One would think they learned their lesson from AO, but no. Same old shit, nerfing and changing to the point that it is not funny any longer. Bloody amateurs letting their customers do the testing for them. good riddance AoC
WoW had 1.5 millions 4 months after relase. AoC already has 700k after 1 month. Impressive! I did not expect to see a WoW killer that soon!
Great work FC!
Aren't you the guy that just posted an equally enthusiastic post about StarWars Galaxies' new trading card game?
Are Funcom and SOE outsourcing their online marketing these days or what?
Oh, sorry, I forgot I have to hate SOE as well.
Hux I gotta give it up to you...this entire thread was a knee-slapper. Your credibility just went down the tubes. It's like watching a train wreck...only a lot more humorous. I'll remember to remind you about fanboys the next time you bring that up on the WAR forums.
toodles!
Capn23
I am not a journalist mate. I am not a politician. I do not have credibility and I don't need it. And really, if you think I believe that AoC is the new king of MMOs, you are propably as stupid as the rest thousand idiots that keep bumping this thread for more than two weeks now.
I still do not think that AoC is the failure people here say it is...
Hail to the king baby!!!
...sarcasme off. If Age of Conan is the king (of a micronation), Then World of Warcraft is the Emperor. When Funcom start develop Age of Conan they aimed it to be a so called "WoW" killer. The result is what we have now.
WoW had 1.5 millions 4 months after relase. AoC already has 700k after 1 month. Impressive! I did not expect to see a WoW killer that soon!
Great work FC!
Aren't you the guy that just posted an equally enthusiastic post about StarWars Galaxies' new trading card game?
Are Funcom and SOE outsourcing their online marketing these days or what?
Oh, sorry, I forgot I have to hate SOE as well.
Hux I gotta give it up to you...this entire thread was a knee-slapper. Your credibility just went down the tubes. It's like watching a train wreck...only a lot more humorous. I'll remember to remind you about fanboys the next time you bring that up on the WAR forums.
toodles!
Capn23
I am not a journalist mate. I am not a politician. I do not have credibility and I don't need it. And really, if you think I believe that AoC is the new king of MMOs, you are propably as stupid as the rest thousand idiots that keep bumping this thread for more than two weeks now.
I still do not think that AoC is the failure people here say it is...
Hail to the king baby!!!
...sarcasme off. If Age of Conan is the king (of a micronation), Then World of Warcraft is the Emperor. When Funcom start develop Age of Conan they aimed it to be a so called "WoW" killer. The result is what we have now.
You are still not getting it. And you don't have a clue what Funcoms original plan for AoC was.
It was dead on with the release. Funcom knew there were not done with the game, still patching in content almost daily, but they knew to release with summer during a MMOG vacumn would be produce a winner (at least they tought so). In a few months summer will be over and many will probably be "done" with the game as 3-6 months is when plenty of people finish and move on. I'll be moved on then as well and waiting on WAR.
Yeah hux is right noone here seems to knwo what FC's original plan was: Grab the money, piss of the players and run away yellign that wow and lotro is like Mc Donald.
FC such a nice company
I'm not a no life that sits in front of his computer all day long, I'm an intern that sits in front of his computer all day long.
Yeah hux is right noone here seems to knwo what FC's original plan was: Grab the money, piss of the players and run away yellign that wow and lotro is like Mc Donald. FC such a nice company
And you think that they would spend 5 years in development and shitloads of money to do just that? It does not make much sense.
Originally posted by Rob_dc84 Originally posted by huxflux2004 I trust FC. They know their shit...
LOL!!!! they why is game so busted up everyone says cant play due to the new patch EXPLAIN THAT ONE!
And the funny thing is Huxflux claims he doesnt even have an aoc account? He goes on these boards defending a game that supposedly he doesnt even play. I reaaly do think he rides the short bus.
Yeah hux is right noone here seems to knwo what FC's original plan was: Grab the money, piss of the players and run away yellign that wow and lotro is like Mc Donald. FC such a nice company
And you think that they would spend 5 years in development and shitloads of money to do just that? It does not make much sense.
NOT saying anything about AoC here since I DON'T HAVE AN ACCOUNT EITHER but even idiots wouldn't buy sh*t in a box. They have to dress it up and make it pretty...and hype it...first. That's where your 5 years and millions went - into the effort of getting hundreds of thousands of box sales. Maaaaaybe if Funcom gets this whole "patching" concept down, and they fire Gaute, AoC can reach its true potential...but I still know there's hundreds of people playing it as is. Tsk tsk, as long as they're having fun right?
-------------------------------------- A human and an Elf get captured by Skaven. The rat-men are getting ready to shoot the first hostage with Dwarf-made guns when he yells, "Earthquake!" The naturally nervous Skaven run and hide from the imaginary threat. He escapes. The Skaven regroup and bring out the Elf. Being very smart, the Elf has figured out what to do. When the Skaven get ready to shoot, the Elf, in order to scare them, yells, "Fire!"
Yeah hux is right noone here seems to knwo what FC's original plan was: Grab the money, piss of the players and run away yellign that wow and lotro is like Mc Donald. FC such a nice company
And you think that they would spend 5 years in development and shitloads of money to do just that? It does not make much sense.
NOT saying anything about AoC here since I DON'T HAVE AN ACCOUNT EITHER but even idiots wouldn't buy sh*t in a box. They have to dress it up and make it pretty...and hype it...first. That's where your 5 years and millions went - into the effort of getting hundreds of thousands of box sales. Maaaaaybe if Funcom gets this whole "patching" concept down, and they fire Gaute, AoC can reach its true potential...but I still know there's hundreds of people playing it as is. Tsk tsk, as long as they're having fun right?
to someone like me, who owns no stock in any company that produces MMOs -- what does "king of MMOs" mean to ME?
is it just a bunch of chest beating and nerd raging about which game is better? if so, honestly, other than little kids -- who cares?
lots of people LOVE fast food joints. that doesn't make the food good, or even quality. it means that it's cheap and appealling to the masses.
i hope the game gets better and actually adds in a lot of the features they were planning on being here. Lord knows we could use a few *good* MMOs to play.
at the rate things are going, we might as all GBTW, and at least not have to put up with the idiocies of "please bear with us as we attempt to fix all sorts of bugs and add in features we should've had at launch, oh, and please keep giving us your monthly subs; but don't think of it as paying to play beta, think of it as you're playing a game that one day you'll enjoy immensely".
vg, potbs, damned near every game that releases does this same old song and dance. when the games get to where they have both 1 FUN and 2 all the features i'd like to see (working correctly); then, talk to me.
otherwise, let the lemmings pay to play beta and by doing so, let the gaming companies know that it's ok to continue to lower the standard of the state in which a game can be AND be released to make a profit.
bleh, i don't even feel like rewording that to where it makes more sense. maybe i should start an mmo.
could we please get correspondent writers and moderators, on the eve forum at mmorpg.com, who are well-versed on eve-online and aren't just passersby pushing buttons? pretty please?
WoW had 1.5 millions 4 months after relase. AoC already has 700k after 1 month. Impressive! I did not expect to see a WoW killer that soon!
Great work FC!
Sadly thats just activated accounts, not active subs. Wait and see what the real subs are before jumping to praise.
And please, dont PM me again to ask me to stop not liking the game.
"But why so much hate? And don't tell me it is because you payed 50$ and you saw all those broken promises. Cause if you are a veteran gamer (which I suspect you are) you should have bought a million crappy games by now, like all of us. "
To answer that part of your PM: The point is we shouldnt have to be accepting of crappy games.
you're right, we shouldn't.
having bought crappy MMOs in the past, IS the reason to not continue to do so moving forward. repeating a mistake time and again is a sign of stupidity and/or (the unwanted/uncool kind of) insanity. $50 and broken promises is pretty much reason to start a revolution in most countries.
i'm tolerant of *things* of which i should be tolerant.
a game that has spent tens of millions of dollars and 5-10 years to develop PLUS untold thousands of FREE (did not have to pay money to) beta testers (multiplied by the hours those testers played)... that is not something of which i am tolerant. they have THOUSANDS of beta testers on during the beta testing period, so that they CAN simulate how the game will be when lots of people are playing -- i'm sorry, apologists can heehaw all they want about "oh you don't know"; but i do know those aforementioned items and after thinking about those items... i'll play older games until the newer ones are WORTH playing.
to do otherwise is foolish, possibly childish, as in a child that can't wait to get something new and has to have it now now now now, even if once they get it, they're all sad, cuz it's only half-finished and not working correctly.
the problem is that so many MMOs get released and they're craptastic, that consumers are like, "surely this company learned from all the previous companies' mistakes and THEIR release will be GREAT, and the game won't have bugs and will have everything they promised, etc etc et cetera." well, the game companies AREN'T learning, not as long as people will buy 700,000 boxes of a broken game - they have no REASON to release games in an acceptable/excellent state.
could we please get correspondent writers and moderators, on the eve forum at mmorpg.com, who are well-versed on eve-online and aren't just passersby pushing buttons? pretty please?
Comments
Kind of weird to see this post after the 7-17 patch today.
As for the Op, WoW subs on a graph curves upwards, while AoC curves downwards
Its not weird, no fanboi posted.
Its not weird, no fanboi posted.
Well someone must've posted something here to bring this thread back up, who was it, own up!
One would think they learned their lesson from AO, but no. Same old shit, nerfing and changing to the point that it is not funny any longer. Bloody amateurs letting their customers do the testing for them. good riddance AoC
Aren't you the guy that just posted an equally enthusiastic post about StarWars Galaxies' new trading card game?
Are Funcom and SOE outsourcing their online marketing these days or what?
Oh, sorry, I forgot I have to hate SOE as well.
Hux I gotta give it up to you...this entire thread was a knee-slapper. Your credibility just went down the tubes. It's like watching a train wreck...only a lot more humorous. I'll remember to remind you about fanboys the next time you bring that up on the WAR forums.
toodles!
Capn23
I am not a journalist mate. I am not a politician. I do not have credibility and I don't need it. And really, if you think I believe that AoC is the new king of MMOs, you are propably as stupid as the rest thousand idiots that keep bumping this thread for more than two weeks now.
I still do not think that AoC is the failure people here say it is...
Hail to the king baby!!!
...sarcasme off. If Age of Conan is the king (of a micronation), Then World of Warcraft is the Emperor. When Funcom start develop Age of Conan they aimed it to be a so called "WoW" killer. The result is what we have now.
Aren't you the guy that just posted an equally enthusiastic post about StarWars Galaxies' new trading card game?
Are Funcom and SOE outsourcing their online marketing these days or what?
Oh, sorry, I forgot I have to hate SOE as well.
Hux I gotta give it up to you...this entire thread was a knee-slapper. Your credibility just went down the tubes. It's like watching a train wreck...only a lot more humorous. I'll remember to remind you about fanboys the next time you bring that up on the WAR forums.
toodles!
Capn23
I am not a journalist mate. I am not a politician. I do not have credibility and I don't need it. And really, if you think I believe that AoC is the new king of MMOs, you are propably as stupid as the rest thousand idiots that keep bumping this thread for more than two weeks now.
I still do not think that AoC is the failure people here say it is...
Hail to the king baby!!!
...sarcasme off. If Age of Conan is the king (of a micronation), Then World of Warcraft is the Emperor. When Funcom start develop Age of Conan they aimed it to be a so called "WoW" killer. The result is what we have now.
You are still not getting it. And you don't have a clue what Funcoms original plan for AoC was.
It was dead on with the release. Funcom knew there were not done with the game, still patching in content almost daily, but they knew to release with summer during a MMOG vacumn would be produce a winner (at least they tought so). In a few months summer will be over and many will probably be "done" with the game as 3-6 months is when plenty of people finish and move on. I'll be moved on then as well and waiting on WAR.
Yeah hux is right noone here seems to knwo what FC's original plan was: Grab the money, piss of the players and run away yellign that wow and lotro is like Mc Donald.
FC such a nice company
I'm not a no life that sits in front of his computer all day long, I'm an intern that sits in front of his computer all day long.
And you think that they would spend 5 years in development and shitloads of money to do just that? It does not make much sense.
LOL!!!! they why is game so busted up everyone says cant play due to the new patch EXPLAIN THAT ONE!
LOL!!!! they why is game so busted up everyone says cant play due to the new patch EXPLAIN THAT ONE!
And the funny thing is Huxflux claims he doesnt even have an aoc account?
He goes on these boards defending a game that supposedly he doesnt even play. I reaaly do think he rides the short bus.
Hux doesnt care
www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/2146298#2146298
EQ2 fan sites
And you think that they would spend 5 years in development and shitloads of money to do just that? It does not make much sense.
NOT saying anything about AoC here since I DON'T HAVE AN ACCOUNT EITHER but even idiots wouldn't buy sh*t in a box. They have to dress it up and make it pretty...and hype it...first. That's where your 5 years and millions went - into the effort of getting hundreds of thousands of box sales. Maaaaaybe if Funcom gets this whole "patching" concept down, and they fire Gaute, AoC can reach its true potential...but I still know there's hundreds of people playing it as is. Tsk tsk, as long as they're having fun right?
--------------------------------------
A human and an Elf get captured by Skaven. The rat-men are getting ready to shoot the first hostage with Dwarf-made guns when he yells, "Earthquake!" The naturally nervous Skaven run and hide from the imaginary threat. He escapes. The Skaven regroup and bring out the Elf. Being very smart, the Elf has figured out what to do. When the Skaven get ready to shoot, the Elf, in order to scare them, yells, "Fire!"
Order of the White Border.
And you think that they would spend 5 years in development and shitloads of money to do just that? It does not make much sense.
NOT saying anything about AoC here since I DON'T HAVE AN ACCOUNT EITHER but even idiots wouldn't buy sh*t in a box. They have to dress it up and make it pretty...and hype it...first. That's where your 5 years and millions went - into the effort of getting hundreds of thousands of box sales. Maaaaaybe if Funcom gets this whole "patching" concept down, and they fire Gaute, AoC can reach its true potential...but I still know there's hundreds of people playing it as is. Tsk tsk, as long as they're having fun right?
Sadly
The one I would place a small bet on?
The Kotor mmorpg that was officially confirmed on the 17th.
Star wars IP + Bioware gives me a lot of high expectations.
to someone like me, who owns no stock in any company that produces MMOs -- what does "king of MMOs" mean to ME?
is it just a bunch of chest beating and nerd raging about which game is better? if so, honestly, other than little kids -- who cares?
lots of people LOVE fast food joints. that doesn't make the food good, or even quality. it means that it's cheap and appealling to the masses.
i hope the game gets better and actually adds in a lot of the features they were planning on being here. Lord knows we could use a few *good* MMOs to play.
at the rate things are going, we might as all GBTW, and at least not have to put up with the idiocies of "please bear with us as we attempt to fix all sorts of bugs and add in features we should've had at launch, oh, and please keep giving us your monthly subs; but don't think of it as paying to play beta, think of it as you're playing a game that one day you'll enjoy immensely".
vg, potbs, damned near every game that releases does this same old song and dance. when the games get to where they have both 1 FUN and 2 all the features i'd like to see (working correctly); then, talk to me.
otherwise, let the lemmings pay to play beta and by doing so, let the gaming companies know that it's ok to continue to lower the standard of the state in which a game can be AND be released to make a profit.
bleh, i don't even feel like rewording that to where it makes more sense. maybe i should start an mmo.
could we please get correspondent writers and moderators, on the eve forum at mmorpg.com, who are well-versed on eve-online and aren't just passersby pushing buttons? pretty please?
HUm i see you are one of the few left paying beta testers of aoc...i gess you have nowhere else to spend your money then to test a crap game...
You say aoc has 700k..i say it has 300k..anyone can say it has 2000k....talk is cheap..
Sadly thats just activated accounts, not active subs. Wait and see what the real subs are before jumping to praise.
And please, dont PM me again to ask me to stop not liking the game.
"But why so much hate? And don't tell me it is because you payed 50$ and you saw all those broken promises. Cause if you are a veteran gamer (which I suspect you are) you should have bought a million crappy games by now, like all of us. "
To answer that part of your PM: The point is we shouldnt have to be accepting of crappy games.
you're right, we shouldn't.
having bought crappy MMOs in the past, IS the reason to not continue to do so moving forward. repeating a mistake time and again is a sign of stupidity and/or (the unwanted/uncool kind of) insanity. $50 and broken promises is pretty much reason to start a revolution in most countries.
i'm tolerant of *things* of which i should be tolerant.
a game that has spent tens of millions of dollars and 5-10 years to develop PLUS untold thousands of FREE (did not have to pay money to) beta testers (multiplied by the hours those testers played)... that is not something of which i am tolerant. they have THOUSANDS of beta testers on during the beta testing period, so that they CAN simulate how the game will be when lots of people are playing -- i'm sorry, apologists can heehaw all they want about "oh you don't know"; but i do know those aforementioned items and after thinking about those items... i'll play older games until the newer ones are WORTH playing.
to do otherwise is foolish, possibly childish, as in a child that can't wait to get something new and has to have it now now now now, even if once they get it, they're all sad, cuz it's only half-finished and not working correctly.
the problem is that so many MMOs get released and they're craptastic, that consumers are like, "surely this company learned from all the previous companies' mistakes and THEIR release will be GREAT, and the game won't have bugs and will have everything they promised, etc etc et cetera." well, the game companies AREN'T learning, not as long as people will buy 700,000 boxes of a broken game - they have no REASON to release games in an acceptable/excellent state.
could we please get correspondent writers and moderators, on the eve forum at mmorpg.com, who are well-versed on eve-online and aren't just passersby pushing buttons? pretty please?
I trust a soul less corporation too!
Our Microsoft who art in heaven hallowed be thy name,
Thy windows come thy windows be done on earth as it is in heaven.
...
Its a company, it doesn't care about you.