Quote: Originally Posted by TheNinjaboy Rumor has it Ciphas is so pissed he cancelled today as well. I haven't played AOC in about 3-4 weeks, but my account is definitely still active. I'm working on a "project" elsewhere (no not the Warhammer beta, haven't played that in a few weeks either) that is occupying my time currently.
	__________________ Ciphas - AOC US Forum Moderator

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=148369

What does it say when your Forum Mods are not playing the game?

Not to be a stalker or anything Avery, but what server are you on?

People on Doomsayer are rerolling on Deathwhisper because of lack of players.  It's becoming a Ghost town.

Banned for one email?  I can't imagine even Funcom being that stupid.  On the otherhand if the receiver reported him....

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=148472

When Protus-AoC posted that I was nearly floored.

Congratulations and welcome.

But USMC?  You are a marine and play AoC?  What are you some sort of glutton for punishment?

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Originally posted by Consensus

Forums are mainly used for whining (trolls) and occassionally used for praising (fanbois). I think its true that MOST people enjoy the game play it. and people who don't stop playing and go and whine on the forums. obviously thats not true for everyone (hence the most, I know one of you retards is gona miss that most!).

Unprovable statement.  The retention numbers are closely guarded secret.  Most polls and XFire Tracking I have seen for AoC have 50% plus quitting before the free month ran out.  Does that mean it's an actual number no, but it does hint towards that "MOST" people are not enjoying the game.

Unfortunately I cannot say that as fact, the same as you cannot say the opposite.  Hopefully Funcom will give some sort of retention statement in its 2nd Quarter Profit Statement which I believe is due the first week of August.

Just thought I'd add this Thread from the AoC forums. http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=146396 I don't know how long it will last before being deleted but the example of whole guilds collapsing should be a big warning sign.

Active accounts have never been reported.  Activated accounts on the otherhand have been fairly well documented.  The difference in activated account and active account is Activated means someone has registered their code at the Funcom website.  Active account is an account that can play the game.

My account is Activated but because I cancelled during the free month, my account is not active.

Funcom has never released active account numbers.  Anyone who says there any number of subscriptions is guessing.  Most polls that I have seen estimate that 50% or slightly more of people that bought AoC have cancelled.  Funcom should be releasing a 2nd quarter profit statement during the first week of August.  That will have some sort of statement about retention of accounts.

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Originally posted by revelatorX

I guess on a positive note, most people already realize most of this 

 

Actually some points you have are very valid others not so, the good thing is there are more people in the game who disagree with all of your points then there are on these forums agreeing with you, imo.

Unprovable either way.  The tight control on population numbers for AoC make this claim unprovable. 

I can say there are lots of people that do not like this game.  There is even a small population of active subscriptions that do not like this game.

Yes I am a hater and even a troll, but AmazingAvery is my opposite, to the point that he has been accused of being paid by Funcom.

Not an official review but done by a Staff Writer.  So therefore does not reflect the official views of MMORPG.COM

http://mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/186176/page/1

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Originally posted by courtsdad

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Originally posted by Jackdog

 Going back to Turbine for a example of coding done correctly. If I try and attack a mob from a perched situation, perched = I can attack mob using ranged but it cannot attack me back due to it being melee or whatever, the mob is unattackable and a icon appears over it's head to let me know that my attacks will always fail.

 

 

 

Turbine, lotro has been down for nearly 16 hrs of the last 48hrs - correct coding :) longest stretch ever..

If you had played AoC you would know that  attacking "mobs" from a perched position would result in the "Mob" evading and healing faster.

Because AoC offers PvP servers they have a rule that as Combat is disabled during a cutscene (tortage) a player attacking you during this cutscene puts you at an un fair dis-advantage and therefore is punishable.

What would be a better idea is to either put shield of the risen or the evading stance on you automatically when you enter a dialogue cutscene.

As its a stated punishable offence, the community is the reporter in this situation, and if you have been to Tortage lately you will have seen plenty of ARK's around. Also when a quest is taken in a populated area and one player attacks another an NPC will attack the attacking player.

But while you troll a games forum that you no longer play for  "entertainment value" becauase your game of choice is broken, those that play AoC are doing just that.

I would recommend clicking on Patiences sig to join her Facebook link as a friend if your that bored.

 

Do your best to not compare Turbine and LOTRO and AOC. Its not even close in terms of stability and quality. Yes they are having trouble with book 14 but their problems are so small they barely register the majority of the time Their problems are the ones that the AOC fanboys refer to when they mention "all MMOS have bugs" AOC is not in that category

 

lotro is in the category of an mmorpg being released over a year after AoC, has less site traffic, less subscribers, yet is more polished and stable over all, with less X-fire subscribers that AoC has and a lower ranking. Yet several Lotro fans like to point out that AoC is losing subs on a week in week out basis, point out the game is bad because it has a dodgy forum mod etc etc.

Good show.

1. Don't ever quote XFire numbers about AoC after being told by several dozen fanboi's that XFire is irrelevant to AoC's numbers.

2. If you are actually worried about LotR's comparison XFire numbers, give it a month.  I assure you that AoC's lead will be corrected.

And their lack of vision extends to writing endgame content, good PVP rules, stable code.

I haven't read a more illogical statement on the forum by the fanboi crowd.

Doesn't that mean said poster doesn't like the game?

There is no such thing as PVP.  No one actually attacks until their target is at the disadvantage.  Playing my Necro the only people I had to worry about were at least 5 levels higher than me or grouped people.  Unless of course I was fighting more than 2 mobs.  I cannot count the number of times that I had people wait around until I was in battle with something else before I was attacked.

About the only time I never faced a fight is when it was equal footing then they would never attack.  I had a rule where I would not attack first.  Once killed I would hunt the bastard down for the next 10 minutes.

Needless to say my kill ratio was very bad, around .500.

Originally posted by SirLorn

JFC, all you haters, don't  friggin play, lol.......it is that simple.  You mean to tell me, you actually took every single game (MMO or not) and went back to the store if you didn't like it, and demanded your money back?!?!  HAH, Whatever!

  Also, EVERY MMO out atm has some aspect of others, including the Target of Target, and many many other features that have made the gaming experience of the players "more enjoyable"

  When Windows 98 was BSoD'ing on a consistent basis, did you go get your money back from MS?!  Lol, I understand alot of folks are upset because they have had problems, has happened with every single MMO that's come out to date, SOMEONE somewhere had a problem with the software.

  The combat system is one of the things I was very happy with in AoC, and I play VG, EVE, AoC, in CoSB beta, have played some WAR beta, I will play every single one that interests me in some manner, and if I don't like it in the end run, you know what I will do?!?    MOVE ON!   nuff said

 

I don't think you understand.  I hated GW and stopped playing.  Crysis was okay but not great considering I owned Farcry first.  I stopped playing.  WoW got silly lately. I stopped playing.

AoC ripped me off and I stopped playing.  But more than that I have to warn other people about this game.  It's that bad.  No other game I have ever bought has left me with the feeling of being conned.  So many things that Funcom does makes you feel you are paying for a scam.  The worse part about it is you can see that it could be a great game in other people's hands.

1. Why have all the Character modification if you are just going to cover it with baggy armor.

2. Memory Leak

2A. Memory Leak.

2B Memory Leak.

3. Better Chat Interface.  Face it most people play MMO for the multiplayer.  Chatting is half the fun even though it tends to lead to "Barrens Chat".  Easier use of Emotes.

4.  More diversification of Party Raiding.

5. Better PVP System/Better Balancing of PVP.

PS Stop treating haters like the enemy.  Really we are willing to work with you on game problems. 

Originally posted by Vicksburg

Xfire stats are a sample.

It's like a poll.

Interesting fact now is that these figures show exactly what OTHER sources show:

take for instance the hourly updates sales of Conan on Amazon.com.

OUT of the top 30 in PC sales, but MOST importantly the Conan susbscription cards are OUT of the top 500(!!!) PC(!) sales on Amazon.com.

Saying that subscription cards don't count, because people pay otherwise... well HOW is it possible that Wow Sub cards were always in the top 15.

So Xfire shows the number decreasing, Amazon shows the number decreasing and ... I see stock everywhere on the shelves.

Most of all: NO new press releases anymore of FunCom, meaning sales and playings took a very hard hit in July. No longer Conan is a top selling game..... just like ALL those other MMORPG's launched in the last 2 years.

I've seen fanboys here of Conan who even admit now they don't play the game anymore and again are now waiting for ... the next big thing. (like always I'd say).

HYPE sold the game and people wanted to like it SOOO much. The game failed completely on playability though and will further decline ... this automn and winter.

Admittedly Game Cards for AoC have a lesser impact then WoW.  Simply put AoC was supposed to be a mature content game with the majority of players being over 18, (can't say what the future holds with Funcom reducing the mature content).  Most 18+ have a credit card to pay for time and don't need to buy Game Cards.  WoW on the otherhand is a game for all ages.(If you let your kids play with that much violence)

I hate to say it but I agree.  Trolling this game is so fun and so easy.  Just when you think you have run out of material to troll with,  Funcom comes up with another brilliant idea like charging for the download of the free trial.

Originally posted by woody1974

Originally posted by Tierce

Originally posted by vesavius

Actually, though I get all you have written and agree with most of it, bugs were NOT this games death.

SOLO CASUAL LITE SUPERFICIAL NON CONCEQUENCE MINIMAL CONTENT gameplay was.

Thats just the truth.

I agree with you as well on the lack of content, but I still think a lot of people were and still are leveling to 80.  What you said was definitely a downer for the more hardcore gamers like us, but I wanted to point out what I saw kill it for people across all playstyles with all differeing opinions about what they wanta  game to be.  That basic underlying reality is that if you can't even stay connected to the game or keep your client stable, you literally just can't play it.  It doesn't matter if you like solo play or hate it, like consequence or hate it, you don't even get to make that differentiation in Age of Conan because you can't even play it.  I mean, you already had a lot of people who never got it to begin with because they have older computers, but even great gaming computers like mine can't overcome horrible programming in the software itself, both client and server side. 

 

"That basic underlying reality is that if you can't even stay connected to the game or keep your client stable, you literally just can't play it". This and all the other  problems you ranted on about, yet you made it to lvl 80, doesn't sound to me like the game was all that bad as you say it is or was, doesn't sound like you lagged and crashed out as much as you are trying to exaggerate your experience, just sounds to me like you spent way to much time playing games online in a hurry to get to lvl 80 and now your bored with nothing to do.

I find it funny when people play the game till lvl cap and come on here and trash the game as if they didn't know what to expect when they reached lvl 80. If you were like lvl 20 or maybe even 30 I would probably lean more to agreeing with you.

I just love the Catch 22 of any attack on criticism of this game.  If you have played to 80 then the problems are not as bad as you say.  But if you quit early then you have no right to criticize because you didn't give it a chance. 

I quit early due to lag spikes, disconnects, bugged missions, unbalanced characters, no sieging, bad crafting, memory leaks, lack of content past 50, silly dungeons,  expensive mounts, instancing everywhere.

Only thing they have truly corrected is the mount costs.  To give them some credit, they are testing memory leak patches.  While sieging is possible,  it is a lag fest with problems in capturing a keep.

Maybe a better poll would be....

Are you offended by news of an expansion pack?