Is there any feeback from players on how its like (both playwise and technical)? Would love to hear som first impressions from players.
The lack of proper feedback from both AoC updates on testlive and this expansion is disturbing, to say the least.
There's more feedback during Cataclysm alpha than RotGS one week before launch, and that should tell you a lot.
You will have to what until NDA has been liftet 11 of may to get feeback from player. The onely thing I can say it is good and fun.
Is it good because you get free levels and PvP AA over time so don't need to actually play it or because you can mine instead of killing players? Well if TSWBETAROGS says it is good enough to put in his user name it must be good and fun, think I will go preorder right after this post ;p
I'm suprised how slow this is taking to close as if WoW Catyclism, KOTOR, LOTRO, Guild wars 2, probably even EQ2 expansion had an open beta to what is next they could put up 30,000 free openings and they would all be taken in about 5 minutes. I can't wait till 11th to hear the back lash though, ROTGS was supposed to revamp the population and that seems very doubtful.
nowhere on official forums was the announcement for euro keys. this is probably why buffed.de still have them. Also, it is just 7 days for expansion. I am downloading it to see the lag myself. the preview video lagged a lot so I want to see before i purchase
Is there any feeback from players on how its like (both playwise and technical)? Would love to hear som first impressions from players.
The lack of proper feedback from both AoC updates on testlive and this expansion is disturbing, to say the least.
There's more feedback during Cataclysm alpha than RotGS one week before launch, and that should tell you a lot.
You will have to what until NDA has been liftet 11 of may to get feeback from player. The onely thing I can say it is good and fun.
Is it good because you get free levels and PvP AA over time so don't need to actually play it or because you can mine instead of killing players? Well if TSWBETAROGS says it is good enough to put in his user name it must be good and fun, think I will go preorder right after this post ;p
I'm suprised how slow this is taking to close as if WoW Catyclism, KOTOR, LOTRO, Guild wars 2, probably even EQ2 expansion had an open beta to what is next they could put up 30,000 free openings and they would all be taken in about 5 minutes. I can't wait till 11th to hear the back lash though, ROTGS was supposed to revamp the population and that seems very doubtful.
Whate after the lanch and check out all the feebacks from players. If you check xfire you can se the number of players have increased with about 30%, and that is before the lanch has started. ROTGS will bring back alort of old player and they will all have a good time and you can read all about it later
Some complayne about getting a betakey and some about not getting on
only 2000 keys snatched up out of 3000 in 24 hours that tells me all I need to know about AoC's population . I bet If AoC had 10K active players in N America those keys would have been gone in 5 minutes.
I miss DAoC
AmazingAveryAge of Conan AdvocateMemberUncommonPosts: 7,188
Originally posted by Jackdog
only 2000 keys snatched up out of 3000 in 24 hours that tells me all I need to know about AoC's population . I bet If AoC had 10K active players in N America those keys would have been gone in 5 minutes.
Good job the 3k keys were just for buffed.de German community then wasn't it Jack
The fileplanet link has not been active 24 hrs yet either and no one knows how many keys left for fileplanet subscribers.
For others asking about NDA, it does not drop as in all other FC games to date. Only dropped for Press (some in specific situations)
Is there any feeback from players on how its like (both playwise and technical)? Would love to hear som first impressions from players.
The lack of proper feedback from both AoC updates on testlive and this expansion is disturbing, to say the least.
There's more feedback during Cataclysm alpha than RotGS one week before launch, and that should tell you a lot.
You will have to what until NDA has been liftet 11 of may to get feeback from player. The onely thing I can say it is good and fun.
Is it good because you get free levels and PvP AA over time so don't need to actually play it or because you can mine instead of killing players? Well if TSWBETAROGS says it is good enough to put in his user name it must be good and fun, think I will go preorder right after this post ;p
I'm suprised how slow this is taking to close as if WoW Catyclism, KOTOR, LOTRO, Guild wars 2, probably even EQ2 expansion had an open beta to what is next they could put up 30,000 free openings and they would all be taken in about 5 minutes. I can't wait till 11th to hear the back lash though, ROTGS was supposed to revamp the population and that seems very doubtful.
What kind of backlash?
Tell you what, if the RotGS launch is less buggy and stabler than the AoC launch and reports start to arrive that people who're playing it are actually enjoying, can we use your quote the upcoming months for reference of singleminded doomsaying?
Ah heck, I think I'm gonna do it anyway, just for the fun of it :-)
But yes, in 1 thing you're right already: if you expect that hundreds of thousands in 1 stroke will be back next week just because the expansion goes live next week, then that's true, we won't see any doubling or tripling in the span of a week or two. About the fun factor of RotGS: let's make up the score after a week or two, shall we?
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums: Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums: Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
Originally posted by Jackdog only 2000 keys snatched up out of 3000 in 24 hours that tells me all I need to know about AoC's population . I bet If AoC had 10K active players in N America those keys would have been gone in 5 minutes.
Your comment tells me you'd rather avoid reading and learning about the issue you're about to comment on.
You have to be a PAYING subscriber to Fileplanet to be eligible for a key.
only 2000 keys snatched up out of 3000 in 24 hours that tells me all I need to know about AoC's population . I bet If AoC had 10K active players in N America those keys would have been gone in 5 minutes.
Your comment tells me you'd rather avoid reading and learning about the issue you're about to comment on.
You have to be a PAYING subscriber to Fileplanet to be eligible for a key.
Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.
newsflash, I know you have to be a FP subscriber.
But the way I see it if I was activly playing and enjoying AoC and had preordered the expansion or even on the fence I would be first in line to pony up 7 bucks for a weekend previewing the expansion. 3 K keys should have been gone in a couple of hours if not minutes.
Oh and Avery as I am sure you know Germany accounts for almost 25% of AoC's website traffic
Originally posted by Jackdog Originally posted by Vagrant_Zero
Originally posted by Jackdog only 2000 keys snatched up out of 3000 in 24 hours that tells me all I need to know about AoC's population . I bet If AoC had 10K active players in N America those keys would have been gone in 5 minutes.
Your comment tells me you'd rather avoid reading and learning about the issue you're about to comment on. You have to be a PAYING subscriber to Fileplanet to be eligible for a key. Now you know. And knowing is half the battle. newsflash, I know you have to be a FP subscriber. But the way I see it if I was activly playing and enjoying AoC and had preordered the expansion or even on the fence I would be first in line to pony up 7 bucks for a weekend previewing the expansion. 3 K keys should have been gone in a couple of hours if not minutes.
Why? Any progress you make on the test server is going to be wiped and the real game is less than a week away. I'd rather spend that time working on my live characters. In fact, even with the beta access (longtime FP subber), I'm still playing on live only. I logged in briefly into the test to simply get a lay of the land.
Considering you don't even PLAY AoC I find it laughably off you believe you have some magical insight into the minds of the AoC players.
AmazingAveryAge of Conan AdvocateMemberUncommonPosts: 7,188
Originally posted by Vagrant_Zero
Originally posted by Jackdog
Originally posted by Vagrant_Zero
Originally posted by Jackdog
only 2000 keys snatched up out of 3000 in 24 hours that tells me all I need to know about AoC's population . I bet If AoC had 10K active players in N America those keys would have been gone in 5 minutes.
Your comment tells me you'd rather avoid reading and learning about the issue you're about to comment on.
You have to be a PAYING subscriber to Fileplanet to be eligible for a key.
Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.
newsflash, I know you have to be a FP subscriber.
But the way I see it if I was activly playing and enjoying AoC and had preordered the expansion or even on the fence I would be first in line to pony up 7 bucks for a weekend previewing the expansion. 3 K keys should have been gone in a couple of hours if not minutes.
Oh and Avery as I am sure you know Germany accounts for almost 25% of AoC's website traffic
Why? Any progress you make on the test server is going to be wiped and the real game is less than a week away. I'd rather spend that time working on my live characters. In fact, even with the beta access (longtime FP subber), I'm still playing on live only. I logged in briefly into the test to simply get a lay of the land.
Considering you don't even PLAY AoC I find it laughably off you believe you have some magical insight into the minds of the AoC players.
I think the main positioning is that Jackdog assumed there was just 3k keys total. The 3k keys is specifically aimed at the German community only and not including NA (which is just fileplanet), not a bad bunch for... 25% web traffic lol.
Far better than the last beta for a game my wife and I tried to get into. She got in being a lifetime subscriber, I was not so lucky with this: "Due to a known issue of the Beta Rewards program it is not being used to select Siege of Mirkwood Beta players. Siege of Mirkwood Beta invitations are going out on a random basis." Fortunately, they're not completely out of the loop: "As long as you have a current, active subscription you have a possibility of being included."
You also have not considered how many people are already in Beta, which has not been announced. Something is better than nothing right.
AmazingAveryAge of Conan AdvocateMemberUncommonPosts: 7,188
Originally posted by nihce
Don't forget you have to be a paying customer to get 4-5 days of playing (and you have to download 15 gigs which is another 2 days)
Wife DL'd in about 2 hrs 20mins, fileplanet servers are quite fast, same as the Direct 2 Drive ones.
I think the main positioning is that Jackdog assumed there was just 3k keys total. The 3k keys is specifically aimed at the German community only and not including NA
Now why would I think that a Geeramn site would be offering keys for anyone except the German community.
(which is just fileplanet), not a bad bunch for... 25% web traffic lol.
So you are trying to say that the web traffic from a country has nothing tio do with the approximate game population from that country? Sorry Avery but that makes no sense at all.
You also have not considered how many people are already in Beta, which has not been announced. Something is better than nothing right.
I thought this trial was open to anyone, not just active players. Correct me if I am wrong, but that is how I read it.
I miss DAoC
AmazingAveryAge of Conan AdvocateMemberUncommonPosts: 7,188
Originally posted by Jackdog
Originally posted by AmazingAvery
I think the main positioning is that Jackdog assumed there was just 3k keys total. The 3k keys is specifically aimed at the German community only and not including NA
Now why would I think that a Geeramn site would be offering keys for anyone except the German community.
(which is just fileplanet), not a bad bunch for... 25% web traffic lol.
So you are trying to say that the web traffic from a country has nothing tio do with the approximate game population from that country? Sorry Avery but that makes no sense at all.
You also have not considered how many people are already in Beta, which has not been announced. Something is better than nothing right.
I thought this trial was open to anyone, not just active players. Correct me if I am wrong, but that is how I read it.
Its Beta off the Beta server and not a Trial.
If you say that AoC has 25% of hits to its website are from German visitors, imagine this:
The average between both German servers in terms of Character made just ONLY over the top 25-30 guilds is 6k Characters "guilded ONLY" per server. The average in same respect over the 4 NA servers in same metrics is 10k per server yet only 21% of Americans visit ageofconan.com compared to 24.2% of interested Germans. Therefore very easy to see that (if things hold up) either Americans have 4 times more many alts, or 60% of American AoC players just don't visit the website regularly. As you can see (in my opinion I'll add) website stats do not count for crap. If your really interested though Xfire stats are trending 50% more playtime and nearly 30% more people (not that I am interested)
If you say that AoC has 25% of hits to its website are from German visitors, imagine this:
The average between both German servers in terms of Character made just ONLY over the top 25-30 guilds is 6k Characters "guilded ONLY" per server. The average in same respect over the 4 NA servers in same metrics is 10k per server yet only 21% of Americans visit ageofconan.com compared to 24.2% of interested Germans. Therefore very easy to see that (if things hold up) either Americans have 4 times more many alts, or 60% of American AoC players just don't visit the website regularly. As you can see (in my opinion I'll add) website stats do not count for crap. If your really interested though Xfire stats are trending 50% more playtime and nearly 30% more people (not that I am interested)
So why when N Americvan servers come down for updatres do the XFire numbers only decrease about 25%? Whatever the case, it does not appear people are jumping on the opportunity to test the expansion, regardless of country
Love AoC or hate it the simple fact is that AoC still has a mass of players that still enjoy it and keep the Funcom Devs employed and the updates coming.
It's somewhere between 100k-125k if I took a stab at it right now.
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Is there any feeback from players on how its like (both playwise and technical)? Would love to hear som first impressions from players.
Originally posted by BishopB:
Are a lot of the trolls just angry kids with old gaming hardware?
The lack of proper feedback from both AoC updates on testlive and this expansion is disturbing, to say the least.
There's more feedback during Cataclysm alpha than RotGS one week before launch, and that should tell you a lot.
You will have to what until NDA has been liftet 11 of may to get feeback from player. The onely thing I can say it is good and fun.
Is it good because you get free levels and PvP AA over time so don't need to actually play it or because you can mine instead of killing players? Well if TSWBETAROGS says it is good enough to put in his user name it must be good and fun, think I will go preorder right after this post ;p
I'm suprised how slow this is taking to close as if WoW Catyclism, KOTOR, LOTRO, Guild wars 2, probably even EQ2 expansion had an open beta to what is next they could put up 30,000 free openings and they would all be taken in about 5 minutes. I can't wait till 11th to hear the back lash though, ROTGS was supposed to revamp the population and that seems very doubtful.
Funcom has reviewed all of its assets relevant for
impairment testing. This process has led to
recognition of an impairment loss of around
3,1 MUSD for Age of Conan due to a decrease in
numbers of subscribers for the game. Funcom Q4 10 report.
http://forums.ageofconan.com/showpost.php?p=2926123&postcount=7 500 mains/alts on Tyranny in past 30 days - instead of merge servers let's open a new PvP server, again! http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=106427
nowhere on official forums was the announcement for euro keys. this is probably why buffed.de still have them. Also, it is just 7 days for expansion. I am downloading it to see the lag myself. the preview video lagged a lot so I want to see before i purchase
Whate after the lanch and check out all the feebacks from players. If you check xfire you can se the number of players have increased with about 30%, and that is before the lanch has started. ROTGS will bring back alort of old player and they will all have a good time and you can read all about it later
Some complayne about getting a betakey and some about not getting on
only 2000 keys snatched up out of 3000
in 24 hours 
that tells me all I need to know about AoC's population 
. I bet If AoC had 10K active players in N America those keys would have been gone in 5 minutes.
I miss DAoC
Good job the 3k keys were just for buffed.de German community then wasn't it Jack
The fileplanet link has not been active 24 hrs yet either and no one knows how many keys left for fileplanet subscribers.
For others asking about NDA, it does not drop as in all other FC games to date. Only dropped for Press (some in specific situations)
What kind of backlash?
Tell you what, if the RotGS launch is less buggy and stabler than the AoC launch and reports start to arrive that people who're playing it are actually enjoying, can we use your quote the upcoming months for reference of singleminded doomsaying?
Ah heck, I think I'm gonna do it anyway, just for the fun of it :-)
But yes, in 1 thing you're right already: if you expect that hundreds of thousands in 1 stroke will be back next week just because the expansion goes live next week, then that's true, we won't see any doubling or tripling in the span of a week or two. About the fun factor of RotGS: let's make up the score after a week or two, shall we?
The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums:
Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
First of the only way for you to get one of those keys is IF you are a SUBSCRIBER on Fileplanet.
Is there really a reason to play the beta when it comes out live in 5 days?
That was my thinking too. This close to release it seems nothing more than a sneak peek.
Maybe nice for those undecided, but not amounting to much to those who already intend to get the expansion.
The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums:
Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
Your comment tells me you'd rather avoid reading and learning about the issue you're about to comment on.
You have to be a PAYING subscriber to Fileplanet to be eligible for a key.
Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.
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Don't forget you have to be a paying customer to get 4-5 days of playing (and you have to download 15 gigs which is another 2 days)
newsflash, I know you have to be a FP subscriber.
But the way I see it if I was activly playing and enjoying AoC and had preordered the expansion or even on the fence I would be first in line to pony up 7 bucks for a weekend previewing the expansion. 3 K keys should have been gone in a couple of hours if not minutes.
Oh and Avery as I am sure you know Germany accounts for almost 25% of AoC's website traffic
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ageofconan.com
I miss DAoC
The beta started today. THAT IS 4 days. not worth half the cost of expansion
You have to be a PAYING subscriber to Fileplanet to be eligible for a key.
Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.
newsflash, I know you have to be a FP subscriber.
But the way I see it if I was activly playing and enjoying AoC and had preordered the expansion or even on the fence I would be first in line to pony up 7 bucks for a weekend previewing the expansion. 3 K keys should have been gone in a couple of hours if not minutes.
Oh and Avery as I am sure you know Germany accounts for almost 25% of AoC's website traffic
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ageofconan.com
Why? Any progress you make on the test server is going to be wiped and the real game is less than a week away. I'd rather spend that time working on my live characters. In fact, even with the beta access (longtime FP subber), I'm still playing on live only. I logged in briefly into the test to simply get a lay of the land.
Considering you don't even PLAY AoC I find it laughably off you believe you have some magical insight into the minds of the AoC players.
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I think the main positioning is that Jackdog assumed there was just 3k keys total. The 3k keys is specifically aimed at the German community only and not including NA (which is just fileplanet), not a bad bunch for... 25% web traffic lol.
Far better than the last beta for a game my wife and I tried to get into. She got in being a lifetime subscriber, I was not so lucky with this: "Due to a known issue of the Beta Rewards program it is not being used to select Siege of Mirkwood Beta players. Siege of Mirkwood Beta invitations are going out on a random basis." Fortunately, they're not completely out of the loop: "As long as you have a current, active subscription you have a possibility of being included."
You also have not considered how many people are already in Beta, which has not been announced. Something is better than nothing right.
Wife DL'd in about 2 hrs 20mins, fileplanet servers are quite fast, same as the Direct 2 Drive ones.
on free fileplanet line?
Anyway, I have bad connection and am waiting 1 day 16hours to download. 1 day 9 hours left
Are you nuts :P
I pay 13 bucks for 60 day AoC game cards :P
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I miss DAoC
Its Beta off the Beta server and not a Trial.
If you say that AoC has 25% of hits to its website are from German visitors, imagine this:
The average between both German servers in terms of Character made just ONLY over the top 25-30 guilds is 6k Characters "guilded ONLY" per server. The average in same respect over the 4 NA servers in same metrics is 10k per server yet only 21% of Americans visit ageofconan.com compared to 24.2% of interested Germans. Therefore very easy to see that (if things hold up) either Americans have 4 times more many alts, or 60% of American AoC players just don't visit the website regularly. As you can see (in my opinion I'll add) website stats do not count for crap. If your really interested though Xfire stats are trending 50% more playtime and nearly 30% more people (not that I am interested)
So why when N Americvan servers come down for updatres do the XFire numbers only decrease about 25%? Whatever the case, it does not appear people are jumping on the opportunity to test the expansion, regardless of country
I miss DAoC
Love AoC or hate it the simple fact is that AoC still has a mass of players that still enjoy it and keep the Funcom Devs employed and the updates coming.
It's somewhere between 100k-125k if I took a stab at it right now.