I'm starting to lose faith in humanity and life itself. Why is the world we live in incapable of producing a good MMORPG anymore? Since World of Carebearcraft rose to power it's felt increasingly like we will truely never have a good MMO again. Age of Carebear seemed like it might have been a beacon of hope, but thus far it's pretty much exactly the same type of garbage just with more glitches and fewer players.

Lets count the ways AOC is horrible. Number 1 there is no loot server. Just like WoW they refuse to make the game actually good and instead design it all around farming items and grinding things out. There is ZERO death penalty in this game (just like WOW). It's to the point that players go out, complete a quest, then die on purpose to get a free teleport back to town. Fill up your bags and want to sell? just suicide. The only thing it accomplishes is to bring you to the ressurection point and there is no downside.

Number 2 they are having GMs warn players about certain pvp tactics. Camp someone and kill them repeatedly? You get a warning and eventually will get suspened / banned for this behavior. Even though there is a PVP solution to the problem available for anyone (kill the campers / have friends come / join a guild) they are removing the PVP politics and instead making "cry to the GM so he saves you" the PVP skill of choice.

Funcom is really making the game and themselves into a joke by not allowing any options. There are two types of servers; Carebear server and REALLY Carebear server. There is NO pvp server type yet (just like WoW) even though they specifically said there would be a variety of servers prior to launch. Currenty only one type is available (the pointless type) and we are awaiting whatever poll they have in store for the paying customers to be able to even voice our opinion about what we really want. This poll will obviously come like 3-4 months from now after we have all wasted 60 bucks on monthly fees for the ability to have our vote counted.

It really doesn't make any sense to develop this mature pvp game and then neuter it into a WoW clone with ZERO pvp draws. It reminds me of Manhunt 2 with the blurred violence to the extend that it might as well just not have been there at all. There is no excuse whatsoever for not already having a crazy server that will go down as legendary in MMO PvP history. Clearly the people in charge of AOC are themseleves carebears, or else this article would not have gotten written. I would be too busy playing the damn game to care about work, bodily functions, or anything else.