I urge you to read this post. guys, i really had high expectations for AOC. but for the past days, since pvp weekend, i get a bad feeling. you get the sense that a lot problems surrounds this game. do you feel the same?

it launches in less than a month and the NDA will be lifted in a few weeks

there'll be plenty of commentary soon enough

Sit back and relax Grimland.  We will all soon know the true AoC.

Originally posted by grimland

I urge you to read this post. guys, i really had high expectations for AOC. but for the past days, since pvp weekend, i get a bad feeling. you get the sense that a lot problems surrounds this game. do you feel the same?

Whereas I am looking forward to BOTH games, I do feel that the author of that editorial is a bit biased towards WAR.  I understand his view of open beta and the lack of info on certain aspects of AoC (same can be said about WAR), but I don't see anything wrong with how they are going about their open beta in AoC.  Honestly years ago there just wasn't as many people playing MMOs as there is now.  I don't think many game companies are willing to foot the bill for millions of people to play their game for free.

Can AoC have a regular open beta? Most games can...but most are not rated 'M'. If they did an open beta...then they would need CC confirmation of you age. That would be a pain for a beta test. Makes sence to go threw a company where ppl already have an account. Tho I am not fond of the this camping for beta codes that Fileplanet has done. Would make more sence just to randomly select ppl who sign up for the test n send out the codes over time.

^^ agree with the above .
The op seems to much like a WAR fanboy seriously from the footage of WAR i have seen how people can compare it to AoC is out of my comprehension.

When i see WAR seems to me like a cheap imitation of WoW and the only + for now its it have RVR like DAOC come on people must be blind not to see that WoW with the new patch will eventually have the same features and all people that will have a reason to play WAR they will return to WoW.

Never try to Copy WoW it will backfire coz Blizzard its no1 on its game only for that WAR it FAILS! Instead try to be innovative like AoC is and u may have a successful game.

Man, there sure are alot of cry babies in the MMO community. Go buy a fishing pole or a gun and go fishing or hunting and shut up. You take a game way to damn serious.

Am I excited to play AoC? Yes, I went to Fileplanet, paid 7 dollars for something I find to enjoy besides just wanting to try AoC and will probably keep my Fileplanet account, downloaded the Comrade and went turkey hunting. I got home and after an hour heard a ding, went to my pc and saw to click for a key, I click got a key and started downloading. Where is the camping in that?

I am not worried about the release,I wont pay for the open beta,I am sure there will be lots of info on this site leading to the release once the NDA is lifted so I dont see the problem,Sure you will have to seperate the fanboi from the flamer but you will get a good idea about the game.

I am not sure what you mean "since the pvp weekend"that seemed to go quite well and that was on the old engine,I wouldnt worry too much like I said plenty info incomming soon,Also you could just wait a month after release and see how many still want to play after the free month that come's with the game then make up your mind.

What bothers me the most is the NDA duration.  For a game that will launch in a month and still under NDA i have a feeling the game developpers are trying to hide something.   Just get rid of it already, so peoples can make comments about it.

All I can say is WAR will disappoint. As for AoC - its close enough that you can wait and see. Why even start threads like this when the game will be in beta next week? Tons of info then - so stop trolling the forums to pass the time and go fly a kite. Or hunt as mentioned above lol.

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Originally posted by vmoped

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Originally posted by grimland

I urge you to read this post. guys, i really had high expectations for AOC. but for the past days, since pvp weekend, i get a bad feeling. you get the sense that a lot problems surrounds this game. do you feel the same?

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Whereas I am looking forward to BOTH games, I do feel that the author of that editorial is a bit biased towards WAR. I understand his view of open beta and the lack of info on certain aspects of AoC (same can be said about WAR), but I don't see anything wrong with how they are going about their open beta in AoC. Honestly years ago there just wasn't as many people playing MMOs as there is now. I don't think many game companies are willing to foot the bill for millions of people to play their game for free.

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Keys Coming out now.

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Originally posted by grimland
I urge you to read this post. guys, i really had high expectations for AOC. but for the past days, since pvp weekend, i get a bad feeling. you get the sense that a lot problems surrounds this game. do you feel the same?

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Cry me a fkn river!
If you want to try the open beta than get a sub to fp. If yah dont than you dont have to pay. I dont think there is anyone with a gun pointing at your head telling you to pay up for beta or die.

This was pretty much for the guy who wrote post complaining about open betas.

Why do people not understand that you do not have to camp the website? Use Comrade, damnit! Fileplanets spells it out for you multiple times.

^^ Yea im wondering 2 lol some people don't read forums properly we have posted this like a million times now!

Sounds to me like the guy is just pissed off at the way fileplanet is doing the beta which I can't blame him. It's one of the dumbest things I've seen in awhile.

He makes some valid points about the state of MMO's and marketing though. Charging people for just a chance to get into a limited beta was unheard of not that long ago. Now not only can you get people to pay for a beta you can get them to sit at their pc's all day like zombies waiting for a key.

The one bug and I'm out crowd he's referring to is most likely people who are new to MMO's. I'm not exactly sure why people seem to accept the sloppy way these type of games get released. Sure MMO's are an ongoing project we all know that.

Imagine however if you went out and paid 50 bucks for a single player FPS. Then when you started playing it half the features didn't work and it ran like shit. Then the company said well we will fix it in a few months don't worry about it. People would be furious and demand refunds ect. Now with MMO's this seems to be somewhat acceptable. Some game studios have taken huge advantage of that attitude, but then seriously overplayed that hand too. So I can see why people are suspicious about this game with it trying to keep so much of it under wraps so close to release.

It's not that people can't afford the 7.95 or even the 50 bucks for the game. It's the idea that they are getting ripped off by slick marketing by a company more concerned about recovering their investment rather than producing a good product that people will be satisfied with.

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Originally posted by skeptical
It's not that people can't afford the 7.95 or even the 50 bucks for the game. It's the idea that they are getting ripped off by slick marketing by a company more concerned about recovering their investment rather than producing a good product that people will be satisfied with.

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Probably the only reason that they releasing the game sooner (when the game is not really ready) is coz they are out of founds and they need the money from the release for their reasons / marketing / paying etc etc.

Many mmo companies do it like that anyways constantly patching the game is something they are ready to do full time as we all know.

So.... All i can see with the Open Beta being filtered through fileplanet is to keep the Kiddies from playing a M rated game... I am sure there are leagal issues, ever since the "hot coffee" GTA issue, A Game like AoC needs to be very carefull on how they opperate the game release.

Giving a Free-be open beta out with confirming age of the gamer is a bit hard, so by using fileplanet they are Basicly handing off that responsability to fileplanet. ensureing AoC/funcom recieve little to blame for uner age people joining the beta.