Well the damn thing wasn't finished was it? No significant content, unchallenging pvp, and, dare I suggest it, a flawed premise.
Sanboxes like GTA work because YOU are the only crazy fucker running around behaving like a raving madman. When an entire city is doing it (law enforcement included), it's not a sandbox, it's a war.
I just thought of a way to salvage it. Significant PVE. Two servers. PC's play cops on one server and hoods on the other. Your opposite faction is computer controlled. You're free to plan heists/raids and the computer does the same as you battle for control of the city and its resources. You might log off one night with your gang in complete control of an entire district and discover the next day that the NPC cops have raided four of your fifteen hideouts, and are planning a direct strike on your HQ.
PvP between the two servers can take place in some inner city warzone. Say an island in the bay or somesuch. Catering to PvP has always been a gamble though. Age of Conan finally abandoned their efforts to keep the hardcore happy and focused on becoming an end-content raiding game. They're reviving, slowly.
Anyway, enough cat waxing.
