Originally posted by Litigator_AB

 And this dude wrote for a respected newspaper in Norway?

 

No, he wrote for a respected gaming site:

Three years as a journalist/editor for website Gamer.no, Norway

The newspaper he wrote for was never respected - it's always been a farcical tabloid joke of a newspaper:

Two years as a journalist at newspaper VG and VG Nett, Norway



 

Originally posted by Dosas

I can't stand the wow/eq crowd, and by that I mean the constant bickering/bitching/angst/nerf crying/bigotted and cynical group of players that are determined to make you feel inferior to them inside a bloody video game

Those are remarkably similar to what I perceive as being the core qualities of our average MMO Joe, not so much specific to the EQ/WoW crowd.

Originally posted by altair4

if this game survives there will be a MMO Nobel price won by Funcom.

 

They must have one of those in their cupboard already, then, given that AO is still alive and healthy.

Those trial things crack me up. I fail to see the "trial" part of handing out your CC number and (possibly still) paying to download the client  - can't they afford hosting it? Not enough bandwidth to seed a torrent? Nothing at all?

Except that playing AoC is not in any way shape or form life-threatening, nor will it ever substantially reduce your quality of life, your life expectancy, or have any negative effects on your health what so ever - unless of course you happen to be Korean and forget to eat, drink, and sleep while playing it for 64 hours straight, and then proceed to die from exhaustion.

I find likening yourself to people who actually do their communities a service by informing them of the very real dangers of using certain products, to be not only distasteful and suggest that you are very much out of touch with reality, but also disrespectful towards those who take it upon themselves to warn future users and aid recovering ex-users by drawing upon their own experiences.

Age of Conan is a fucking video game, it hasn't killed anyone yet.

Originally posted by Ghist

If you are enjoying AoC, congratulations!  Enjoy your cancer.

I hear the mortality rate for people who have played AoC actively is like 8/10.

As of today I'm part of the no longer very exclusive banned from the official (EU) forums club. The ban expires in, uhm, december, I think. I've gotten several infractions for daring to suggest that it would substantially improve community-company relations if they didn't engage in gestapo-style moderation of their own forums. Yesterday, in some thread about the GM cyber farce, I wondered aloud why they only fire some people who damage the reputation of the company (even if I found the GM thing to be more amusing than something that warrants a mountain of oh my god shock horror save the children reactions), rather than getting rid of them all - Tahitoa and Lufkin in particular. Logged on today, and voila, banned.

Tahitoa has proven herself to be -- let's just say less than reliable and anything but sensible - in the past, and I can't for the life of me figure out how or why someone ever thought of making her head moderator. If I could access my PM inbox, I could screenshot you a whole library of absurd PMs I've received from her, ususally in response to locked threads or PMs I sent her when she locked yet another well-formulated feedback topic by someone else, always on the basis of it "questioning moderation". Her most memorable response so far was a PM containing only the following: "No!"
By responding "No!", she apparently felt that she had adequately addressed all of the communication/moderation concerns I had voiced in an earlier PM when she asked me to specify my concerns so she could act on them. Want to guess if she ever did act on them?

I swear it's like talking to a wall.

I'm still playing the game, though, and I'm even going to renew my subscription in September for another few months. Still, is it really too much to ask that they don't treat their few remaining customers like utterly expendable trash?