Age of Conan

I support the AoC devs 100% by stepping up to the plate and making an MMORPG will modern day graphics, but a very small percentage of users have the system necessary to run something like this.

The game looks awesome one so many levels, but I honestly think that it won't get tons of success simply because people won't be able to run it.

Thoughts?

The system spec's aren't that bad for the game. They have said many times if you can run oblivion you can run AoC. That said, most of the more "Hard-Core" gamers the guys who would be more interested in this game are the ones that will have there rig at optimal at all times. The people who will stay with a game like AoC aren't the people that play WoW, the ones that play it for the casual experience and the ability to come in and have an easy go.

This game as much as it till have PvE, is going to be pointed at the people who love PvP again 9 times out of 10 those will be the folks that have good rigs. Do i think the game will ever hit WoW numbers No, but that has nothing to do with graphics. Will the game be a turn off for some because of its graphics? i'm sure it will, but then they have warhammer to turn to.

Simply put, this game won't be THAT hard to run, most people with a respectable system can do it.

actually thats not true - infact this game will be nicely optimized and it will work on average machine. nobody forces you to play on AA x8. this game will look nice aswell with AA x2 or even none.

People have been complaining about system requirements to run games since there were games to run.  There were complaints about the first Ultima games, Mechwarrior, Doom, EQ1, EQ2...  Games (and Windows upgrades) have almost always hit the high end standards for PC technologies.  But I can't think of a significant game that has ever failed because it required too much hardware.

Most games these days run fine on older PCs but they try to sell you on the newer ones.  You don't need to spend $4k on Dell's Warcraft laptop to max out WoW, for example.  And having the snazziest PC on the market didn't perform miracles with Vanguard; that took a beating because of bugs and limitations on release, not system reqs.

I've got a fairly good gaming rig that is almost 3 years old (but with an updated GFx card).  It easily handles anything that is out there (on Vista) and I have no worries about Conan.  I'll upgrade my PC if I think it will help (buy a new one or just get more ram).  I used to have to buy a new high end PC every couple years to keep up with the games but there really haven't been as many fundamental innovations lately as there used to be.

I doubt that AOC will require a high end PC to run well at low settings.  If you don't have a decent midrange PC then get one.  If you can't, then you may have to wait a year or two.  I'm sure the low-end PCs of the future will be able to handle it.

I'd rather have a game with high reqs now that will look relatively decent a couple years from now than something built for crap PCs that is stuck with limited character models/animations/options.  We've already got plenty of those.

What i think is sad is people want to dedicate their lives to games. Yet they cry when a game with hardcore graphics comes out. To these people i say UPGRADE. If your wanting to play on a old computer, then you should get what you paid for correct? So take DaoC, take EQ, and take WoW and go play them. Im tired of companies working with low end spec'd computers and hurting their game so they can win over the masses. All these game companies do is set the MMO world back a few steps instead of forward. Its not like Sony or Microsoft or even Sega thinks "well you know what, since people still have an xbox, lets make a game for that instead of the xbox360. " Seriously people, quit making these developers take steps back to help you out. How about you help out the cause and freaking upgrade. And this whole money issue is yet another way of stating im to lazy to actually go make enough. Seriously setting yourself low will only produce low results. Wake up and U P G R A D E.

with your way of thinking, Netzoko, we all have to play in games with graphic like Tibia

i play AoC on my P4 3GHz 6800GS 2GB RAM and all runs very fine on low setting (not lowest) with decent graphic

it runs much much better than Vanguard these days

"but a very small percentage of users have the system necessary to run something like this"

in my old guild in WoW moste of people have computers like dual core with GF8600/8800

and remember AoC is for mature peoples - they have much more cash than 13yo kids

I can see the graphics failing the game as well, specially with the large array of new hardware coming as well the quad ATI / AMD spider systems coming don in price, that the graphics won't be full optimized, in the sense of driver  efficient tweaks.  The thing that I noticed about the game world right away is the dependacy on Dx10 to make it look as good as it does, I think that is going to break the game with users running xop not getting the same level of detail in shaders as with dx10.

Way to much focus on dx10 , and that is going to kill this game.

Originally posted by Lufanga

and remember AoC is for mature peoples -

 

 

 

Let's hope not, or most of us are going to be disqualified.

I suspect its going to run poorly in the big fights, when theres like 100 vs 100, but other wise most people with decent rigs should be fine.

The Launch dates themselves are proof that they having a tough time optimizing the game graphically, anyone can make a great looking movie on a lan setup and post it on GT videos, but once I saw the video from GDC on xplay , it was kind of a wake up call that Funcom will have a luanch simalar to Anarchy online.

I picked AoC to be the dominate mmo in that one thread back in 2006, so if the game does take a dive, then for once I will be wrong. I wish Funcom all the success they deserve.

Originally posted by Netzoko

I support the AoC devs 100% by stepping up to the plate and making an MMORPG will modern day graphics, but a very small percentage of users have the system necessary to run something like this.

The game looks awesome one so many levels, but I honestly think that it won't get tons of success simply because people won't be able to run it.

Thoughts?

 

I belive this game will beat wow hands down.

I also believe this game will be a far superior product to WoW, however the fact remains that WoW is easy-mode MMO that any person who knows how to operate a mouse (not even mandatory) can play.

It's really a shame, I came from the "old school" of mmo's where there were actual consequences to your actions, lost gear, lost XP, etc. It would appear that FunCom is doing something right with this game in their PvP death penalties, however we will have to wait and see exactly what those penalties are.

I have such high hopes for this game, I really hope this game makes it off the ground and achieves success (500k subscribers).