Played AoC a lot since release until a week ago. If you want to play solo and casual you wil (just about) get your moneys worth out of buying it.

They obviously based their whole launch strategy around making the game up to level 40 as smooth as possible. I enjoyed it a lot up until this level, rarely encountering any bugs. The experience from level 40 up is different and gradually gets worse. There is only one zone for each level range form then on. The end game is horribly broken.

Funcom have moved the majority of their devs onto the three other games they are developing, so the weekly patches are the worst ever for breaking more things than they fix.

The crafting system is ridiculously overpowered, making purple items redundant for everyone except tanks.

Class balance is non-existant. One of the healers (Tempest of Set) can do more damage and offer more party utility than the Mage class (Demonologist) as well as heal, rez and self rez.