Age of Conan

So much for the mighty WOW killer...

Originally posted by Opticaleye

Originally posted by Arthousesig

Note that the following is my opinion and not a matter of fact (apart from the forum censorship part, which is reported without exaggeration)

The censorship on the AOC forums reached epidemic levels today with the minute-by-minute deletion of a hammering of quitting posts, and systematic censorship of all critical posts exposing Funcom's total lack of progress to try to save a contentless and terminally bugged, dying game.

Seems like everyone has realised their feedback just goes into the trash, there will be no major overhaul of the game, and that the player base is extremely small already.

There's also been a remarkable rise in the fanboy/shill population: Funcom apologists who have suddenly appeared to replace the critical posts with the notion that "today's patch was good" when it contained nothing but 3 small bugfixes while all the game content is still not there.

Clearly Funcom sold the game on the back of features that simply don't exist. They get called out on it, but those who criticise their posts have their posts deleted and infractions to their account.

Soon to come: server merges, server shutdowns and quite possibly a whimpering end to one of the most entertainingly botched yet strangely Orwellian MMO releases ever made

 

I have heard many times this phrase:If we continue to allow game companies to release games half done they will continue to do so.

This i believe to be true.

You know what else is true?

If players continue to whine and complain and threaten to quit so much so on a games forum board that it is overloaded postings get deleted.Hell if it were me i would shut the boards down if that was going on.

Whiners and complainers in this genre are just as harmful to it as games being released half done.So i guess a game should just be in development for 10 years then?

Lets see the next developer looks at  AoC and decides after say 3 years that they will continue to develop for 4 more.By this time they have lost all investors and then some.New games come along and take over and then they just decide to stop alltogether.

Never in my life have i ever seen more people whine and complain about something that matters so little as a freaking video game.You would think these people had nothing better to do.

 

You realize you are posting on mmorpg.com, don't you?

Originally posted by Sortran

 

Originally posted by X_Drake_X

Originally posted by Arthousesig

Originally posted by X_Drake_X

This is just another example of pulling just the OP without copying the entire thread.  I am sure if we had the entire thread there would of been massive amounts (on both the fanboi and hater sides) of trolling flaming and other not very constructive posts.  Plus calling the game director a liar isn't exactly constructive either. 

 

But he did lie, those features were not there at launch

And the post stands on its own

Your defense of Funcom moderation is as hilarious as the censorship on the US and EU AOC boards

It isn't a matter of whether he lied or not.  He did.  Just like Blizzard lied about World of Warcraft.  (Battlegrounds were listed as a feature in my Manual) and other companies have lied about content that got cut at the last minute for further testing or polish. 
 

The point is that calling him a liar is in no way constructive.  What do you expect to receive as a response?  Oh why yes I am a liar.  Thank you for pointing that out. 

No of course not.  Instead it turns the thread into a cesspool of trolls and flames. 

 

Quite entertaining as this classifies as false advertisement. which is illegal. And yet amazingly enough no one has called them on it, them or blizzard.

I am rather enjoying watching the meltdown of AoC because, beta testers were squaking about it before it released. Provides some great humor!

I played WoW at launch and I think the reason no one sued them is the game they created was too much fun and way too easy to get into now from what I hear about AoC is a bunch of features missing lot's of things broken plenty of stealth nerfs and it isn't really easy to figure out what the heck they're trying to do so I think we can assume that we will all give a company some room to mess up but this looks a bit like going too far for me.

Well, I gues it is possible developing a game in 4 years. They just took about 3 years for the gfx and 1 year for the coding, at least thats what it looks like.

The last boxed mmorpg I bought was WoW, which I quit at release before the trial month was even up.  Before that it was EQ2/SWG/Horizons, and before that, DAoC/EQ/UO.  I can easily say that Sony/Blizzard (yes I love War3 though and looking forwards to Diablo 3/SC2, however those aren't mmorpgs ;) ) taught me a valuable lesson.  NEVER BUY a mmorpg release, since it will always be hyped by the fanbois.  It's just simple math.  Wait a few months and let the dust settle.  Vanguard, wanted to play it, didn't buy it, saved me at least 50 bucks.  Same with LoTR (which is somewhat good, but not for my taste), Lineage 2, etc.  Though I want to play Warhammer, since I didn't get in the beta, I will just wait a few months and see how it goes out. 

What I'm noticing is that these companies ALL prey on the hype o meter, to get as many sales as possible.  There is no justification to pay 50 bucks for a game to have access to it for a month.  Simply put, people seem to be getting dumber and dumber.  How can you justify 50 bucks for some PoS that's just hype.  Unless it's EVE, all these games can be hit at later times, since there is a 'ceiling' of 'leetness'.  I am willing to bypass end game access for a few months, to NOT have to beta test all these mmorpgs as they come out.  Most of them proven vaporware for the most part. 

I would rather let YOU beta test releases, and I will join in if it's fun after a few months.  For example, AoC, never played it, thought about it, but no chance I was gonna buy into the hype.  Now?  Glad I never touched it.

one of the greatest thread titles, ever

Well, my server still reports a medium load when I play, whatever that means.  However the noob zones are pretty much dead, in fact so is the one I've been working this week (field of the dead) so maybe everyones busy enjoying the endgame. 

Can't say what my future for the game will be..probably cancel once get into the grind levels of 60-80

Originally posted by Kyleran

Well, my server still reports a medium load when I play, whatever that means.  However the noob zones are pretty much dead, in fact so is the one I've been working this week (field of the dead) so maybe everyones busy enjoying the endgame. 

Can't say what my future for the game will be..probably cancel once get into the grind levels of 60-80

Heyas,

Funcom had removed the individual server capacity (low, medium & high) load status that initially existed. All servers reflect a medium population now. IIRC it was global, whether it's changed for some or not, I'm unsure. My server select screen continues to show medium, across the board.

Not entirely sure why it was done, not sure I would believe the explanation.

Take care..
 

dont know what server you guys play on but i have chars on 3 diff ones pve-pvp-pvp/rp

and never have i not seen another toon running around.

But maby all the other servers are dead and i happened to select the three that are not

btw the last sentence was dripping with sarcasm