All Posts by jy88902

Originally posted by damian7

 

Originally posted by blackwingDK

 

Originally posted by ndpunch

Clicking that link, at first I tought I went to AoC fansite. Seconds later I realised they were AoC ads..

You people actually trust these reviews? THEY GET MONEY FROM FUNCOM FFS!

Yeah, becuase funcom tried to sell their game with banners on gamesites, it causes the jounalists to be biased...

 

Sure some reviews properly are, but it's lame just to label a review like that, cus they have banners for the game.

 

Besides they have only reviewd level 1-20

 

 

keep in mind that the standards for MMO type games is so low that it would take something incredibly, persistently horrible for any "official" review to give a game a bad review.  what incentive does a site have to publish a bad review?  bad reviews mean that the dev team and people associated with the game won't talk to your site cuz you trash talked their game.

 

there's a lot more, and legitimate, reasons to laugh at reviews on 'official' sites other than the game giving the site a lot of money for ads.  although, to deny that money could possibly influence someone is rather naive.

Nope, not a chance that the review may be biased.

Originally posted by Crusher

Most major game review sites are waiting a week or two before reviewing
AOC, to give Funcom some extra time to polish the game after release.

Gamezone is the first one to give a serious review.

pc.gamezone.com/gzreviews/r26352.htm

So far it's looking good for AOC.

Nobody is THAT naive and delusional.

Originally posted by Sheezwack

I have heard rumors that they plan on adding new starting areas for the different races.  Not sure if there is any truth to it or not?

 

It's definitely annoying doing most of the same stuff over again.  Mind you I did end up doing it in WoW for most of my alts since I preferred certain areas anyway...

The difference is that you were given an option. Having 3 (4 after expansion) starter areas to choose from lessens the boredom of rerolling MASSIVELY.

Originally posted by masterjedi

lol I thought  there was a here

His post is the very definition of trolling, so you were right, there was a troll.

Originally posted by Enigma

 

Also, the forums over there arent nice and civil (not in the General Discussion forums); ony of the developers had to sticky about people not listening to the mad playerbase.

Can you rephrase this a bit? The sentence is kinda confusing.

Originally posted by Death1942

 

Originally posted by sisseflikker

Yes im sure they will work it out when enough has payed lol. It doesnt take a degree in rocket sceince to setup a working forum in 2008.

damn i'm in the wrong course then.  what a waste of 3 years.

 

 

anyway...i hate it when they decide to go down the buy the game to access the forums route as its usually the best place for information.

You can't really fault a company that tries to do whatever it takes to ride the initial hype and milk box sales. They need to feed their devs after all.

Originally posted by Mordria

No pay, no access, and thank goodness.

Now the forums are nice and civil and free of trolls.

There's a very good reason they did that, and I agree with it 100%

You have got to be shitting me. Restricting the ability to post is reasonable yes, but blocking the access completely is simply bad form.

The only other MMO i can think of that did this was Hellgate London. I'm sure I don't need to tell you what happened to that game.

The sole reason a company does this is to further milk box sales, nothing else.

Originally posted by NotNiceDino

Ok, then someone PLEASE explain to me why I switch the setting from DirectX9 to DirectX10 and the game changes. I'll post screen shots when I get home from work.

Because that's the exact purpose of leaving the DX10 option selectable - to fool gullible fanboys who can't read.

Originally posted by NotNiceDino

Um.... yes AoC (release version) DOES support DX10, I know because I play it, and I can switched between the two, and the there is a night and day diffrance in graphics and performance when I do (I could provide screen shots when i'm not at work, but probably won' bother since I'll be playing in DX10).

The diffrence in AoC in DX9 and DX10 is greater than in any game I've seen to date, and it's the first game I've seen a frame rate improvement with DX10.

Beleive me or not, don't care... I've been there and seen it.

Look at that. Funcom fools another.

The guy who made the decision to leave the DX10 option selectable really deserves a raise or promotion. I bet he's laughing his ass off reading these posts where people swear their nuts that DX10 is working.

Originally posted by Neopsych

Perhaps Funcom identified many of the technical issues experiencedin Beta was partly/wholly down to the DX10 code provisions and decided to remove this aspect for the all important launch.

 

If they did this - I respect them for it.

What they did was hyping up DX10 as an amazing surprise launch feature up until a few days before launch and then pull a bait and switch.

You have to be kidding me if you believe that they didn't realize DX10 won't be ready only a few days before launch.

Originally posted by mehhem

Originally posted by jy88902

Originally posted by mehhem

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

Look how many people this simple move of leaving the DX10 option selectable by Funcom fooled. They STILL believe DX10 is in the game even when evidence containing Funcom quotes are shoved in their face.

Don't be rude, I haven't insulted you.

It's more of a compliment to Funcom's shrewd and slick strategy instead of an insult to some random guy on the forums.

Originally posted by TsukieU

Yeah, I was thinking about this.  Even though they managed to sell 700,000 boxes, and 110,00 CE's that's only what?  45 million dollars?  Woah, crap...nevermind.  I think I see the strategy here.

 

Yeah keep people in the dark, be as vague as possible, only release pre-recorded media.  Delay buddy keys.  Lock official forums.  Yeah I think I see the plan here.  Make a killing on box sales, and ride the few dedicated subscribers that they retain.

1) Purposefully leaving "the chance to get early access" on ads to milk more pre-order sales even though it's clear they knew the spots were gone.

2) Hyping DX10 as a surprise feature up until days before launch only to pull a bait and switch the night before.

Did they miss any other box sales milking tactics?

Originally posted by unsane13

it took a bit for LoTRO to get directX 10 as it did not launch with it.

If I remember correctly, LOTRO neither made any promises of  having DX10 at launch as a surprise feature nor heavily hyped up DX10 support as a marketing ploy.

Originally posted by Blackbandit9

 

Originally posted by Nomatica

I have a 8800GT 512 mb, Q6600, 3 gigs of ddr2 ram, and this game gives me preformance problems, not terrible but i can no where near max the game

 

Yet another reason this game won't touch WoW - most of the people can't even run it and most can't afford to drop $1500 on a new computer to play one game.

Nah Funcom doesn't care about that. They're content with hiding in their little elitist gamer wannabe corner while "pushing the technology envelope".

Originally posted by mehhem

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

Look how many people this simple move of leaving the DX10 option selectable by Funcom fooled. They STILL believe DX10 is in the game even when evidence containing Funcom quotes are shoved in their face.

Originally posted by EbenEmael

     I pre-ordered on 02/20 but my Amazon account states that my copy of AoC CE will not ship untl 05/27.

Hope you learned to not buy into the hype next time. My local Best Buy had at least 10-15 CE boxes on the shelf.

Originally posted by adrianemery

Definately it sounds like there is an "issue" with DX 10 that cannot be fixed quickly.

My money is on microsoft broken something in directX 10 that needs a service pack toput right, although rumors are that MS have started already on DX11.

We'll see what happens when it happens.

Do you really believe they didn't realize DX10 wouldn't be able to make it at launch until the very end?

Originally posted by zanarkandabe

dual 2 core...

I'm assuming that it would be like how I played WoW with pentium4 2.0ghz 512ram and GeForce mx440........sigh...

With a core 2 duo your chances are a bit better, but be prepared to lose around $50 if you don't have a better computer available.

Originally posted by krackajap

imo the biggest reason it is made MMOs too easy. 

Big thanks to the small crowd of "hardcore mmo gamers" thinking tedium and time-consuming equates to challenging.

Originally posted by zanarkandabe

 have 2.4ghz dualcore cpu, 2gig ram, 8400m gs.

Does my laptop have a chance of playing AoC?

I was going to wait for a trial or something, but I don't think I can wait...

Do you have a "pentium dual core" or a "core 2 duo"? There is a massive difference.

The 8400 gs is also very iffy. I would say you probably have an outside shot at the absolute minimum settings running at 10-15 fps.