Age of Conan

So WAR finally gave a release date and I excitedly went to the guild forums to check who is playing as I am in the beta and love the game.  Almost universally I got the response that players didn't want to play another MMORPG because AOC left such a bad taste in their mouth.  I am now officially a Funcom hater~.  I can live with the fact the game wasn't finished, I can live with the fact that I only got 100 hours or so of entertainment out of my $65 (I payed for 1 month), but killing my guild for future games is really upsetting.

Anyone else having similar expierences?

Sigh, maybe they don't want to "pay for  another beta."

Guild management is a difficult thing. Very few guilds seem to make the transition between games.

However, it's always a sad thing to see a guild dissolve when a game doesn't work out the way you'd like. I've been in a different guild in every game, and of those guilds, only 1 to 4 people usually have tagged along with me to another one.

I am sad for people who started with AoC though. This isn't a good representation of the MMO industry, but rather the recent history of MMO's. There's still a ton of quality MMO's out there (EQ2, FFXI, Eve, WoW) which, in my mind, are better than anything that has come out in the last 2 years (save for LotRo)

That is sad indeed

MMOs are a brilliant game genre, AOC is just a very bad example and Funcom is just a crappy game company

Tell your guild that if Funcom goes bust, this sort of thing won't happen as badly again in the MMO genre

All the best and hope your guild sticks together in another game.

I for one wont ever play a game from day 1 again. I will wait until people get to end game and I get some positive responses on the game. If its good and shows promise then I will buy it.

What Funcom has done for my gaming is not trust any game at release or the over hyped rubish spouted my their marketing.....that goes for my guild also.

Personally feel Funcom may have damaged the mmo industry with this catalouge of balls ups.

I hope they turn it around though, like Vanguard did.....for the die hard fans of the world of Conan deserve a better game. Pesonally I would never play it again or any other mmo they may bring out.

I hope Funcom goes down in flames Friday when they release the Q2 numbers to investors. After what they have done to MMO's and the community they don't deserve to stay in business.

All the other MMO developers need to use Funcom as a lesson not to scam the customers or release beta's as full products because in the end we sign the paychecks not the investors.

For me a GAMER plays a game he/she enjoys, when a game isn't giving the player fun then that GAMER would look for a game that is fun for them. Or in some cases a GAMER wants a game to succeed and is already having fun in the game but sees room for improvements, but the moment a game stop being fun should be the moment people should leave a game.

Sad that your Guild gt killed by a game, if there was/is any friendship you might all find another game to be guilded in and have fun in what ever game that might be.

Well, depends on the guild and on how long the players know each other. I experiences many dissapointements with my guild. First we had a big conflict during WoW time, where half of the people left. The "core members" though stayed together. And since the leader is one of the core members and I am managing website and database, we just lost some people, but it didn't effect management at all.

After that there was HG:L which also was a big disappointment to us. More people left, but still, some core members are around and I am sure the guild as it is won't be ever destroyed.

Well, then AOC came, the same happened, but this time, no one left. So we are still around as a guild as such, not playing any game at the moment, but the community is still there. I think we will be around, at least the core members will be (which are around 8 I would guess).

that happened to me. after vanguard launched and was the worst game of all time i and a lot of others i knew in the game quit mmo's. i hadnt played an mmo for over a year then AoC came and slapped me in the face

If you trust your guild leader , let him log into the WAR game and monitor him over vent, and maybe rekindle his love for mmorpg!  AoC/Funcom  should be blacklisted from every website and magazine all over the world imho for things like.