All Posts by Kcissem

can i be an atheist like in real life? nah since i will more than likely be a cimmeran i will praise crom

Originally posted by dethgar

Anyone know what time the server opens? Is it at midnight(est) or later? Also is May 1st confirmed? Seen a lot of posts about May 2nd registrations of some kind.

open beta is confirmed for may 1st, the may 2nd is for the early access registration and beyond.  As far as the time for open beta servers to open on the 1st, i do not believe that has been stated yet.

Originally posted by Ecstasy25

I downloaded the client two days ago from fileplanet. yet i am still getting a fatal error message everytime i try to patch the game. Is anyone else having this problem?

duh, ever think it's because open beta has not started so the servers are not live?

Originally posted by unconformed

open beta will end on the 16th?  just guessing considering release date and preorder info i know. 

I hardly can wait to play.

on the third day. look to your desktop, at dawn.

thanks for reply

i don't believe they have stated when open beta ends, but if i had to guess it will be a few days before early access starts.  My guess is open beta is for two weeks and on the 14th they will shut down the OB Servers to get ready for the early access and release.

Originally posted by unconformed

if the only restriction on open beta is lvl. 13, that seems normal to me.

to conciously not choose to drop the NDA is suspicious. if it is a conscious decision. it can be a hectic oversight on the other hand.

anyway, someone should drop some info and opinions and see if its just an oversight.

they have said that the NDA will be released shortly after open beta starts.

Originally posted by skeptical

I have never seen an MMO keep the NDA up with just a couple of weeks until release. It is very unusual to say the least. I'm not one of those people that thinks its a sign of certain doom, but I can't say it inspires confidence either. The very limited "open beta" where you can only get to lvl 13 is strange too.

why is the lvl 13 cap strange? it's not the first mmo to do it, in fact it is one of quite a few that has had a lvl cap during open beta. 

Originally posted by Illyrian

AoC seems to allow single playing mode all the way to the level cap. If I understood things correctly the single player mode, after sleeping at an inn, also means no interaction whatsoever with other players as you get your own "instanced" zone. I am not sure abotu this though as information was a bit muddled.

 

this is only true for the first 20 lvls,   in your first 20 lvls you can sleep to change between single player and multiplayer mode, but once you get lvl 20 and from lvl 21-thru 80 is where the MMO part of the game is in effect and no longer has the SP mode.  Basically consider the first 20 lvls a tutorial for the real world to come

Originally posted by strigoivii

Originally posted by Kcissem

 

Originally posted by djnso

I believe LOTRO let you keep your open beta characters.

yes LOTRO did let you keep your characters, but it's the only mmo that i know that has ever done that, so LOTRO way is an anomaly not the standard, atleast not yet. 

 

 

The devs had already stated that all characters will be wiped before may 17th

Lineage 2 also let you keep your beta characters...just so you can add to your list of mmo's that have done that :)

thanks for the correction, list is now a total of 2 :)

Originally posted by djnso

I believe LOTRO let you keep your open beta characters.

The devs had already stated that all characters will be wiped before may 17th

Originally posted by TheDoughboy

 

Originally posted by Kcissem

 

 

the devs have already stated on one of the question and answer blogs that they are saving cheetah 2, dx10, spellweaving, seiges etc, etc for release day.  So more than likely we will not see the latest build until May 17th for preorders and the 20th for everyone else

 

Yeah.  That's normal for beta testing:  leave out the good stuff that probably needs major testing... cap levels at 13... don't let the "open beta" testers see what the game is really like.  They'll patch in all the missing stuff and the fun on release day. 

It's all normal.  Suuuuuuure it is.

 

I'm smelling another Anarchy Online.

 

you do know beta is not a chance to see what the game is like, it's not a demo, the point of every single open beta is to stress test the areas that will be heavly populated on launch day, so that means to cap it and limit access.

Originally posted by zazz

So ok i know we getting only to level 13....Fine , but are we getting everything else that we will expect on release like the final Graphics engine and client ect ? (Real world weather ect) or are we getting a older version like we did in the PvP weekend?

If this has been answered somewhere please feel free to direct me.

 

the devs have already stated on one of the question and answer blogs that they are saving cheetah 2, dx10, spellweaving, seiges etc, etc for release day.  So more than likely we will not see the latest build until May 17th for preorders and the 20th for everyone else

Originally posted by Sam123jo0123

Originally posted by Kcissem

 

Originally posted by Sam123jo0123

I actually can't believe they're making people play to close beta  a game  - ONLY TO LEVEL 13, and only for 1 month.

Absolutely ludicrous and has effected their sub numbers.

how has it effected their sub numbers, when there are no sub's yet?  that statement is what is ludicrous.

 

 

and you only lvl to 13 because they want to stress test the starting area for launch day, which is where the most stress is going to be.   So to keep people in the areas you cap the lvl they can reach so either they wander around the newbie area or keep starting new characters, which i plan to use it to pick my main by the 17th

Probably only 13 levels of content

 probably only speculation

Originally posted by Sam123jo0123

I actually can't believe they're making people play to close beta  a game  - ONLY TO LEVEL 13, and only for 1 month.

Absolutely ludicrous and has effected their sub numbers.

and you only lvl to 13 because they want to stress test the starting area for launch day, which is where the most stress is going to be.   So to keep people in the areas you cap the lvl they can reach so either they wander around the newbie area or keep starting new characters, which i plan to use it to pick my main by the 17th

Originally posted by TheArzhAngel

I will never pay for beta a game, not even 1$. Upen beta are free and upen, the game will get its payment from the stree test.

just because they call it an "UPEN"(open) beta does not mean it has to be free, funcom does not even have to provide an open beta at all, and besides you are not paying to get into beta, you paying fileplanet for their premium service to get a chance to get in the open beta,  that is part of the perks of having a fileplanet subscription as they tend to get quite a few exclusive rights to betas whether people like it or not, that is how is these days

so i'm guessing if you are a warhammer fan, since you have to preorder right now to get in open beta, you wont preorder then since you have to pay to play an open beta huh?

Originally posted by DEATHRAMENT

Now that we have keys to open beta is there a special forum we can access now  i wonder.

when you register your ob key and create your beta account with funcom there is an option at the bottom to have your beta forum account set up, it states it take an hour or so, but i have yet to gain access so this may well be a may 1st thing for us open beta testers

Originally posted by cakemountain

(refer to title)

was about 4:30 eastern us time, was lucky enough myself to grab one during the first batch

Originally posted by Shannia

I'd like to see AmazingAvery or any of the die-hard, card carrying fanbois of AoC come to us with their top 10 lists of things Funcom borked and would like to see fixed in AoC.  You see us so called trolls always posting the good and bad we like about the game.  How is it that a fanbois can't do the same?

Let's have it fanbois, and you know who you are, please... tell us what you don't like about AoC (since the PvP beta weekend) and what you'd like to see changed.

The top ten things I'd like to see changed are...

 

 

you yourself may post the good and the bad, but most trolls or whatever you want to call them will only state the bad while not  knowing what they are talking about, or basing it off other uninformed people's opinion.  In the end though everyone will have their own opinion whether its valid or not we will see come release day and after.

Originally posted by Pyrostasis

Ever watch the conan movies? There were half naked girls everywhere.

Fact of the matter its a M rated game... there will be boobs.

exactly, i hear all this talk about complaints of the game because of the boobs, but supposedly there will be a filter for those that want to censor them from the kiddies.  but i wonder why us americans fixate over nudity with our children but we allow them to see all the gore they want.  We are a bunch of hipocrits if you ask me when it comes to censorship IMO

to be successful i'd say around 250k subs, but to be greatly successful they'd need more than 500k which i believe they will hit within the first year.   No MMO is going to hit wow numbers anytime soon, 10 mil subs is an anomaly in the mmo market.

Something that has liquid in it i would assume, maybe a little alcohol mixed in :P