you have to stay subed to be competitive in pvp
- so let me get this straight: you are JUST doing those "minigames" with random people or doing solo instances alone?
- kinda am, yes,
- you are not playing an MMO then,
- what do you mean?
- sounds more like subscription based single player
- :X
- I always roll on RP servers when I can, Hyborian setting must be incredible on AOC RP servers right?
- um....we don't really have RP servers. I mean anymore..we used to.
- ok, so how is raiding in AOC? The combat system is bound to be making raiding something more than button mashing,
- yeah...well I don't raid so I wouldn't know really.
- fine, so what do you do then?
- I pvp,
- what is pvp like in AOC?
- it is mostly instanced, it is called minigames.
- oh nice, I do like those in WoW
- well, not really like in WoW, think smaller, like 6 man
- right, so arena based pvp then
- no no, like 6 vs 6, something like capture the flag in FPS,
- WoW has that too. I have really enjoyed those BGs with my team from PVP guild I used to be in.
- well in AOC you can't sign up with a team, it is random.
- WHAT? What do you mean random?
- you sign up and kinda get a set of people for your team,
- but you can still join with a friend or two?
- no
- what? why the hell not?
- I don't know.
- so if you don't pvp with a group what do you do?
- mostly when I log on I do instance runs or minis,
- instances are cool, does AOC has that classic tank-healer-DPS stuff?
- yeah, but I don't do group PVE, I run solo instances,
- solo instances? What are those?
- like regular instances, but only you and mobs, and smaller rewards in a form of tokens. You can still get epics for those tokens,
- and you are paying for it?
- I do, but you don't have to. To be honest you have to stay subed to be competitive in pvp
- so let me get this straight: you are JUST doing those "minigames" with random people or doing solo instances alone?
- kinda am, yes,
- you are not playing an MMO then,
- what do you mean?
- sounds more like subscription based single player
- :X
true story...
