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• • Age of Conan: Editorial: Anatomy of a Launch - Part 2

  • i too ran into the CE delay issue (amazon), fortunately my copy arrived a few days after they extended the cut off date.  I don't blame funcom for amazon's issue however.

    gameplay wise i've been having a blast, short of a couple strange quest bugs that seems to always get resoled sooner than later.  i'm 42 on my main (and only) character and still have a ton of quests to go through.  combat is a blast for me.  i prefer this combat system to any other i have ever experienced in past mmos.

    stealth patching i have a problem with however, if you've fixed something in a patch, let us know, its not that difficult.

  • Posted: 6/11/08 8:22 AM
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• • So, AoC Isn't The Greatest? Then What is?

  • meh, to each their own per their own preferences.  i haven't played too many mmos (EQ/AC/DAoC/WoW/LoTRO(beta)/AoC), but PERSONALLY, the amount of fun/enjoyment/interest i've had in AoC in the last 2 weeks of playing has overshadowed anything else i've experienced in any of the other games i've mentioned.  whether just taking the same time frame into the equation (i.e. the first 2 weeks of playing the game) or just taking the 2 weeks in AoC against my whole time in any of the other ones.

    I personally don't care what anyone else thinks of any MMO, you'd be an idiot to do so quite frankly, since they're not the ones that are going to be playing it for you.

    If you love UO or EQ then by god that's the best MMO out there, for you.  If you get wood over AC or LoTRO, then by god either of THOSE are the best MMO's out there, for you. 

    Great! go and enjoy whatever you enjoy, and stop pretending you can speak for anyone else's tastes/preferences.

     

  • Posted: 5/23/08 9:58 PM
    Age of Conan
• • Age of Conan: Beta Concerns Q&A

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    Originally posted by Lanthir
    

     No offense ,as i am sure you meant none to the people pointing out the client instability in the aoc OB,  however even Funcom staff adimit that the client in unstable .  I would point out that one  AOC staff member has been having the same issues that most of  us have been having  and has pointed that out in the IGN tech forums. 

     Today after they brought the servers back up was teh first time  I was able to play for hours without any issue and I even bumped it ip to med settings.  Now I made no changes to my rig.  That same Funcom staffer also mentioned how his game improved dramatically after the servers came back up today.  I am sure that since you build your own rigs you are more knowlegeble on getting the most performance possible out of your machines  than most of us.  However,  that does not mean  that becasue it runs smooth  on your rigs that the client does not have issues.  I am hopiful with the progress the client made in stability today  that all will be well at launch.

     

    you're right, i didn't meant any offense to anyone, nor was i implying that their (or anyone else's) clients/engines are perfect.  I just think that people assume that as soon as people start having problem, then EVERYONE is having problems and therefore the client is ALWAYS to blame and the game will undoubtedly fail because every client problem automatically takes 6 months to figure out.

    as a programmer (albeit not of the game variety), i can also say that it only take one tiny little 'oops' in many cases to throw everything out of whack and make it appear the whole thing is just garbage code.  but that doesn't mean an intelligent programmer (or in the case of aoc - 150 of them) can't figure out what the issue is very quickly and resolve it without requiring months of brain scratching.  they're there because they have skills, not because funcom picked 150 random poeple off the street to come up with a game.

  • Posted: 5/09/08 4:28 PM
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• • Age of Conan: Beta Concerns Q&A

  • Originally posted by Gorilla
    

    You must have only played LoTRO and DAoC. Either that or are not very observant when it comes to problems. Trying to think what else....nope can't off hand

    or, *GASP* i didn't HAVE any problems.

    Granted, i haven't played that many, EQ, AC, DAoC, WoW, AO(briefly), Lotro(beta only), AoC.

     

  • Posted: 5/09/08 4:21 PM
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• • Age of Conan: Beta Concerns Q&A

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    Originally posted by damian7
    not to jump on the cool guy bandwagon; but i'm curious about something -- how many games gave players a craptastic experience in the OPEN beta (which more often than not is ONLY a combination stress test + free demo, rather than playtesting for bugs) and then turned around and had a GREAT experience in the actual retail game?

     

    seriously, how many, and what were they?  cuz none come to mind, at all.

     

    i say this, because i'm sick and tired of reading about

    how gods -n- heroes is a great game,

    and how vanguard was having a so/so beta but would be great on release,

    about how great potbs was going to be on release

    and on and on and on,

    and i think the only game that actually has had a GOOD release, was LOTRO.  did they have a hellacious OPEN beta?

     everyone sitting here talking up games that haven't been released -- historical data shows you're wrong.  every post i'm reading here, i've already read a bazillion times while waiting for potbs, vanguard, hellgate:london and countless other games.  and they were all WRONG.

     i could care less if someone is talking like they work for/worked for whatever gaming company.  let them be the queen of france online, for all i care.  as long as they give me good information on games.

    i don't care one whit for what anyone "believes" a game will magically transform into from open beta (not closed beta, not alpha, but OPEN BETA) to retail-- it's not going to happen.  maybe there will be one exception that proves the rule; but so far, hasn't really happened.   by the time open beta hits, the only real work left before release is tweaking the server load and hoping it can handle all the people they anticipate on opening day.

     

    a craptastic play experience during OPEN BETA normally (read -- every time) means craptastic for the first few months of retail as gullible players, essentially,  proceed to pay to play a beta game.

     

    this post wasn't directed at anyone in particular (not even the quoted people); but, lose the fanboi glasses, lose the hater shades.  there's no "us vs. them" in the player community.  there's only players looking for a good game to play. 

     

    if you're a fanboi that can't objectively deal with criticism -- go tell mommy, cuz no one else cares.  not even your dog.

    if you're a blind hater (read - blind hater, not a hater that has actual facts backing up their complaints) - you're not doing anyone any good either. 

    if you're someone that's just tired of hearing people complain, people who have LEGITIMATE complaints -- again, go whine to mommy, cuz there's no one else that wants to hear you complaining about people complaining.  no one. not ever. not even after you're dead.

     

    if the game sucks in open beta, it'll suck on release, UNLESS it gets pushed back another 6 months, in which case, it wasn't REALLY an open beta, now was it? 

    the answer is "no. it wasn't."

     so give me a good game, give me information on a good game, or warn me away from bug-filled launches, because i'm done shelling out $50-$200 for new games that are as fun as wallowing in a septic tank.

     

    i'm not sure if i got the point of your post, other than that you need to take some calgon (sp?) ;)  as for the open beta experience in aoc, you seem to think that because the vocal minority is spewing doom&gloom then that speaks exclusively on the state of the client.  which is a joke, the ones that aren't having problem are buys enjoying the game and not dry humping the forums and bitching.

    by your logic, if i had issues with my aoc client, then i should just assume that aoc sucks crap for me and everyone under the sun and will bomb as soon as it gets released?

    then by the same logic, since my aoc client is running smooths as butter and i'm having a blast, then aoc will have a brilliant launch and is the second coming.

    or maybe i'm just not getting what you're talking about at all.

     either way, there's no such thing as a bug free game release.  especially with mmo's.  some people will have issues, some people won't.

    funny thing is that i've always been building my own computers, and i've NEVER had a single problem with any mmo i've ever played, and i've always played the clients from opening day, when there would be an abundance of issues.  but by the same token i'm sure there's people out there that have had nothing BUT problems on every client.  can't put all the blame on the software all the time, there's plenty of people that are either stupid and don't know what they're doing with their computers, or have overlooked something accientally and either don't want to look for it or don't know TO look for it and just assume it's not their problem.

  • Posted: 5/09/08 3:25 PM
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