Be honest, what do you expect from AOC and how long are you willing to wait?

I am seeing in various comments on U2, twitter, Reddit, etc, that you think that AOC must be the definitive WOW KILLER, the new MMO chosen by the gods and that should come out fast.

Calm down guys

AOC does not pretend to be the new WOW killer, AOC wants to be AOC working for its community, improving itself little by little and becoming what they and their community want it to be.

As Steve said, there will be many errors and that is the best of all, to improve something you have to go step by step seeing errors and improving it, nothing starts being the best and that is why they are working with their community, with the alpha players to give us in the future what their community and they want.

I hope they take time, I prefer an MMO with a very solid base to be able to work on it and improve over time than an MMO that comes out quickly but does not have a solid base.

In short, I would not care if AOC comes out in 2025 or 2026, I would wait for it, since seeing the effort they are making, the problems they have had (Jeff's departure), and the future problems they may have, I know very well that It is a LONG FIGHT to create from scratch a project that is thinking to give the MMO community the MMO they deserve.

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Ventharien

I expect a fun open world envirnment that i can watch develop and change around me. I'll wait as long as it takes to release in a polished state. Not like i'm in a hurry for anything.

akabear

No expectations here, just a few hopes.

Agree with making sure of a polished product before launch, but don`t mind if that is at the compromise of some minor changes to scope.

There is a hope that scope increases over time regardless, and I see that as a draw for future regardless of what they launch with.

AoC-Lite by around 2023 vs AoC-Fully by 2025 or beyond.

truelyyy

My concerns are around certain scope creeps but I think Steven has realised the excitement around the game won't last forever, also the money they have to spend! and where the game currently is in production is being ramped up so I hope the game is released by 2023 sometime which is a reasonable timeframe. Also I believe the game has it's core foundations made so huge delays like they had with certain background programming issues hopefully shouldn't happen again. There are certain things I personally think are just not worth the time investment such as underwater fights, just keep it to regular fights on ships for example.

Also I saw comments about ashes releasing in 2026, I think this would be a major issue because their funding would have dried up if it takes that long. They are not amazon game studios and have an infinite amount of funding. It's not inconceivable that the studio would have outgoings of $5mil+ per year with their ramped up staff numbers.

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