Originally posted by Neale123

i got this game at release and quit becuase of bugs etc, is it possible to install and patch from the discs for the trial? any info will be great. maybe someone who plays the game and tried the trial account maybe to confirm this before i send the night patching for nothing. Cheers

Yes this is possible, someone asked the exact same question and it was confirmed that it is possible.

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Originally posted by abal
Did they email you to verify your email address? Check your spam folder.

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Yes, they sent 2 seperate e-mail verifications and both went through with the green verified message.

I just started a new guy on Wiccana to see how things go + I need to level up a Bear Shaman there :P

Anyone interested in teaming up just send a PM :)

Originally posted by replicant

 

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Originally posted by abal
Did they email you to verify your email address? Check your spam folder.

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Yes, they sent 2 seperate e-mail verifications and both went through with the green verified message.

Yep, count me in with this issue as well.

Not a good sign.  Going to check out the main site to see if this hopefully can be rectified.   Otherwise, meh it's an easy uninstall.

Originally posted by EbonHawk

Originally posted by replicant

 

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Originally posted by abal
Did they email you to verify your email address? Check your spam folder.

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Yes, they sent 2 seperate e-mail verifications and both went through with the green verified message.

Yep, count me in with this issue as well.

Not a good sign.  Going to check out the main site to see if this hopefully can be rectified.   Otherwise, meh it's an easy uninstall.

Don't throw in the towel just yet. I remember that when I came back to the game and activated my old account using a credit card that it took around 30m for the system to process all data. I would suggest waiting at least that long and if the problem is still occurring, then I suggest posting your issue at:

http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/forumdisplay.php?f=28

Hope everything works well in the end for you.

Originally posted by Crashloop

Originally posted by WisebutCruel

Originally posted by abal

Some more info from Tarib taken from the official forums concerning trial accounts subject:

 

Trial players can choose to download the full client right from the start too if they wish to do that. So yes, if a full client is available (by getting it from another player for example), they will have access to the content.

The possibility to have a reduced client which contains Tortage was offered to be able to have a smaller download size of the trial client to start with.

About the topic of items mentioned above: those are given to trial players by chosen partners who help spread the news about the availability of the free trials. It is a common way to let more people know and raise interest in the game.

But I can understand the point that some players voice that they were not given the chance to attain the same items when they joined the game. Like the Snow Mammoth being offered to new registrations a while ago or the items now being given to trial players coming in from various partner websites. It is a little bit like when games bring out new expansions that let newcomers to the game level much faster and gain access to higher level gear that was ever available at the time when the game released or one or two expansions back. We are aware that veteran players should be rewarded in one way or another too. It is a topic that we will look into and hopefully will be able to inform you about soon.

 

On another (or somewhat similar?) topic I have been asked about ... Trial accounts also do have some restrictions to them, the most noticeable are inability to trade with others, restrictions to use public channels and inability to send in-game mail. These are there to prevent some other 'habits' that showed up in the past few years.

 

Source:

http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showpost.php?p=1255422&postcount=54

http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showpost.php?p=1255448&postcount=57

 

Wait. So the trial is limited to Tortage?

LOL

They're doing the same shit they did with the "open" beta.

I think you need to read it all other then just the bits you want to focus on. Grats on making yourself look like a fool tho :)

You're calling me a fool and you apparently haven't tread the part YOU highlighted.
 

So you can download either the full client or the small Tortage client to access the trial. That still leaves open what the trial content consist of.

Now if you can show a quote saying "you have access to the full game during the trial" that I may have missed somewhere, i'd love to see it since that would make the trial actually worth trying out.

The big client is there to make it easy to subscribe after the trial.

They do the same with Anarchy Online. A free account can download and use the full client which has all content, but you are still denied acces to anything more than what the free game entails. It is to make it easy for you to subscribe without having to download more.

Originally posted by abal

Originally posted by EbonHawk

Originally posted by replicant

 

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Originally posted by abal
Did they email you to verify your email address? Check your spam folder.

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Yes, they sent 2 seperate e-mail verifications and both went through with the green verified message.

Yep, count me in with this issue as well.

Not a good sign.  Going to check out the main site to see if this hopefully can be rectified.   Otherwise, meh it's an easy uninstall.

 

Don't throw in the towel just yet. I remember that when I came back to the game and activated my old account using a credit card that it took around 30m for the system to process all data. I would suggest waiting at least that long and if the problem is still occurring, then I suggest posting your issue at:

http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/forumdisplay.php?f=28

 

Hope everything works well in the end for you.

 

lol...  Nah, I'm fairly stubborn when it comes to throwing in the towel...

Anyway problem has been solved (miscommunication on both our parts).  Support was helpful and prompt.  So +1 for them.

Going to give it a go now. Thanks.

Originally posted by WisebutCruel

Originally posted by Crashloop

Originally posted by WisebutCruel

Originally posted by abal

Some more info from Tarib taken from the official forums concerning trial accounts subject:

 

Trial players can choose to download the full client right from the start too if they wish to do that. So yes, if a full client is available (by getting it from another player for example), they will have access to the content.

The possibility to have a reduced client which contains Tortage was offered to be able to have a smaller download size of the trial client to start with.

About the topic of items mentioned above: those are given to trial players by chosen partners who help spread the news about the availability of the free trials. It is a common way to let more people know and raise interest in the game.

But I can understand the point that some players voice that they were not given the chance to attain the same items when they joined the game. Like the Snow Mammoth being offered to new registrations a while ago or the items now being given to trial players coming in from various partner websites. It is a little bit like when games bring out new expansions that let newcomers to the game level much faster and gain access to higher level gear that was ever available at the time when the game released or one or two expansions back. We are aware that veteran players should be rewarded in one way or another too. It is a topic that we will look into and hopefully will be able to inform you about soon.

 

On another (or somewhat similar?) topic I have been asked about ... Trial accounts also do have some restrictions to them, the most noticeable are inability to trade with others, restrictions to use public channels and inability to send in-game mail. These are there to prevent some other 'habits' that showed up in the past few years.

 

Source:

http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showpost.php?p=1255422&postcount=54

http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showpost.php?p=1255448&postcount=57

 

Wait. So the trial is limited to Tortage?

LOL

They're doing the same shit they did with the "open" beta.

I think you need to read it all other then just the bits you want to focus on. Grats on making yourself look like a fool tho :)

You're calling me a fool and you apparently haven't tread the part YOU highlighted.
 

So you can download either the full client or the small Tortage client to access the trial. That still leaves open what the trial content consist of.

Now if you can show a quote saying "you have access to the full game during the trial" that I may have missed somewhere, i'd love to see it since that would make the trial actually worth trying out.

Oh man. You have access to the full game area with the trial:  http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/230881

People have the option of just Downloading the Tortage part instead of all 14GB to check the game out, if they want to progress the game will update via the patcher at level 20.

This covers those ppl who just may want to take a peek, or see if performance is ok for them, and to get a quick glimpse.

Originally posted by WisebutCruel

Originally posted by Crashloop

Originally posted by WisebutCruel

Originally posted by abal

Some more info from Tarib taken from the official forums concerning trial accounts subject:

 

Trial players can choose to download the full client right from the start too if they wish to do that. So yes, if a full client is available (by getting it from another player for example), they will have access to the content.

The possibility to have a reduced client which contains Tortage was offered to be able to have a smaller download size of the trial client to start with.

About the topic of items mentioned above: those are given to trial players by chosen partners who help spread the news about the availability of the free trials. It is a common way to let more people know and raise interest in the game.

But I can understand the point that some players voice that they were not given the chance to attain the same items when they joined the game. Like the Snow Mammoth being offered to new registrations a while ago or the items now being given to trial players coming in from various partner websites. It is a little bit like when games bring out new expansions that let newcomers to the game level much faster and gain access to higher level gear that was ever available at the time when the game released or one or two expansions back. We are aware that veteran players should be rewarded in one way or another too. It is a topic that we will look into and hopefully will be able to inform you about soon.

 

On another (or somewhat similar?) topic I have been asked about ... Trial accounts also do have some restrictions to them, the most noticeable are inability to trade with others, restrictions to use public channels and inability to send in-game mail. These are there to prevent some other 'habits' that showed up in the past few years.

 

Source:

http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showpost.php?p=1255422&postcount=54

http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showpost.php?p=1255448&postcount=57

 

Wait. So the trial is limited to Tortage?

LOL

They're doing the same shit they did with the "open" beta.

I think you need to read it all other then just the bits you want to focus on. Grats on making yourself look like a fool tho :)

You're calling me a fool and you apparently haven't tread the part YOU highlighted.
 

So you can download either the full client or the small Tortage client to access the trial. That still leaves open what the trial content consist of.

Now if you can show a quote saying "you have access to the full game during the trial" that I may have missed somewhere, i'd love to see it since that would make the trial actually worth trying out.

The big client is there to make it easy to subscribe after the trial.

They do the same with Anarchy Online. A free account can download and use the full client which has all content, but you are still denied acces to anything more than what the free game entails. It is to make it easy for you to subscribe without having to download more.

>.<

I will be going out now, and will see what goodies I can throw in your face, avery allready spilled the ace tho :(

But yeah I see you maneged it again. Grats :D

As i'm typing this, i'm also installing the game to check out the trial and to see the changes made to the game. I left the beta in anger (sold my beta-acc on ebay to a poor fool), still gave the "final" game a try and left it cussing and swearing as well.

I really would like to play the trial with my former characters (assuming they still exist somewhere), 7 days free for vets would be the better thing for me.

However, the plan for tonight is to lead at last one char to Toratage before going to bed. Cheers everyone!

u can also get a 14 day AoC trial from fileplanet for free

www.fileplanet.com/promotions/age-of-conan/trial/

Ok, after some initial problems i've made it to Tortage. For a reason the game got stuck at about 75% at "Reading content..." when i tried to enter the character creation. I barely remember that in beta, a dev once mentioned that certain stuff is getting compiled first when you enter the game or environments for the 1st time. Maybe this was it, however listening to the intro tune for like 6-7 times in a loop wasn't that entertaining and i could only hard reset my pc to get out of that loading screen.

Now, my first walkthrough to Tortage..of course i havent seen anything of the game yet, but i can already say that the performance made a huge leap. Running 1680x1050, everything to the max, every slider to the right the game runs totally smooth, barely ever dropping to a minimum of ~45fps. I couldn't hit that even on my old 17" in 1280x1024 at release.

The overall handling of my character and especially the now very fluid combat feels very "live and direct", means no hitching/stuttering/delay/whatever but direct response to my every input. One can argue about it, but at least by my experience this feature was primary reserved to WoW only so far. Being quite quick on the trigger, i like to see AoC now having "it" as well.

So, technically the game already feels very improved to me and i've got the feeling i'm in for an entertaining week in Hyboria.

Originally posted by VoIgore

Ok, after some initial problems i've made it to Tortage. For a reason the game got stuck at about 75% at "Reading content..." when i tried to enter the character creation. I barely remember that in beta, a dev once mentioned that certain stuff is getting compiled first when you enter the game or environments for the 1st time. Maybe this was it, however listening to the intro tune for like 6-7 times in a loop wasn't that entertaining and i could only hard reset my pc to get out of that loading screen.

Now, my first walkthrough to Tortage..of course i havent seen anything of the game yet, but i can already say that the performance made a huge leap. Running 1680x1050, everything to the max, every slider to the right the game runs totally smooth, barely ever dropping to a minimum of ~45fps. I couldn't hit that even on my old 17" in 1280x1024 at release.

The overall handling of my character and especially the now very fluid combat feels very "live and direct", means no hitching/stuttering/delay/whatever but direct response to my every input. One can argue about it, but at least by my experience this feature was primary reserved to WoW only so far. Being quite quick on the trigger, i like to see AoC now having "it" as well.

So, technically the game already feels very improved to me and i've got the feeling i'm in for an entertaining week in Hyboria.

Good insights!

Yea usually the 1st time loading up takes a while.

what i was looking in here ...

simple i dont wanna miss the next step of retardness

i think if i was paying for that joke i have the right frome time to time to have a laugh :O

Originally posted by EbonHawk

lol...  Nah, I'm fairly stubborn when it comes to throwing in the towel...

Anyway problem has been solved (miscommunication on both our parts).  Support was helpful and prompt.  So +1 for them.

Going to give it a go now. Thanks.

How are you getting on Ebon?