Originally posted by Ozmodan

How is this different than most of the MMO's released lately?  Hard to blame him for following in the footsteps of his peers.  Unfortunately the investors get anxious and insist on pushing an incomplete game out the door.  While it looks wonderful in the beginning once people get to play it for it bit most realize that the later levels are pretty much empty of content at the moment.   The only bad thing about this game was that they allowed people to level far too fast and discover it way before the first month was up.

You do realize that Gaute was the idiot in charge of developing/launching Anarchy Online, right? Remember how that went? Anarchy Online didn't start to improve until Gaute went to make AoC and Craig Morrison became AOs' Game Director. Of course, Gaute took all the customer service people from AO for AoC now, so the improvements to AO are now a moot point, seeing as how people are having their billing screwed every way to Sunday, chat servers going down constantly, and NO customer service ( and when you do get a response from FC concerning your Anarchy Online account, the address will say support@ageofconan.com :P ).

The guy is a damn joke and is going to kill two games at once.

Originally posted by Rhoklaw

 Oh ya, what would we do with a fully implemented PvP system anyway?

I remember saying the exact same thing 3 weeks after DAoC came out.

Oh and love your post, especially when compared to the 40 hours you've put into AoC this week. :p I know bashing AoC is the 'fad' on these forums. But damn, if you don't want to look like a follower, don't link your Xfire details in your sig.

Originally posted by Zorvan

 

You do realize that Gaute was the idiot in charge of developing/launching Anarchy Online, right? Remember how that went? Anarchy Online didn't start to improve until Gaute went to make AoC and Craig Morrison became AOs' Game Director.

Actually Gaute was AO's game director for AO and continued to be for several years, even after Shadowlands. He was also behind the AI expansion, I know because I was discussing his ideas about it with him a good two years before it came out.

Cut the guy some slack people. His games certainly dont come out 'finished' or in pristine condition but they are always innovative and push the genre in some way and have a very different style and 'feel' then any other MMOG.

And as much as people bash this game right now, it's no different then any other MMOG at this point. Lacking high end content, myriad of small bugs, no real meaning to PvP. Join the club for just-released MMOGs.

Originally posted by Fion

Actually Gaute was AO's game director for AO and continued to be for several years, even after Shadowlands. He was also behind the AI expansion, I know because I was discussing his ideas about it with him a good two years before it came out.

 

Cut the guy some slack people. His games certainly dont come out 'finished' or in pristine condition but they are always innovative and push the genre in some way and have a very different style and 'feel' then any other MMOG.

And as much as people bash this game right now, it's no different then any other MMOG at this point. Lacking high end content, myriad of small bugs, no real meaning to PvP. Join the club for just-released MMOGs.

He was the Game Director and everything he was personally involved in turned to Rubbish. He has the anti-Midas touch of turning Gold to Rubbish.

Plus we're not going to come him some slack because producing buggy, rubbish games is not acceptable now like it was back in the EQ days. If you expect to be successful and respected in the age of MMOs like WoW then you need to have quality and polish (Because face it, WoW was not successful because it was "innovative" or "pushed the genre"). So yes players expect and should expect Quality first and "Innovation" second.

Do they recycle these guys? Frankly they need to work these guys 8 hrs a day and then send them out to have some family  or REAL life.

Originally posted by Fion

Originally posted by Zorvan

 

You do realize that Gaute was the idiot in charge of developing/launching Anarchy Online, right? Remember how that went? Anarchy Online didn't start to improve until Gaute went to make AoC and Craig Morrison became AOs' Game Director.

 

Actually Gaute was AO's game director for AO and continued to be for several years, even after Shadowlands. He was also behind the AI expansion, I know because I was discussing his ideas about it with him a good two years before it came out.

 

Cut the guy some slack people. His games certainly dont come out 'finished' or in pristine condition but they are always innovative and push the genre in some way and have a very different style and 'feel' then any other MMOG.

And as much as people bash this game right now, it's no different then any other MMOG at this point. Lacking high end content, myriad of small bugs, no real meaning to PvP. Join the club for just-released MMOGs.

LOL! Even Vanguard had the core elements of the game at least working. Classes worked, stats worked, skills worked.

A month after release, stats are still borked, skills are still borked and half of the feats are borked! We talking about Core Gameplay elements that after a month into release are still not working properly!

People have all reason to pissed at this guy and his lies. How can he even keep his head up straight and saying to the MMO community how pleased he is with this game.

If he was at least honest and dont push out even more lies, he would gained back some of the lost credibility.

That guy lied up to the last minute before launch right into our faces! Hyping features that are working ingame, while he damn well knew there weren't ingame yet!! And now in his latest Q&A on the website he now even contradicts his own Hyping by saying they dissabled a meriad of features just before launch!

This is Brad McQuad all over again.

Originally posted by Svayvti

Originally posted by Fion

Actually Gaute was AO's game director for AO and continued to be for several years, even after Shadowlands. He was also behind the AI expansion, I know because I was discussing his ideas about it with him a good two years before it came out.

 

Cut the guy some slack people. His games certainly dont come out 'finished' or in pristine condition but they are always innovative and push the genre in some way and have a very different style and 'feel' then any other MMOG.

And as much as people bash this game right now, it's no different then any other MMOG at this point. Lacking high end content, myriad of small bugs, no real meaning to PvP. Join the club for just-released MMOGs.

 

He was the Game Director and everything he was personally involved in turned to Rubbish. He has the anti-Midas touch of turning Gold to Rubbish.

Plus we're not going to come him some slack because producing buggy, rubbish games is not acceptable now like it was back in the EQ days. If you expect to be successful and respected in the age of MMOs like WoW then you need to have quality and polish (Because face it, WoW was not successful because it was "innovative" or "pushed the genre"). So yes players expect and should expect Quality first and "Innovation" second.

LOTRO was polished to a shine, and it has 115k subs.

So no polish doesnt mean people will buy, your 100% wrong here.

Another thing look at EvE it was released and it wasnt half the game is is now, now people love it, and is has the best sub base of an indy game out there.

-Jive

Ugh I just simply cannot stand that Gaute guy.