I gave it a short try on the 1st. Not impressed at all.
How many patches? Just stupid for a game that has gone gold.
Jerky movement.
Low frame rates. (27fps)
Stupidly long load times. Not just getting into game, but loading up the char select screen.
Talk to a char, and have the "cut scene" or whatever they call it, cut my head and the other chars head off. Plus not being able to move camera around while in said scene.
Chat box is pathetic.
This game just feels like its trying too hard
tbh. I know its early days, but some of these faults are unforgivable.
If they want to compete in the MMO environment they need to come up with something that doesn't require stupid system requirements. From my short time so far, it looks like they've concentrated on the gfx, which may look nice, but they just slow the game up so much.
I know lots of wow players, most of them don't have modern PC's, they won't upgrade or buy new PC's just to have a try of AoC.