Age of Conan

It's good to see developers are now willing to spend the extra time and money rather than giving players a pay-to-beta that has been the previous standard in the MMORPG industry.  It shows the industry is learning from its past mistakes and that's a good thing.  

It would be nice if Funcom gave more warning about these push-backs instead of  waiting until the same quarter of their latest announced release date.   They did the same thing with the Nov. release date and waited until shortly before to announce the push-back.   They must have known things like this are going to happen more than a quarter ahead of time but they don't let the community know until the same quarter.  

The more lead-time you give for a push-back, the more easily the community can accept it.   Wait until the release date gets close, and people feel like there's last minute scrambling even if that's not the case.

Originally posted by Alienovrlord

It's good to see developers are now willing to spend the extra time and money rather than giving players a pay-to-beta that has been the previous standard in the MMORPG industry.  It shows the industry is learning from its past mistakes and that's a good thing.  

It would be nice if Funcom gave more warning about these push-backs instead of  waiting until the same quarter of their latest announced release date.   They did the same thing with the Nov. release date and waited until shortly before to announce the push-back.   They must have known things like this are going to happen more than a quarter ahead of time but they never let the community know until the same quarter.  

Release dates affect stock prices, and since Funcom isn't privately owned, the decision to pushback is not one you can just let float as a rumor because of insider trading laws. Wouldn't be legal here in the USA to have a "Oh, we're gonna push back the date." comment from the higher ups float around the company where the employees (and anyone they told) could then sell or buy the companies stock based on that insider information before the public knew (And that's a federal crime here in the USA, so you get sent to the REAL big house, no parole, hehe).

Originally posted by Xasapis

No matter what you may say now, they (probably) will get your money if the game is good, regardless of the time of release. They will (probably) not get your money if they release it sooner than later but it's in poor state.

I can only imagine the pressure they receive from the shareholders to release the game (I'm sure there unreasonable people among them as there are among the people of this forum). Your complaints and whatever pressure you assume you (not just the last poster but generally) put on them is nothing compared to the pressure from the people currently paying the bills.

Originally posted by airhead

For some hilarious (yet germane) reading on this subject...

http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/15968

(just start the first and note the dates of the posts.... lol)

Omg!

Originally posted by airhead

For some hilarious (yet germane) reading on this subject...

http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/15968

(just start the first and note the dates of the posts.... lol)

Just goes to show, folks have been drinking the "polish" kool-aide for many years now. Good to see that meaningless excuse is still holding strong in the MMO industry today.

Slight difference between Darkfall and AoC is that AoC has a fairly well defined world and game design concept which seems fairly doable.

Darkfall however, promised "The all time best game ever for everyone and everything and especially in PvP."

That's not a game design concept, that's a "dream".

Its hard to code dreams I've noticed.

Hehehhe.....

This decision totally restores my faith back into AoC.  I thought for awhile there that it would be released as is, and as it appears, there is still a good amount of work to be done inorder to start justifying a monthly fee:)  Good decision Funcom

Originally posted by airhead

For some hilarious (yet germane) reading on this subject...

http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/15968

(just start the first and note the dates of the posts.... lol)

Now this is funny.  And scary at the same time. 

Originally pos