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| From: Eidos
Category: Video Games
List Price: $79.99
Buy New: $19.99
You Save: $60.00 (75%)
New (24) Used (6) from $17.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  55 reviews
Sales Rank: 7755
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
ESRB: Mature
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Collector's
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: SAGECPUS01
Model: SAGECPUS01
UPC: 788687100748
EAN: 0788687100748
ASIN: B000V1OUTU
Release Date: May 20, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 SCAMAZON - Beware May 23, 2008
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is a great game, but very unprofessional service from Amazon. They have promised to deliver the game in time for the early access registration period. Now they can't even give me a date when will my CE would ship. Since I wont have a retail key, there is a chance that my level 40 character will be deleted or frozen, ruining my gaming experience. And for all this toruble, a freaking 10 dollar gift card?
I'm a prime member, and I think Amazon lost 1 good customer today.Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Collector's Edition
 Entertaining game, unprofessional service from Amazon. May 23, 2008
12 out of 17 found this review helpful
Allow me to preface this by saying that I have been a loyal and steadfast Amazon customer for over 10 years now. Despite a few bumps in the road, they have remained as paragons of exceptional service in virtually all of my dealings.
Until now.
For those who are not aware, Amazon accepted pre-orders of the Collector's Edition for months. And yet, after the projected ship date of the game, I have now received an e-mail stating that they overestimated demand for the game and my order is going to be held indefinitely while they get their act together.
Meanwhile, I'm unable to claim my special items from my Age of Conan account, because I don't have access to the code on the manual. FunCom is e-mailing me to let me know that my account will be suspended for not entering a retail code in short order. The odds that I will receive what I ordered (the CE) diminish by the day, with no follow-up other than a meekly-presented $10 gift certificate and reassurances that this does not happen very often.
The game itself is rather fun. It lacks flavor and is overly instanced for the first 20 levels. It runs clunkily and needs more optimization for anyone not running it on a late 2007-2008 computer. But the atmosphere is great and some of the features are truly innovative.
That, however, is not the point of this review. The point of this review is to warn anyone and everyone who is considering using Amazon as a pre-order service on any item that is either (a) time-sensitive, (b) in limited supply or (c) reliant on physical hardcopy for access to online features. As of now I will be moving all of my future business from Amazon to several of their competitors. Why? Because Amazon messed up, and they had so much information prior to this that they could have easily avoided this entire fiasco with a little more careful planning and a little less greed.
Sadly the old Amazon where I received personalized service is dead. I'm left with a series of form-emails offering me ten bucks to shut my mouth and suck up their mistake as my own. It's beyond disappointing, it's an irrevocable and final severance between myself and a once-great company.
Caveat emptor.
Do not order from Amazon May 23, 2008
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
DO NOT ORDER FROM AMAZON IF YOU'RE GOING TO GET THIS GAME. I pre-ordered this game March 13th, 2+ months before its expected release from Amazon and today is the 22nd of May and they still have not shipped it. They still do not have an ETA on when the game will be shipped.
Now, on to the game.
Sure- this game has amazing graphics, but its a waste of time and money. The current state of the game is more like a beta testing then it is an actual release. There is no player economy as of yet because they have had the 'trader' NPC disabled for quite some time now, and have not given an ETA on when it will be enabled. Many quests are bugged and cannot be completed, and one of the zones, Field of the Dead, has a stability issue which causes users to crash every 5-10 minutes. I've been unable to log into my character for more then half the day now because every time I try to load in, the game crashes. My computer exceeds the minimum requirements sevenfold, and even with my settings set to low, the game still crashes. The user interface is a joke, players are unable to see where their group members are on the mini-map unless they are within ~50m of eachother- even then it is still a hard task because group members show up with a minuscule dot.
All in all, this game was released waaaaaay too prematurely. I don't know what the heck Funcom was doing during their 'beta testing'... I could only guess they were too busy focusing on what in-game items players would receive from buying the game from different locations. This game gets a C+ at best.
Thinking about buying this for somebody? Do yourself a favor and save the money, and do them a favor by saving them the frustration and wasted time.
 Haven't recieved yet May 22, 2008
6 out of 17 found this review helpful
I ordered this on April 28th and yes I was one of the stupid ones that did not register immediately (did not think I had to). So I'm sitting here on May 22nd waiting for a game that should have shipped on the 20th and it still has not shipped. Never again! I was told by customer service that they had not received enough copies...
Why do people write reviews based NOT based on the game??? May 22, 2008
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
First off, I would like to say that I am having a blast playing this game. This is the only MMO that has held my interest (beyond the first 30 minutes) other than LOTRO and Guild Wars.
Yes the combat system takes some getting used to but I am actually finding it more fun than in the other MMOs. Instead of mindless icon clicking, you need to know which direction to attack and which directions to attack to pull of your special abilities. I used to be a Ranger in all my MMOs (Guild Wars, LOTRO) and would avoid hand to hand combat at all costs, but I have found with this new combat system I actually enjoy getting into the mix of battle and taking down enemies. This all stems from the new combat design. I no longer have to worry about "oh do I have to do this skill first, before I do this one" and such, Now I can get in there, start hacking things and use my skills I have set up.
As for the people that are giving it bad ratings because of Amazon and Funcom, you are all retarded. They have nothing to do with the game play and how much fun it is to play. Yes I was one of the people that got burned by Amazon with the shipping of my Collector's Edition, but mine did get shipped out and I will receive it today. So how does this verify you giving the game a bad rating? It doesn't. Oh so you whine because you didn't get into the Early Access, I did get in, and Funcom's statment on closing the early access was they did not expect so many people to be siging up for this game. WHICH IS A GOOD THING!!! Why would you want to play a MMO with no people? They actually had to have downtime in order to throw up a few more servers in order to handle it all. They also have ordered more servers which are on the way. Amazon should take down all the ratings that are based upon peoples opinions of Amazon and Funcom instead of the actual game itself.
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