Originally posted by Zlayer77

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This date is also good for me as I will probably be tired of all the fun Im having over at the SWTOR forums.. and need a new place to hang out and watch.. as the fanboy vs HATE train starts...  I'm Really looking forward to this battle, been waiting for years now... Iv sharpend my knifes and Im ready to fight.. hope you fanboys are ready.. Its going to be WAR!!!!

Thank you Funcom, Im looking forward to all the drama and I hope it will entertain me lots and lots during the coming months..

You have also teamed up with EA so this is gona be dubble the FUN...

only in sweden we have this kinda people. lmao

The wait is over for the fail to finally continue!

Originally posted by Blackbrrd

Americans might not appreciate the date, but in most of Europe, February 21st 2012 is written 21022012, or backwards 21022012. Yeah it's a Palindrom. ;)

Also April 24th is 24042012, there seems to be something there.  Anyway they love to make numbers mean something.  The ARG's are incredible. 

See all you doomsayers in game a month after release.  Don't worry we won't quote your predictions of fail and rub them in your face.  We leave that to the trolls.

Seems like butthurt AoC ex-fans already made up their mind about TSW heh.

Thing is, after a lot of frustrations in the first few months of AoC and the inevitable ragequit, I was a Funcom hater all right but since I love non-tab-target melee combat and I'm a huge fan of collision detection and general realism in video games I saw the potential in the game and I did revisit it many times since then and Funcom won me over.

They didn't abandon the game and even though they were ultra slow in improving AoC they did eventually made the game much more fun and the melee combat is still the best you can find in a MMO.

They improved the engine a lot so I don't really expect many technical problems in TSW, I wont preorder though, I still need to try it before I buy it but hating on Funcom at this point is just dumb.

I can understand the still burning Sony hate after the SWG fiasco but I don't get the Funcom hate at all.

Move on kids.

Originally posted by Hycoo

Originally posted by cinos

Lol, so TSW press nda lifts 1 day after the GW2 press nda lifts.

Gotta love that timing. :p

They are confident.

Riiight, if they were so confident they'd pop the NDA on the same day. But still tis' hilarious.

Originally posted by Zeroxin

Originally posted by Hycoo

Originally posted by cinos

Lol, so TSW press nda lifts 1 day after the GW2 press nda lifts.

Gotta love that timing. :p

They are confident.

Riiight, if they were so confident they'd pop the NDA on the same day. But still tis' hilarious.

A date is not just a date in TSW.

Originally posted by ProfRed

Originally posted by Blackbrrd

Americans might not appreciate the date, but in most of Europe, February 21st 2012 is written 21022012, or backwards 21022012. Yeah it's a Palindrom. ;)

Also April 24th is 24042012, there seems to be something there.  Anyway they love to make numbers mean something.  The ARG's are incredible. 

See all you doomsayers in game a month after release.  Don't worry we won't quote your predictions of fail and rub them in your face.  We leave that to the trolls.

april 24th also has connections to The  Longest Journey

I really want to play this game tried out the beta.. But if it fails it will give me something to play till GW2 comes out. So im looking at it from a win/win situation...

Originally posted by profess0r

I really want to play this game tried out the beta.. But if it fails it will give me something to play till GW2 comes out. So im looking at it from a win/win situation...

are you saying you tried the beta? If then, how was the game like? did you like it?

There's a good chance that you're not going to see the majority of the press articles upon GW2 NDA drop just because it takes a little time both to write them, have them reviewed and then post them. Confident or not, Funcom is stupid to drop the NDA one day after GW2. Regardless of which game is better in the eyes of the gaming community, GW2 has hands-down more hype and fanaticism. Funcom is shooting themselves in the foot on this. They're better off either pre-empting the GW2 NDA drop, or giving it a few days after.

EDIT: By the way yes, I realize some sites will have their articles written ahead of time and ready to go the moment NDAs drop, but you're still going to see them popping up and drowning all other news days afterward so the point stands.

First of all i dont think Funcom can or should care about how their press embargo is lifted compared to rivals. This has probably been planned long ago internally and the date actually means something for TSW believe it or not.

Second of all since GW2 is so much more hyped than TSW, a comparison of the 2 games can only benefit TSW if its any good. Articles will come about both games in almost equal measures, atleast on mmorpg dedicated websites. Most players are stoked about GW2 and what is has to offer (not blaming them), ''but what is this talk about TSW? The media has just as much positive to say about TSW as about GW2? Wow maybe it can be just as good then?'' People are already sold on GW2, but they seem to be much more sceptical about TSW.

Originally posted by profess0r

Originally posted by chopgr

Originally posted by profess0r

I really want to play this game tried out the beta.. But if it fails it will give me something to play till GW2 comes out. So im looking at it from a win/win situation...

are you saying you tried the beta? If then, how was the game like? did you like it?

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Thats pretty good news for me man. GW2 is not my cap of tea (im sick of dragons and medieval setting) and this modern/metaphysical/horror setting of TSW really makes my blood warm.

I for one appreciate the fact that TSW didnt get as hyped as other games. The people that will aproach it will probably stay unlike the hyper products of SWTOR (which i currently play) and upcomming GW2.

Well, I'd rather play a bad game that does things differently than a bad game that doesn't, so I'm going to be casually optimistic about this one.  I'd actually like to see what Funcom could do with an MMORPG that was successful, because despite not achieving great commercial success, both Age of Conan and Anarchy Online had some interesting high points.

I'm on "wait and see" mode for this game.

I've loved most MMO Funcom made and technicly this one should be no different.  AO is a masterpiece (Imo) and Conan is really unique in its own way.

Guess it's more of a pumped up wait and see after all :P

All we can do is wait and hope. You would think that they have learnt their lesson.. but like i say time will tell.

Originally posted by profess0r

All we can do is wait and hope. You would think that they have learnt their lesson.. but like i say time will tell.

Well next beta phase is already on the move (previous closed). If you try to log on it will patch up actually. The word is that this next phase is as good as the entire game :P Makes me quite optimistic actually.

Originally posted by DaSpack

Originally posted by profess0r

All we can do is wait and hope. You would think that they have learnt their lesson.. but like i say time will tell.

Well next beta phase is already on the move (previous closed). If you try to log on it will patch up actually. The word is that this next phase is as good as the entire game :P Makes me quite optimistic actually.

Is there anything you can tell us right now?  Or is it all in NDA still?

Originally posted by watchawatcha

Originally posted by DaSpack

Originally posted by profess0r

All we can do is wait and hope. You would think that they have learnt their lesson.. but like i say time will tell.

Well next beta phase is already on the move (previous closed). If you try to log on it will patch up actually. The word is that this next phase is as good as the entire game :P Makes me quite optimistic actually.

Is there anything you can tell us right now?  Or is it all in NDA still?

All i know is that the next beta phase has the largest amount of changes/fixes yet, and that the changes are gonna be very much visibile from the moment you launch the game. The NDA probably won't be lifted until very close to launch.

Originally posted by watchawatcha

Originally posted by DaSpack

Originally posted by profess0r

All we can do is wait and hope. You would think that they have learnt their lesson.. but like i say time will tell.

Well next beta phase is already on the move (previous closed). If you try to log on it will patch up actually. The word is that this next phase is as good as the entire game :P Makes me quite optimistic actually.

Is there anything you can tell us right now?  Or is it all in NDA still?

Well I just hear this from a friend testing the game. Also remember it's the NDA of the press that is lifted. Funcom have had gaming press over in their offices in Oslo and Montreal now for almost 2 weekends.. They are allowed to start publish about it Tuesday next week (21st Feb).