Originally posted by tryklon

Originally posted by drarkanex

If they dropped the banhammer on botters and gold sellers, how come there are still gold sellers on there?  Seems you can get rid of the gold sellers much quicker than the botters but it looks like NCSoft is collecting a cut on the gold sales so why cut out yer profits... :)

 

Yeah, you are right, Because thats something a company can solve with a one time action right?

Stick to your gamie little kiddy and stop writing crap.

nice....  I post my observation and you sh*t talk me.   thanks....  Lemme break it down to you big bird style shall we?

Bots are a little harder to figure out unless you sniff that bot out and learn it's patterns.

Gold Sellers, well, it's pretty obvious... "BUY GOLD NOW, WWW.IAMAGOLDSELLER.COM" 

Hrmmmmmm, something smells fishy....

If they dropped the banhammer on botters and gold sellers, how come there are still gold sellers on there?  Seems you can get rid of the gold sellers much quicker than the botters but it looks like NCSoft is collecting a cut on the gold sales so why cut out yer profits... :)

I have actually been waiting for Funcom to do something like this since they royally messed the launch up.  I told myself I am not going to replay this game ever until they fix their crap and offer free play time because for the money i had already spent on it, i felt they owe it to me and countless others to honestly fix it and tuck their tail between their legs and give some free playtime to prove to us they have indeed fixed it. 

It just surprises me that they took this long in doing so...  When they mucked up Anarchy Online, they were really quick to give players free time for their mess up, but the AoC mess up was really bad... but i'm willing to reload this game on my computer and check it out to see the changes for myself.

so how do you get the free 2 weeks?  I'd like to check it out for myself to see if there are any changes in gameplay and overall goodness of the game since I last played August 08. 

edit; never mind, as soon as I logged onto my frozen account, they sent me an email

I played Aion for a few hours... sure it's pretty, but it's not a WoW killer.  All of you leaving WoW for Aion will be back to WoW in a month or two.  I really doubt that any Korean Playstyle game can kill the WoW Behemoth.  I chuckle on articles like this comparing "   *   " to WoW and then kicking WoW in the teeth, and then a month later WoW is still on top.  I fell for the Age of Conan Failtrain, and i'm not about to fall for another fail again..  Cheers.

BTW, I'm not dissing Aion, it's a beautiful game from what i've seen and i'm sure it's gonna amass about 200,000 faithful followers but to say WoW is failing and Aion will take it's place is a HUGE overstatement.

I'm still disappointed by this game.  No matter how many Financial reports and "New Features".  I said it before and i'll say it again,  Funcom has failed me.  I have not been back to Age of Conan since 30 days after its release.  I hear the game director from AO came over to lend support and put AoC back on track.  I've heard he's done well.  But it's like adding insult to injury when again, Funcom is over-hyping a new "Secret world" and derailing the 'Fun' outta 'Com'munication.  I was on the Hype-train to nowhere with Age of Conan.  I was all over this ride as all the newsletters were praising this game.   A lot of people were looking for another game besides World of Warcraft.  I think this title failed horribly.  Sure it looks pretty, a lot of work has been put into this game, but you get a little bugged out when in the midst of a brand new title releasing and failing over 75% of the people that bought into, you get a newsletter saying they are working on the next expansion to this fail-hit.  That's like making a car that doesn't work, and saying that we're gonna add tires to it soon.  Just didn't make good business sense. 

I don't know how they do things across the big pond, but over here in the States, we have a saying over here.  Fool me once, Shame on you... Fool me twice, shame on me.  I'm not getting fooled again but this over-hyped nonsense.   I wish Funcom would just realize their mistakes, learn from them, and stop making the same mistakes again.

 Fix AoC and stop touting new expansions and new MMOs.  Fix the crap you have now.  No one wants to hear of new content,e tc til you get what you've already started completed.

Cheers!

I actually played the pen and paper Champions game back in the day, still own the rule book somewhere.  Anyways.  Cell shaded for a Comic book RPG to make it look like a cartoon.. I can make the connection.

The graphics for STO, quite a bit different

Yea, I can sorta see why Cryptic changed the way people will play together.. that's fine, but i still dont' wanna be captain... :)

I play mainly in Linux mainly because I choose not to run windows anymore.  Just my personal thing.  If STo doesn't run either natively or through Wine.  I just won't buy it.  That's my general mindset now.  If it doesn't run in Linux, I'm not buying it..   :)

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Originally posted by drarkanex

I got my Talisman of Clarity shortly after buying AoC...  The Talisman told me to keep playing World of Warcraft.

 

Sounds you had a defective amulet?  Need to step off the crazy train :P

It's actually not defective.  Unlike some things....

I got my Talisman of Clarity shortly after buying AoC...  The Talisman told me to keep playing World of Warcraft.

Let me guess, no DX10 in this game either?

HAHAHA

I wondered when this was going to happen..

Originally posted by Hegron

They have no idea what star trek was about, community, interaction with others, and what’s this captain crap... my advice would be to at least sit down and watch... ONE! Star trek episode... but sadly... once gain, even after a dev change, they get it in their heads about what they think this license is all about, cutting off the very thing that made start trek great... exploration... adventure new worlds new life. Solving mysteries... engaging environments... lol star ship captains for all....

 

 

I don't think it will ultimately fail, but it won't be a WoW game.  This is a genre that is sorta one sided and it's only going to capture a few hundred thousand people.  The problem comes as the old saying goes  "Too many Chiefs, not enough indians"  The problem with this "Everyone is a Captian" ordeal is that Starfleet can't go around handing everyone the title "Captain".  Captain of a starship is an "ELITE" status meaning, NOT EVERYONE CAN GET CAPTAINSHIP.  Cryptic may need to think this over quite a bit and I think once they watch a few episodes, they'll realize that making everyone Captain is not a great idea.  I, for one, DONT WANT TO BE CAPTAIN.  I'd rather be the "LaForge" tinkering with the engines and making sure the ship is running at optimal performance.  There's nothing wrong with not being a Captain and Cryptic doesn't have to make this game like the Special Olympics to where EVERYONE WINS.  In real life, not everyone can be a captain and not everyone can be an engineer.  It's just Cryptic needs to take into account what each individual person wants to do on a ship.

Me personally, I think a Ship needs to be the "Guild".  GM is the Captain and the Officers are the people that run the ship.  Without those officers, the ship will fail.  Catch my drift?

Here's my beef:

May 17th, 2008, I receive my piece of paper from Gamestop where I pre-ordered AoC for Early Access and the War Mammoth.  On this piece of paper it says:

"IN-GAME EXCLUSIVE     THE WAR MAMMOTH"

Now correct me if i'm wrong but by releasing the "SNOW MAMMOTH" totally invalidates my Pre-Order.  What this tells me that I should have never pre-ordered AoC, Waited a year and then purchased the game and I would have gotten the same thing had I waited a year or longer. 

WAR MAMMOTH = SNOW MAMMOTH, just a different coat of paint on an old car in my opinion.

I shoulda just waited and bought War, but Hindsight is 20/20.  I will never buy another funcom product again.  This, and the numerous other press releases they have given in the past regarding AoC just further proves that Funcom is failing vicariously.

It's a shame really, AoC had such promise but in the end failed to deliver.

HAHAHAHA

Wow, giving away some things in hopes of luring people back.

No DX10, BUT WE HAVE A SNOW MAMMOTH.

This is amazing...

Originally posted by Loke666

About frigging time. Now I just have to figure out how to run DX 10 good on my XP, no way in hill that I upgrade to Vista.

That it says Dx 10 on the box isn't the worst thing BTW, the worst thing is that microsoft had it on their DX 10 page all the time, as a reason to upgrade to vista for XP users.

there is a DX10 hack for windows xp floating around

Originally posted by BigMango

Originally posted by Cway214

Yes, didn't they promise, right after launch, that DX10 was going to be in no later than August.

 

Nope, they didn't. They said there would be a world first >preview< at a computer fair in Europe between August 23rd and 28th and this is what they did.

Actually, the "promise" was made after they ripped DX10 out of launch.  They said at that time that DX10 would be released sometime in August.  Then at the computer fair in europe, they showed off DX10 AoC at that fair.  There was a press release about it 1 week before the fair.  Again, THEY PROMISED DX10 by August.  Funcom fails.

Craig's not the "new guy", he's the Fall Guy.  He fixes Funcom's mess ups after the damage has been done.  Poor Craig, he needs to start his own company.

Two words....

So what...   WotLK > AoC

One of my posts was deleted because of trolling.  However, my statement I made was not trolling.  There are going to be people that absolutely love the game and there are going to be people that absolutely hate the game.  I believe that's what a forum is about.  My post I made was not trolling in anyway and I point shame in the mods direction for labeling it as 'Troll' 

Again, there are going to be people on both sides of the board expressing their opinion and because a mod here feels like he's overstepping his boundaries and feels threatened by a post and labels it "trolling" when in fact the post wasn't anywhere near trolling. 

This is a forum, where people discuss things.  If i'm not able to "ney say", then what use are these forums?