havent truly played since 1.4 .... so i have no AAs and what not. i miss what this game use to be and well hows the combat now a days? hows the population?

meh, play ftp for a little an youll work it out yourself man.

you wont get a "right" answer here as there isnt one.

"Is it worth coming back"

well.. its a game and games are to fill in time, so.. if your not playing another game and your bored.. then i guess it is?

With all of the other games releasing between now and the end of the year I wouldn't waste the time in AOC. The population is okay at the moment but with Skyrim, BF3, MW3, SWTOR, etc all releasing before Christmas I think it's a safe assumption that most US servers will be fairly desolate. Throw Funcom's horrid customer service on top of low populations and people will be finding other things to do. I have multiple toons in full khitai epics and only have fun in this game because of the people I play with...soon they will be playing other games so others will follow suit.