This thread will be long and specially write for Funcom.
The thing is.. I play this game long time ago, i'm not a player who loves to do too much PVE, but it was never problem BEFORE.
We always talking with friend about what the hell happening in this game..
Well, let's start in chronological order:
Around 2009(if i remember well):
The PvP worked well(Age of Mage just was the cry of some losers, i always played melee and i had no problem with them!), but there was many many bugs(but not game broken bugs), so FC started to fix them. We also had alot of players enough to can PvP on any map of Hyboria.
As the time passed FC fixed many many bugs and the game became better and better.
We got nice new places like Common District then the RotGS expansion. Of course new places new bugs, but no problem.. any bug can be fixed as FC fixed the most of them..
Meanwhile we got some new graphic engines with shiny metal effect and major reduction of poligons.(There is no more circular objects in the game)
But some kids always crying so FC started to rewamp the classes, what wouldn't be a bad decision if they rewamp all the classes in the same time.
Rewamped classes became stronger then others so it was the time of the big reroll waves.
Many peoples said: "I rather to leave the game then leave my beloved class to can pvp."
Easy to find videos in YT with titles like "Why i don't play AoC" or "AoC balance" and etc..
many peoples left the game at that moment.
Otherwise it seemed like the gamebugs dissapearing slowly, BUT for the reason i said before the population of Hyboria heavily decreased.
"So what to do? Make it F2P!" - It was the plan i guess.
Around this time(as i can remember) we had seriously bad lagspikes 4,8k for seconds in every 5mins. AND WE PAID FOR THIS!
F2P and the B&G servers came in same time.
F2P means many players come to try out the game so it's a huge increase of account numbers.. The B&G servers do most of players i seen in Rage had multiple accounts for multiple characters.
So me too moved to Rage also because "Blood and Glory" it sounds good, doesn't? This tittle attractive for veterans and F2P newcomers also.. It means less premium peoples on the old servers, but also means a nice player-base on Rage.
It was again a negative point for the community of the old servers.
But now came the other thing what "raped" the community:
With the F2P modell and the new server many many (and can't say enough times) many new bugs came to the game what we never seen before(they were Game-breaking bugs).
Also the first f2p modell was fail and gave no chance for newbies.
So as it was expected: premium veterans killed the newbie F2P players. The game got the "Pay to Win", and on rage it was especially true! PvP t1 set on itemshop not a huge advantage on Fury, but IT WAS on RAGE.
Newbies left the server and we had not enough peoples to can continue on Rage.
The server died out suddenly!
So most of peoples who left the B&G server also left the game
"New plan: not enough peoples let's merge some servers."
Truly Fury and Aquilonia and some others ran out of players.. the game wasn't enojoyable anymore with so few players, but different servers have different community and rules!
Merging a pure PvP server with a RP server was not a considered decision.
Even worst to merge russian server with a international(english) server!
Russian players completly broke the community in fury and in crom too!
"[x]: age of conans community is really bad the worst iv ever seen in a mmo"
Again and again a reason to leave a well made (but worst developed) game.
3-4years passed and we still waiting for rewamp some classes.
To be honest the classes what have been already rewamped isn't balanced to each other.. I playing HoX and ToS and DT and Guard and much other classes to can say that. As guard i go between 6 enemy players and can go for a short afk while they try to kill me because i have 50%+ protection, but if i going to frenzy i almost can oneshot peoples.. same on DT.
Don't wanna go deeply in classbalance in this thread so lets talk about others..
Anyone said:
"[x]: i dont get why they moved the server when the majority of players eu so now they move the server to us so msot of players lag so now afwew us get ncie pings they should have move all the server to eu"
He have like 300ms Latency, as i heard most of peoples have 200+.
Looks i'm lucky in this case i had 60-70 and now i have 140-160ms, but this also enough to can see players teleporting.(what also a very negative experience in PVP)
Since the game releasised almost everything got "rewamped", I talking about gears, mounts, characters, feats and mounts and so on.
I don't got the point of removing the "Heroic damage"(in raids), but also don't understand why have been rewamped the easily calculatable percentage defense stats on armors and re-classification the mounts
(so 2 or 3 speedtype).
So to the end:
I'm bored of playing without friends/foes.
Bored of gearing up my toons ~2,5Million PvP XP is alot!
and for AA you need to spend thousands of hours.
Bored of Pve gear>PvP gear.. also easier to get.
We play game to have fun!
Doing quests for factions or anything is only fun at first time!
Dig rocks for getting better in pvp isn't fun!
Bored of lack of classbalance.
And mostly bored of Funcom's false promises:
"-update 6h. Oh sorry 12h. Oh no Sorry 2days."
"Class-rewamp coming 'soon'"
"Tradeskill rewamp"
"Server-merge"
"Latency fix"
"cross server tech"
They are thing what we should not wait for years not even months.