I'm just about to star the AoC trial. How weird that I'd find this thread  right before launching...

Didnt know there was a boycott. Does Funcom know?

Yes, Funcom knows,  this group actually went to one of the game conventions and showed them the Failcom shirt first hand,

wouldnt be suprised if they gave them one.

perhaps keep the avatars, something tells me when Secret World comes around the corner,  another large group of people will be dissapointed for whatever promises funcom dish out without following through with them.

.......and they are easier to spot.

I wonder what the $OE crowd would do if they ran into the guys responsible for NGE at a convention...

Originally posted by brostyn

Originally posted by Aercus

Just wait until the day you try products like Gilette, Axe, Coca Cola Zero etc.. Your boycot list is going to be *huge* :)

 

What's wrong with Gilette and Coke Zero? Gillete does the job, and I love Coke Zero. lol

Gilette does the job, but is it the best thing you'll ever get? It sure isn't for me, and I do not take Gilette ads, or any other ad, seriously. They promise WAY more than they deliver. Whenver I spray myself with Axe my girlfriend evacuates the bathroom as it is akin to be maced. No other women seem to be creeping out of the woodwork either, so I guess it fails to deliver. I drank Coke Zero last night while cleaning my apartment. Still took me like 30 mins and not the advertised 15 seconds.

I've been in 4 launches, AO, WoW (US), AoC, FE and I know what to expect. I would say they have become progressively better, and if you were in the WoW launch and think AoC's was bad then time has really healed your wounds. I played it for 2 months after release, and even though I had plenty of time to play it was impossible due to a number of issues with the game, and when I actually got to play I did not enjoy the game. I guess good ol' Blizzard ripped me off and I should start a boycott, but I won't, as I have a slightly thicker skin and a few years experience as a consumer.

If you really hop on ad and hype buses, know that they are short, and you probably belong on it :)

Originally posted by Caleveira

I wonder what the $OE crowd would do if they ran into the guys responsible for NGE at a convention...

I wonder what would happen if the Failcom guys met up with the $OE guys? Would they have a fail off to see who the biggest losers are?

"The company I hate is worse than the one you hate!"

"Nuh-uh!"

"Nuh-huh!"

Originally posted by maimeekrai

Originally posted by Caleveira

I wonder what the $OE crowd would do if they ran into the guys responsible for NGE at a convention...

 

I wonder what would happen if the Failcom guys met up with the $OE guys? Would they have a fail off to see who the biggest losers are?

"The company I hate is worse than the one you hate!"

"Nuh-uh!"

"Nuh-huh!"

 

 

I lol'd

Aercus: "Whenver I spray myself with Axe my girlfriend evacuates the bathroom as it is akin to be maced."

Axe is like Mace.  Most amusing!

 the mmorpg.com forums are like group therapy.  

people come here to cry 

and not much else.

AoC is not a bad game, but nothing like what it was hyped to be. I understand the anger and frustration, I was there at launch. But I was surprised by the adoption of Failcom icons. Guys you are more than a failed launch, you are a MMO player, your identity should not be defined by this issue.

At least change to an Averagecom icon now. :D

I think that sounds like a good idea. They did a mistake but the communitys hate is so unforgiving that it is unreasonable.

SOE  is in a similar situation and so are other companies.

If people stop this silly hate and learn to forgive theese companies after a while I think that will be for the better for all of us.

Seriously. If you should start boycott all companies for wanting to make money or for doing mistake, I am sure most of us could just move to a island and start living in a cave because we would have to boycott all the companies out there.

If you really are going to boycott a company. Then boycott one of the companies that are using children in the third world as workers. Not one that just did not make your class strong enough in a MMO or put in enough quests after a certain level.

Wait what...? Ppl are still boycotting Funcom because they dont liked AoC? Seriously?!

Originally posted by Darkholme

1) Some of you give yourselves way too much credit. That inane "Failcom" campaign did exactly f#*k all to anyone or anything outside this "community". No one outside mmorgpg.com (and most people in it) cared about it when it started and noone cares about it now. Get over yourselves...

2) AO had a rough start, granted, but that was 8 years ago now... the game recovered fine, and is highly regarded by many to this day. The fact that the core game is free to play does not in any way reflect the quality of the game at all.

3) FunCom isn't a bad company, get over it already... If you want to demonize a gaming company try someone like SOE or EA, you know, ones that truly deserves it.

^this

well said

Also OP ... when does the boycott on good grammar and spelling end exactly?

I guess I missed the memo too, oh well....

And yes, boycotting a company over a game is a bit much. And thinking that it had any effect on the company is pure delusion .

All I have to say is I actually enjoyed AO and played it for several years. But I have to confess that I was a part of the beta testers, and seeing what happened during that phase I chose to wait a whole year before actually paying for the game. 

I am very excited about The Secret World. More excited than anything else I have seen in years (except maybe for Fallen Earth). But Funcom being Funcom I think I'll contain my excitement and wait till the game has been around for a year or so.

This is not  a boycott, it's looking both ways before you cross the street.

Boycotts and online petitions - its like the almost silent herding of discontented expectations screaming from a few bedrooms into an endless ether of ambivilance - waste of time.

soooooo... where can I get one of those avatars?

I never noticed there was a boycott. 

Originally posted by Teiman

So... we sould stop this boycott, and start using again normal avatars? 

In order to end the boycott wouldn't you by definition have to buy from the company again? 

Don't you actually mean to stop the protest?

Originally posted by Teiman

 Me, like others, feel robbed by Age of Conan. Lied repeteadly with false promises of patchs, miracle patchs, content, on a linear game with a abrupt end on nothingness.  

As a result some people started to use a custom avatar with the name of Funcom replaced by Failcom.

But, time have pased,  .... Age of Conan is #78 or something like that in popularity has a game. Some people got fired, first a head, and recently some normal people  :-( 

I even have started to recomend again it, with huge caveats about it, what to expect, and what not to expect. 

So... we sould stop this boycott, and start using again normal avatars? 

Yeah your huge boycott really matters to them.  Why does it matter?  AoC isn't even popular anymore.  Maybe go after popular lousy MMORPGS like WoW or AION?  Did you make your posting to start a boycott against a company like Funcom? lol

What boycott?