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• • You are not special

  • Originally posted by Zorvan
    

    Originally posted by gillvane1
    

    Originally posted by Amaranthar
    

    When hundreds of thousands of gamers are all basically the same, it's kind of hard to find a heroic figure among them. Heh

     

    This clip is about Age of Conan, and how you spend the first 20 levels solo, and there is some story line about you being the Hero, or something. The point is that it sets the the wrong tone for a game where you have to interact with other players.

     

    Where AoC screwed up in the singleplayer/story portion of the game could have been made solid with a few minor changes:

    1.) You are not THE chosen one, but ONE of the chosen.

    2.) The tattoo idea was flat stupid. One thing, no way to remove it, which takes away from player appearance choices ( not like there are many ways to look different to start with ). For another, I doubt a tattoo that could be copied by anyone with a porcupine quill and some henna ink would be the ideal choice of identifying the chosen to each other, as well as making it easy for the enemy to simply kill anyone with the tattoo and game over, battle won.

    3.) What if you decide you don't want to be a chosen, but go your own way instead? Sorry, no can do. Which is why AoC is linear and uninspirational.

    Failcom made the same dumbass decision as Flagshit Studios did with Hellgate: London. They made a singleplayer game, and then tried to make it fit the mmorpg mold so they could charge subs. That simply does not work.

     

    AoC ruined my Roleplay experience when I could not choose between helping the whore Casilda or not. Right at the beginning of the game. That's why this so called MMORPG genre should be evaluated. Perhaps a MMO would suit better rather than MMORPG. Then on top of forcing you to help the whore, she follows you! There was a map that already told you where to go, I don't think that Casilda was necessary.

     

  • Posted: 9/05/08 2:59 PM
    General Discussion
• • You are not special

  • I always RP a third-story man a la Elder Scrolls' bard. I am no hero, but I have money. That's what matters

  • Posted: 9/05/08 2:33 PM
    General Discussion
• • Amazingly very immature community, after 7 days of playing.

  • The only game where I could say "this is a good community" was in The Saga of Ryzom. Other than that, the rest of MMOs I played are full of drama queens. When I played AoC, the first thing I did was to disable the OOC channel and help channel. I had a friend that helped me when I got stuck so I didnt need to ask on the chat.

     

    And about guilds, dont even get me started. I wish I could put all members of a guild in ignore.

     

  • Posted: 9/05/08 2:17 PM
    Lord of the Rings Online
• • Desparation is setting in.Leipzig Interview with Erling Ellingsen, Part One

  • Originally posted by Cymdai
    

    The problem I have with this particular issue is not that Ellingsen is telling the truth, it's the fact that it took him several months before deciding that honesty was the proper course of action.

    This glaring oversight is only magnified by the endless levels of general PR deceit that we've all witnessed over the course of time as well.

    I have to question the sincerity of the honesty here, because I genuinely just don't believe Funcom cares, at all, about it's customers (which they've demonstrated through their actions for over 90 days), and I can't help but wonder if this is nothing more than a desparate tactic to try and save face amongst some of their customer base.

    However. I do believe this is step 1 in the RIGHT direction for Ellingsen and Funcom. Want to know what would really send a stronger message than a delicate admittance of wrong-doing? Here's my list.

    1) Restore forum privileges to all customers who have been banned.

    Funcom censored so many people. I have no doubt that many of the banned offenders deserved their punishment, as this game generated a lot of hate. However, many users were banned simply for stating that they were dissatisfied with a product, now inferior and incomplete by admittance of Ellingsen himself, which I don't believe is fair. Or, if Ellingsen would like to test out how absurd the forum moderation is, have him create a few alternate forum names, and post slightly negative things about the game. Maybe if he was banned from his own boards for civilly citing the flaws that lie within it, he'd understand his community's distrust of the company better.

    2) Offer a "Return to Hyboria" campaign later this year. Don't you DARE do this without fixing the game first, either. In other words, provide all previously paying customers a full, free month to anyone who had a subscription between May and the present. If the game is truly fixed, people may trickle back in slowly. Do NOT half-ass this, and try to rush it in to compete against Warhammer.

    3) Start fixing performance issues. Hell, dedicate a whole month to nothing but performance patches.

    4) Shut the PR Hype-and-Lie machines down entirely. Want to know how to undermine the sincerity of any true gesture admitting wrong-doing? Put out an article or a statement that is deliberately misleading the next day. We don't care about how many boxes you sold, nor do we want to hear about the "mature rating", or anything else. We want the game to be fixed, and fun. Rubbing our faces in the dirt is not an intelligible way to keep us excited about the future of Hyboria.

    5) Dismiss the idea of an expansion pack for now. Want to hammer a nail in the coffin? Keep talking about the expansion pack when the elements that were supposed to be in your core game aren't even there. I *hope* I speak for everyone when I say that it is preposterous to charge people for things that you failed to deliver in your first game due to technical incompetence. I will personally never even consider re-subbing to this game if an expansion pack is released before this game is repaired.

     

    agree with all points. but the damage is already done. if this game will change for good, it will take around a year maybe, and if Funcom is still on business and they have the resources to do so.  An expansion at this moment is just hype. First they had the nerve to say they will release it early 2009, then changed to late 2009. The PR/Marketing team is a joke.

    I perma-banned Funcom and won't ever buy a game from them. Their stock went down to the toilet,  I think people realized that this company really screwed it up, so why to invest on them?

  • Posted: 9/04/08 4:11 PM
    Age of Conan
• • How come no one ever talks about game play ?

  • gameplay is the same ol' story, talk to an NPC, get a quest, run to the site of business, and run back to  the NPC. start to read the  previous sentence again.

     

     

  • Posted: 9/04/08 5:12 AM
    Age of Conan