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Who would buy Age of Conan if Funcom goes bankrupt?
General Discussion « Age of Conan 1/26/09 7:30:47 PM
Originally posted by rozenblade1
Looking at your rant I see you say current numbers close to 300,000 and then you go on to say it would top out at 500,000 or so. You even caught that yourself saying 500, 000 and yet you tell someone to read before running their mouth. Now I am curious as well as to where you are getting these numbers. The person you responded to only asked where the 300-500 numbers came from. LIGHTEN UP! See everyone has a caps button :) And for the record you also said people are reporting 300,000. What people?
I'll admit, I overreacted...I'm just really used to dealing with people that go around and slam games on the forums....forgive me. But, I did use words like PROBABLY, and MOST LIKELY, so nothing I said was concrete. The numbers I gave were my theory pretty much. I never said that they were the number of subs. I assume there are probably 200k-250k subs currently, and I assume the max number of subs the game will ever get will be around 500k. Now, I have read the posts of several players of AoC saying that the game has between 300k-350k subs. I highly doubt that...but...I cannot say for sure. Now, I'm sorry if how I had written my original post wasn't clear, but I don't like when people just look at the numbers in the post instead of reading the words around the numbers...not saying you did that Imjin, but to me it seemed like Courtsdad did. Like I said, I never said that my numbers were right. It was my theoretical estimate...
For a thread that start like this, "This is pure speculation...", your estimates are more than good enough. |
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Originally posted by jaxsundane
I'm not there and haven't heard much about so many people playing now again though I imagine if they did merge servers they would all look like more people are playing again since they are more crowded.
Here's a hint for you, number of logged players in Xfire has increased like +50% over a 5 weeks. What did you vote for? |
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Originally posted by xpiher
Playing on a PvP server is like playing a completely different game. I wouldn't let tortage disuade you from doing it tho, since that's the only place where people can actively and effectively prevent you from questiing
PvP in form of Sieges is another aspect of the game that should be experienced. |
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Originally posted by Darksix
I swear to god on my kids it worked for me and it is playable as I write this. I even deleted my credit card info......Something is fishy here...maybe a bug????
Wouldn't you think that the Financial report should tell the stock holders a thing or two about the change pricing strategy? lol. |
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Originally posted by Azrile
I promise I'll stop posting the full story, when you stop posting half the story. The box is basically free now, of course people are going to play it more than when it was $40. I even put in about 10 hours over the past week.
You are only posting half the story. Retail, the box is still $31.99. The people selling it for $2 are generally indie game shops who have to get rid of their stock before taxes are calculated. Does this mean AoC is doing "great" or the same as it was at launch - NO. But what it does mean is that you can't say the game will go F2P just based of the fact that you can pick up a copy for $2.
Amazon.com sells it for $30, and it is currently at like #1500 on their sales chart. Saying the retail box is $31 is misleading, because nobody is buying it at that price. Play.com has it for $15, but it takes about 2 mins to find it for less than $2. like you said.. at this point retailers are just trying to get rid of their stock..... which makes it highly unlikely they are going to be ording more boxes. Once you are no longer recieving order from retailers, it would really be smart for Funcom to offer the game as a free download, and then try and get subscriptions after the free month. Which is probably what is coming in the next month. Free client download with free month for new players, and a free month for returning players and then try and hold on to subscribers.
I am still looking for your point. lol |
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Originally posted by Rohn
Thats right numbers can not be proven so the make believe needs to stop, the blanket statements about pop needs to stop - I don't see you guys in the lotro forum bitching? why not? same thing. I can log in and see many new faces - something which you two can't or won't. I am really sorry you can't take it - must be most upsetting.
It's not upsetting in the least. It's a game. I do agree that the make believe, and the attempts at deception, should stop. Unfortunately, you're one of the primary purveyors of manufactured numbers, on this list and others, so I hope you will take your own advice. With the emotional investment you have, I know that will be hard to do. LOTRO is a great game, with a much better than average community. You don't see much in the way of complaining on that board, because there are far less propagandists trying to deceive people about the game with make believe numbers, and claims after every little patch that the game is "like a totally new game, tons better, 11 out of 10". That is THE difference - most LOTRO players don't seem to feel compelled to lie to improve the image of their game. Many AoC fanatics appear obsessed with two things: the image of their game within the MMO community (and therefore sub numbers), and WAR. Just playing and enjoying their game seems secondary to them.
Says the LotRO player posting in the AoC forum. LOFL. |
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Originally posted by Azrile
and it will be an extremely limited release and there are still no beta testers in the game who can talk about the game, except for a girl who is friends with the lead developer. Twice now Tasos has failed to answer a question about 'servers'.. and makes it sound like the game will release with only 1 server on the 22nd, which means 10-15k players. The Jan22nd release sounds exactly like a paid beta.... i'll be curious to see if they make those 10k players sign an NDA. anyway.. off topic.
Ehmm... I think you should read this and say that again. www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/219254 |
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#13 today It have been up there for like a month now. Cool a lot of new blood and more to come now that it is sort of official that Darkfall have been postponed again. |
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Originally posted by AmazingAvery
Those raids in WotLK are just an aspect of the game, not the whole content.
Oh I'm sorry was The 2 Lvl 80 additions (which are not even on test server yet) whole content? This is just an addition to the game, you know, improving it, giving the players what they want and ask for. There is also a heavy tie in with crafting changes coming and story plot.
When is this stuff patched in? Will it be in place with 1.04? |
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Originally posted by Phenomenonn
I agree, that is an awesome name. Why don't you just check? By the way, why is your name in this forum Phenomenonn? |
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Originally posted by Tjommis
More information on this please. I did not find anything on this. |
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Have not seen anybody posting this very usefull Announcement on FAQ over here yet. forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php Could be usefull. |
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Originally posted by AmazingAvery
A lot of what you write makes sense, but to be honest I have noticed the crafting resources drop thing. Nevertheless I was not talking about that, I was adressing the eternal "I don't want to look like everybody else" nonsense. The game is so packed of unique looks right now, that it is actually hard to not look special... |
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Guys, I am fed up hearing this itemization Bullshit anymore. The game is fcking packed with hot armor, but if you gonna run back and forth between Conall Valey and Wild lands of Zelata, sorry you are not gonna see to much of it. Here's how it goes. 1. aoc.yg.com/. Check it out more than 41000 items. Almost every item in there is possible to find in the game 2. It you want to get a unique design, if it is important to you, here is what you have to do. * Do a zone on Epic. All bosses will drop the most weird blue stuff that is super cool. I have tons of pices from Epic Zones and people ask me all the time "where did you get that, where did you get this?". * Don't be lazy. Open up all those chests you'll find around in Hyboria. Most of the time it's not the coolest stuff inside, but every now and then you can find very nice blue drops. Aaaand, these drops are not bind on pickup, which means you have a hot pice of equipment for the trader if you don't like it yourself. * Craft it. There is tons of cools armors you can craft in the game (Basic, Guild and Culture armors) * Hey maybe you are too lazy to do the hard crafting grind, maybe you rather enjoy raiding. Well raiding in itself is going to give you nice drops, but it might alo give you nice receipes. Give them to a crafter you know and get him to make you the stuff. * Some quests also give you good gear that might last for 10 levels at least. Be aware of that the last 50 added quests expands the itemization even further. Ymirs pass in example have tons of yummy. Also E. Mountains have lots of good stuff on the later quests. *Revamped dungeons, has a lot of new stuff inside. I did Main system again this weekend and damn that place has like an entire new section to it. Tons of bosses on the end all of them dropping really nice blue stuff. Hard as hell, but if you have a good group you can do it. This stuff is seriously just waiting on getting picked up. *Ohhh, tons of PvP armors *Finally, all of the 3 new zones or dungeons coming with patch 1.04 are going to introduce another shit load of equipment. Let me know if someone have a specific type of armor or item they are looking for. I can probably help. |
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Originally posted by octa
Nahhh I'll keep holding the grudge, thanks.
Re: the news All I can do is a Nelson "HaHa." They should have merged months ago. Too bad about all those Battlekeeps. Hope you didn't grind too hard.
In that case, can you pull out that FC doll again and show us where it hurts? |
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Originally posted by Krewel
This is right, trebuches and catapults are better to destroy buildings, but nevertheless you fail to say that. I am only saying this because I have used mammoth many times now and it is kind of semiusefull with it's huge damage zone. Perfectly balanced as a mount also should not really become like a vital factor in success or not in the game. |
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Originally posted by Unfinished Wha What? 270k isn't insane Blizzard multi-million numbers, but are huge for any MMO other than WoW. If they had 270k subs they would be grossing over $40 Million annually. math is yer friend.
Well gross on 40 Mil pr year = 10 pr Quarter, which is exactly what FC reprots, so again another indication of AoC numbers being 270 000. And this one was deducted by yourself. |
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Originally posted by Krewel
Don't worry, the snow mammoth is completely useless, except for the cool looks. Contrary to what the newest AoC ad on this website tries to show, the screen does not shake when the mammoth moves and you cannot knock back 5 people with it.
WTF?????? Of course the Mammoth is usefull. Huges Structual damage zone and of course you can use your mount to do knockback moves!!!! This is what happens when you have experts that's not playing the game. |
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I'll just have to reactivate my old account back from release of the game.
