Age of Conan

I got 1mb a sec almost the entire time I was downloading, had the client in less than 7 hours. Sounds lke a prob with your connect or something else. Don't be quick to blame the service just because YOU suck :)

Originally posted by jegred

Kassiem OPEN means open to all not to only those that pay a fee to buy a lame subscripion so you can check out the game, it has nothing to do with free.  Its nothing but a marketing scam to build hype and make a few extra dollars before release. and some folks are to stupid to relaize it

So while it may not have cost the full $5 (including admin, overheads, all that other nice stuff) you have paid for the service - which is a service that offers you other goodies in the future - it's not that bad really, is it?

Don't like it? Don't pay for it then.

Personally, I am delighted that so many other people will test this game for me over the
 next few weeks to help me enjoy as bug free an experience as possible.

But I hardly think the price of a pint of beer for something a lot of people want to do a massive swindle.

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Originally posted by graill

i agree with what a few posters typed. paying for open beta is assnine. this whole event reeks of world of warcraft tactics, making to much money? here is another way we can make more, pathetic.

Meanwhile I will enjoy this, which is find to be unparalleled in terms of $/hour entertainment.

But I hardly think the price of a pint of beer for something a lot of people want to do a massive swindle

Its hardly just the price of a beer , you have on average 50k x $5 plus the $5 on the 17th of may to keep playing before release. thats  half a million dollars more or less and just a bit more then the price of a pint of beer

Originally posted by jegred

Kassiem OPEN means open to all not to only those that pay a fee to buy a lame subscripion so you can check out the game, it has nothing to do with free.  Its nothing but a marketing scam to build hype and make a few extra dollars before release. and some folks are to stupid to relaize it

Originally posted by jegred

Kassiem OPEN means open to all not to only those that pay a fee to buy a lame subscripion so you can check out the game, it has nothing to do with free.  Its nothing but a marketing scam to build hype and make a few extra dollars before release. and some folks are to stupid to relaize it

Open beta means it is open to an selected community, with in most cases is everyone. However this could also be the Fileplanet community. Look people if you want to debate about things atleast try to do some investigating. It took me about 30 seconds to find out the definition of open beta and what FP and Funcom are doing does fall under this definition.

Debating whatever it is an "beta" or not would be more suitable, I do believe it's more of an marketing tactic (Not an scam at all, they do not offer you anything they can not deliver) then an beta, although the data they gain from this would be vital especialy conserning the capacity of the servers.

Also this beta is intended for fileplanet subscribers and not for everyone. It simply something FP does for there subscribers pretty often. True they do get more subscribers this way and make some money out of it, however this is not there intent. Offering beta's (AoC is not special in this regard at all) is an way for them to keep people subscribed, same with the fast downloading and other offers from the IGN websites.

However back to the initial post from the OP. My download speed on fileplanet is extreamly fast. I live in the Netherlands and I get max speed on the UK server, but I still get 1mb/s on the US servers.

Originally posted by jegred

Kassiem OPEN means open to all not to only those that pay a fee to buy a lame subscripion so you can check out the game, it has nothing to do with free.  Its nothing but a marketing scam to build hype and make a few extra dollars before release. and some folks are to stupid to relaize it

i agree it's a marketing tactic, but it is not a scam.  This is not the first nor last time this will happen, people just need to get over it.

Besides you are paying fileplanet, not funcom, yes fileplanet probably payed funcom for the exclusive rights to host the open beta, and fileplanet will gain money for the subs they got because of it.  But afterall everything now a days is a business, and a business is there to make money.  The only thing i disagree with  about they way the "open beta" is being handle is they just needed to call it something different maybe "pre release beta" instead after all it is not a god given right to have a open beta whether it's free or not.

edit: oh and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh

I had too buy 2 of them stop criyng!

If you dont have the money for it just fukin wait till the 17th  k thxs sick of ppl crying about fileplanet.