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• • Age of Conan: Anatomy of a Launch - Part One

  • Originally posted by JK-Kanosi
    

    Originally posted by boinged
    

    Did it go wrong? Many more copies of the game were sold than anticipated and yet most people on most servers had an ok time.

    I remember the PotBS servers at launch not long ago, with just a fraction of the player base, and they were really laggy. I experienced very little lag and no queues on my server with AoC.

    PS. The instancing technology that so many people complain about in AoC actually saved Funcom lots of hassle with this oversubscribed launch, and it means if numbers die down then the instances will merge rather than servers.

    
    Do you have a quote from Funcom stating that they'd merge instances? While it may seem like common sense for Funcom to do that, I've played the game and seen how fast the mobs respawn and the amount of people in one instance and I honestly don't think that could happen without some changes. For one, the respawn timers would have to be increased if more people are added to an instance, because as of right now, they are too slow for the 5-8 people in the area. 5-8 people for Pete's sake in one instance making an area barren of mobs is piss poor design and isn't on par with traditional MMO standards of a massive multiplayer populated world.

    The instances are automatically spawned based on player population in that area--and they are automatically despawned in the same way..

     

  • Posted: 6/10/08 10:41 PM
    General Discussion
• • man i hate to see this game going vaporware but...

  • Vaporware would mean that the game had never been released, not that it was released but did poorly.

     

     

  • Posted: 6/05/08 8:24 PM
    Mabinogi
• • Age of Conan: Video Interview with AoC Composer

  • The music in the game is really excellent--a cut above.

  • Posted: 5/16/08 6:48 PM
    General Discussion
• • can you run Multiple Sessions of AoC on 1 PC

  • Aside from the technical difficulties, you can't macro or script in the game (as far as I know) and you have to aim and you have to actually hit the buttons to do each attack and if you want to do more than minimal damage/healing, you have to hit the buttons at the right time and in the right order...so, what would be the point?

  • Posted: 5/15/08 7:05 PM
    Age of Conan
• • Drop The Chaos Chicken Rule

  • It's the single-best and most creative idea they have in the entire game.

  • Posted: 5/15/08 7:01 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)