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Aoc Gold can be used in many areas in Age of Conan, such as people need money to buy things in their daily lives. If you play this game, you must need it. Age of Conan is not bug free by any means, it seems like it is indeed ready to launch from a technical perspective. There is only so much you can get done through beta testing, and there are problems that simply will not come up until the game has live players and full server loads. MMO are incredibly complicated pieces of software that cannot be designed for and tested on every single possible system configuration; there are some problems that you simply will not see until a very large number of people start playing it. If this makes me too forgiving, so be it, but I was playing AOC a month ago and encountering broken quests and bugged mobs, and even game-breaking crashes. If blizzard is going to be held up as the gold standard in quality control we have to recognize that their game has issues even so, even three years after release, much less days before launch. It is not about putting up with bad software; it is about realizing that every piece of software of a similar complexity level has bugs in it somewhere.
There is of course such a thing as bad software. If bugs prevent you from playing the game, then it really does not matter how understandable their presence is. Also, I obviously recognize that some people are having more problems than me. Vanguard was both bad software and a bad game at launch, and Age of Conan is not anywhere close to that on either count. However, by buying and subscribing to an MMO you are not just buying the retail box, you are buying an ongoing commitment from the publisher to continue expanding and improving the game. Here is to hoping that over the next couple of months they will. |
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