Age of Conan

Originally posted by Unfinished

Fee for the 'Open Beta'

Fee for the Early Access

Fee to DL the Client to use a 'Buddy Key'

 

FunCom aren't fools, they are trying to squeeze out every cent they can out of each customer,  they know they won't be getting many long term subscribers.  The only upside could be that Gaute Godager never helms another MMO development.

Yeah agreed, they aren't fools, but they are asses.I still think some vets will stay in hope the game  somehow meets up to its hype.

The day AOC was released,there were 8 of us at the store,waiting  for  the carton of  to be opened.

   As of today,all 8 subs have been canceled.

Originally posted by Sharkypal

Originally posted by Thillian

Originally posted by FischerBlack

Originally posted by Unfinished

Fee for the 'Open Beta'

Fee for the Early Access

Fee to DL the Client to use a 'Buddy Key'

 

FunCom aren't fools, they are trying to squeeze out every cent they can out of each customer,  they know they won't be getting many long term subscribers.  The only upside could be that Gaute Godager never helms another MMO development.

 

Agreed. One thing I can give to Brad McQuaid is that in the end he was apologetic for the outcome of VG. Guatte's smugness about his awesome launch and the 700,000 boxes sold, while the player base screams bloody murder on the forums really pisses me off.

 

Brad had very low budget for VG in compare to AoC. VG was suddently cut off from money, which is obviously a different reason why it was released early. In addition Funcom pretends everything is fine with AoC.

 

If Im not very much mistaken, the VG budget was into 30 milion US, which is anything but low.

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30$ mil yes which is very low for a large mmorpg. It was supposed to be more, so they planned to add even more features, but was cut off from more money. Just to compare. Blizzard spent 40$ mil for adv before WoW release and another 80$ mil for development. AoC numbers were not released yet, but won't be too lower than this.

Funcom needs to get going and fix the glitches!

Ie been playing about 1 week now total and i counted 14 in the noob area. I wrote them down so i can send them to funcom. This game has alot of potential and i can see why ppl dislike alot of aspects of it.

My guild is gone as well.  We had about 80 active players who have traveled from game to game together.   A few weeks ago in AoC they just stopped logging in.   Stealth nerfs, broken content, rampant exploiting, just to name a few of the reasons.  I made a guild announcement that Inquisition would be suspending its activity in Age of Conan and all my members started showing up again telling me they were thankful I made that decision.  We were on the Tyranny Server, and I know of at least 3 other guilds of good size that had the same thing happen to them.

Age of Conan has the potential to be an amazing game, but Funcom really botched it.   We can't play a game on potential, we play it for what it is.   There are both better PvE and PvP MMO's out there.  My guild has decided to go back to playing older MMO's.   Some are in DaoC waiting for the origins server, some are in FFXI remembering what it is like to feel a challenge and a sense of accomplishment in an MMO.

Maybe down the road it will be a good game.   Right now it is not.  As a responsible guild leader, I can not ask or expect my members to pay money to be kicked in the balls every patch by Funcom with undocumented patch notes that cripple their ability to play.   They are patching Tortage quests while Yakhmar, a tier 1 raid boss, remains unbeatable due to bugs for going on the 4th week.  They are banning people for PvPing to close to a rez pad, but letting people go when it comes to exploiting the raid content, and cascading the lockout timer.

It's decisions like these that cast a serious doubt over their ability to implement promised features which are still missing.   The game director reminds me of the Iraq Information minister, and they are working on an expansion when their game's current content is broken and people are exploiting left and right.  We vote with our money, and my guild has decided with their wallets.

So whats a better PVP MMORPG(Besides EVE), or DAoC(no playerbase)?

Originally posted by MaGicBush

So whats a better PVP MMORPG(Besides EVE), or DAoC(no playerbase)?

WoW, GW, nearly anything.

Originally posted by Hrothmund

Originally posted by MaGicBush

So whats a better PVP MMORPG(Besides EVE), or DAoC(no playerbase)?

 

WoW, GW, nearly anything.

Nearly anything BUT WoW....wow is as boring as they come.

Originally posted by MaGicBush

So whats a better PVP MMORPG(Besides EVE), or DAoC(no playerbase)?

Daoc no playerbase? No, smaller yes. Better pvp well go on the classic servers or soon to be origins server and it will be far superior pvp then this mess of a game. AOCs pvp is a joke and a real shame honestly. I wanted to like this game and was hoping for "EPIC SIEGES", but it fell short bigtime. I m one of those ex AOC players that not only was disgusted by the way the game is handled but found it one boring game as well. Not much they could do t bring me back, oh well WAR and Aion are on the horizon and well this game will be in more trouble when that happens.

Ya, i recently went back to DAoC in anticipation for Origins, and classics servers are jamming. Lots of action.