Originally Posted by
Mellaus
The statement "AoC is dead" is mainly a matter of perspective.
I for one think that the only players who really struggle to play the game are the ones that shot themselves in the face by going full retards for years and ended up in the ignore list of every single decent guild.
And now only Crom has an healthy population, those trolls are just totally unable to play the end game, hence why they spend their days standing in Khemi spamming global.
It's kinda sad.
Appart from that negligeable minority of doom callers, most of the other players seem to enjoy the game just fine.
My personal experience is that whatever i want to do, i can do it, being pugging raids, dungeons, guild runs, recipe hunting, hell, even RP if it was my thing.
So to me the game does not feel dead, i always have something to do and definitely not enough time to do it all.
In the end, i just don't get the need of 50K players on a server to enjoy a game some seem to feel.
As said by the OP, AoC on its own is fantastic, and i too played it alone during my first year.