Age of Conan

Ok first off just want to say that I am strongly looking forward to AOC release, however Im a bit concerned.

We are now a week into april, leaving only 7 weeks till AOC launch, and the NDA is still up and there is no open beta yet.

NDA's are usually dropped between 4 and 8 weeks from release, and the farther out the NDA is dropped can be used to determine the confidence the devs have in their game.

For instance, wow dropped their NDA 8 weeks prior to release, while not a fan of WoW, they did have a good product and werent afraid to let the beta testers speak.

On the other hand we have Tabula Rasa which bombed once its NDA was breeched, and was cited as one of the things leading to its failure (I disagree, think bad game design led to its failure but thats another topic).

Regardless, Im concerned that Funcom hasnt released the NDA yet, and Open beta doesnt seem to be around the corner.

I dont think AoC is going to be awful, but if these two things arent taken care of in the next week or so we are most likely looking at a push back sadly... and I really hope thats not the case.

1st off open beta is normally 4 weekish before launch so well withing that time another point wow wasnt a great a launch as alot of you guys say it was,it had alot of bugs and class issue's the difference is not only has mmo's moved forward but so has the players.

I aint no AoC fanboi thats for sure,but just to throw knives at it for no reason is also not right.

Im not throwing knives, and Im not saying these are what make a good game.

Im saying breaking the NDA early means you have confidence in your game, waiting till the last minute, means you dont, or, your pushing the game back.

I dont think WoW had a great launch, I said they had a great NDA break.

As for beta, Im just saying we are running low on time thats all.

Tbh I aint in beta,but I have been following it through alot of sites and it seems they have 2 choices,release it in may unfinished and release and repair or delay it again.

I dont know which they will do or which is best,a few years ago it would be fine to release and repair but that isnt allowed now after VG,so we will wait and see.

Alot of ppl said the best thing to happen to mmo's was VG as devs wont release unfinished games,I sort of dis-agree as now devs just wont release games!

full release teasting is also good if they have the basic code right,but now it seems every gamer wants a perfect game on release or forget it.

If the games not finished by all means push it back, Id personally love to have a finished conan in 7 weeks, but Ill live with out it.

I just want to know if its coming or not, and Im starting to get that sick feeling in my stomach that its going to get pushed back, due to the reasons I mentioned.

Well tbh if the code is right and it just has some quest bugs naybe some class balance issue's etc etc you would be alot happier if they released now and had the "open game testing",ok this will maybe annoy alot of people on the sort term,but alot more ppl playing and reporting the bugs and problems will get them sorted quicker,though like I said that isnt allowed these days.

Sorry had to add there was alot of things said about WoW when the nda broke but the best and tbh the thing that sold WoW to the world was

"Grab your grandma and her old pc,as both can play this game"

NDA is never going to be taken off it is the Funcoms way so no need to expect it to be lifted and no need to make any assumptions based on it.

Originally posted by Psiho246

NDA is never going to be taken off it is the Funcoms way so no need to expect it to be lifted and no need to make any assumptions based on it.

sorry m8 but that doesnt add to the subject,or indeed make sense.

Originally posted by Psiho246

NDA is never going to be taken off it is the Funcoms way so no need to expect it to be lifted and no need to make any assumptions based on it.

Well... its a rather clear assumption if you keep NDA locked till the day of release, then you have little if any confidence in your game.

If you took the NDA down 3 months before your game released you have a huge amount of confidence.

I forget what dev was talking about NDA's and release dates and such recently, but it seems to be a fairly industry wide agreed upon thing.