All Posts by alakram

We are around 50 guildies in my guild, and Im the only one that will proly leave, so...

And there are a lot of EQ2 players that simply dont like AoC style. They are really diferent games so dont think AoC will bite for too much EQ2. It will probably be worst for WoW. But well, WoW can loose half it's playerbase and it will still be the boss so.. who cares.

Originally posted by zaxtor99

Q) How hard will it be to obtain a war mammoth or rhino once launch hits if you haven't obtained it thru a pre-order?

Will they be easily obtained somehow in the game through quests at early levels, or will they be pretty difficult to obtain (not counting buying one from another player)

Will there be loads of players the first day of launch and weeks afterwards sitting around towns and other populated areas spamming "WTB WM or Rhino mount! PST!" over and over?

Just a thought.

 

- Zaxx

It was announced recently that it will not be posible to obtain the ones from the preorders but it will be posible to obtain something like them, my guess is somehting less powerfull or with diferent textures. So no, if you dont preorder you will not get one like the preorders one.

In my opinion a good mmorpg should need you to play for at least 6 months to reach level cap. Leveling faster to get bored faster? why? It makes no sense.

Limiting the early access is a bad idea in funcom's side. Now they have a lot of angry customers and the game havent started to run yet. Oooh! nice move!.

Pick the cheaper one.

Originally posted by McDiesel

I'm not sure what screenshots you're looking at, but the most recent screenshots from the official website are a good indication of what to expect.  http://www.warhammeronline.com/screenshots/index.php

Nothing to worry about here imo.

This screenshots has no shaders, so they will probably improve in the future but, I dont like the art direction. Well, this is a matter of taste.

Originally posted by Reanim

Funcom is now moderating complaint threads out of the forums. Had two of mine magically dissapear after I was warned by a mod to stop complaining about the Early Access Key.  And no I did not use abusive language/profanity etc.  All I can say is that I hope this bites them in the rear.

I ended up voting with my wallet and am not going to be playing the game. Beta and company garbage was enough for me.

Btw... there is a very clear reason why they limited the early access. They are not ready server wise for the large group of folks coming. If they were ready they would not have thrown away all the customers they just lost and the damage done to the retail end. who in thier right mind would self sabotage themselves like this?

 

 

 

 

Failed on Conspiracy Theory 101, Open Beta worked Fine, so they are ready server wise. You are angry about how funcom managed the Early Access, you are on your right to buy with your wallet. I too think they made it in a mistaken way.

I dont like cartoon style mmorpg's, I simply cant play with this style of graphics but... well, is a matter of taste. So It can be a good game.

WoOoOoOoOoT!!

AoC is an awesome game but I knew lost of wow players will not like it. The honey is not for the mouth of the donkey.

I hope they fix the shaders bug so I can play it soon.

I dont think All is that bad. Aoc can be profitable with less than 250k subs, they simply will do some servers merges. But I think this game will do really well btw. If they are ready for 500k-600k sales they are probably estimating 400k-500k and they just have a little more capacity ready just in case.

I know I will join a guild with no more than 48 members. I dont wanna be the one left out of siegues and i dont want to leave anyone out of a siegue. And I think a lot of people will do the same.

About the cap of players i a sigue for me 48 vs 48 sounds as a good number.

Originally posted by zaxtor99

So I paid an extra $5 for this 'Early Access" promotion after pre-ordering Age of Conan way back in January of this year. I figured why not pay an extra $5 to get to download the game 10 days before the release date and get to play it 3 days early, so I can spend some time this coming up weekend starting on Saturday to try this super hyped new mmo out for my first time.

So it's a little late, but finally the email is in my box after I get home from work tonight that I can download it. And It has started its download at a whopping 5.4 kb/sec! ...And this download is 13.7 GB! (13780 mb) According to the "estimated time left" I only need to wait like 6 weeks for this download to complete, lmfao. Ummm, maybe I'd be better off just waiting for my DVDs to arrive a couple days after release and install it. And yes, I have a VERY fast cable broadband connection before some smart ass asks me if I am on dial-up, lol. The game needs around 30 gigs of free space if Im not wrong.

..But what if the lag in this game is similar to the download speed I'm getting for the download of this game now! ..Scary thought indeed. Your download should improve, ewl! it sould.

Anyhow, I've seen the few people who say that the lag in the open beta is horrid, and I've seen many more who say that the game is running fine even on older computers in massive PvP areas with tons of players fighting. I was on the open Beta, and I have no lag. other problems and bugs yes, but no lag.

So who knows. I haven't been following this game too closely to be honest. Just read a little here and there. But this looks to be a huge game (can anyone say "Vanguard") and even more hype then Vangaurd had last year. Landscapes are awesome, not as open as vanguard ones but awesome.

It DOES look like this game will be much more populated then Vanguard ever was, so maybe it'll be okay. I think the game will be a success, so you will have populated servers and will suffer a hell the first days of release with everybody there at same time.

Anyhow, just updating the AoC progress from someone who doesn't frequent these forums nearly as much as I used to. I was just kinda wondering if there is anyone who might be playing open beta or somehting that genuinely believes that AoC will be more successful and/or a better overall mmo then the upcoming Warhammer Online. Why, Why not?

Peace out, and see you in Conan land at hopefully more then 5 fps. Heh.

- Zaxx

It's an old good game. looking at it from a newbie perspective usually produces this opinion. It happened the same to me. I found a good game, but old for me.

Well I dont see this as a problem. A lot of games create copies of areas when they are crowed. This way you dont find 200 people in a place bloking you to reach some other place behind them. And the rest of the gameis Awesome in my opinion. At least what I tried in open Beta. Too bad shaders are still half working on mu computer

I got faster loading screens, and performance is better but shaders dont work at all. Shaders in the game make your character to have scars, tatoos, detail in general and make stuff look bumped and armors look shinny like metallic stuff sooo a weird pacht for me. I hoped to have a nice pacht and finally make my preorder but no preorder for me in this states of things.

What a pity, such a great game.

Originally posted by openedge1

What do you think...

I basically do not believe AoC is a "MMO" in the sense of most MMO's today. This is true.

It requires more skill than most games today, it is heavily instanced, but allows more players in a field than GW does.. Yeah it requires more skill. But the game is not as instanced as people think. The game is zoned, like EQ2, and it creates instances when needed. The start, for example, is an instance. But yeah, the game do a good use of instances.

The city hub is similar to GW, but now has quests... Well in mmorpgs the cities are more or less the same. You go there to grab quest. Mybe Im loosing something.

You get mission zones...like GW (you enter an area for specific tasks...) and can stay there as well... Never played GW, but what i experinced in AoC Open Beta in that field has been really good. You need to go find someone, you find him alone, not with 10 more people hangin around.

You can get farther and play better in a group setting...than solo (ala GW) A lot of mmorpgs are better experienced in groups, what anyway, I think as a good point.

Has an underlying story...like GW I love what I experienced so far in the AoC Open Beta. An underlaying story is a good thing.

So, I think they took all the MMO boredom out, and turned it into a really good "Coop Online RPG"

Thoughts? Maybe ;)

Woot! Now I only wish they implement it in open Beta. If they do and it runs nice in my comp. and I dont loose the shaders like now I'll buy it.

Originally posted by Fireside286

Just got my preorder from BestBuy.

Says that you get a Rhino and 3 day headstart.  What a load of crap.

I register, they are trying to make me pay an extra $5 for 3 day head start already after paying $10.

Ah just read the back of the box , saying it requires and internt connection and $5 download fee.  BULLSHIT

if I would have known that I would have purchased because I just got it from a place an hour away, thought ah will go ahead and pick it up get in a few days early than pick up at gamestop.  Unreal so I spent $10 for nothing SOB didn't come with nothing but a paper with a code in it.  Starting to think this company only wants money because they know this shit is going to fail.

Funcom one pissed of customer.

Fire

All preorders are the same, a box witha paper in it. About the pay for the head start. It was announced in the official site. It's a load of crap but, it was announced some time ago, you should have made some research before buying it.