All Posts by Expatriate

They could have saved themselves and me a lot of hassle if they had just said up front that this is not an fpr or fps style game as I was led to belive and direction controls are with the A and D keys instead of the mouse.

I wouldn't have waited anxiously for the game for 2 years and turned into a hater.

Don't worry--there's no fps crossover, unfortunately, because it would be nice if the direction were controlled with the mouse, not the A and D keys, but I guess they couldn't get away from the Anarchy controls.

The stock traders obviously aren't gamers, and neither are gaming journalists, it seems, who made AoC the cover story for the July PC Gamer US, which seems to be what drove up the stock today.

They lost me when I found out your steer your character with the A and D keys.

Real-time combat is control your direction with mouse, W forward, D back, A sidestep left, D sidestep right.

If they had said this at the first, I wouldn't have anxiously awaited the release for years of what looked like it was going to be a great game.

Now it's just fun to watch the battle between the fanboys and the haters.  Most of the fanboys haven't played, most of the haters have.

Just to reply to the title--I wouldn't buy a pc to play a specific game unless I had already played the game.

For gaming in general, you're much better off with XP.  Vista sucks up an extra gig of ram, and some games won't even play on Vista.

TomsHardware.com has some good reference charts for graphics cards and processors, though some of the latest are not listed.

Originally posted by Hairysun

  It just seems like the fans and the haters are in overdrive with this game.  More so than other recent releases, perhaps it's just all the hype.

  I have to admit I'm a tad put off by recent events, but, my first hand knowledge is limited at best.  As a result I'll wait and see versus choosing a side quite yet.

  Well, time to head up to the store and stock up on popcorn.  Mmmmm .......... popcorn.

 

~Hairysun~

 

Fans haven't played, the haters have?

Originally posted by zazz

Im pumped ! woohoo , think we all should keep our forum names for this so can meet in game or decap the moaners we have had to endure for last year or so. Just hope theres no Darkfall fanbois in there or im on the run.

 

 

Please report back here after--no matter what

My vote is on Dark and Light.  The biggest belly flop is made from the highest board, and the D&L hype was in the stratosphere until its release.

The Vanguard hype wasn't anywhere near as high as the D&L hype.

Originally posted by page

I would buy the stock now, and 2 days before release "Sell" nothing against Funcom but just a smart thing to do.

Make money and play it safe.  I made some good money doing just that.

That really doesn't make sense as you'll lose if they announce another delay.

To make a lot of money, don't buy it--just short sell it the day before release and close out after it falls, or if they announce another delay, buy after it falls.

Just look at the funcom chart at finance.yahoo.com

August 9th--stock falls off the cliff--August 10th--delay to March announced.

January 17th--stock falls until January 21st when May release is announcd.

Originally posted by singsofdeath

 

Originally posted by Expatriate

Originally posted by singsofdeath

 

Originally posted by Expatriate

You might get a clue from the stock price (search funcom at finance.yahoo.com)

It started falling sharply on January 17th, 4 days before the announced delay on the 21st, hitting a low of about $19/share,so Norwegian traders seemed to know what was coming.

But after the announcement of the May release, it started climbing again and it's holding steady at around $34/share now.

From that, I would say if we see the stock falling sharply again, a new release date is about to be announced.

From what I understand, there are legal issues which FC must observe, concerning how much time before the original release date they must inform investors of a push-back. That is of course what lead to the stock-price dropping back in January but I believe I read in an article (not sure where, will have to browse again) that you need to inform investors at least 2 Months in advance of a push-back. A legal issue.

 

 

Since we haven#t seen stock-price drops so far, and if that info is correct (I can't guarantee it), there will be no push-back.

That's interesting.  If the investors knew 2 months ahead of the push-back, I wonder why the stock started falling 4 days before?

No wait, you misunderstood me. The investors have to be informed two months before the previously set release date.

 

 

Earlier this year, the release date was 25th of March. The delay was announced Mid January.

 

Sorry for being unclear. <.<

Good money to be made on the stock if they set a new release date.

Originally posted by singsofdeath

 

Originally posted by Expatriate

You might get a clue from the stock price (search funcom at finance.yahoo.com)

It started falling sharply on January 17th, 4 days before the announced delay on the 21st, hitting a low of about $19/share,so Norwegian traders seemed to know what was coming.

But after the announcement of the May release, it started climbing again and it's holding steady at around $34/share now.

From that, I would say if we see the stock falling sharply again, a new release date is about to be announced.

From what I understand, there are legal issues which FC must observe, concerning how much time before the original release date they must inform investors of a push-back. That is of course what lead to the stock-price dropping back in January but I believe I read in an article (not sure where, will have to browse again) that you need to inform investors at least 2 Months in advance of a push-back. A legal issue.

 

 

Since we haven#t seen stock-price drops so far, and if that info is correct (I can't guarantee it), there will be no push-back.

That's interesting.  If the investors knew 2 months ahead of the push-back, I wonder why the stock started falling 4 days before?

It really crashed on August 9th--do you know what happened then?

You might get a clue from the stock price (search funcom at finance.yahoo.com)

It started falling sharply on January 17th, 4 days before the announced delay on the 21st, hitting a low of about $19/share,so Norwegian traders seemed to know what was coming.

But after the announcement of the May release, it started climbing again and it's holding steady at around $34/share now.

From that, I would say if we see the stock falling sharply again, a new release date is about to be announced.

Watch the stock--kind of interesting. 

What happened last summer to push it to $40, and what sent it down to $19 in January?  I'm interested if anyone knows.

The release date announcement sent it back up and it's now at $34.

My guess is, buy put options or short sell if they announce another delay.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=FUNCOM.OL

For one thing, that 3 gigs of ram in Vista is the same as 2 gigs in XP--Vista sucks up an extra gig of ram for itself.

Much of Vista is devoted to control over your media--Vista's, not yours.

Just search drm problem with vista

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Windows_Vista

"Another common criticism concerns the integration of new forms of digital rights management (DRM) into the operating system, specifically the Protected Video Path (PVP), which involves technologies such as High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) and the Image Constraint Token (ICT). These features have been added to Vista due to an agreement between Microsoft and major Hollywood studios.^[16] Microsoft claims that movie studios and other providers of "premium content" will only allow their data to be played back on PCs if sufficient protection is granted. This will concern, among other things, play-back of protected content on HD DVD and Blu-ray discs, but it won't be enabled until at least 2010."

Originally posted by Nooblord

 

Originally posted by downtoearth

dont pre order

 

Best advice I've read on these forums for a long while.

I agree.  People calling you a troll should realize that maybe you're just trying to spare them the disappointment you experienced.

As long as the game as delayed, they keep getting a pay check.

Originally posted by Gnazon

 

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Originally posted by ltdaryth
Is it true you cannot control the direction you are facing with the mouse? I would of thought you could free look by holding a mouse button down and with none pressed, turn your character.

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I really hope that you are right, I would really hate to turn with the keyboard while trying to execute combos.

 

For me too, the combat will make or break this game, however no matter how it goes, I applaud Funcom for trying to do things different rather then run EQ/WOW/etc. recepy in yet another setting.

Any gamer would have thought that, turn the character with the mouse, hold a mouse button down to look in different directions.

 Game design 101:  A and D keys are for sidestepping, not steering the character.

I hope someone comes up with a great game soon that really plays the way gamers want to play.

Turning the character with the A and D keys spoils the game for me.

Why couldn't they have used the mouse for direction control?

Originally posted by d3moliti0n

Hey there

Yes, this is another 'Will my computer run this game?' thread an I understand you are probably sick of them so any feedback is appreciated. Basically I want to know will my PC run AoC when it is released and what settings will I be looking at (low/medium/high). My specs:

Athlon X64 3200+ (2.00GHz rated at 3.20GHz, 512KB Cache). This is the biggest let down of my system tbh, as my motherboard is a socket 939 and I can't find a decent priced dual core 939 anywhere. And I live in the UK btw, no stores seem to have the dual-cores instock atm.

2GB DDR Ram (I usually have about 1.5/1.6GB free when I'm running the PC, as other processes take up some of the memory).

Radeon HD3850 256MB (PCI-E)

Thanks for your help and time.

 

On AoC, you won't really know until you try it.

Originally posted by Sidoxs

I HIGHLY doubt they will drop nda before release. Ill leave it at that.

However, if they do, I'll have a lot to say...