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• • Erling's feet held to the fire

  • Originally posted by woody1974
    

    Originally posted by arctarus
    

    Originally posted by woody1974
    

    Originally posted by ste2000
    

    Just to clear up some stuff.
    
    WoW and EQ2 were polished and complete games at launch, as polished as a MMO can be obviously.
    WoW was missing the Battleground to be honest, but that wasn't the core of the game (although it became quite popular afterward)
    Everything else was in there and perfectly working.
    
    
    AoC is not even close to those games at launch, so Funcom should stop comparing AoC with WoW, probably the best comparison would be Vanguard, in which case AoC comes out as a winner, but that doesn t make it shine either.

    
     

    Are you kidding me? I guess you didn't play WOW and EQ2 at launch..Both games were horrible and both games had the same issues with bugs...I was there on both 1st day launches and they were horrible..AOC is a great game and it will get better if people would learn to be patient and relax a bit.

    Even after 3 and 4 years WOW and EQ2 still have issues, any mmo that gets released will have issues..WOW and EQ2 are not as polished as people think it is, thus we still have patches. No need to patch a game that people think is polished and complete imo. If you want complete and polished go buy an Xbox 360, WII, PS3 and play those games.

    People act like it is so simple to instantly fix all their comlaints over night, well I have been a programmer for 6 years and I can tell you it isn't that simple, anyone who is good @ programming knows it takes some serious time to go through all the code and to figure out how to fix things...

    AOC has bugs, yes so what...Name a game that doesn't have any issues..

     

    WoW issue is mostly due to over population on the server, EQ2, yap i knda agree more.

    Patches coming out is not only to address bugs found in game, but also to add or change the game content. Most of the patches bought out by WoW and some from EQ2 is adding more content for the game and balancing the class. LOTR also adds tons of content during their patches. Love them...

    The diff between AoC and them is this..... AoC is missing tons of promise in-game content when launch. Most of the players that complain is about the content and also how buggy the game is like you are still playing beta.

    So the issue with AoC is more than just normal bugs....

    
     

    I can gree with you but AOC is not 1st mmo to make a promise and not deliver and somehow people have forgotten that. TBH I can't wait till WAR comes out and all this hatred can shift that way...

    I honestly don't experience 1/2 the issues people are saying exist, and it could be I take more of a logical approach to life and games. I have a lvl 80 char and multiple low level chars and yes every now and then I get a lag spike, but they are addressing these issues. Going through thousands of lines of code it not an overnight easy to fix issue.

    .In the end people are forgetting the most important things..

     

    1. This is just a game.

    2. Games are meant to be played for enjoyment and fun.

    That is all to true, except if your game is buggy and laggy as can be, it will not be enjoyable under any circumstances. I dealt with this on a couple of games, and realisticly if it has a rocky launch, most people should avoid it until 6 months or more.

     

    3. It's not a job, none of us get paid to play.

    True, but do you buy something and just use it if its not up to your expectations on its quality? I doubt it, most of us wont.

    4. Relaxing and being patient will prevent heart attacks and nervous breakdowns.

    Stress has been proven to be healthy in certain doses, also there is no scientific proof that relaxing and being patient during a games isssues or while playing will reduce or even prevent heart attacks or nervous breakdowns.

    
     

    Its been quite entertaining to watch this whole funcom debacle, hope the industry is watching hard. Best more often to learn from others mistakes.

  • Posted: 8/13/08 1:05 PM
    Age of Conan
• • Customer service at its finest

  • Yeah I dont ever recall of any mmo company doing refunds for prepaid access, no matter the amount of time.

  • Posted: 8/12/08 4:48 PM
    Age of Conan
• • Oh oh Lufkin does it again

  • Yes it seems as though there isnt anything that will stop their moderators from hitting you with a broken AoC ban stick.  Ive perused their forums for the last few days mostly to laugh at the drama going on over there, and yeah the mods are locking down some threads that seem reasonable posts IMHO. But thats how they wish to do business. I listened to a friend who played in the beta, and wont touch the game because its incomplete. Lufkin does appear to be a particularly bad choice as a CS rep. So when AoC fails, blame him and funcom lol.

  • Posted: 8/08/08 12:30 PM
    Age of Conan
• • AOC is dead, everyone has quit and forums are mayhem

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    Originally posted by X_Drake_X
    

    Originally posted by Arthousesig
    

    Originally posted by X_Drake_X
    

    This is just another example of pulling just the OP without copying the entire thread.  I am sure if we had the entire thread there would of been massive amounts (on both the fanboi and hater sides) of trolling flaming and other not very constructive posts.  Plus calling the game director a liar isn't exactly constructive either. 

     

    But he did lie, those features were not there at launch

    And the post stands on its own

    Your defense of Funcom moderation is as hilarious as the censorship on the US and EU AOC boards

    It isn't a matter of whether he lied or not.  He did.  Just like Blizzard lied about World of Warcraft.  (Battlegrounds were listed as a feature in my Manual) and other companies have lied about content that got cut at the last minute for further testing or polish. 
     

    The point is that calling him a liar is in no way constructive.  What do you expect to receive as a response?  Oh why yes I am a liar.  Thank you for pointing that out. 

    No of course not.  Instead it turns the thread into a cesspool of trolls and flames. 

    
     

    Quite entertaining as this classifies as false advertisement. which is illegal. And yet amazingly enough no one has called them on it, them or blizzard.

    I am rather enjoying watching the meltdown of AoC because, beta testers were squaking about it before it released. Provides some great humor!

  • Posted: 8/06/08 12:32 PM
    Age of Conan
• • Staff may want to rethink the entire Game Correspondance thing

  • Originally posted by AranStormah
    

    The game correspondance idea is flawed on the merit that we don't need one special stature guy to post info-threads for us about a given game. We are quite able to do that ourselves. If all their title means is that they are users that can make special articles then you need to do one out of three things:

    a) Have seperate accounts for the posting account and the article account.

    This way people like AmazingAvery, who writes excellent articles, won't discredit themselves with the absolutely rubbish threads they start, all-the-while under the percieved importantance the "Correspondent" status gives them in the eyes of the community.

    b) Correspondents are forced to take everything they post on the forums through a bullshit-filter first.

    This would again eliminate the outcry of lies and hidden propaganda, as the special stature people wouldn't be starting riots.

    c) They don't get a special account title.

    This is my favourite. The article makers would be of the same status as us, which will leave a better sense of community when seeing "one of our own" making decent articles, and you get none of the paranoia when one of the article writers messes up in the forums, because he's just a random guy with an opinion. It's a best of both worlds solution.

    On the other hand, perhaps the flaw is the actual title. If it was "Conan Newswriter" or "Conan Guru" that wouldn't be as ambigious as Correspondent.

     I have to agree with these ideas, but I think some people will still cry over it, because then they wont be able to identify who the person is, and what does that do?  Makes them think in the same way as if they knew the person and thought they were so called "fanboys" or "shills".
     

    They probably should try these ideas out to see if they can cut down  the anger. A large volume of people are really unhappy with Funcom and AoC currently, so this is opportunistic to try out some different options with correspondants.

    In the end, I hit this site and read both positive and negative feed back on a game before I would consider dropping money on it.. Would be nice to have the opposites of correspondants who can post what they dont like about a game. But we cant because trolls cant contain themselves and refrain from using foul language and hating on a game with little or no basis. since there isnt a balance, a number of people will continue to flame and/or hate on correspondants.

    at least for the most part, the boards here havent been lock happy unlike what ive seen reading on AoC forums.

     

  • Posted: 8/06/08 11:30 AM
    Age of Conan