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Age Of Conan server merge
kriminal66
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Why do i never see anything about this game on here i mean this is mmorpg.com?
I see updates to crap games advertisement from crap games and never see Age of Conan any where or see news like the server merge they just had Eu and Us are one server now.
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AOC news
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/191/view/news/page/1
Server merge (posted 2 months ago)
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/191/view/news/page/1/read/27971/Age-of-Conan-Unchained-Server-Merges-Announced-in-Latest-Producers-Letter.html
EQ2 fan sites
Because unfortunately, due to the limited vision of the developers of this title (a title that had mega potential to be the next Dark Age of Camelot...for the 3 people reading this that even know what that is)....the game was a sinking ship from day 1.
I wasn't some arm chair fan boy either. I read all the books by Robert Ervin Howard, and the "saved" manuscripts by Le Sprague De Camp and Lyn Carter. A lot of books went into this lore. Not one of them was as silly as this game. You wouldn't see Priests of Mitra pvp'ing each other in some instance. You wouldn't EVER see a necromancer or tempest of set etc get anywhere near Cimmeria without being torn apart by guards.
The developers ignored the lore, painting just enough to get the masses who were illiterate in the genre of Howard's Conan, to get boxes sold back in the day. Soon enough, folks saw the game for what it was. The epic battles, the nation vs nation vs nation warfare...all of that advertised in the big Conan animation that used to open the game - never occurred. The animation was even pulled because it made the game look as if nations were rising against Aquilonia. When in fact, this was just savage gang banger fights with small tracts of pointless turf being defended by the same races and classes against the same races and classes. Cimmerian vs Cimmerian vs Aquilonian vs Aquilonian vs Stygian vs Stygian and so forth.
No concept of culture or borders. Try speaking French in England during the War of Roses - you would have been burned at the stake. In Conan, however, as a game, anything went.
And they wonder why they are beneath the waves.
mmorpg.com dont report everything but they report enough
if want game specific news - i goto a game fansite
example: for EQ2, i goto EQ2wire or wowfans probably goto mmochampion or wowinsider
EQ2 fan sites
Yeah im starting to think this site is more about making money then being a site for mmorpg fans.
I havent turned Adblock off yet i can just imagine tho
As I posted in another thread, AoC is suffering from the "It had its chance, but failed at launch syndrome". Its hard for MMO's to recover from bad launches...regardless of how good they are today. I like AoC, but the sparse population keeps me from revisiting it. And, if you think about it, MMO's are their own worst enemies. In the early part of the 2000's, you had a handful of MMO's to choose from, so game populations were good. Now, you have an over-saturated market that causes the game population to dwindle in your game of choice. I think you will see more and more MMO's shutting down in the next 10 years due to the ever increasing MMO industry.
It did turn around for a while and was the main income earner for funcom. They stopped investing in it though and just seemed to leave it on autopilot. This is what happens in that case.
Well no, it covered the news, it just disappeared quickly due to a lack of interest.
They seem to cover most active games, how long the news sticks around and how long people discuss it on the forums depends on the user interest.
But what the other commentors have been saying is 100% correct, this site is more of a general website to get a general overview of the MMO landscape, if you want detailed conversations or news about games that are no longer upcoming, new or relevant then you will need to go to a specialty fansite.
I'm sure they will do another AoC article when they release something new, or talk about releasing something new. The news on that front has been a bit quiet since the team merge however.