All Posts by jy88902

Originally posted by mrw0lf

Well as it stands right now it's beating what WoW did at release, anything else is supposition and guesswork.

The game in general has had excellent reviews and scores for a newly released mmo, which are notorious in the industry for piss poor ratings. Lets do what all should have dome with the game and wait and see. Else we could all end up looking like the fools who predicted AoC would bomb at release.

Imo the game is decent it has problems but they all do its intrinsic to the genre, but from my point of view it has infinitely more going for it than WoW ever did with the exception of system requirements.

The only thing AoC is beating WoW at release is the initial launch number, and that's mainly because WoW increased the mmo playerbase 10-fold.

Originally posted by mylin1

 

Originally posted by jy88902

 

Try real stores in real life.

 

Just went past a random EB today. Shelf behind the counter is full of AoC boxes.

 

Went on a search in Melbourne for a copy of the game, was all sold out

they had age of conan boxes there too - they put them up so people could reorder them /shrug - did you even bother to ask if the game was in stock?

ive seen ebgames do it with a few other titles - put the boxes out to attract sales, and on the shelf under pre-order.

 

But no, they were real boxes with the game in them.

Originally posted by InvOOm

This is the case: 400.000 has registered their account and billing info after getting the game and managed to install it and patch it. There are still a lot of people waiting for their game to arrive from online orders, some bought the game but are awaiting the activation for various reasons: rig upgrade, problems installing/patching the game, away for the weekend (EU release was 23/5), students have exams, ..  you name it.

 

I am having a hard time to find online retailers that has the game in stock. I think they have practically sold out the first 700.000 copies

 

Just went past a random EB today. Shelf behind the counter is full of AoC boxes.

Originally posted by logicbox9

400,000 boxes sold is awesome. Just for reference, last year the NPD top selling PC games had a a SIMS expansion sitting in at #10 with 250,000 boxes sold. Good news for Funcom and the MMO industry.

They have their clever marketing team and WoW to thank for that.

Originally posted by coffee

 

Originally posted by jy88902

Originally posted by Battlekruse

heh, I honest don't know, but valid question. But I guess it should be 400K players and not subscribers yet. Funcom made a mistake there.

Technically everyone who bought the box is currently a subscriber. They won't have to subtract those already cancelled until the 30 free days are up.

Well its 400,000 boxes sold, we'll need to wait atleast a month too see how my subscribers they have.  So this is some nice marketing but is misleading.

 

400,000 is impressive though.

They do have a good marketing team, credit where credit is due.

Originally posted by Battlekruse

heh, I honest don't know, but valid question. But I guess it should be 400K players and not subscribers yet. Funcom made a mistake there.

Technically everyone who bought the box is currently a subscriber. They won't have to subtract those already cancelled until the 30 free days are up.

Originally posted by InvOOm

Xfire statistics

Are you seriously that delusional?

Here's a fun fact for you, NONE of my friends, including me, had ever heard of Xfire until I saw it mentioned here and asked them about it.

Originally posted by Ixnatifual

So has anyone found out exactly how many people can be in an instance yet, or are we still guessing? Also has anyone been to the high level instances yet and found out if the Border Kingdoms one is finished (for castles and scheduled PvP siege instances)?

If the max is indeed more than 50, I imagine people on the official forums would jump all over it instantly and shoot it down. So I'm guessing it could be true.

It is also interesting to note that prior to the release of the game, people were swearing left and right that the game "opens up" after lvl20 and there is MINIMAL instancing.

Now most of them are saying "I am grateful for instances! Crowd control is one of the things Funcom has done right."

Wish these people could make up their mind.

Originally posted by Death1942

 

Lord of the rings did it...infact for memory they did it just before beta.  thats right unless you were in the beta you could not access the forums.  anyway its becoming standard MMO practise.  it makes sense in a business point of view (these are businesses we are talking about) and gives the devs a bit more time to iron out the bugs. 

 

 

seriously though if you have problems then wait a week or two and they should have ironed out most of the bugs.  every game has these problems at launch but after a week or two the majority of people are fine.

Name another mildly successful MMO that blocked the forums from public viewing (not posting) after launch.

Originally posted by Signe

 

I will, however, agree that the official forums are horrible.  Worse than WoW, even.  And that's bad!  I only go there if I am looking for something specific and then I run away as soon as I find it.  A person makes one criticism and the people over there pounce.  Although thing's are much better in the game and the forums reflect that, there are a lot of people still having issues, both in game and with their accounts.  It doesn't seem to be a small number of people with problems, either.  Funcom fails at customer support, in my opinion.  They've made some bad decisions regarding business practices, too.  That doesn't, however, detract from the fact that they've put together a good, fun game.  I'm glad I can play it but I recognise that there are a lot of issues and Funcom isn't particularly good at addressing them in the forums.  People get angry when they feel ignored.

Great post. I'm glad there are people who recognize that Funcom made several questionable business decisions even if the game is great itself. Sadly, without viewing access to the official forums, these questionable tactics and the rumored poor customer support really discourages people who are on the fence like me.

Probably leaning more towards trying the game now, they tried hard enough to get my $50 and some of their smart moves should be rewarded.

Originally posted by killagoose

 

And every Poster on these forums with a review has always made note that it was posted somewhere else "except in this case" and therefor it cannot be taken seriously by this OP.

 

So that sword I tried to kill myself with I never got repaired, thus it only shattered and here I stand.

You still haven't answered why someone on the fence would care if he actually wrote that himself or if he copied it from another forum.

Originally posted by Byrom

Oh wow they even have a place to enable it, in the video options...lol well I'll be switched. Wonder why they have it there then?

Is it something comming later?

If something that isn't currently enabled, the logical and correct thing to do is to disable the selection in the video options to avoid confusions. Unless confusion is exactly what you're trying to cause.

Originally posted by Malvolentia

 

Post is fail imo.

 

For a major MMO releae with 1 million subscribers I've found it to be pretty smooth.  I don't think I've ever played an MMO on release that didn't have bugs.....

According to news release they shipped 700,000 for launch. This morning (saturday, 5/24) I passed by my local EB and the shelf behind the counter was still full of AoC boxes. Are you telling me they sold out all 700,000 boxes already and those are the 2nd shipments? In 3 days? Really?

Originally posted by killagoose

Originally posted by Nierro

The OP's review was copied and pasted from this
site.

Hmm....

Well then, dont have enough motivation to write our own reviews do we?  Close thread.

Why would anyone care who actually wrote the review if it's well thought out and contains useful information for people still on the fence?

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

 
No offence but stop talking out your backside, my guild has 200 ppl in and there is maybe 5 people with tech issues and another 5 who thought the game was not what they expected, every one is having a blast.

Its a great game, if people were cancelling all over the place why did they just add 9 new servers today?

You need to come back with a realistic argument, because your viewpoint is way skewed.. just like "freeword"..

Another smart move by Funcom if true.

Spread the population thinner to make it harder for people to realize the zones are capped by only 48 people instead of 100 per instance as some poster here pointed out.

Originally posted by Draconus

I 100% disagree that the bugs are software/hardware issues on the user side.

 

I'm running the game on a AMD 64 +3200, Nvidea 6600, 1 gig ram and XP.

most people would agree the above spec is total crap and out of date.

WELL... guess what?

I get 25-40 FPS anywhere in game and the game runs great for me. I personally have no complaints about the game.

BUT... HUGE amounts of people do and the fan boys are playing it down as if it is everyone elses problem and not FunComs.

 

the truth is "funcom messed up big time."

I'm almost tempted to pay $50 for the game box JUST to read the official forums.

Seems like a riot in there.

Originally posted by ianubisi

I was a beta-tester for Anarchy Online. I was there for its release in 2001.

I have been playing AoC since release.

The two games cannot be more different in my experience. AO was an unmitigated disaster. AoC is smooth as silk for me.

People may be having problems, but comparing the two release is absurd and completely asinine.

The ONLY reason a mmo company does that is when they have something to hide and they aren't finished with milking box sales yet.

See: Hellgate London for a very recent example.

Originally posted by Enigma

 

jy88902

Here's another thing you can do (if you have the game)

Go to a post 20 lvl zone and ask everyone to instanced to the beta instance and meet you all in one particular spot.  Thats another way to tell how many people a zone can hold. We did this yesterday. Kinda confirmed our suspicions.

48 players max per instance per zone might have done it.

Originally posted by Enigma

 

Originally posted by afoaa

 

Originally posted by Enigma

 Its nothing like EQ2 zones.  In EQ2 you can support 350 people in one zone. In AoC it can only support 48 people. 

 

Where do you have this number from? The only time I have seen the 48 number is in the number of people each side can bring into a siege (which btw takes place in zones that cannot be instanced).

Are people confusing info?

if you have access to the offical forums its everywhere and people are sorta pissed by it. Just do a forum search,

 

Here's one of em

forums-us.ageofconan.com/showthread.php

 

Originally posted by Nemeral

The thing is (and i'm not a 12 yo kid, i'm not a wow fanboy, i'm not an AoC hater, so don't even try to counter my arguments with stupid insults) :

Zoning in AoC is really anoying ! Please someone explain me how can this be fun ? I mean, the gameplay will eventually suffers from it.

What about PvP ? You can't even chase someone around without the possibility of him using an easy escape trick... the zoning...

That's true though that the 48 people that guy was referring to is the clan battle and is slightly different... But even there, it's an other point that need to be discussed ! I thought i heard from devs that clan battle would be EPICS...

I don't see how 48 vs 48 will be epic... :
1) Lineage II as much better that this with castle siege.
2) It's almost similar to WoW AV Battleground.
3) Even Eve Online can bring more epic battles in space.

But anyway, this is another matter of discussion...

So whether you believe him or not, he was NOT referring to the 48 vs 48 battles but the maximum amount of players allowed in each instance of each zone.