I have been wrestling with an AoC related problem lately. The gist of it is that it does not work.
I first had a steam version that bit the pork chop, that's fine, Steam is like that. I uninstalled it in three stages first Steam (delete local content) Control panel, the deleted what was left.
I decided to resurrect my old download from my Age of Conan account page (one that Funcom owns)
It will go past downloading the patcher (two 17.9mb downloads, it does it twice, then gives the punchline ""The update process did not complete successfully".
I have noticed a quite marked decrease in my enjoyment of AoC since this issue popped up. I hesitate to use the "Ive played this game since 2009 and pay Funcom an annual subscription etc" but its getting close.
It seems like an unreasonable transaction that I pay for a game I cannot play.
I think it likely that there is an issue here and would like this issue resolved so I can get back to levelling my Barb