Age of Conan

. . . that the promised  'Open Beta'  was never delivered?

Promised to shutup the critics, and give ammo to the Fan-Boyz.

Since AoC has now gone to the manufacturers, what will be provided now is a semi-open Trial.

If this is how Funcom views its customer base, then heaven help the early subscribers to this game.

Smells a lot like Anarchy Online, and even a bit like V:SoH to me.

But, time will tell.  Certainly not going to pony up the amount of money they want for the Client before I hear the reviews and opinions of the good folks here at MMORPG as to what state AoC is really in at launch.

I think it is 'Buyer Beware' on this one.

Open beta starts on May 1st,not sure what you are going on about tbh.

Heh I'm still having plenty of fun with Savage 2. I'll give it a few months after release to see how it's shaping up.

If it's good I'll buy in. If not well life goes on.

Originally posted by daylight01

Open beta starts on May 1st,not sure what you are going on about tbh.

But AoC has already gone to press.

How can you have any sort of 'Beta' if the game has already been released to manufacturing?

Like I said, it is now a Trial.

AoC will have ab Open Beta. It starts 1st of May. Just you need to be a fileplanet member to join. It's true, they are making money with the open beta, yeah, they are. But Funcom is a bussines, not a charity organization. I hope to be there . And yeah it is an open beta cose we will be doing a strest test, this is the point of an open beta. Strest test the login, the character creation and the game servers. you can call it "performance tunning" if you want. You can't expect funcom to change game mechanics at this stage, this is done in the closed beta.

Originally posted by daylight01

Open beta starts on May 1st,not sure what you are going on about tbh.

could be that you have to be a Ign subscriper, wich costs 15bucks...for 3 months (but 3 months is the shortest amount u can sub for)

Actually, I believe they are considering the May 1 open beta primarily a load test.  They'll get a better idea on what the servers can handle and what the interest level is to make a more informed decision on how many servers to have available at launch.

That said, I have no doubt that they'll still take feedback and incorporate any last minute changes into that ginormous patch you always have to do after you install a game from the CD.

did they ever give the contest winners their beta access? or is that going to be handed out on may 1st when everyone can get into the beta? and as far as the game build on release, I think the only system being left out of the release is bar fights, my friend mentioned something about bar fights needing a couple more months or work before they patch it into the game after release.

Either way, there is no telling what path this game will take on release. It could go the way of the gods, uo, eq1, wow, or it could go the way of the cursed, vg, eq2, potbs. I'll be logged in on may 20th assuming I get my pre-order copy. I'm sure you'll get a ton of information about the game by the 20th.

where did you read that the game went gold? ive never heard anything about that yet

Yes there is an open beta but not truly open. YOU HAVE TO PAY FILEPLANET TO GET INTO THE OPEN BETA. IF THATS NOT ENOUGH YOU CAN ONLY PLAY TO LVL 13 OUT OF 80 LEVELS!!!

I dont know about you guys but I sure as hell aint paying fileplanet almost 9 bucks to play a buggy open beta to only lvl 13.

/end rant

Originally posted by Shoal

 

...before I hear the reviews and opinions of the good folks here at MMORPG....

You know, you lose all credibility when you say wild and crazy things like this.