| Username | Sinkael |
| Real Name | Chris Ruiz |
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Originally posted by araliun
Replying to Sinkael's post:
Regardless of the financials; everything in my initial post stands. FunCom is a mis-managed company, mislead the gaming community, stockholders and ultimately abused its players/customers.
Its nice to know there are emoployees of FunCom using these forums and spoofing themselves to the rest of us.
FACT: the number of CONAN players on XFIRE have dropped continually and significantly over the past 3 months. Hmm - wonder why.
FACT: FUNCOM's stock price has TANKED to a all time low over the past two years, only 3 months after the release of CONAN. The stockholders know why - LOSS, LOSS, LOSS. To be at $51 a share in the end of May 2008 and a record low in the past two years of $13.65 as of a few days ago, tells much.
FACT: at the end of the day - it does not matter how many initial copies the game sold - what matter is the individual experience each one of those customers have/had with the game. The clear truth is that players have quit the game, uninstalled the game from their computers, cancelled their subscriptions, and it is VERY EVIDENT in the game!!! Gwahlur is EMPTY, DEAD, GHOST TOWN! And I am reading the same for all the other servers as well.
WHERE is the full-disclosure regarding the client crashes?
WHERE is the directx-10 that is clearly labeled on the retail box?
WHERE is the PVP system labeled on the retail box?
WHEN will we see fixes, WHEN will we see directx-10, WHEN will we see PVP?Continue your SPIN MACHINE, FUNCOM - its just more of the same from you - and you have people in these forums serving us exactly that.
Angry much?
I want to address a few of your points.
As for you saying I work for Funcom, I wish, I could afford my truck payment then. The initial sale of the game is a very important factor, it means they can pay back much of the capital they got to build the game and keep developing.
After reading your post, I wonder if you even read my response or if you simply saw someone respond and not spit vitriol at Funcom and assume I was a fanboy. Quite the contrary, I don't really enjoy AoC all that much and I knew I wouldn't from the get go, the only reason I play is because it's a different flavor candy, I have had all the WoW I can stand need something to kill time until WAR releases (I am a Mythic fanboy). Like I said in my previous post, we can't claim doom and gloom until November when the prepaid time starts running out, this will tell us how many are renewing.
You know I have seen the 800k with only 415k still active (yea you missed 15k people) thrown about as the demise of AoC for a week or so now. It is utter crap, AoC is not floundering nor can it be considered a failure, yet.
Notice the yet at the end of the above sentence.
Here is what those numbers do tell us;
1. AoC had a lot of hype.
2. A lot of people bought into said hype.
3. Funcom FAILED to deliver on hype.
4. AoC is still a successful MMO (14.99 x 415k = $6,204,250.00 a year - off just subscription fees / 49.99 x 800k = 39,992,000.00)
5. The true tell tale signs will be in November when pre-paid subs start to run out and we see how many are renewing.
So take the boxed sales + a year of service at the 415k mark and we get 46,196,250.00 in the first year (this doesn't include CE sales, just the pricing at 49.99 for every box sale, actual amount from boxed sales will be higher).
If you consier nearly 50 millions dollars of revunue in the first year a failure, well enjoy the tin foil hat chicken little.
Once again, all the numbers tell us is that somewhere between 40-50% of the AoC population came into the game expecting way more then they got. This isn't surprising when you look at the pedistol they AoC was put on, it was suppose to be the second comming of the MMO messiah and instead you got a decent title that needs some work.
What is your favourite Priest archetype class in Age of Conan?