who's taking odds that this expansion is going be just about all of the stuff that should have been there at launch?

The missing content from 50+, the pvp stuff etc, new zones / dungeons...
 

I know! rather than include that stuff in a timely fashion for your rapidly diminishing playerbase...
Lets label it an expansion and get the morons to pay for the game again! - failcom logic.

I digress... i quit after my months sub ran out. With a lvl 63 barbarian and some alts (the female ones got put on ice after the 'female characters do less damage' bullshit). I gave it a chance and was let down.

Here's hoping Mr Ragnar Tornquist's 'Secret World' mmo doesn't share AoC's shortcomings.
What was a 'must buy' for me after 'Dreamfall' etc... is now a nervously optimistic wishlist item.

I've exhausted any good will i had for funcom awhile ago.

While I could have forgiven features like DX10 delayed, even class balance stuff (all mmos need months of balancing after release, tbh it never ends), they deliberately released a non-finished game to take advantage of the 'wow-weary' players who wanted something new. they achieved massive retail sales, at the expensive of longevity.
As we are seeing, its most likely that had they waited to launch the game until after they had a PVP system (with points / Ranks / gear etc), stats that meant something (currently you can play naked without too much of an issue), Content for players at lvl 50+ (NOT including the repeatable Villa solo instance grinding)...

They would have launched after WAR and probably WOTLK.

This barefaced Cynicism and contempt for their customers for the sake of the almighty Dollar...

means i'll think three times before buying another FC product.

My wow guild disbanded and we defected to AoC... only for it to fall apart due to the absolute mess the game is in.

cheers.

Now its back to WoW and alts.

(oh and the WAR beta - \o/ )

good job putting some of the more difficult questions to him - even if he did squirm his way around some of them.

cheers.

:)

I guess I'll add my name to the list of folks here left with a bitter taste in their mouths by Funcom.

When you have the temerity to print features on the back of the box and then leave them out at launch... with a 'ship it and patch it later' attitude (and i mean crucial content like the pvp system and gear, the level 60+ pve content etc, DX10 support)...

that's showing nothing less than contempt for the customer base.

I do have the capacity to listen to other peoples views though, I'm not about to throw grief at the OP for daring to like a game I've past all reasonable milestones of patience with. Good for him, I'm happy that he's happy etc.
I think the hostility from the so called 'tin foil hat brigade' basically comes down to exasperation that others are happily indulging on the AoC marketing spin and still remain hopeful that change is on the horizon -  a bit like an abused spouse (imo).
It's time to live and let live guys.

"Be Excellent to one another" etc

:P

Originally posted by Cursedsei

Originally posted by Guillermo197

Didn't any of you notice the part that said Eidos isn't showcasing Age of Conan in their stand at E3.

Appearently Eidos is trying to distantiate themselves from Age of Conan already and know more then most of us.

If Age of Conan is such a success, then Eidos would have been proud in Showcasing the product they distribute isn't.

Says enough really (and sadly).

 

Mhm, certainly makes sense to me. Hell, Microsoft was quick to rub it in Sony's face that they got the NA PS3 Exclusivity out the window and now are releasing FFXII on the 360. So honestly, if the game was doing so well, I think Eidos would of been prancing around and bragging about it. But they arent.

Hmm... just thought of this...

Perhaps... Funcom, is the Uwe Bole of MMOs?

nah. most people would agree (i hope) that 'The longest journey' and 'Dreamfall' are two of the best story focused games ever. They should just just slap the AoC dev managers aroung the face a bit with an angry sea bass... then work exclusively on 'Ragnar Tornquists' games.

Originally posted by tinywulf

Would love to see how many subscribers fell off after the 1st month.

I know I was one of them, lack of communication and game stability.

How about fixing all the bugs for a Holiday Edition.

yup, me too.

"Xbox360 version of the game to launch in late 2009"

...same time as the rest of the content that should have been there at PC launch?

/bitter ex-customer off

/sigh.

Originally posted by craynlon

"yep septembre to decembre will hopefully be very busy mmo month

i alreaddy pitty the people from chronicles of spellborne or ddo making beutifull games that have to watch from the sidelines when wow dukes it out with war

also i wouldnt want to be in the skin of the war guys because the pressure and expectation after the so-so conan launch must be immense. to me all of their concepts look brilliant and seem to evolve the mmo genre a good step forward but simple details like ui and controlls, the atmosphere or technical issues can really be only evaluated after the launch."

 my thoughts exactly.

i played AoC at release, im disgusted at the people responsible for releasing it early in the state its in now. FC have a mountain to climb -to win back all of the people who have since cancelled thier subs after the first month.

my guess is that by the time they get the missing content patched in and the core features - currently broken - fixed... me and many others will be gearing up for WAR or Aion or WotLK.

have already renewed my wow sub and am leveling alts... :(

sorry to say, but im on the 'cancelled sub, waiting for fixes' bandwagon.

I blame Eidos in all of this, They are the publisher, they are the reason the game is in the shops now instead of in closed beta still - where it belongs. Greed and ineptitude on a grand scale.

Just hope the backlash against Funcom isnt too severe.

I'd really like to see Age of Conan in all its glory.

Right now i have a level 60 babarian. from 1 - 50 it was quite fun. now the content is spead so thin that grinding in repeatable daily solo dungeons is the norm.

Originally posted by Signe

Waking up next to a beautiful woman would be scary.  I'd wonder what happened to my husband.

pure win.

cheers guys, ill try that now.

im running an Intel Quad core 2.40GHz, 2046MB RAM with a GeForce 8600 GTS...

game looks gorgeous on the starting beach section, but Crashes when trying to enter Tortage on anything but the  'LOW' setting.

managed to get in on LOW and do part of my assassins destiny quests. I have to say that even on low settings the game still looks cool.

** im aware that the OB build we are playing isnt the final code, so keeping my preorder open (im preordered ages ago from Game... £17.99, cant argue with that lol :P )**

Originally posted by Consequence

2 things you should know.

1)The devs have said mods, for the most part, will not be permitted in AoC. Quite frankly, I like this as the line between a mod and a cheat has certainly been tested in past games like WoW.

2) People were told ahead of time that this is a STRESS test, far moreso than an open beta. That said, its is done on older servers where they purposely stress the servers b4 1 player even logs in.  The lag is there for a purpose, and it will only help make the release smoother.  Its unfair to even comment on the "performance" of a stress test because it in fact, the opposite of the effect they are striving to achieve.

 

Im in the open beta too now. It launched at 10pm UK time so I had to wait untill I got out of the cinema from watching IRONMAN (awesome btw - stay after the credits roll fyi), in order to play it.

I had a few crashes - going from charater creation to the tutorial, and leaving the tutorial to go to the city.

I was rather dissapointed with the character creation to be honest. thought it would be allot more open than it is, but I suppose they have to avoid people creating pure freaks of nature - the way you can on the Wii creatuing your 'Me'.
That said, i was still able to create a toon that I was happy with and jump in.

I think the gameplay will benefit allot from both my becoming more familair with it and with it getting tweaked after player feedback. managing attacks and defences on the fly will be challenging... but then this is a competitive game.

The game looked great on medium settings for me and I have a decent enough system.
2 gb ram, dual core processor, vista, GeForce 8800 GTS, 500gb HD.

The game is being stress tested though so i fully expect lag and the odd crash.
reporting this stuff is what this fileplanet limited beta is for btw.

jesus christ...

dont you read?

'Game XXX has gone gold' means that development has wrapped up and they are sending the MASTER disk off to the manufacturers to press loads of DVD''s so they can be shipped to the shops.

it does not mean the same as a music record going gold for having sold loads...

/faceplam.

Im sure several people have already explained this :/

erm. as far as im aware they already have,

'Open' beta starts on 1st of May... to the first 50,000 people with active fileplanet subscriptions to click a button on the website. :/

I understand though that betas of anyform are there for testing, and not to give us previews.

so not that bothered. have my Rhino mount pre-ordered lol

Trying to remember back to WoW's launch. to remember how horrible certain aspects of the game were compared to the version we play today.

No battlegrounds, no honor, no arenas, population probs - servers maxed out and 1 hour waits to get in, server crashes, random DC's, Black Rock Spire / onyxia as endgame...

 im trying to remember all of this so that i don't freakout at AoC needing patches to sort, balance, add stuff.

The best we can hope for is that the basic gameplay is sound, that no classes are broken and that there is enough to keep most entertained up to the first content patches. :)

ooh and hoping I dont have to wait to long to ride my Rhino :D