All Posts by spyhunter107

Funcom specifically said the server will be open at 1pm Est; it's now 1:48pm. I'm canceling, i DON'T deserve to be treated like this screw this I'm going back to WoW.

I almost wet myself for just watching the video!!! I can't wait for Age of Conan!!!

Originally posted by Housam

good. let it die

I notice you'll be playing Age of Conan, so will I

I'm already noticing the reduction on 'total members log in' on the Runescape webpage. Anyone remembers Sw:G Before SoE release NGE? Well, that was like runescape before December, 10th 2007 but Jagex had to screw everything up (I hope they're regretting it); Obviously, Jagex doesn't do research on other mmorpg, if they did than jagex would've done something a whole lot better instead of a NGE repeat.

I give Runescape a year before it dies like Sw:G, and if Jagex is lucky they'd have the subscription like Tibia - 320k 'total login' before December 12th to 150K below 'total log in' after December 12th (prime time); That's a 50%+ reduction in membership within 5 months, I don't know how much member will Jagex have remaining in 09.

Could anyone please be nicely to give me a key for guild wars ty.

I hope they keep the original penalty like in EVE. I loved being a pirate =).

Originally posted by Binny45

 

Originally posted by tillamook

The next big MMO will be AOC I'm afraid. It will soon be all about the big 3.

AOC

WoW

WAR

Then Blizzard will come along and announce their next MMO and it'll be all about that. I don't see much hope for BioWare TBH.

Have you played AoC?  It makes for a great XBox 360 game, but as far as PC MMO's go, there's too much instancing, and for the first 20 levels WAY too much being led by the nose.

 

Don't get me wrong, the graphics are amazing, the combat system is different (though not as revolutionary as I thought it would be), and it will earn it's NC-17 rating.

If you like playing many alts to try different classes, you will have to play through the first 20 lvls single player game each time, unless you get one character to lvl 80.  The death animations are REALLY cool, but if you have multiple enemies on you, it can actually cause you to die as you dramatically remove someones head from their shoulders due to his three friends still wailing on you.  There is a LOT of instancing, something that I personally don't like in an MMO because it ruins the immersion factor, though there are those out there that this doesn't bother.  The last point is more a matter of personal taste.

The game has a very console feel to it.  It's not a bad thing, but unfortunately after pining for this game for years, following it's every move, I've decided I'm going to let it pass.  Would I recommend that people try it out?  Most certainly.  Will it do new and different things?  Somewhat.  Is it the "Almighty WoW killer?"  I don't think so.

I believe it will have a firm and loyal fan base.  I think the customers that Funcom gets, they will keep.  But I don't believe the game will have a broad enough appeal to come anywhere near WoW's numbers.

WAR I can't comment on just yet due to NDA.  I don't mind saying this due to the Open Beta going on.

I will reiterate that it will be a smaller studio that will look at what players want, without having people in business suits breathing over their shoulders that will come up with the next big thing.  This site has listed on it WAY too many games that are only rehashing what's already been done.

There's plenty of good ideas and just as many viable licenses that can be made into some great MMO's.  It is how these companies proceed that will dictate whether they succeed or not.  To be honest, I grow bored with the majority of offerings.  I'm praying (and PRAYING) that someone comes out with something that will shock us like a cold splash of water on a really hot day.   It will offer something for everyone, appeal to multiple facets of online gaming, and allow for a TRUE sense of online community, not the hollow husk that seems to be the mainstay of a lot of the current MMO's.

Great discussion though, and please keep the points coming.  This is why we are here. :)

Everyone copies World of Warcraft because its the first mmorpg to ever be produce in the industry.

Obviously, the OP is an idiot that doesn't realize that WoWbecame WoW by copying from Warhammer,
and other mmorpg's that were made before WoW. The only reason why people compare WoW to everything is because that's their first mmorpg, they expect every mmorpg to be exactly, dumb downed, and gear centric just-like Wow; yes WoW is the benchmark of mmorpg because of the popularity.

There's countless mmorpg's companies that are creating an MMORPG as we speak and ain't following the ways of World of warcraft - The creator of the LOTRO tried to copy WoW and the game isn't that great. There's two great games that are being produced at the moment - Age of conan and Warhammer online - they're not following the footsteps of World of warcraft. I would say Age of Conan is following R.H books, and Warhammer: Guild wars, and DAOC, so lets stop this "Other games are copying WoW" it's false and a lie.

Anyways, I think WoW sucks.

Originally posted by Czzarre

It basically comes down to this. People who will never play this game, get to make desicison as to how the game has to be played.

Torrential

That's true!

There's a lot of people that think Funcom is going to censor Age of Conan, but I doubt Funcom will do just a thing. People think that Age of Conan fans are just playing the game to jerk off to virtual nipples, and people who think those things ain't really interested in Age of Conan. They probably don't have a sufficient system to play Age of Conan, so they'll troll the Age of Conan forum, but in reality they don't know how ESRB rates games.

The Witcher decided to censor their own game it wasn't ESRB that said "Hey, you must censor those mob's nipples" - the witcher will have definitely pass the rating and would sold as a mature rating without being censored. The matter of the fact is  the fans want to play on Hyboria the way it was meant to be played. The game being censored will just killed it and may as well give it a Teen rating if Age of Conan is going to get censored.  The game is 'rated Mature' and I'm pretty sure a lot of 17yro have seen boobies, and I'm pretty sure 'rated R' movies saw gore and sexually content.

Originally posted by dA_fReAK

well yeah ofcourse :P id be happy to be able to play for a week only too.... maybe enough to make me decide whether or not im gonna get it

I hope you don't come into Age of Conan with that name or any 1337 names or I'll camp you till you decide to change your name. I'll be waiting in the ffa server along with others who hate 1337 talk.

Originally posted by Whiskeyjack1

 

Originally posted by Fion

I am an AoC fan and I think WAR will have more subs. It's more generic, appeals to the masses more, like WoW. Does that mean it'll be the best between the two? Not by a long shot. I mean, Burgerking is the biggest fast food place in the nation, but does that mean their food is better then a meal at a 5 star restuerant? Not in the least.

 

WAR will be bigger

 

AoC will be better

 

IMHO

1st of : Your allowed to have your opinions and am in no way knocking thoses.

 

the restaurant comparaison is not very acurate for 2 reasons : price of the meals and availabilty of locations. BK having much more locations around than any given 5star place and the meals are MUCH cheaper , making it more popular. if 5 star restaurants where as common and cheap , evryone would eat there and BK would die.The 2 game will have about the same subscription price and availability , so only quality will make or break them.I still understand what you tried to say by WAR being mass-appeal but bad(BK) and AOC being better but less popular (5 star) .

But it doesnt stand much sense for games at all. WAR having controls and mechanics more standard to mmo's making it mass appeal doesnt exclude it from potentially being much better that AOC. It doesn't exclude WAR from potentially having epic PVP/RVR/Sieges , no bugs ,no coding problems , a great release etc.... 

And the same goes for AOC . Even if the twitch /combo system would gather a better , more hardcore if you will ( aoc fanbois like to portrait themselves as better than WAR fans for some reason) but smaller fanbase doesn't mean that the game will work and be good , am sorry. If funcom can't make the combat system work properly , have a crappy coding , incomplete bug ridden game , etc . the game will fail , no matter how good and hardcore the aoc fans perceive themselves.

WAR : bigger , a  complete and more polished  game at release. RVR/PVP from start, small group pvp (instance/ objective world pvp) , Guild / medium size pvp ( keeps) and faction wide combat with capital city RVR. Great lore.

AOC: smaller playerbase , PVP is guild based mostly and being mercs for the unguilded and smaller guild and some CTF pvp instances (lol), bad lag/coding , combos that doesnt work/connect well or at all for the 1st 6 months  ( going with Funcom track record here for the last 2 ) . Great lore also.

IMHO.

The only Age of Conan weakness at the moment is not advertising right now. Warhammer is bigger because it advertise from the very beginning, and from the RTS games, but conan has like almost 75years in the making. The subscription  isn't what makes the game the best but the gameplay what makes the game better. Now, there's alot of games out there with low subscribers, but the game is way better than WoW, does that make WoW better? No! It's just more popular because it was spread and advertise more online, but if AoC start doing serious advertising it'll have a larger fanbase. Age of Conan isn't very far off on the player base maybe like 100-200k behind from War.

Another thing I would love to say is that AoC combat system has been finish or just about finish and the game is going to start get polish, and ready by March 25, 2007. The combat system is far superior then darkcrap, and Warhammer. The CtF (lol thing) isn't even the main concept of pvp, it's just a mini-game when one can sharper his/her  skills it doesn't have any reward whatsoever, so continue to laugh as I recall War pvp is instanced. There's only two instance in the entire game which are: Guild cities,  minigames, and probably dungeon(I think it's zoned) ETC. AoC will attractive a far mass pver, rper, and pvper.

Warhammer combat looks stale and unoriginal. Probably the programmer got a bad script of WoW combat and just copy+paste into the game. Another point and click your skills sandbox mmoprg people will soon get suck of it soon since half of them are from WoW looking for a new game to play. They'll soon hear the shout of Crom calling out to them 'JOIN US'. War is just a pvp game that was badly copy and paste without any work, and it's even complete nor polish if it was then it'll been out.

BYE!

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Shadowbane is an horrible game. If you don't have a guild or friends, you'll not be able to level up because there's alot of classing that can't solo, and along with people constantly killing you for no dang reason. I don't mean getting killed, but I just hated the way Shadowbane leveling system is. The pking in that game was lame considering how items won't a big deal - all you got was bag trash- may as well consider gear looting from the player equipments. However, I did like the leveling system, you'll level up to 80 in 2-3 days if you're lucky and have a guild.

I hope people from WoW stay in Wow, players from Shadowbane stay in Shadowbane, and people from linage stay in lineage etc. People from other community like to bring their bad habit which they learn from those game over to new fresh games. I'm glad that Conan isn't a clicking game.

Originally posted by KMONBOY

 

Originally posted by rishaki 

 Maby old ppl dont care to wait but for me weeks matter and i feel like i waited enugh as it is ( since first release date of darkfall .....

 

so you've been waiting for 7 years?  

Darkfall is an in-denial community, they'll stay waiting till the release whom knows. Many people tried to warn them that the game is fake (JUST LIKE KOTF), but they don't listen to us and Aventurine SA did a pretty good brainwashing along with their overhype promises to the game. 7years of making Darkfall is just main ridiculously! Age of Conan only been in development for 4years, and it's twice as big and lots of things to do. It may not have houses, player-made ships, and player cities yet(I believe) etc but those things will get implanted later on.

I'm starting to get suck of people comparing  my Age of Conan to WoW. Here's few known facts:

:Age of Conan using their own graphic engine that they programmed themselves

:Funcom is using the talent tree from Anaarchy. they've stated this many times so, if you want to compare the AoC talent tree to Wow please do because WoW talent tree is inferior.

:Age of Conan using real-time combat.

I've prove my point.

He still lost his virginity even if he didn't go all the way. Once you penetrate you've lost your virginity even if you didn't go all the way. He's now officially a man.

Originally posted by Xris375

 

Originally posted by SLI2000

Originally posted by phorsoth

Darkfall is going to have that awesome PVP expreince all PVP'ers want. Darkfall is going to have a world larger than Oblivions so players will be able to PVE to their hearts content. Darkfall is going to have player made everything. Darkfall is going to have shops that YOU own, and you can hire NPC's to run it for you while your offline or away on business else where. Darkfall is going to give people the chance to explore, create, design, distroy, make a living hell or perfect world all on their own.

lots of "is going to's" there.   

They've been is going to for 7 years now.

 

Hehe, Funcom has I belive the longest running beta in gaming history (they started june 2006), still some AoC fanbois belive the game is going to rock. From what I hear from people I know have tested it, it is going to suck. So to feel good they come to FUD a game they think is going to suck even worse.

 

 

CTF anyone ?

People think a beta is meant to play the FULL game, and they criticize about the game without knowing a beta is meant there to improved the game quality and experience along with fixing bugs. It's in beta for  a reason, Funcom isn't giving (free) beta invitation to play the game before the release. They're giving the beta invitation so that the game can be improved and ready by release. This goes for all the games that are in beta at the moment (Upset darkfall lol).

CTF is going to be there for the casual whose ain't willing or liking the boarder kingdom, however, there won't be any rewards or blood money from competing in the event. If you don't like Capture the flag don't play it (I won't play it). See you all in Hyboria!

Originally posted by heerobya

You must be careful when talking about Darkfall....

The fanbois will take any negative comment and rip apart not only the comment, but the poster who made it:
 
Desperation breeds cruelty.

The haters will take any positive comment and rip apart not only the comment, but the poster who made it:

Ignorance breeds contempt.

 

The best tactic is really to just avoid the Darkfall forums, so much passion on both sides of the fence it's hard to say anything without pissing off someone....

but I like to try :) it is kind of fun!

 

 

Yup what you've just said is 100% true! They're already spitting me out, and calling me a failed troll when this account isn't even a troll account nor would I waste my time trolling.  If Darkfall producers actually got off their fat lazy asses and found a publisher then maybe I'd follow Darkfall, but they don't have a publisher, and the oh-soo 20m loan thing is false or Darkfall developers somehow figured out how to plant a money tree. However, Darkfall still has a chance of succeeding IF the game comes out this year. A year=12month, so that enough time for the developers to get off their fat ass and find a publisher aswell get the game into beta etc.

 

I doubt that will happen through.

Every cheer and be happy because supernerd isn't the product manager!

I'm positive 100% if he was he be like "Well, everyone is making a lot of $$ these days, so rising the Age of Conan game itself to 100$ shouldn't hurt along with 20$ monthly fee shouldn't hurt". Spme people at this moment have quit and are mad that Age of Conan has a monthly fee around 10-15$ and plus rising prices only damages the subscribers which damages the marketing of the game.

Akion will  be release soon, so don't worry be happy because NCsoft is known to release games unlike Darkfall.

Originally posted by kwai

So you talk about star wars in a darkfall forum section , are you lost , or  can't you read ?

It's called an Analogy, I thought school taught you those type of things. Here's the definition - http://www.thefreedictionary.com/analogy

I'm just comparing Darkfall to KOTF which will soon suffer the same fate.