Age of Conan: The most imbalanced MMORPG ever created?

By now, I’m sure anyone playing Age of Conan has heard about +damage gems. If you visit the official forums, sometimes it seems like gems and their impact on PvP is all people talk about.
A large part of the reason why my enthusiasm for Age of Conan is dropping like a load of bricks [...]

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Early Access pushed to 8pm GMT (4pm EST)

UPDATE 5:00pm EST. I’M IN!! I’m in the game and playing. I haven’t had a chance to do anything except create a character and get to the beach. But it looks great, runs great and even loaded much faster.
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UPDATE 4:35pm EST. The message in the patcher has changed to a [...]

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Eagerly awaiting early access to Age of Conan

I finally finished downloading the early access client (13.4 gigabytes!).  The patcher downloaded another 450 megabytes.  I’m glad I’m not with Comcast anymore because I don’t have to worry about my internet access being turned off.  In total, I’ve probably used up almost 40 gigabytes of bandwidth on Age of Conan already.
Official statement from Funcom [...]

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