I came back to try AO in early February, like those I have seen post on here, being an old AO player from the past I thought to give the game a go again, for the whole nostalgia factor, but it made me realize just how much it really is not a bad game. Sure it is dated and in dire need of some lovin’, since I dug up discs of old AO screenies from back in the early days of AO when the game was brand new, and seeing each expansion when it was excitingly new, to see that nothing graphically has really changed since those days……. except for a dwindling AO population!
Sure the look of the game is dated, between the lacks of detail and still no graphic upgrade, you cannot deny that AO has an okay storyline with an actual lot of stuff to do. I decided, after unsuccessfully getting access to my old account and not wanting to have to try to get it back from a long gone ex, I figured, it has been so long I shall start anew and so far I have been playing an advy on RK and a keeper out in the SL areas and I’m enjoying it.
I still see complaining over the game needing to be upgraded since it is so outdated, but AO being the first MMORPG I ever played, and having spent many hours and hours since playing other games of this nature in the years since, going back to AO is like going back to an old friend who you wish had changed for the better, but even though it has “yet” to happen, it’s great to be back.