"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
I just got my key and initiated the download using firefox on vista. I had to reset the page about 20 times before I got it. I am now waiting in line for the download. I just wish there was somewhere else to download the client from.
edit- just saw the above post after I finally posted, downloading the torrent now.
"For a wounded man shall say to his assailant, 'If I live, I will kill you. If I die, You are forgiven.' Such is the rule of honour..."
Nope, just refreshing. I just refreshed once every 5 mins. A lot less painful that way.
So you did pray to FunCrom! I'm number 240 inline and I'm still stoked about this!
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
ahh but according to the fanbois we paid for the beta, there was a need for it, and it was only $5 a month so if you didn't get it , because you couldnt afford $5 you must be homeless. Now, they are offering it for free. So basically you spent money for nothing, cause people were belittling you about not wanting to spend the money.
Ok..
So someone doesn't want to pay $5 to beta test a game from May 1st.. to what is it the 13th or 15th?
3 days head start if you pre-order starts the 17th...
Why would they decide to pay $5 because someone on a forum said they must be homeless?
Did the fanboi force them to pay.. steal their credit info? Sounds like a personal choice to me.
Hell I have a hard enough time being able to justify paying $40 or $50 on most MMO's as it is...
Let alone $5 for 2 weeks (more or less) of a beta test.
At least if I pay the $5 for the 3 day headstart I get an extra 10 days of play time..thrown in.
So I guess the short version is.. what is the complaint again?
Well, really, this whole FC / Fileplanet thing was a way for both companies to get marketting promotion from one another. You don't really have to pay to get into the beta, it's just one of those things that's supposed to be like...
"Hey! Didn't like fileplanet before? We added sumtin' new!!!11!! Rejoin us or join us for the first time to see all of our other great features!"
It was really just something used for Fileplanet so they could get their name across... if you registered JUST for the beta than that's kind of stupid... it isn't as if that is all they offer, and if you didn't see this coming then you are unfamiliar with all the complaining that has been going on for the past week on these forums.
While, like I said it works both ways, a lot of people on Fileplanet who weren't going to try AoC before though "Meh? Why not." and are enjoying it. Both companies benefit.
Whether or not this works... I'm going to be expecting a LOT of complaining. The download will take days for people to install lol... but at least now FC can really stress test their servers as well. You thought the whining here was bad before...? You haven't seen ANYTHING yet.
Expect a whole lot more complaining on these forums on the performance... someone will need to call the wahhhmbulance
After i spent about an hour i finally succeded to get my key
Hope my computer can play this game the first few days. getting a new computer soon and i guess it will run AoC pretty good
Well Dont give up hope guys, just keep refreshing the side by going back to the page u enter ur info and email then just press join beta or whatever it sais. worked out pretty well for me:) GL all
I just got my key... after one hour of refreshing, pressing back, and refreshing again. Keep at it and you'll get one!
(By the way, I'm at work right now, so the one hour of constantly refreshing isn't TOO bad ... it's not like I wasted my free time doing that for an hour :P).
I just got mine. I was using my usual browser, firefox, and was having trouble with the authentication code. I switched to IE and BLAMO i got my key just like that. Coincidence? perhaps, but its not enough to make me switch back to IE.
You can use the torrents, but I found that I got a max of about 700kb/s and an average of around 100kb/s.
The FilePlanet download goes at well over 1MB/s so I would say it is worth the wait in line for the superior speed, and in additon you know there is not a keylogger or other malware in the software.
btw,if u guys have problems getting the key,open a few windows in you IE browser and enter all the information and after that hit for the key button:D,it worked for me after 2 minutes!
wow. Im not gonna get that speed because im living in sweden. But hey, seems i can get it down atleast xD
2mins left and i got enough space~ I'll post pictures tomorrow and scream of pain and agony about the lags~!
Just be glad you're not in Bangkok like me, but hey I'm just glad I have the chance to give it a spin. Number 145 in the queue and still thanking FunCrom for his generosity
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
I live on the east coast in the USA and am averaging between 200-350kb/s 14 hours to go woo-hoo. the bit torrent links were much much worse for me like 2.5kb/s bad. good luck everyone.
"For a wounded man shall say to his assailant, 'If I live, I will kill you. If I die, You are forgiven.' Such is the rule of honour..."
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Finally got mine, see ya'll in game!
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wohoo...number 415 in line to download.......gonna be a long night
Did going back and hitting the stop botton help?
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
CS Lewis
Rather than waiting to download from fileplanet, just grab this torrent. It's the same client install.
I'm getting over 300KB/s
...make that over 800kB/s
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4159537/Age_of_Conan_Fileplanet_Open_Beta
I just got my key and initiated the download using firefox on vista. I had to reset the page about 20 times before I got it. I am now waiting in line for the download. I just wish there was somewhere else to download the client from.
edit- just saw the above post after I finally posted, downloading the torrent now.
"For a wounded man shall say to his assailant, 'If I live, I will kill you. If I die, You are forgiven.' Such is the rule of honour..."
Did going back and hitting the stop botton help?
Nope, just refreshing. I just refreshed once every 5 mins. A lot less painful that way.
"Without funk, is there hope for panda?" -Derivative of Ishmael
http://gravgaming.net
A site for pro and recreational gaming.
Did going back and hitting the stop botton help?
Nope, just refreshing. I just refreshed once every 5 mins. A lot less painful that way.
So you did pray to FunCrom! I'm number 240 inline and I'm still stoked about this!
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
CS Lewis
So someone doesn't want to pay $5 to beta test a game from May 1st.. to what is it the 13th or 15th?
3 days head start if you pre-order starts the 17th...
Why would they decide to pay $5 because someone on a forum said they must be homeless?
Did the fanboi force them to pay.. steal their credit info? Sounds like a personal choice to me.
Hell I have a hard enough time being able to justify paying $40 or $50 on most MMO's as it is...
Let alone $5 for 2 weeks (more or less) of a beta test.
At least if I pay the $5 for the 3 day headstart I get an extra 10 days of play time..thrown in.
So I guess the short version is.. what is the complaint again?
Well, really, this whole FC / Fileplanet thing was a way for both companies to get marketting promotion from one another. You don't really have to pay to get into the beta, it's just one of those things that's supposed to be like...
"Hey! Didn't like fileplanet before? We added sumtin' new!!!11!! Rejoin us or join us for the first time to see all of our other great features!"
It was really just something used for Fileplanet so they could get their name across... if you registered JUST for the beta than that's kind of stupid... it isn't as if that is all they offer, and if you didn't see this coming then you are unfamiliar with all the complaining that has been going on for the past week on these forums.
While, like I said it works both ways, a lot of people on Fileplanet who weren't going to try AoC before though "Meh? Why not." and are enjoying it. Both companies benefit.
Whether or not this works... I'm going to be expecting a LOT of complaining. The download will take days for people to install lol... but at least now FC can really stress test their servers as well. You thought the whining here was bad before...? You haven't seen ANYTHING yet.
Expect a whole lot more complaining on these forums on the performance... someone will need to call the wahhhmbulance
Yay finally.
After i spent about an hour i finally succeded to get my key
Hope my computer can play this game the first few days. getting a new computer soon and i guess it will run AoC pretty good
Well Dont give up hope guys, just keep refreshing the side by going back to the page u enter ur info and email then just press join beta or whatever it sais. worked out pretty well for me:) GL all
(damn the downloading wait time just sucks....)
Interesting. This would be the much better way to download the file... but I'd be cautious downloading from here.
Hello There !
I just got my beta key , this is a torrent for the beta client ,if the fileplanet servers are to busy or you have errors in some files .
http://www.torrentreactor.net/torrents/1823504/Age-of-Conan-Fileplanet-Open-Beta-UNZIPPED
Enjoy!
See ya in Hyboria
Ace my boyfriend and I both just got one each, Just took about half an hour of spamming refresh and reentering details.
Good luck everyone.
I just got my key... after one hour of refreshing, pressing back, and refreshing again. Keep at it and you'll get one!
(By the way, I'm at work right now, so the one hour of constantly refreshing isn't TOO bad ... it's not like I wasted my free time doing that for an hour :P).
I just got mine. I was using my usual browser, firefox, and was having trouble with the authentication code. I switched to IE and BLAMO i got my key just like that. Coincidence? perhaps, but its not enough to make me switch back to IE.
worth a try tho for you guys having trouble tho!
(yes i was set to accept cookies and blah)
Just for the download guys...
You can use the torrents, but I found that I got a max of about 700kb/s and an average of around 100kb/s.
The FilePlanet download goes at well over 1MB/s so I would say it is worth the wait in line for the superior speed, and in additon you know there is not a keylogger or other malware in the software.
Just my 2 cents.
Cheers,
Riker99
ah, Thanks alot! I was going to ask just that question xD Time to make some room on my computer
The speed of the mole and the power of steel is my weapon
got my key and waiting for the queue
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whats the speed of the downloader?
btw,if u guys have problems getting the key,open a few windows in you IE browser and enter all the information and after that hit for the key button:D,it worked for me after 2 minutes!
I am averaging around 1.5MB/s using the FilePlanet download, about 2 hours till I can decapitate some Picts
!
said it would take me about 10 hours before I can do mine. I said screw it. File will take forever to download. Gonna try it via torrent.
wow. Im not gonna get that speed because im living in sweden. But hey, seems i can get it down atleast xD
2mins left and i got enough space~ I'll post pictures tomorrow and scream of pain and agony about the lags~!
The speed of the mole and the power of steel is my weapon
Finally got my key...YAY
Just be glad you're not in Bangkok like me, but hey I'm just glad I have the chance to give it a spin. Number 145 in the queue and still thanking FunCrom for his generosity
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
CS Lewis
Got my key...
I'll be glad if i can play by tommorow night...
I live on the east coast in the USA and am averaging between 200-350kb/s 14 hours to go woo-hoo. the bit torrent links were much much worse for me like 2.5kb/s bad. good luck everyone.
"For a wounded man shall say to his assailant, 'If I live, I will kill you. If I die, You are forgiven.' Such is the rule of honour..."