All Posts by hercules

As cold as it sounds thats just about the norm in an emergency.

You save those that are more likely to be saved  first.

While not over the top this is still a high specs system and way higher then what the average joe uses.

And still you had to twink the data to get performance.

So basically the game is alienating those who have not bought a new G.card in last 1 year(9 and 8 series),those who have them and not met other conditions ie newer processors,more RAM,those who have them but not willing to take a crash course in twinking wih the game data and then those who have the system willing to twink and STILL nothing works for them.

This is ofc all just on technical side  for those who actually will buy it because they think the game is fun and don't mind loading times.

Seems a pretty gamble to me for funcom.But the first month will be the prove .If they can have a smooth luanch and iron out the bugs to make the game playable they might still have a successful game here.

Originally posted by Briansho

 

Originally posted by cmcmaha

Thank you all so much for participating in my social experiment regarding gamers and PC set-ups!  Sure is neat to know so many are passionate about their gaming experiences.

Also, congratulations to "Gorilla", who wins the beta account name & password to AoC!  Have fun mate!

 

Cheers!

 

Ouch I think some people just got pwned.

http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/1968847#1968847

Originally posted by xaldraxius

What most of you don't seem to be understanding is that a beta is not a chance to play the game before it comes out. It's a test, it's an opportunity for you to help the developers find out what may be wrong with the code, or game mechanics etc, depending on what stage of beta you are in. This has become a more common misconception over the years as MMO's gain in popularity. As far as the open beta goes, it is a stress test to see how many people they can cram onto their servers before certain bugs start to occur. That is the reason for the level cap in the current AoC beta, you aren't there specifically to play the game, you are there merely to fill space.

Who was in LOTRO and DAoC beta will remember the devs clearly nudged us to go "spread the word" over this games because they had a product in a good condition at end of beta.

Now then you have the other spectrum of it like AO beta which gagged the clients right to the last day of beta and kept reminding us how we can be proscuted for talking.

So while i agree beta is for testing not for a chance to sample the game ,lets face it companies also use it for a marketing tool espically open beta .When it goes wrong they then quickly remember the meaning of beta.When it goes well its a "go tell the world how great it is " scheme.

Originally posted by Bart3054

I think the people hammering the OP are just proving his point. "AoC is NOT for me!" is the title of his post. His system wont run it, which he finds odd cause other games out there run with no issues on it.

I went looking for the specs on the AoC website and had a hard time finding them, did it but took a while.

I remember the rush to go buy the latest tech, to play the latest game. Spending money and lots of time upgrading my rig. There came a point in time when i looked with some objectivity and realized it was BS.

If you remember the origional word was the AoC was Vistas only. How many people were teed off at that one? There comes a point where you have to decide what you want and what you need. If you are a tech junkie tying off to get another fix for AoC then more power to you. some of us are on the road to recovery and are ok with what we have.

 

The right thing to do would have just simply been quiet about his blunder rather then come and moan about it.

Has nothing to do with buying latest tech.I myself have stopped that to focus my money on other stuff espically now i am marrier.I do have a dual core with 8800gts which i bought last year but this was because i have agreed with my wife that every 3 years i can get a gaming rig from scratch  and since it was 3 years since i got my X850xt system then it was time.

If in 2 years a mmorpg comes out that does not work on my current 8800gts then i will simply not buy or even try it.There are others that work and i will go for them.But i certainly will not come moaning on a forum about it after grabbing a winning ticket thats for sure.

That aside i doubt anyone really annoyed because his system did not match the specs but more to do that he took a winning ticket when he had wrong specs and now is moaning on forums about it.

Originally posted by cmcmaha

So,, I entered the MMORPG contest to win one of one hundred beta keys to Age of Conan, no harm there right?  Found out I had won one of the keys and was very pleased as I do not win stuff . . .ever.  Hurray me!

Hmm, seems the client is like 13 Gb's . . . took me six days to download it from Fileplanet (mind you it was not a continuous feed cause the mirrors kept changing/collapsing).   Ok , whew, installing game . . .  that took five hours (I felt like I was installing Windows from scratch).  Ok, np, now it seems to be downloading all the patches and such . . . two hours later I am ready to go!  What a great Saturday, I get to try a new game!

Hmm, first time in, no video but I do hear some cool music.  Start over.  Next time out in, got to the character selection screen.  Sweet!  "Clicks on create button".  Crash.  Sending detailed report to Funcom through their info collection tool.  Excellent, after all it is just a beta (even though I never crashed not ONCE during the LOTRO beta last year, hmm.).

Ok, np, start again.  Odd, same result.  And again.  And again.  And . . .ok, that's enough, my fingers are tired from all the crash reports.

So, I go to check out the forums and such.  Seems I am not alone, and yet I find a war going on between the uber-system fan-boi's and the normal people (who shall be called the "Outsiders", since we are those that don't have proper PC's set up for gaming).

Looks like my 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA 5200 and 2 Ghz machine is simply not good enough to run the game.  Odd, seeing as it has run EVERY other game and beta (except for Tabula Rasa which also was oddly unplayable) I have been in over the last few years (and that was before I added that extra 1 gig of RAM for Pete's sake).

Ya know, maybe I should just stick to playing the games I enjoy and stop entering these contests . . . sure is stressful being a "winner". 

 

 

All you did was waste a beta key for someone else because it clearly states minimum specs is 6600 nvidia.And no offense that 5200 is not even an average gamer card at all.Apart from age it was a weak card in its series.

So why on earth do you expect people to have any sympathy for you for not even bothering to read minimum specs before accepting a winning ticket?

I am happy you wasted your time and electricity downloading and patching the game maybe next time you will bother to read before clicking accept accept accept.

Well people need to look at the degree tbh.

Yes i would easily have pre ordered say WoW,EQ2,DAoC,LOTRO  and CoH because while they all had flaws which were sorted afterwards they had a degree of fun and playbility right from the word go.

But then you take some like Roma Victor and Dark and light  which were completely unplayable at launch .Now really that spells scam to me.

Even games like SWG and AO which were almost unplayable at launch to me spells scam because they were in a terrible mess to start with and should never have been sold as launch products.

DnL if you still consider it a mmorpg or a playable game to that matter.

From the playable mmorpg then i think its vanguard.

If WAR can pull a polished ,impressive game then i think it would probably hurt WoW badly at least in europe and NA.Asia might not get hit so hard though.

Out of intrest .I know i been burnt like that before.Even worse i did beta a game once and still pre ordered it on a leap of faith that some magic will happen in launch.

I for one will not pre order a mmorpg again unless i beta test it first.Or if i fail to get into beta then i will wait till launch and look at a number of reviews and comments before then ordering it post launch.

Hate to say this but a lot of the talk is almost identical to vanguard pre launch.

Your system sucks,its only beta ,there loads to do post level <insert here>.

Hope its a different story at the end of the rainbow.

I have no idea how well AoC will do but i am certain it will not rule them all or even sit near the top of the mountain.

But hopefully it will get a healthy population

Originally posted by Katashi-kun

Hey Pay -to-play-OB &  pay-to-play-early-access....heh talk about swindling what few customers they'll have out of their money!  First time I've ever in my life seen an MMO charge for OB and early start....or just 1 or the other...this is insane!

...and yeah go ahead call me troll if u so desire!  Doesn't change the fact that Funcom really sucks...

Have to say that funcom is not the only one that gives some sort of incentives to pre order.Virtually every mmorpg does this nowadays to boost inital sales ,so i don't see the problem.Be it some ingame item or be it early access or a beta slot .

Originally posted by Caligulug

 

The only way people canceling effects me is it makes me happy. For every person that cancels their pre-order due to a kneejerk reaction about the stress test just means one less retard I have to deal with in game.

Does that even make sense to you ?????

Originally posted by Tarka

 

Originally posted by hercules

waiting to see what people say after launch.Atm i am a bit skeptical about buying a game where  we are not permitted to "see" all the features or content.

makes me feel there something to hide.

While i know funcom capable of new ideas from AO, i am getting this deja vu feeling about them .

In AO i too got burned by believing them when they said this was not final version right to the end of beta,that is was stress tests,that there plenty of hidden content we have not seen.

Sorry but as an old time player i seen them say the exact thing before .Hopefully this time they are been sincere but i been burned before.

I wait till a few weeks after launch then decide .

 

We can only look to our past to gain experience.  Waiting for a few weeks is a sound idea.

I rather wait and see what the general community think of it after launch .Few weeks will not kill me.If its good then i have loads of fellow noobs to run with in 1 month's time as word of mouth travels fast.

If it has a generally bad review then i saved myself some agony.I am not in a super guild or super levelling to hit max level.I  left that crazy ambition long ago haha.

You have to wonder though looking at the sort of systems you need to get this game loading fast and get the looks which i might add is one of its selling points.

Who is this game aimed at?People with 8800gts and above?If so it is due for a rude awakening .Even EQ2 at launch did not require as much power  and it suffered greatly from it.

If you read the first ever offical review here on mmorpg.com on EQ2 the high demand on the reviewer's low specs system dominated the reviews and got it a bad review even before the reviewer got to level 5!

Same will happen to AoC if its not careful and it will alienate so many people due to its so high specs.

To me i am past the "oh its so lovely " mmorpg feeling.In 2 years max some game will make AoC look plain and by then it would have lost its chance at gaining a customer base just like happened to AO,SWG,EQ2 etc all games which on release were the best looking ever.

I rather the game looks average and as it ages they improve the engine as people dump older systems for newer ones.

Future proof graphics tactics have always failed.Just ask EQ2 .

waiting to see what people say after launch.Atm i am a bit skeptical about buying a game where  we are not permitted to "see" all the features or content.

makes me feel there something to hide.

While i know funcom capable of new ideas from AO, i am getting this deja vu feeling about them .

In AO i too got burned by believing them when they said this was not final version right to the end of beta,that is was stress tests,that there plenty of hidden content we have not seen.

Sorry but as an old time player i seen them say the exact thing before .Hopefully this time they are been sincere but i been burned before.

I wait till a few weeks after launch then decide .

This is a generic site which many keep forgetting .While it has sub divisions it is here NOT as a fansite but  for information.

So  its everyone right to post the positive and negative reviews they have as long as they try to keep it  properly stated to whether it is facts about the game or their own personal views and not some made up lies just to bash the game.

Originally posted by ArmyAnt

umm... Beta

Sorry I been around mmorpg a long time and seen loads of betas.

In every single one which is buggy,unfinished or boring(not saying all applies to AoC) the devs CLASSICALLY tell us of unreleased content,fixes,server upgrade and the list goes on and on.

Face it what you see at this stage is 99.999% likely to be the final product .I mean the discs are already been printed for god sakes and there be no miracle patch.

The only game that felt different few weeks to end of beta and live version was EQ2 and that was purely the server performance and thats because they just created more instances which was hardly a good fix IMHO.All the bugs and imbalances went live with it as well.

Well to OP .Though i am buying this game it will not be a WoW killer in any means.

Firstly it has a mature rating  which means it will only attract the older gamers.It is a low fantasy world.it has high specs