Originally posted by URMAKER

Originally posted by Sinuous

Originally posted by tinywulf

Me, and two friends are in Open Beta, all 3 of us have vastly different systems from low end to high end.

All of us are experiencing the problems, the crashes, the lag, etc.

 

One of my friends wants to play it so bad he reboots like every hour or something just so the game runs ok.

See once the game crashes one time it fubars your video somehow to the point only a reboot fixes it (for the game) , otherwise the game ctd's like every 2 minutes.

WindowsXP is more stable than a game, never thought i'd see the day!

Anyway, my point is this game is not ready for launch, and I won't be buying it. It's just plain not ready.

Wow........that's an old-ass bug!  They fixed that one months ago on closed servers.

odd that i still have this problem then isn't it

That bug notwithstanding, I also get stellar overall performance on an OG e6600 OCed to 3 Ghz on air with only 2 megs of RAM and an original 8800 GTS 640MB running a V-Lited Vista kernel on closed servers.  I do have a Raptor drive though, and I have never had a problem with the loading times, even when they were bad by most people's tastes.  I run the game on high with all effects on and quality settings maxed, and the FPS never drops below 35.

I have no experience with this open beta's ill repute.

Originally posted by tinywulf

Me, and two friends are in Open Beta, all 3 of us have vastly different systems from low end to high end.

All of us are experiencing the problems, the crashes, the lag, etc.

 

One of my friends wants to play it so bad he reboots like every hour or something just so the game runs ok.

See once the game crashes one time it fubars your video somehow to the point only a reboot fixes it (for the game) , otherwise the game ctd's like every 2 minutes.

WindowsXP is more stable than a game, never thought i'd see the day!

Anyway, my point is this game is not ready for launch, and I won't be buying it. It's just plain not ready.

Wow........that's an old-ass bug!  They fixed that one months ago on closed servers.

Originally posted by pinworm

Can I pray for my AOC account to turn into a WAR account?

I have first-hand experience in the matter, and that's like praying your nugget of gold will turn into a lump of coal.

Originally posted by Captjack001

I'm torn between War and AoC :( 

You wouldn't be if you had played them both.  There is no comparison.....AoC is the future of mmorpgs.

Originally posted by Estrus

oh noes!! according to mr. garriott, they will RUIN teh game!!!1!!

It would be mighty hard for Warhammer to be as soulless and banal as the Tabula Rasa I remember playing in Beta.

Best trailer yet for AoC.

While the ship to ship combat is the best representation of naval warfare thus far to be recreated in a game, and the economy is completely player driven with a form of 'decay' (the best option for a sustainable economy), every other aspect of the game seems like it was copied from some 8-bit pirate game on the original nintendo console.  I've been beta testing since the beginning, and I WILL NOT be buying this game.

If you're looking for something different, it is that.

If you are looking for a game that's even remotely "sandbox" in execution, stay as far away from this title as possible.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned that the arms on those character models are all anorexically thin.  And after all this talk about making "women strong and powerful."  You can't swing a blade with no muscle on your arm.

Like a lot of folks in this thread, I was in the GnH beta as well.  I can say with some certainty, that they will eventually release the game in some form or another.  It was damn near complete, and games with as many assets as GnH had developed always appear on the market eventually, for better or for worse.

The game had a few serious bugs, one of which rendered certain characters unplayable, and the devs readily admitted they had no idea why it was happening and had no fix to offer.  I played a character to 20 until I got hit with this bug and subsequently decided to sit back and wait for a fix.  My rig is decked out and I was able to play with all the eye-candy maxed out.  Anyone who says the graphics sucked simply doesn't know what they are talking about.  Zones like Venitrix Glades were simply amazing to behold.  There was a ridiculous amount of quests, many of which were very involved and innovative in their delivery.

In summation, the concept for the game was solid, and a first in MMOs.  The minion system had a ton of promise and as far as interesting mythology goes, the chosen setting was the very definition of the word.  With a few tweaks and some attention to bugs I believe they would have had a solid 250K sub base on their hands to start.

I'll let you in on a 'lil secret.  I was also in the Tabula Rasa beta, and this game was miles better in comparison, even in its relatively unpolished state.

Regardless of whether your email server was down or not, mmorpg.com always sends a duplicate notification to your personal message box here on the site.

However, I want to thank you, because someone who got disqualified allowed me to be redrawn for a key.  Better luck next time!

Originally posted by siresper

Because no one has ever once typed in a false birthdate when asked on a website. 

It's good to hear because now they don't have to censor some of the more mature media they have released for the game lately.

Good to hear!

Originally posted by Tymora

....SOE has many fans and just as many haters, but it cannot be argued that they haven't been successful, and I think that Pirates of the Burning Sea will be successful with SOE publishing it.

I can only wonder about the future, though, and I can't help but imagine the game being in SOE's hands at some point later down the line.

Let me explain to you how SOE's Platform Publishing works.....

Do you think that SOE does it out of the kindness of their black hearts?  Don't bet on that shit.

Platform Publishing is a SCAM perpetrated by SOE to take control of independent franchises.  First they promise to do all your marketing and distribution, but the trick is.....they do it very poorly and as cheaply as possible to insure a crippled launch, because just as everyone else has learned, MMORPGs rarely succeed with a poor launch.

Of course it wasn't mentioned by Flying Labs that there is a clause in the contract that REQUIRES that certain projections be met.  These projections are very difficult to meet with SOEs paltry support, and why would SOE want them to be met?  Because of the money that SOE supposedly fronts for marketing, server support, publishing, and distribution on paper, Flying Labs MUST meet these projections or subsequently forfeit many rights to their own game.

Case in Point: Vanguard: SOH.  Examine the advertising that SOE did for that game.........if you could even call it that.  They would have generated more hype by making phone calls.  Granted I'm certain that Vanguard's contract was worse, but make no mistake......

SOE is in this shit to win this shit!

BOTTOM LINE!