Age of Conan: Conan Nominated for Golden Joystick

Szark

Funcom has announced that Age of Conan has been nominated for the Golden Joystick award in several categories, including PC game of the year, and game of the year.

We are honored to announce that we have been nominated for the Golden Joystick award and now you can help us win the final prize!

The public game award "Golden Joystick" is a tradition in the British gaming industry and this year we are also nominated in several categories! Now is your chance to help your favorite game score a place on the podium!

If Age of Conan is first for you in the nominated categories as it is for us, then please visit the award-page and cast your vote for your favorite MMORPG and show the world that truly the Age of Conan has come!

Read more here.

Gorondir

Originally posted by Szark


Funcom has announced that Age of Conan has been nominated for the Golden Joystick award in several categories, including PC game of the year, and game of the year.

The public game award "Golden Joystick" is a tradition in the British gaming industry and this year we are also nominated in several categories! Now is your chance to help your favorite game score a place on the podium!
 
If Age of Conan is first for you in the nominated categories as it is for us, then please visit the award-page and cast your vote for your favorite MMORPG and show the world that truly the Age of Conan has come!

We are honored to announce that we have been nominated for the Golden Joystick award and now you can help us win the final prize!

Read more here.

 

 SWEET!!!!

Trashcantoy

let the flaming begin!

Terranah

Unbelievable.  The first mmo I've every played where, even though I easily exceed minimum specs, the game gets crap fps to the point of being unplayable. 

 

Ofcourse, I was reading AOC forums and some guy who was getting 2 to 10 fps was saying it was playable for him and he liked it.  Hahahaha.  Some people like to watch slideshows I guess.

 

Literally thousands of posts on official tech forums complaining about performance.  Not only ati people now.  Apparently there are quite a few nvidia people who are seeing declining fps, etc.  Don't believe me?  Head over there yourself and start reading.

 

Ofcourse, anyone can be nominated for anything.  But still, if this is the way of professional reviews and such I'm giving up on gamesites for anything other than screenshots and movie clips.

 

And no, I'm not a hater.  I actually love the game, and I want it to succeed.  But Funcom needs to get there head out of their assess and optimize their game engine.  The free month is essentially over and they are releasing everything but optimization.  People were getting better fps in beta, and fps for many has gotten progressively worse for more than just a handful of people.  Something is wrong with their engine.  Fix it, so people can play your game and give it a fair shake.

 

The game has potential as so many games do.  That is the frustrating aspect of this.  But it fails at the technical level for many people who meet or even far exceed even the recommended specs.  And there are apparently a lot of people for whom the game runs great.  And for those people I say congratz and I am happy you can play the game and have fun.  But acknowledge there are a significant number of people who are having problems.  The fact that you may not meet them in game might only mean many have given up on playing the game and simply no longer log in when performance for them is utter trash. 

 

Mmo's need subs.  They need a good community to be healthy and grow.  We are all in this together and I'm sure most if not all the people labeled as so called 'haters' would love to be proven wrong and play a really fun game. 

 

For the health of the game and it's future community, Funcom MUST optimize.  Otherwise it will dwindle and die.  Ofcourse, never underestimate the power of tits and a good beheading.....but still. 

rubulator2k

Does anyone know what the criteria for these "awards" is...

I'm always leary of awards...

Ephimero

Originally posted by rubulator2k


Does anyone know what the criteria for these "awards" is...
I'm always leary of awards...

The best PR team wins.

miagisan

I'm voting EVE...only real good mmorpg to play right now

Ozmodan

Hey, you will always have some people that like a game and those that don't.  AoC is no different.  Of course there are not many MMO's coming out so the category does not offer much competition.  The thing is many people will play it until the next MMO is released, after that it will be another also ran.

It would not get my vote,  it had a lot more problems than a laggy client in my book, but my biggest issue was the horrible customer support provided by Funcom.  You can't put a bunch of monkies in a room at game consoles and expect to get passable support Funcom, but then that has been their modus operandi since they have been in business, silly me to expect it to change.

AoC is not a bad game, there are a lot of fun aspects to it, just that many of us just ran out of fun too fast.

Shohadaku

Conan is a fun game that has alot going for it, but I agree they really need to optimize and bug fix over any balance or content changes.

LOTRO now theres a polished game although lack of real pvp caused me to get bored. Maybe Funcom can consult with some of these guys because technically LOTRO runs beautiful.

AOC does have issues with preformance, and bugs although it's goods do outweigh the bads for me. I however have a system that can handle it at usually 25-50 fps

No denying AOC needs to Optimize and clean the bugs out. I hope they start focusing on this soon.

Hopefully they won't fall into SOE's blunder of changing the game instead of polishing and bug fixing what they got.

In Short funcom, Prioritize! Optimize! or for lots of people forever it will be ByeBye!

Zorvan

Even DnL was nominated for an award once.

woalCE

Anyone else running into problems with voting? I filled out my info andit complains that my email address in invalid. Doesn't seem to matter what email address I enter!

Kyleran

Originally posted by woalCE


Anyone else running into problems with voting? I filled out my info andit complains that my email address in invalid. Doesn't seem to matter what email address I enter!

 

Funcom paid them to screen out all LotRO players

Kaynos1972

It should be nominated for the biggest hyped game of the year that turned into the biggest pile of crap award­.

laresloci

It should get the " The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate Award"

Enforcer71

Originally posted by Terranah


Unbelievable.  The first mmo I've every played where, even though I easily exceed minimum specs, the game gets crap fps to the point of being unplayable. 
 
Ofcourse, I was reading AOC forums and some guy who was getting 2 to 10 fps was saying it was playable for him and he liked it.  Hahahaha.  Some people like to watch slideshows I guess.
 
Literally thousands of posts on official tech forums complaining about performance.  Not only ati people now.  Apparently there are quite a few nvidia people who are seeing declining fps, etc.  Don't believe me?  Head over there yourself and start reading.
 
Ofcourse, anyone can be nominated for anything.  But still, if this is the way of professional reviews and such I'm giving up on gamesites for anything other than screenshots and movie clips.
 
And no, I'm not a hater.  I actually love the game, and I want it to succeed.  But Funcom needs to get there head out of their assess and optimize their game engine.  The free month is essentially over and they are releasing everything but optimization.  People were getting better fps in beta, and fps for many has gotten progressively worse for more than just a handful of people.  Something is wrong with their engine.  Fix it, so people can play your game and give it a fair shake.
 
The game has potential as so many games do.  That is the frustrating aspect of this.  But it fails at the technical level for many people who meet or even far exceed even the recommended specs.  And there are apparently a lot of people for whom the game runs great.  And for those people I say congratz and I am happy you can play the game and have fun.  But acknowledge there are a significant number of people who are having problems.  The fact that you may not meet them in game might only mean many have given up on playing the game and simply no longer log in when performance for them is utter trash. 
 
Mmo's need subs.  They need a good community to be healthy and grow.  We are all in this together and I'm sure most if not all the people labeled as so called 'haters' would love to be proven wrong and play a really fun game. 
 
For the health of the game and it's future community, Funcom MUST optimize.  Otherwise it will dwindle and die.  Ofcourse, never underestimate the power of tits and a good beheading.....but still. 

 

I would have to agree with you about Funcom getting some optimization into the game, I run Nvidia and my FPS has gone down from where it was before the last 2 patches. I am still on the fence right now about subscribing, have a couple of days yet to make my decision but a good optimization patch would definately change my mind easily.

 

Frittison

RoFL at those who complain about performance of a game.

Sure it has bugs I've gotten hit with them as well. However, I do not even have a high end machine and can miraculously achieve 30-50fps in this game with everything maxed. On top of that the 15 or so customers who I've upgraded their computers to play Age of Conan have personally witnessed me boot up their machines and take all their sliders to max and still have it running over 30fps in the most dense parts of tortage.

Moral of the story, you look like an idiot when you rant about how bad a game is when the only support lent is the perforance stinks. Obviously you don't have the horsepower to run the game, or your machine is so bogged down with inessential programs downloaded over the year(s) that there is no free power left.

 

As someone also said there are going to be those who love it and hate it. I've heard both, and as long as it is a reason of "such-and-such factor just bothered me" then that is cool. Saying the game sucks because your silly computer is incapable of running it makes me laugh.

As for the award it most likely is based on sales and review scores. Not on whether the game can run on a HP-Compaq-Emachine-Gateway-Dell.

Reccax626

If Age of Conan wins any award at all, then there is a god.

 

AlienShirt

Game of the year? Are you kidding me? How much money did Funcom fork over for this nomination?

Rakeris

Originally posted by Frittison


RoFL at those who complain about performance of a game.
Sure it has bugs I've gotten hit with them as well. However, I do not even have a high end machine and can miraculously achieve 30-50fps in this game with everything maxed. On top of that the 15 or so customers who I've upgraded their computers to play Age of Conan have personally witnessed me boot up their machines and take all their sliders to max and still have it running over 30fps in the most dense parts of tortage.
Moral of the story, you look like an idiot when you rant about how bad a game is when the only support lent is the perforance stinks. Obviously you don't have the horsepower to run the game, or your machine is so bogged down with inessential programs downloaded over the year(s) that there is no free power left.

 

So hold one, crysis run perfectly fine, but AoC barly chugs along, so my PC sucks?

I used to get great FPS in the game, 60-80 outdoors 100+ indoors. After the last two patches for some reason, I am now lucky to get 30 outdoors...it's rather annoying to say the least.

Rob_dc84

if aoc wins anything beside buggest game  award  then i guess i will have to photocopy my ass and post it all over the aoc forums.

 

oh yeah GO WARHAMMER!!!!!!

winter

Originally posted by laresloci


It should get the " The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate Award"

 

 You say this yet in another post you say you haven't bought it, So going with the hater herd are we?

winter

Originally posted by Rob_dc84


if aoc wins anything beside buggest game  award  then i guess i will have to photocopy my ass and post it all over the aoc forums.
 
oh yeah GO WARHAMMER!!!!!!

 

 Ah yes very mature of you, and that would accomplish what exactly? Guess you have nothing better to do then troll till Warhammer comes out aye? 

Rob_dc84

Originally posted by winter

Originally posted by Rob_dc84


if aoc wins anything beside buggest game  award  then i guess i will have to photocopy my ass and post it all over the aoc forums.
 
oh yeah GO WARHAMMER!!!!!!

 

 Ah yes very mature of you, and that would accomplish what exactly? Guess you have nothing better to do then troll till Warhammer comes out aye? 

 

yeah i played aoc and they game-engine is crap they released it half-ass so i can troll it all i want

Rob_dc84

Originally posted by Zorndorf


It just shows how DESPERATE the PC gaming industry is.
I am planning to publish my own MMORPG btw. !!!!
I need 95 PR people, 2 Cover artists, 3 IT people  and a game designer is welcome but not really needed.
I think that must have happend in Norway 5 years ago so why shouldn't I be rich ?
The game will have pronographic elements as a first !

 

can i be on your PR team i have the prefect tag line... (game name here) we will bring aoc with more bugs and crapie game engine. we will sell millions

daltanious

Game have great potential, but for now is unfortunately in many aspects pure beta. Only that there is subscription.

 

Especially gathering and crafting are broken even as idea. Give me a break, having to wait level 20 for gathering, not to mention gathering is possible in areas where one must be at least 30, waiting for level 40 for crafting, .... And after all this it is completely broken and buggy.

 

No doubt for me, WoW is overall in any sense best of the best. Most rich in any area. And have absolutely no problems with its cartoon style. I love it.

 

If I compare to Lotro for example, have also kind a cartoon style, but much less pleasant, characters move and act that is ugly only to watch. Buttons are not reactive as should be, just do not feel right. Not to mention how grotesque are bear movement when follows lore master. I dumped LOTRO as any serious replacement for WoW. I like lore, but overall it is far from being good for me. Of course I believe somebody consider it at top.

 

AoC have terrific graphics, incredible realistic in many ways, fast paced fighting, also great lore,  .... and while waiting Lich king and after have experimented with dozen of possible MMORPG's in previous months, AoC is far the best thing I can play for now. Despite constant pre-beta feeling.

Ozmodan

Originally posted by Frittison


RoFL at those who complain about performance of a game.
Sure it has bugs I've gotten hit with them as well. However, I do not even have a high end machine and can miraculously achieve 30-50fps in this game with everything maxed. On top of that the 15 or so customers who I've upgraded their computers to play Age of Conan have personally witnessed me boot up their machines and take all their sliders to max and still have it running over 30fps in the most dense parts of tortage.
Moral of the story, you look like an idiot when you rant about how bad a game is when the only support lent is the perforance stinks. Obviously you don't have the horsepower to run the game, or your machine is so bogged down with inessential programs downloaded over the year(s) that there is no free power left.
 
As someone also said there are going to be those who love it and hate it. I've heard both, and as long as it is a reason of "such-and-such factor just bothered me" then that is cool. Saying the game sucks because your silly computer is incapable of running it makes me laugh.
As for the award it most likely is based on sales and review scores. Not on whether the game can run on a HP-Compaq-Emachine-Gateway-Dell.

Well I can officially say that your post is a load of balhooey.  A minimum spec'd machine as they have posted on the AoC site will not play the game with any success period.  Even the suggested machine won't run the game acceptably. 

 

I have a nvidia 7800 and the game runs like molasses.  I get 4 times the FPS from even Oblivion than their crappy client and I have a decent dual processor machine with plenty of memory.

The only system I have seen this client run well on is systems with 8800 graphics cards.  Hence the OP nailed it. 

So you can post all you want about your success with running the game on unoptimal computers, but everyone that posts here knows that is nonsense.

So if you want to pay for beta testing it, please do so, I have better places to spend my money.