Originally posted by BadMedicine

Originally posted by Blackwell99

Damn OP stole my prediction from a different thread.

 

...but those aren't the only MMO's-(within the 2-3rd quarter of 2010) that will chip away at AoC's rather tiny population. Its almost hard to keep up with all the new releases and rumors during the next year.

Heck with the age group that inhabits most of AoC's servers . I'll bet this Tuesday's release of Batman: Arkham Asylum will cause droves to stop playing for a while. (the reviews have been extraordinary)

 

But, then again, im of the opinion (as are many) that players who settle for AoC are not exactly "discriminating" gamers...so maybe not

 

 

Bad game...me play

Good game..me avoid

 

kinda thing

 

 

  You know, sometimes I sparea bit of time to have me a bit of fun and show just how wrong trolls on these boards are. However you, with your smug superior attitude and a penchant for making up 'facts', stole away my fun. There's simply no room for me to say anything if you make yourself look THIS much of an ignorant ass.

 

 Trolls have been saying AoC will fail at 6, and then at 12 months. They have been far off the mark every time, and there's no reason to think their wild fantasies will come to be realised anytime soon.

You all are just afraid because WoW is a steamrolling powerhouse of awesome rocketing down a track of legendary win with this new expansion.....

I don't why WoW fanbois can't just stay in their forums?  What is the compulsion that drives them to troll every other game forum there is.  I guess some people are so desparate to be right they will do anything to try to make it come true.  Pathetic.

Yup. Because the MMO players that wanted a low fantasy, M-rated, bloody, violent game are going to jump ship for WoW's cartoon wolfmen, Aion's high flying anime and Star Wars' Star-Warsyness.

 I recently started playing AoC and from what I can tell in the short time I have been logging in, there seems to be PLENTY of people playing. I play 12am on EST and never want for people to group and quest with.

i hope u have played this game before...don't talk about something u don't know . There are a lot of people who playing Aoc. Aoc Is rising especially with the new expansion . Aion's grind sucks.On the other hand, WoW is going down.

Originally posted by haggus71

Originally posted by WW4BW

Makes me think of a movie qoute...  Something to do with level of survival one is willing to accept.. Oh right that was from The Matrix Revolutions.

 

Even though everything else was right on, your post fails because YOU QUOTED FROM MATRIX REVOLUTIONS!

The last two Matrix movies should never be cited to support an argument.  They immediately invalidate it.

WOOT someone read my post :P Yeah sorry dunno what happened, Think I my brain melted mid post. I'll try not quote from such weak material again.

Just imagine if we had no choice, that there was no other MMOG but WoW.

Nightmare.

There are 2 types of trolls. The real Mccoy who knows more about the game than an average player, in fact plays the game purely so he can troll after. And that there is piece of shit - garbage troll who is ussualy a disapointed player making his quest to kill the game single handedly not stepping a foot in game because although he would like to HE WAS LIED TO and he will never forget that. His ethics does not allow him to pay that stupid devs a cent - you will notice him as being a smartass child who plays with outdated infos and simply wrong ones most of the time. 

Now, what do we have here? We have 0 real trolls - finaticd trying to but he fails because he just subscribe, plays for few hours and than come back. He has fresh info but these info he never really tested. (also he relies on xfire which is obviously a corrupted piece of shit of tool)

Black, OP and others on the other hand are garbage good for nothing trolls - they have no idea what is the current state of the game on any given field but yet they, in amusement to others, use 1 year old infos. Black dude you were discredited so many times that you should give up man. I mean every few months you come with doomsday prediction but - I lost count ... how many times were you wrong? Seriously, I think it is time for you to give up. you are basing your doomsday predictions based on what? For example - GW2 will probably sell around 800k copies and it will have vast, open world. Now, how will they support their game like that if the game won't have a subscription fees? 

Anyway, anyhow most AoC players are playing AoC because of combat system and low fantasy. I think smart people are getting a bit tired of unreal settings realising that this is candy for kids. Where exactly will AoC players go? The most obvious choice right now is fallen earth, but this game is probly in even worst state than AoC was. Aion? Please! Maybe a few but most of AoC players will stick to the game. But like I said ... time for AoC is running out - they have to get working sieges prior to WoW expansion. If they don't they will indeed go F2P. 

(oh and btw - AO as F2P has one of the best communities I have seen ... to be honest for me if they fix sieges and get the AO type community I would encourage them to go F2P ) Anyway whoever predicted that after expansion they will go F2P. Truth be told that won't happen because this expansion does not add anything substantial - it tries to broadthen the existing game. If Conan goes F2P with this expansion it will end up only veterans buying an expansion. It is simply not the type of expansion that would be needed to have fun in game. For example shadowlands in AO offered increased lvl cap, tons of perks, a whole new "continent" along with tons and tons of must have stuff for PVP and first real boss in PVE (Tarasque is pvp boss) . Soon it became a must have to have fun and to be able to be on par with others. (T3 raids and pvp armor in AoC are comming in free update circle) - now, if you want to be a smart ass ... you have to first be smart and have arguments and some reality to the situation. You don't have either. So go play your game - you fail at trolling

 Black dude you were discredited so many times that you should give up man. I mean every few months you come with doomsday prediction but - I lost count ... how many times were you wrong?

Link those "discredited" so many times.

Or...are you just another Norwegian LYING to potential players in order to make them think AoC is something it's not. Like a game worth playing.

PS: Be happy im not a troll--because it's your spelling I'd go after.(lolz)

Originally posted by Benjen

 With the announcement of the new WoW expansion, Aion around the corner, and Star Wars......AoC in its current state will not survive.  I predict either the game will go F2P or the doors will be closed.

Why would funcom close down AOC.  They have almost no dev team and no expenses.  There is nothing being put into the game.  It's just free money for them to keep the servers up.

Originally posted by WW4BW

As long as the production debt isnt too cripling and subscriptions are bringing in enough cash to cover running costs there is no reason a game shouldnt survive. Even if the pre release production put the creator in debt they often manage to sell it on, or decide to keep it running until it makes a profit.

Recon you would need something like 400 subscribers per employee to break even on a game, once production costs are covered.

So if you have 10K subscribers worldwide, thats a good size business by many standards, even more so when you consider that a lot of the prouction cost has been covered by selling, I dunno. a milloin copies at launch.

Makes me think of a movie qoute...  Something to do with level of survival one is willing to accept.. Oh right that was from The Matrix Revolutions.

Some people run private servers for games. That just shows how little you actually need to run an mmo, if you dont offer much in the way of expansions. and if there are 10K or more subscribers there should even be room for some of that.

It actually seems to be a strategy for game companies nowadays to hype a game and mass market it, get their costs covered and then settle back and let some tens of thousands loyal customers give them a steady income.

That strategy leaves a lot of us here disappointed and a few (for each game) quite happy. But it works. Atleast once per company.

That is all wrong, Funcom lost 33 million dollars on AoC because people didn't stay subscribed. SOUCE: www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/ageofconanhyborianadventures/news.html

They needed to keep people as the box sales didn't net them much.

Everyone here can agree that AoC killed itself by being a MMO not worth playing for most people. AoC is as good as dead today, however, it has one last shot at redemption - the expansion.  Will people come back to AoC when there are so many other games comming out that are as good or much better than AoC?     

The irony is they created an asian expansion to bring to an asian market, but Funcom will make zero dollars from any asian players as they have already sold the rights and recieved payment and I doubt this game would be popular there as it is to small and not very hard compared to asian ftp or lineage MMOs.

Originally posted by finaticd

Originally posted by WW4BW

As long as the production debt isnt too cripling and subscriptions are bringing in enough cash to cover running costs there is no reason a game shouldnt survive. Even if the pre release production put the creator in debt they often manage to sell it on, or decide to keep it running until it makes a profit.

Recon you would need something like 400 subscribers per employee to break even on a game, once production costs are covered.

So if you have 10K subscribers worldwide, thats a good size business by many standards, even more so when you consider that a lot of the prouction cost has been covered by selling, I dunno. a milloin copies at launch.

Makes me think of a movie qoute...  Something to do with level of survival one is willing to accept.. Oh right that was from The Matrix Revolutions.

Some people run private servers for games. That just shows how little you actually need to run an mmo, if you dont offer much in the way of expansions. and if there are 10K or more subscribers there should even be room for some of that.

It actually seems to be a strategy for game companies nowadays to hype a game and mass market it, get their costs covered and then settle back and let some tens of thousands loyal customers give them a steady income.

That strategy leaves a lot of us here disappointed and a few (for each game) quite happy. But it works. Atleast once per company.

 

That is all wrong, Funcom lost 33 million dollars on AoC because people didn't stay subscribed. SOUCE: www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/ageofconanhyborianadventures/news.html

They needed to keep people as the box sales didn't net them much.

 

Everyone here can agree that AoC killed itself by being a MMO not worth playing for most people. AoC is as good as dead today, however, it has one last shot at redemption - the expansion.  Will people come back to AoC when there are so many other games comming out that are as good or much better than AoC?     

The irony is they created an asian expansion to bring to an asian market, but Funcom will make zero dollars from any asian players as they have already sold the rights and recieved payment and I doubt this game would be popular there as it is to small and not very hard compared to asian ftp or lineage MMOs.

 

go away. your arguments are getting old. 3 months ago Funcom had USD 40 mill in cash and ran a profit. We will se wednsday what the latest report shows.

Now quoting gamespot for financial information. thats a new low. Its like reading about gameplay in Financial Times. lol

Originally posted by Slampig

 I recently started playing AoC and from what I can tell in the short time I have been logging in, there seems to be PLENTY of people playing. I play 12am on EST and never want for people to group and quest with.

The truth hurts the haters. It is as simple as that.

If the game is already dead as some of these folks will tell you then why the need to post threads like this?

I will tell you I think it is because there is a new expansion coming and it looks good and we can't have any good news about that can we, people are always looking to try and dump on other popular games to feed the inadequacy in their own.

AoC survived WoW expac already, survived WAR and DF amongst others no matter what ppl want to think the game will be around a while yet.

The game is already on minimum life support and ppl are asked to pay extra money for the little content that is added.    The game will be around - but will never be anything more than its now  - its only a question how long it will be - before it is turned into item shop game.  The mentality of most of the ppl playing it sounds to me that they would love to be able to just buy the items for real life money - take a screenshot and post it to show how awsome the game is...  Right AA? 

Funcom lost 33 million dollars _ over 1 year, making 1 million over 3 months does not help that.  I could of quoted the financial section but I just googled it and copied the first thing that came up.

The one thing it did is prove that most people aside from myself have no clue what they are talking about and do not mind lying. AoC is in bad shape because it was so bad it drove away so many people.

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Originally posted by Slampig

 I recently started playing AoC and from what I can tell in the short time I have been logging in, there seems to be PLENTY of people playing. I play 12am on EST and never want for people to group and quest with.

 

The truth hurts the haters. It is as simple as that.

If the game is already dead as some of these folks will tell you then why the need to post threads like this?

I will tell you I think it is because there is a new expansion coming and it looks good and we can't have any good news about that can we, people are always looking to try and dump on other popular games to feed the inadequacy in their own.

AoC survived WoW expac already, survived WAR and DF amongst others no matter what ppl want to think the game will be around a while yet.

Ya Funcom can make everything look good untill people play it, AO, AoC, etc.  The sad thing is I bet the people who tried during trials will have better things to do than come back for the expansion. So many better MMOs comming up and other great single player games.  AoC is a joke and not worth their time.

After the expansion when the entire staff gets fired what then ? as there will be not much new ever again? Funcom can't afford it.

Originally posted by Blackwell99

 Black dude you were discredited so many times that you should give up man. I mean every few months you come with doomsday prediction but - I lost count ... how many times were you wrong?

 

Link those "discredited" so many times.

Or...are you just another Norwegian LYING to potential players in order to make them think AoC is something it's not. Like a game worth playing.

 

PS: Be happy im not a troll--because it's your spelling I'd go after.(lolz)

Well. You are quite famous around here and I do believe that your "Norwegian argument" is the most redicilious thing ever proposed. And I have read quite a few silly ones. Same goes for doomsday predictions but do you really think I have nothing better to do than to dig up few months old threads? 

As for spelling - Honestly, doing that would make you the lowest of the low but I would be happy if you would really do that - since your post would have a meaning and help me fix the mistakes that I make. Now, unless you have something to say against my arguments presented (speccialy the F2P) I'd suggest you get to work and fix my spelling for me. kthxbye

For finaticd: Dude you became a total and utter joke. "so I googled this ..." gamespot as a source, without any real argumentation, hell, the longest part in  that post is you apologising for being sloppy. Are you running out of material?

Originally posted by nihce

Originally posted by Blackwell99

 Black dude you were discredited so many times that you should give up man. I mean every few months you come with doomsday prediction but - I lost count ... how many times were you wrong?

 

Link those "discredited" so many times.

Or...are you just another Norwegian LYING to potential players in order to make them think AoC is something it's not. Like a game worth playing.

 

PS: Be happy im not a troll--because it's your spelling I'd go after.(lolz)

Well. You are quite famous around here and I do believe that your "Norwegian argument" is the most redicilious thing ever proposed. And I have read quite a few silly ones. Same goes for doomsday predictions but do you really think I have nothing better to do than to dig up few months old threads? 

As for spelling - Honestly, doing that would make you the lowest of the low but I would be happy if you would really do that - since your post would have a meaning and help me fix the mistakes that I make. Now, unless you have something to say against my arguments presented (speccialy the F2P) I'd suggest you get to work and fix my spelling for me. kthxbye

 

 

For finaticd: Dude you became a total and utter joke. "so I googled this ..." gamespot as a source, without any real argumentation, hell, the longest part in  that post is you apologising for being sloppy. Are you running out of material?

if he's slipping that much, only a matter of time until some one challenges him on one of his claims and report him for false information if the evidence do not add up.  you can only rehash the same song so much until you start gurgling fantasy material.

 I guess I will need to ask black to go after my spelling. I mean I know my written english is a bit rusty but ... am I writting in Japanese? He was apprehended, found guilty and he dissapeared for a while. Reread him :D