Originally posted by woody1974

Did you ever stop to think that maybe they aren't clueless. They know full well what goes on in the forums and probably even the game. The difference between us and them is we get caught up in all the forum garbage and they don't, some of us let others opinions influence our decision making process on whether we should try out a game or jump on the next bus back to carebear er I mean WOW .

Sure you can file a lawsuit against them, but keep in mind that they aren't bound by the same laws you and I may be bound to and remember it is just a game, its not surgery or your job..this isn't a life altering horrific accident...

The reason I said that they are clueless is because the changes that they are making with each patch are not really fixing anything but are actually making the game worse. I understand that they follow a certain design document but it needs to be changed to fix the pressing issues first. Just to give you an example, they are doing class balancing when a lot of the feats don't work. It makes no sense.

The beta process made no sense either, at any given time they had at least 2 or 3 different beta clients for each group. The closed beta testers had one client, the internal testers supposedly had a client that was a few version ahead and had all of the fixes for the closed beta client. And when they had the Fileplanet open beta, the client was a few versions older than the closed beta client. The tech beta was a complete travesty. The poor tech testers were expected to download a 15GB file to stress test a certain feature for 3 hours once, sometimes twice, a month.

As far as laws go, if they are doing business in the US, they are bound by the same laws as any other US corporation.

As far as this being just a game, you're absolutely right. But at the same time, these people got very rich by lying to customers. If Kevin Trudeau, the guy who wrote "Natural Cures They Don't Want You To Know About", was convicted of fraud, it's not out of the realm of possibility. Basically, it's about where are we going to draw the line? Sure, it's just a game and that's just a cell phone, and that's just a car... but there is a reason why these laws exsist - to protect us, the consumers, from fraudulent actions by corporations.

 

 

I have to agree with this. They have no idea wtf they are doing and their director is completely clueless about the state of the game and the community. They are trying very hard to suppress all negativity on the official forums by hiring even more fanboi mods hoping to lure even more poor souls with their promise of boobies and blood.

The game was released unfinished and hyped with lies and deceit. In most markets, that would be grounds for some sort of a lawsuit. Hell, I may be going a bit overboard with this, but the people in charge need to be arrested. They knowingly and willingly scammed people with lies about their product. It's basically fraud. Yes, it's a game and it only costs $50 but they made millions fraudulently promoting their game.

 

Well said, I hope some one does file a lawsuit against them. This kind of crap needs to stop when in comes to software especially games.

 

Honestly Funcom is the new SOE if anything, they latest efforts of SOE has actually be quite positive.

Originally posted by random11

Aion may be polished, but westerners will have a hard time with the artistic design.

 

I mean there is only so much purple and pulsating white light you can take before you throw up.

good thing i used to their particular design, watch my fair share of anime of all sorts, so Im not bothered by that :P