I played for roughly two years, left after a month or so of TOA.  I just didn't like the direction the game was heading in, would rather have seen them concentrate on fixes, balacing and frontiers than going down the loot whoring/raiding route.  Otherwise I thoroughly enjoyed my time playing, haven't played a game that comes close the enjoyment that RvR and keep sieges/defence provide.  I tried to play again on the classic servers a few months back but couldn't get into it, probably because all my friends and guild had gone.  It's like an old ex-girlfriend, you had an amazing time together, you split up, then bumped into each other again after a few years, decide to try again... only to discover that things will never feel the same.

yea, exactly..... ToA did it for me.  Went back years later and I couldn't reconnect.  *sigh* the memories... hehe.

Repeated nerf battings hurt my head.

played for 4 years.  biggest reason i quit is because the leetest attitude in the game now.  sucks cause

the community use to be the greatest.  on top of that my fav saying was that if i'm playing the class it

is about to get nerfed.  some nerfs wanted to make me cry.  as far as origins well it's not gonna be

the original game everyone is hoping it will so i won't be playing that.  i did enjoy the great relic battles.

especially enjoyed the epic keep takes.  best pvp i've played to date of any game.

i played on and off like every year or so sometimes longer, but really after ToA it was just too annoying to get all the gear, skills, etc, just to be able to really compete in RvR and in the Labyrinth.

I played from launch until about a year or two ago. I quit for a few reasons. Lack of population, many balancing mistakes by Mythic, my class becoming obsolete in RvR (Armsman), and too much crap just getting added in (instances, Master Levels, Champion Levels, Artifacts, and more and more and more! poor noobies).

I missed the days when there would be new players that I could group with in the open oldschool dungeons. /level and instancing killed any chance for that. RvR became too caster scentric and depended on who had the most abilities available on their timers. The clustering was just starting to become ridiculous (yet needed) when I left. And finally, lack of Mythic to really try to overhaul the game to either bring it up to date or return it to its roots because they were busy with WAR. (Origins server has been pushed back, what shot it had of drawing in old players is now gone now that its behind the WAR release date)

And finally the attitude of the people in the game changed from big alliances trying to help eachother out to elite RvR pugs that just were in it for themselves and their RPs. No one helped in raids unless they could get something out of it, then they left right away.

DAoC was my first MMO I played in-depth, I played on and off, highest level was a 39 shadowblade I think. I guess what really put a fork in it was SWG. Havn't played DAoC since 2003.

ToA broke the game for me.  I went back and saw what they did to the frontiers and that was it for me.

I heard they brought up classic servers, but still had the clustered frontier.  if they bring back the old frontiers I would re sub.

Originally posted by Capn23

Originally posted by JustBe

I played for 10 mins and quit because the UI sucked and controlling the character felt like moving a brick around, was sooo slow and stiff.

 

Then you are going to hate everything about WAR and you should leave these forums because we are all idiots and you are obviously superior. Please...we are not worthy...just leave us to out simple mindedness.

 

/sarcasm off

 

But in all seriousness...why do you even come to these forums then?

Who called anyone a idiot?

I was saying my opinion of why I didn't like it and fyi WAR is soooo much better UI and movement wise and rightly so seeing as it's new.

Well the community is complete crap now.. used to be pretty good.

Then they added more gear and leet powers so the people who suck at the game could actually beat you.  Most of the "leet" you'll find now couldn't have fought their way out of a wet paper bag...  back in old daoc.

Plus the blatant use of a speed hacks and radar has made a large return.. no sign of ToS enforcement of any kind..   Is pretty much why I currently quit.

Ya I realize the game is pretty much dead.. but its hard to say hey we made daoc go play WAR.. when you look at what people are doing in DAoC every day...  Pretty pathetic to be honest.

We had one guy who was like level 18 was repeatedly killing a 50.. day after day... for xp/rp.  Reported every day by numerous people.. far as I know they are still "investigating" cuz he's still playing...  Of course this was before I quit last time.. So it takes at least 6 months to figure out someone logged in a 50 in one realm and farmed it with an alt in another realm... I mean there are some overpowered classes in DAoC but I don't know many 18's that can continually beat a 50.

The more time that went by I guess people figured out they were no longer banning due to almost no subscriber base.. so the worse it got.

This alone pissed me off so much I hope Mythic goes away.. I'd rather see a game shut down than turn into the cess pool DAoC has.

Of course.. this is just my opinion based on what *I* have seen in game.. others may and probably do vary...

Well, I don't agree with you Antarious, but I have seen times when the things you talk about have popped up.  I've seen the most of it, surprisingly, on the Bossiney cluster.  A couple months ago my guild moved back over to Devon cluster and some things seem better.  But really, I have felt for several years that most of the "old" games suffer from similar problems to what you have described.  I don't think you could paste the label just on DAOC.

I quited DAoC for a far far far better pvp game, namely Age of Conan.

Originally posted by xxlilDevilxx

I quited DAoC for a far far far better pvp game, namely Age of Conan.

i almost choked on breakfast.