Originally posted by Puuk

Originally posted by DaveTT

Very nice!

Yes i have seen alot of new players and old players that left at release that has come back to AOC.

really nice

So all of you who quited AOC many months ago now is a good time to return and give it a try again

 

I'll give it a try again when they give a veteran trial. I don't feel like shelling out a month's subscription fee to find out if things have improved - I'm cheap that way.

good , be cheap with your money . i try aoc in paid beta was very buggy so waited for about year they work out the bugs some.  next week going to give a try agin . give quest pass  try out for free if want  ?

their a rule after try  the free quest pass must tell on this forum , what you think about the changes.

Originally posted by Laurann

Jon,

You do know that the publisher for Darkfall has a "President" named Dan Antonescu? I'm sure you are fully aware of this. The publisher also works locally in the exact same office/apartment as Adventurine, and the two other people working there.

How about some in depth journalism regarding Darkfall you tweeb (and I'm being nice here because we've met, and I think overall your a good guy) and write something besides blind conjecture to throw out to the masses... Do some worth while journalism on the industry as a whole, and blow these little pimply faced, lying turds off the face of the development map.

These are the same types of kids who have duped GOOD publishers, and made it hard for both you and I to secure funding for legitimate projects. These types of little startups with all their bullshit are one of the big reasons games like Wish, Realm, and quite a few others in development will never hit the street.

People often wonder why I'm so passionate about voicing an opinion about a particular company, game, or standard. The reason is quite simple, I've chewed on the same dirt you have Jon, and I've done so from the beginning. I'm never incorrect in any assumption I've made regarding any mmorpg project, and get quite pissed when I see little twerps like adventurine taking advantage of 1)marketspace 2)publishers 3)fans.

Especially the fans. 

Especially when the project is complete and utter BS. So some bullshit artists string a potential investor/publisher along for quite some time, along with the fans, who back them, put time, energy and motion behind them, and then everyone gets tossed on their face. Ever wonder why mmo players are jaded? Publishers?

Jon, helping spin anything behind "Adventurine" as positive, without having FACTS, and integrity as both a journalist and publisher of material for masses of people is not in good character for you. Like I said, i think your a good guy. Go prove it.

When I worked with Keith on VG, our number one priority with our work was always the fans, no matter how hard Jeff or MS tried to fuck it up.   

I know we have someone in Greece who posts on the mmorpg forums, and I'll bet he even has a digital camera.  Now if you are worried about driving off revenue from mmorpg by other publishers who think you are out to "screw" some company, don't, only the illegitimate pubs/devs will have a problem with it.

I'll bet Adventurine will have a HUGE problem with it. Thank goodness they are in Greece, have no capitol, and no international attornies eh? 

Go get em tiger, prove me wrong!

 

http://www.gamespp.com/betatestinggames/mmo/RealmsofTorment.html

dark fall looks alot like this game he ran before.

Originally posted by Dreamagram

WAR is out. WoW expansion coming in 6 weeks. AoC has a new man at the helm. He has given an update on what they're working on.

I see comments along the lines of both "this will turn it around" and "too little, too late". So I wanted to throw up a little poll to see whether people's thoughts and hopes are the same or differ a lot.

The question: is it too late for AoC to become a healthy game? Let us know both what you think (will they go down or manage well?) and what you hope for.

 

retarded poll .

Originally posted by darkraptor

lol warhammer's going to overtake wow soon

 

this is almost hilariously ironic, I was hoping it'd be a good game but jeez!

 

From xfire (link) : Xfire users playing per day
10,225
Minutes played per day
2,770,916

 

Rank: 5

dude here link   wow up too 13 mins play today.

http://www.xfire.com/

Originally posted by Chill_Factor

Originally posted by ganbee

This is a game all been waiting for, did you use your  hard earned dollar/euro? I say nay! Walmart will gladly refund your money(that's what your hoping for=) Well sorry they will not a stuck with another gold plated pos have fun!

Guess they don't teach English in your part of the country.

lol, thats rude

Originally posted by Evasia

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning 46182  RANK#5

 

wow still the king at 
World of Warcraft   11,200,124

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning at 6 spot

1,282,393

war craft 3   at rank 7

this based on mins.  play today

Originally posted by BlackWizards

Originally posted by WiccanCircle

ManJunk said "You are completely missing the concept. The game is centered around RvR which can involve hundreds of players at a time. There really isn't much more to be said about it."
 

(I would quote it but somewhere in this forum there is an open code that is taking the right side of my text boxes in to the next dimension)

I think the RvR would be great!  And I will concede that for a game that will have many dozens (I will wait to see if they can actually pull off the 100's that they are hoping for) PvPing the stuffing out of each other will be difficult especially getting it to run smoothly on low end machines and toaster overs like what people are using to play wow and other junk.

I love the idea... but well, can't we have a little depth too?  I feel like Oliver holding up my empty video card asking "Please, Sir, can I have some more?"  My computer is going to mutany if I don't give it something to do while I am playing Warbummer.  I think my G9 mouse has enough computing power to run the depth of this game

How about...

The Spell System and Loot Items from Asheron's Call

The Teaming mechanics from City of Heroes

The Graphics from Age of Conan

The Crafting from Anarchy Online

And the RvR from Warhammer?

Perfect game?

 

Hell yeah, I want that too!!!

 

 

me too problem and i quote from ati / amd .  here they said graphics today 20x time more powerful them 5 years ago but most company,s are too lazy too make higher end mmo .  want fast cheap way making money is up too the player  demand better grahics.   NVIDIA PhysX System  on board now  with new video cards min 512 momory up 2 gigs od ddr 3 ram .  todays graphics has alot .

 

and with coming 8 cpu chips out his nov. cpu be min 36 gb raw power.

 

not that new cpu can,t handle it . up too company make game players want.

why do think their no Mythic warhammer site forum ?

they learn forums can kill a mmo.

llok if don,t like age of conan fine .

likewarhammer ok ,  why warhammer fanboys come here  and talk down oo ppl still like aoc . 

buy aoc not for pvp but  pve and realistic graphics with some voice over pve .if want pvp then i go to wow are warhammer for that.

i wish respect ppl would respect  a person rights to say what they think.

see 67 percent pvp all for kids to enjoy.

pve sucks  ingame mostly ppl want kill and be killed  ok want pvp game .

this wow clone with new updated graphics nothing new.

were aoe has state of arts graphic engine only direct x 9.0c  at launch.

can,t wait for update used directx 10.

aoc has all room to grow and get better were  warhammer be another wow clone wannabe.

wow  and warhammer same game dif graphics.

 age of conan rocks in graphics .

warhammer online buggy and 4 of the reg class,s and races have  been took out because were not done .

call this hybrid wow clone  for kids.

got love way age of conan went adult only and  left the kids at home.

good work funcom.

currently playing in open beta  so far waste of 10 bucks to play open beta.

don,t forget ncsoft  owns  ( city of hero )   mmo.

tell about that mmo .

The Dark Knight" will top $500 million, predicted Fellman, who would not speculate on whether it could approach the all-time domestic revenue record of "Titanic" at $600.8 million.

Even if it edged past that mark, "The Dark Knight" would lag behind "Titanic" in terms of actual tickets sold. Admission prices are up more than 50 percent since "Titanic" came out in 1997, according to Media By Numbers. "The Dark Knight" would have to take in about $900 million to match the number of tickets that "Titanic" sold.

In terms of revenue alone, however, "The Dark Knight" will pass the original "Star Wars," which is No. 2 behind "Titanic" with $461 million, and such hits as "Shrek 2" ($436.5 million), "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" ($434.9 million) and "St

ar Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace" ($431.1 million).

The Dark Knight" will pass the original "Star Wars," which is No. 2 behind "Titanic" with $461 million

star wars come on Star Wars was released on May 25, 1977 by 20th Century Fox,    was in 8 grade when it came out  1 buck see in the movies.  1.2  base on today money.

eve online 

mmo like games,hzave been  out long time . Meridian 59 is an online computer role-playing game First launched online in an early form on December 15, 1995 and released commercially in September 1996 with a flat-rate monthly subscription at 10.95

still has  servers running..

see ppl play first commercial mmo. they still like it.

Originally posted by Gazenthia

Originally posted by Nikoz78

 

I'm 30 years old, I'm not trying to be anything.

 

Simply being 30 years old is hardly substantial evidence that you either are or are not doing what he claimed. I think you are trying to impress upon us that you are too old for that kind of thing when, besides my opinion that nobody is too old to do that, that is not particularly old at all. You are still quite young.

Just saying.

The game was an unlicensed implementation of the new role playing game Dungeons & Dragons, and described the movements of a multi-player party through a monster-inhabited dungeon. Players chose what actions to take in combat and where to move each character in the party, which made the game very slow to play by today's standards.

Originally posted by Jackdog

 

Originally posted by Cymdai

1. Performance issues. People who thought they could run the game can't run it, or run it well. Zone crashes, frequent downtimes, over-camped grinding areas, the lack of content post 50.

performance is good for me, I do understand though that that is not the case for everyone

agree on the grinding areas

have not got to 20 yet let alone 50

2. The 1% of the population ruining the game for everyone else. The exploiters, dupers, cheaters, etc. These same people who are getting classes nerfed for finding ways to abuse skill sets.

agree

3. People are finally getting what we wanted; a no-tolerance policy for hacking/cheating/exploiting. The problem with this is that Funcom is so serious about it, that even legitimate players are getting caught up in the crossfire.

Funcom needs to slow down a bit and think before acting too quickly

4. Class imbalances. People are angry that their class simply can NOT win against every other class. (I happen to love the fact that the game is not perfectly harmonized; there's no reason a group of 3 priests should be losing to 3 melees who aren't focus-firing while there are 5 HoT's on each priest)

no issues again from where I stand

5. Missing features. Cities are buggy, crafting is not very effective, and traders are still FUBAR

a big yes

6. Ganking. If you're on a PvP server, chances are you're getting weary of the endless spawn-camping, and guilds like the Hordes of Goonheim.

I could care less about he PvP crowd , they wanted open PvP they got it so they should STFU and suck it up. be careful what you wish for and all that.

7. Weak item drops. Some of the same items that dropped at level 30 are still floating around at 60 (i.e., Pict Headband). On top of that, there are legitimately only a few randomly dropped blues, period (Challenger's Girdle, Challenger's Boots)

weak is a mild word for it, combined with the tiny inventory FC really f***ed up on this one

8. Repetitive quest rewards. The exp is alright, but items seem to focus only on specific things throughout the whole game (-1% hate modifier, +health, + mana, +0.x% invulnerability, + hiding, + perception usually)

quest are really well written but tehy obviously did not put much thought into the rewards

9. Broken quests. Possibly the most irritating thing in the game, the quests that have been broken, and still are broken weeks after release (I.e. The Thief)

game came out of the oven too soon

10. Horrible customer service. Nothing like having a problem, and being queued for several hours, to several days.

tell me about it. I have not heard diddly except auto reply on a service ticket I submitted by email over 100 hours ago.

 That's my opinion on what people hate about this game. Look about right?

 

I do think hate is a too strong a word for the way I feel about it. It's an okay game and the good almost balances out the bad for me,  but I do like the game well enough to come back in a few months when they get their shit together

 agree ,   all mmo for the first 6 mos. are buggy.

Originally posted by aarkin

Join Now to gain a competitive edge over the rest with an organised and no drama guild.

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want join stop by are website.

Originally posted by ganton

Originally posted by Deto123

I think i ll pass i was looking for a so called next gen game which it s not , its the same as anything out there really.

How about you actually back up your claim with examples instead of just proclaiming its just like every other mmo out there and expecting everyone to believe your bs..And well your at it why dont you give us a definition of what a Next Gen MMO is exactly??? Please I would love to hear your explanation.

 thinks want a real life avatars , phote realist grahics  , like in a theater type movie .

cpme down too real life graphics.   take 10 to 15 years have gane like that,

Originally posted by mehhem

Originally posted by Sharkypal

 

Originally posted by mehhem

Originally posted by gannonreid

 

Originally posted by mehhem

There is DX 10 in the game, what are you talking about?

 

http://pc.ign.com/articles/875/875069p1.html

Just one article to support this.

Oh, and directly from the AoC community site in the article about selling out the collector's edition:

"While Funcom is thrilled with the early success of Age of Conan, and proud of the game launching this week, the company regrets to inform gamers that the DirectX 10 version of the game will not ship with the initial launch. As Microsoft’s DirectX 10 is undoubtedly the future of PC gaming, Funcom has decided to ship only the DirectX 9 version at launch, giving the team more time to focus on building a DirectX 10 version worthy of Microsoft’s great vision for the future of PC gaming. This postponement will let Funcom include even more features in the DirectX 10 version of Age of Conan than originally planned"

From playing Lord of the Rings and Age of Conan I see the same DX 10 effects.  Also there is an option in the game to enable DX 10. 

 

Blatant ignorance! There is no DX10 in AoC. Deal with it!

Granted I don't have my retail copy yet, but the EA version had a DX10 check mark...

dx check mark in cb as well , but it just for show .   defaults back to direct x 9