Originally posted by Clyptso

Originally posted by Kyleran

Originally posted by swgtester1

it's not in beta

it's more like its in alpha due to how broken it is.

 

What happened AOCTTester, you get hit by the ban stick?

I play AOC, and while it has its faults, its certainly not as bad as you keep trying to make it out to be.

 

 

Ya but its still like it is in beta and people who are paying now are helping finish the game while waiting for them fix bugs and add more content and features that were left out. Its just like beta except you paying. Who says you can't play beta but at least you have your melee combat system!

reminds me of when the NGE was released.

AoC isn't so much a sandbox, as it is a rock that sunk to the bottom in a puddle of fail.

Originally posted by Thradar

Oops.  The gender police are knocking at your door Funcom.  LOL!

"The complaints stem from an issue based in the MMO's basic combat system, in which female player characters dealt less damage than their male counterparts when engaged in combination attacks."

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53411

Funcom has reached a new level of Realism with the added "Girlyman" combat system.

Originally posted by miagisan

Pre CU SWG with a mix of CU ranged perks and quests (minus legacy...god i hate those) from the NGE, in depth space and death penalties like in EVE.

This.

My biggest gripe with the MMO industry isn't so much the fact that there is no more originality(even though there isn't), but the fact that these games are released in such a pathetic unfinished state. I assume the reason why they are released this way, is because a buggy unfinished game that is released makes money, while a game in development doesn't. I assume the suits or investors push to get these games out as fast as possible to start making money.

What bugs me even more, is that the general population in the MMO genre seems to have accepted this as fact. How many times have you heard "MMO's are buggy when they are released", as though it is unavoidable. When in fact, even though MMO's are "bigger" games, there is absolutely no reason why an MMO can't be released in a relatively polished and finished state. The only reason that they aren't, is money.

I am mostly upset about the Early Access scam. Even though my box from Best Buy said I "WILL get Early Access to the game" with out any notion that it was limited. I wasn't allowed in because it was "full". If I would have gotten into Early Access, I would have been able to play early for the $10 pre-order fee, seen what the game was, and saved myself $50 on buying the full game. But I think the limited Early Access was for just this reason. Make people that couldn't get in buy the full game.