As of right now, Funcom is hoping it'll take around six months for the first guild in Age of Conan to move all the way through the raid content and defeat the final boss, the evil wizard Thoth-Amon.

If this is the case, its safe to assume a average player in a smaller guild  will take closer to 10-12 months to do the same, and by that time Funcom will have even more content ready im sure...i LIKE IT

of course Dev's never know how fast hardcore guilds burn through content so you never know...regardless its comforting to know Funcom is accouting for these speed guilds

Sounds about right. And that is just the end game raid. The time to get to 80 itself will add some time to that.

It is the solo and small group content that counts, as soon as those who like small groups and solo content feel like there is no more for them to do here they move on. The raid content is for the remaining 20% of the players.

Why was that even worth mentioning? Sounds just like any other MMO to me.

Originally posted by kazson

As of right now, Funcom is hoping it'll take around six months for the first guild in Age of Conan to move all the way through the raid content and defeat the final boss, the evil wizard Thoth-Amon.

If this is the case, its safe to assume a average player in a smaller guild  will take closer to 10-12 months to do the same, and by that time Funcom will have even more content ready im sure...i LIKE IT

of course Dev's never know how fast hardcore guilds burn through content so you never know...regardless its comforting to know Funcom is accouting for these speed guilds

Ive been readint the conan comics as of late, and there is alot of talk about him,

I wonder if other characters like "The Bone woman" will bein the game, i would love to see that!

Really cool that they are sticking to the lore.

-Jive

Originally posted by SignusM

Why was that even worth mentioning? Sounds just like any other MMO to me.

not really when you look at it....only 2 major MMO releases in the last 3 years had this degree of end game at *launch*

Vanguard and Eq2..

WoW didnt, Tabula Rasa didnt DDO didnt and Lotro didnt

Plus im trying to post something that doesnt have to do with fileplanet and beta keys lol

Hmm, I suppose you're right in that sense though I think EQ2 had raid content, but we have to look past the storm of WoW clones (which AoC is showing an unfortunate resemblance to, just a wee bit) to the original MMOs. Dark Age of Camelot, Asheron's Call, Ultima Online, EverQuest, Asheron's Call 2 all had a large world with lots of raid content. They don't make um like they used to, too many money grubbing companies trying to recreate WoW.

Why wouldn't you want to make a game with 10 million subs?  You can veer off the course a bit sure, but the foundation for success has already been laid out.

Originally posted by kazson

 

Originally posted by SignusM

Why was that even worth mentioning? Sounds just like any other MMO to me.

not really when you look at it....only 2 major MMO releases in the last 3 years had this degree of end game at *launch*

 

Vanguard and Eq2..

WoW didnt, Tabula Rasa didnt DDO didnt and Lotro didnt

Plus im trying to post something that doesnt have to do with fileplanet and beta keys lol

vanguard and EQ2 LMAO????

ARE U REALLY BEING SERIUOS?

You think vanguard had any endgame at launch or even now, and EQ2 at lauch, newsflash, it took EQ2 2+ to fix the pile of crap that it was and still continues to be.

Originally posted by nikbot

Why wouldn't you want to make a game with 10 million subs?  You can veer off the course a bit sure, but the foundation for success has already been laid out.

But your right, from a business sense, why would I ever want to try anything different? I'll just try to copy what makes money. From a consumer standpoint, that sucks. We just get the same rehashed game system over and over. And that is, splified to the point of retardation, instant gratification, shallow, railroad freedomless MMOs with levels and classes and dungeons oh boy. The God there are still small time developers out there trying to make a game for the gamers and not the money.

I'm curious if they accounted for the fact it takes a powerleveler with no knowledge of a game around 30 days to max out their level, and thats if they have a job or a wife to keep them from playing more than 8 hours a day.

If they assumed a guild of 50 people can powerlevel to 80 in a month, then i am impressed with their saying it will take 6 months to down the current main endboss.

It is either they forgot people without jobs level like it's crack, or they added so much PvE content that theres no way a perfect guild could complete it in under 6 months.

Lets hope for the best!

Originally posted by SignusM

 

Originally posted by nikbot

Why wouldn't you want to make a game with 10 million subs?  You can veer off the course a bit sure, but the foundation for success has already been laid out.

It doesn't have 10 million subs. Its a cooked number that counts every trial and canceled account. The real number is much smallter, read up on it.

 

 

But your right, from a business sense, why would I ever want to try anything different? I'll just try to copy what makes money. From a consumer standpoint, that sucks. We just get the same rehashed game system over and over. And that is, splified to the point of retardation, instant gratification, shallow, railroad freedomless MMOs with levels and classes and dungeons oh boy. The God there are still small time developers out there trying to make a game for the gamers and not the money.

How many times must this be repeated, but here goes.

Blizzard clearly state they count their sub numbers on active accounts and not cancelled or closed accounts.

I heard from my not-so-good source(one of my friends..)that getting to level 6 would take maybe 15-20 minutes.

I like to have a steady progress, not a 1-hours level run longer when I bang level 10.

Originally posted by Demz2

 

Originally posted by kazson

 

Originally posted by SignusM

Why was that even worth mentioning? Sounds just like any other MMO to me.

not really when you look at it....only 2 major MMO releases in the last 3 years had this degree of end game at *launch*

 

Vanguard and Eq2..

WoW didnt, Tabula Rasa didnt DDO didnt and Lotro didnt

Plus im trying to post something that doesnt have to do with fileplanet and beta keys lol

 

vanguard and EQ2 LMAO????

ARE U REALLY BEING SERIUOS?

You think vanguard had any endgame at launch or even now, and EQ2 at lauch, newsflash, it took EQ2 2+ to fix the pile of crap that it was and still continues to be.

lol ok so *No* game in the last 3 years has lanched with end game content ...makes AoC look that much better :)

Originally posted by kazson

 

Originally posted by Demz2

 

Originally posted by kazson

 

Originally posted by SignusM

Why was that even worth mentioning? Sounds just like any other MMO to me.

not really when you look at it....only 2 major MMO releases in the last 3 years had this degree of end game at *launch*

 

Vanguard and Eq2..

WoW didnt, Tabula Rasa didnt DDO didnt and Lotro didnt

Plus im trying to post something that doesnt have to do with fileplanet and beta keys lol

 

vanguard and EQ2 LMAO????

ARE U REALLY BEING SERIUOS?

You think vanguard had any endgame at launch or even now, and EQ2 at lauch, newsflash, it took EQ2 2+ to fix the pile of crap that it was and still continues to be.

 

lol ok so *No* game in the last 3 years has lanched with end game content ...makes AoC look that much better :)

You think because they have a so called raid dungeon, the other major flaws, and yes there are major issues with the game, that it makes aoc look better?  lol newsflash its meant to try to be better because its meant to be the next gen, 3rd gen, pvp skill gen, wow killer gen  overhyped gen game we have all been hearing about for the past 3+ years from the fanbois.  Ltest see if they can actually live up to the hype and show us waht is so 3rd gen and next gen about their game.

Don't get to arroused by the level 80 time. If you speed level it takes about 3 days....

Look, the fact of the matter is, the people that are gonna benefit the most from the influx of all this money and success of mmo's is US.  Not the companies.  Now with the monetary backing and sheer amount of people playing MMO's there will be a constant struggle for a dominating game.  Ultimately, we'll be in the driver seat and I think we (gamers) should be extremely happy there is serious competition out there.

Only if they change the xp gained rate into something similar to the Asian grindfest games.

this is the only place, where the nerdiest geek wins.....gotta love this site!

/carry on the E-THUG warfare please

Originally posted by nikbot

Why wouldn't you want to make a game with 10 million subs?  You can veer off the course a bit sure, but the foundation for success has already been laid out.

where da hell did this post come from? lol