Age of Conan

Originally posted by Draccan

Can anyone really write a review that is positive about what this game has to offer at level 40-80? What does this mmo has in this level range that most other mmos don't have better?

good question -- and pertains to half the game

Originally posted by Draccan

 

Avery

I have followed your posts about AoC for what seems like more than a year. And I can clearly see you are a diehard fan stepping in to save the day and constantly referring to how great a game it is since it launched.

And months before it launched. Doesn't speak much of his objectivity.

I tried it and I cancelled it.

AoC will never get big. It will have a decent fan base but nothing big. Other new releases will eventually crush it.

Originally posted by Lobotomist

 

Originally posted by Terranah

I think $50 is not that much money. 

 

I think it is

And especially when you pay 50$ , come home and find out that game does not work at all.

Why didnt they print a warning - AOC will not work with ATI graphic cards , AOC will not work with certain ISP's

(the list goes on ... check support forums)

And why didnt they print warning

"We lied about some things implemented in the game" ...

 

My guild finally build player city .... I didnt laugh so much in a very long time...

 

This is where reading the specs before you buy comes in at. It doesn't say anything about supporting ATI, it does however mention Nvida cards, I can attest to you though that ATI cards do work with the game before I bought my new vid card, I played the game with a Radeon x1900 and had no problems with the game. I was going to buy a new vid card anyhow, but it worked just fine on my old card.

Originally posted by Draccan

 

Avery

I have followed your posts about AoC for what seems like more than a year. And I can clearly see you are a diehard fan stepping in to save the day and constantly referring to how great a game it is since it launched.

Considering you actually come off as an intelligent guy, it saddens me even more that you act as a proxy for a company who don't deliver basic, promised features of the game they produced. It really saddens me to read post over post about how great everything is.

Never a balanced view or a critical statement. Don't you think it is time to ask yourself how much longer you want to act as the extended arm of Funcom's PR machine? Don't you ever have any bad taste in your mouth over the dealings and shortcomings of this company and their much hyped mmo?

Funcom basically sold the game on DX10, brutal pvp, sieges and boobies. But made a game that only had boobies. They even lied and held back information about DX10 until game started and hundred of thousand copies were shipped. They held back that sieges weren't in the game. They held back that their instance system and complete lack of 45+ gameplay means that there is no brutal pvp, just random ganking on pvp servers.

This is a game that not only is filled with bugs, but where the community receives almost no replies from development. Petitions are being deleted after 6-12 hours of customers waiting online. People send emails about problems that goes unanswered for 4+ days. etc. etc. etc.

So I ask you Mr. Avery, is this really the company you want to act as proponent for? Making these continued fanboy threads, that reminds us of viral marketeering, isn't this bad for not just yourself, but also for potential newcomers to the game? Don't they deserve balanced or truthful reviews? And don't you COMPLETELY lack all credibility now after all these threads with no nuances about the game, just by you saying it is all "great great great"?

You are part of hurting the mmo genre, by blindly supporting (yet another) company that pushed half finished crap on the marketplace.

You - with your intelligence, knows perfectly well that major gaming sites have had huge banner placements about Age of Conan. How likely are they to publish negative reviews when they receive tons of marketing money? Have any other mmo (except Warcraft) used such a big marketing budget? These gaming sites receiving full page banner ads, would they shoot themselves in the foot with a truthful or negative review?

Can anyone really write a review that is positive about what this game has to offer at level 40-80? What does this mmo has in this level range that most other mmos don't have better?

I ask you again, to consider leaving this line of being Funcom's (un)paid apologist and forum champion!

sincerely

Draccan

 

 (edited some typing / spelling errors)

Are you a stalker? lol anyways I actually found most of his posts very imformative and right on the money. What makes you any better or different from him? You flame the guy because he gives people honest feedback! Here is the simple answer for everyone that dislikes this game, say your piece and move on. I can never figure out why people that say that they dislike a game so much, yet they are still posting negative comments several weeks after they posted their hate and discontent for a game...makes no sense to me at all!!!

I didnt write the review, I posted it for clarification from a point of view of the other side of the fence. If you read my own comments in this topic I think i've been pretty fair.

Oh also I am so ever so sorry for enjoying a buggy game, where the content dips in the 50's a bit, where there are some graphical issues everynow and then and a broken quest here and there.

Like I said before I'll put my thoughts on paper, and have continuing to do so since release, when the key elements I listed earlier are experienced I'll put a review out there.

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

I didnt write the review, I posted it for clarification from a point of view of the other side of the fence. If you read my own comments in this topic I think i've been pretty fair.

Oh also I am so ever so sorry for enjoying a buggy game, where the content dips in the 50's a bit, where there are some graphical issues everynow and then and a broken quest here and there.

Like I said before I'll put my thoughts on paper, and have continuing to do so since release, when the key elements I listed earlier are experienced I'll put a review out there.

All I notice is how about 3 days after release about 80% of the reviews were all 9/10, 94%, way up there. Now a few weeks after release they drop to 7.8, 7/10, some even lower than that...do you think they're showing both sides of the fence, or are they only listing the issues because it's not a 9/10 like it was before?

Originally posted by Ascension08

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

I didnt write the review, I posted it for clarification from a point of view of the other side of the fence. If you read my own comments in this topic I think i've been pretty fair.

Oh also I am so ever so sorry for enjoying a buggy game, where the content dips in the 50's a bit, where there are some graphical issues everynow and then and a broken quest here and there.

Like I said before I'll put my thoughts on paper, and have continuing to do so since release, when the key elements I listed earlier are experienced I'll put a review out there.

All I notice is how about 3 days after release about 80% of the reviews were all 9/10, 94%, way up there. Now a few weeks after release they drop to 7.8, 7/10, some even lower than that...do you think they're showing both sides of the fence, or are they only listing the issues because it's not a 9/10 like it was before?

its obvious they were all "initial impressions" at the start, some places have updated their thoughts and until more reviews come out at a later date when everything is experienced only then should the reviewer really experienced what AoC has to offer. WoW had a review 9  months after release that gave it 65% is that right?  Point is no review for AoC has really touched on many key elements that initally draws people to the game.