Thanks for the help.

It looks like they shut them down because they are now past their second deadline of starting Early Access, and didn't want to deal with the deluge of pissed off customers.

So far they are not doing very well of keeping an open line of communication and that will only hurt them in the long run.

through Mordor of course.

Originally posted by twhint

It looks like they shut them down because they are now past their second deadline of starting Early Access, and didn't want to deal with the deluge of pissed off customers.

So far they are not doing very well of keeping an open line of communication and that will only hurt them in the long run.

Still 45 min. till dead line!

unless you are in the early access program, then you dont get access until the 20th if the forum post by tarib is to be believed.

This however isn't the case right now as I cannot log in.

Secondly be ready for forum wipe on the 20th due to the flame war that will be the new AoC forums if they don't get tge servers up fast!

Oh happy days, I forgot what a fucking pain mmo launches were.

They took the forums down so they wouldn't have to deal being torn a hundred million new a$$holes by the customers waiting for the oft-delayed launch.

Oh well, I've been thorugh good and bad launches. I had hoped this would be a good one

Doooooooom!!!!!

Seriously though, all you people who think they took down the forums to keep out the flamers.. are idiots.

Tarib specifically stated that they were takign down the forums and replacing them with new ones with different sections. Only early release players will be able to access them until the 20th.

There's your answer.

But take into account several things. For one, it is the day of pre-release. Why are they waiting until the last minute to bring them up? Secondly, why do they not have an information screen informing people of why the forums are down? When I visited them earlier this morning, I got an information screen stating they were experiencing a high volume of traffic and to wait for redirection or click on this link type of thing, then it timed out. Now, all of a sudden, the forums are down. I never saw the post by Tarib, so I have to make assumptions based on what I have personally experienced so far, which is a delayed launch, at the last minute I might add, and a forum that doesn't allow registration at the moment, which means they are locked down.

Originally posted by law573

They took the forums down so they wouldn't have to deal being torn a hundred million new a$$holes by the customers waiting for the oft-delayed launch.

 

Oh well, I've been thorugh good and bad launches. I had hoped this would be a good one

(Don't get me wrong, I am disappointed at not playing at the first time spot but there are LOTS of worse things that could go wrong.)