Age of Conan

Raid Endgames are just poor poor design very lazy, looks like this will be just another LOTRO buy game play until 1st subscription comes up and cancel.

DAMN... Why will people never learn I need a game that will hold my attention for more than a month.

Originally posted by tgainey

 

I honestly can't blame you for being so Gung-Ho about Age of Conan considering ...

 

http://mmolab.com/2008/01/25/age-of-conan-instance-run-video

So, how was your trip to Norway?

Now let's be frank this has to skew your otherwise unbiased opinions greatly. I was wondering why I kept constantly seeing Acolyte guild banners in the sigs of all these people who were so quick to defend legitmate concerns with AoC.

As Lord Acton said ....

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."   - Lord Acton

Actually mate, Norway was this January just gone and was pretty good thanks.

Here is something for you to chew on from nearly a year ago: http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/134590/page/1

How is anything in my postal response here biased? Its FACT. Unless you want to tell the developers they are lying and you know more about the game? Im just quoting them and your just quoting me quoting them thats all no spin.

Dam right legitimate concerns for some especially Neaderthal as you can see from the thread above, (a poster who posted the IGN article a few weeks bad too, and an avid hater of raids). But you know what? these concerns have been shot down time and time and time again over the last 3 yrs. I wish www.bymitra.com was back up to be honest. Everything that has ever been said about raiding has lead to those people who keep an eye on the game more than the regular joe passer by, leads to interpret and postal clarification from developers (pretty blunt) that raiding is not forced. There are no public raid reports yet even - its all assumption - for the worst when it comes to a touchy subject for a vocal minority of very vocal detestation stance on raids. 

I can definately agree with concerns, sure I can, I dont want to waste my life in dungeons for gear. At the same time I have the capacity and read alot of info to get a clearer image of the bigger picture. Hundreds and hundreds of dev posts dont lie.

Originally posted by damian7

 

Originally posted by Battlekruse

Funcoms aim all along for AoC has been mainstream, pc and console-based, casual gameplay. If a lot of the 'hardcore' people are expecting asherons call or ultima online or something like that freedom and pvp wise then stop reading the forums here and just go away because that is not Funcoms aim.

I hate to say it but Funcom has really been aiming for a WoW-like mainstream for AoC of variety of gameplay options and casual fun gameplay. Why wouldnt they? Why wouldnt they want millions of subscribers?

 

raiding...mainstream... less than one half of one percent of wow's players actually raid. (which is why wow is slowly, but steadily, moving away from the stupidity that is raiding).

10,000,000.  let's see, 1% of that is um, 100,000? half of one percent is 50,000.  so, by mainstream, funcom is shooting to hit the massive less-than-50,000-raider-playerbase which is in wow?

 

sounds rather idiotic.

Because around 60% of the wow players are non-lifers, they will continue their game no matter what.  MMORPG addiction has become far too widespread to be ignored. It seems that Funcom will support this, because they focus a lot on raiding and instances.

Sounds like you don't want to play an MMO, maybe I suggest console rpgs?

Originally posted by Katashi-kun

Originally posted by Mordria

Originally posted by Katashi-kun

Originally posted by Mordria

 

I've played EQ2 for over 4 years

 

 

Yet its only been out for 3.5!  Lovely...

If you say so.. I got the 4 year vet reward about 2 months ago :p

  EQ2 was released in Nov 2004!   Thats 3.5 yrs...Sony once again can't do anything right if they're giving out 4 yr vet rewards almost a yr in advance...LOL

had to double check.. I got time credit for buying the expansions.. thats why

I thought this game was about pvp, when they say to get the best gear you have to raid i hope not.This game was suppose to be about massive pvp battles when did it change?

 lol... way too much drama on this thread...

as for what the OP is saying, yes I do agree that you have to raid to get the best gear is a load of BS... I don't want to spend 24 hours in an "epic" dungeon just for a chance to get "epic" gear.

If this is the case then I'm just going to have to live with what the PvP gear has to offer... because I really don't care enough about getting the best gear if I have to waste thousands of hours raiding. I hope FC learns of people's concerns with this and eventually does something to appeal to us regular joes.

 Ok, let me get this straight...ppl are QQ-ing over having to raid (at lvl 80 to boot) for great gear, or PvP like Thor himself to get some also?!

  Hmm...Maybe they'd like to have a lottery for bad-ass gear once a week, good for a limited time, then disappear into oblivion a week after so as to make it fair for the next draw. 

 I mean, come on...you can't expect any game to be as fair for the casual player, not investing the time and effort needed to acquire these items. There will always be hardcore players, and just like life...he works harder with dedication will (and rightfully so) gwt better stuff.

  I don't see why players who play alot with a guild for items should penalized, or 'on par' with those casual players who feel they deserve the same rewards. Live with it or either 1)Play more  or  2)go play  Toontown or something.

  I'm not a hardcore player, and even though I look upon envy at nice gear on higher players that play 'x' time more than me because I can't play as often as them...I still applaud their effort and time. It'd be degrading to those players and to the game itself if I could get the same thing by lazily going to a vendor, hand him a bag of money and say 'I'll buy that".

  I personally hate the word 'Carebear' but in some instances, it is aptly used in certain situations. This may be one of those situations. Personal opinion is one thing, but unrealistic expectations is quite another entirely.

Originally posted by whisperwynd

 Ok, let me get this straight...ppl are QQ-ing over having to raid (at lvl 80 to boot) for great gear, or PvP like Thor himself to get some also?!

  Hmm...Maybe they'd like to have a lottery for bad-ass gear once a week, good for a limited time, then disappear into oblivion a week after so as to make it fair for the next draw. 

 I mean, come on...you can't expect any game to be as fair for the casual player, not investing the time and effort needed to acquire these items. There will always be hardcore players, and just like life...he works harder with dedication will (and rightfully so) gwt better stuff.

  I don't see why players who play alot with a guild for items should penalized, or 'on par' with those casual players who feel they deserve the same rewards. Live with it or either 1)Play more  or  2)go play  Toontown or something.

  I'm not a hardcore player, and even though I look upon envy at nice gear on higher players that play 'x' time more than me because I can't play as often as them...I still applaud their effort and time. It'd be degrading to those players and to the game itself if I could get the same thing by lazily going to a vendor, hand him a bag of money and say 'I'll buy that".

  I personally hate the word 'Carebear' but in some instances, it is aptly used in certain situations. This may be one of those situations. Personal opinion is one thing, but unrealistic expectations is quite another entirely.

Good post... I approve and give two thumbs up!