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So is this game 2008 now?
Voxco
Member Posts: 18
I got interested in this game just before Christmas when it was slated for I believe a next month release. Now that seenes to have been pushed way back.
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I was wondering the same thing...
Everything I have found about the game says October 2007...
The pushback was for the sake of final tweaks and polishing the game further. It is as always possible that a further delay may occur, but I'd bet against it at this stage.
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I hope it won´t come to another 2 month delay.
But anyway I don´t belive in the Christmas Marketing Boost. Poeple who want to buy something do it no matter what time of the year it is. And the most money made with a mmorpg is the monthly fee anyway.
Now, however, they will pick-up a lot more people who will be disilliusioned and jumping ship on those titles at about that time, since that will be about the time the "new" has worn off (which has already happened for me with Vanguard {bug infested PoS}.
As of right now, they will be competing with Warhammer, and to be honest, its the only game this year that will be remotely competing for the same kind of crowd.
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It's going to be a tiresome wait though. There really isn't anything to play until then, in any genre for me at least.
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Basicly there are two explanations for the delay...
1) Watch what Warhammer is doing, shortly after they announced the release date would be pushed back, Funcom delayed AoC. As a bonus, we get an more polished game come release.
2) The delay gives AoC a one up on Warhammer; it allows Funcom to release the PC and 360 versions at the same time. A dual platform release is a diffirenciator for AoC in the MMO market place which companies making "me too" products love to have.
Those that think the 360 version will be a year or even a quarter behind the PC release since they announced the push back to Q3,are kidding themselves.
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Well since it has been stated in interviews AFTER the delay, that the 360 version would be released after the PC version there isn't much credit to you statement, now is there? Perhaps you should rethink who is kidding themselves.
Since we have seen almost no footage of the magic system, or little info of any kind on it, I'm guessing the delay was made because...dun dun dun...Funcom needed more time. gasp I know it's an odd concept, developers taking more time to deliver a smooth, well funtioning product instead of pushing it out the door, but Funcom did that once, with AO. This time around I see them taking as much time as they need to keep the promises they've made.
How would delaying the release till it has to compete with WAR a good marketing move? There are two MMOs coming out this year: AoC and WAR, thats it. Vanbug, LOTRO, and GnH are not even on the same level, and this game could have only done better if it had launched against that quality of competition. Instead it now has to go head-to-head with another high-quality, PvP centered game...
What you said...or maybe the fact the that they just re-made the entire character system, consolidating all of the character classes into a few???
NAH...couldn't be...
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Well it would of had to been something you heard because I have ONLY SEEN 1 VID rofl.
More polished than other games right now?... please.... its not more polished than WAR is right now.
More polished than other games right now?... please.... its not more polished than WAR is right now.
Nope, and if the developers were smart they would push back to sometime in 08 or launch it around June. As it is right now they are about to be slammed by the onslaught that will be Warhammer... Sorry folks but Warhammer is looking that good, and it just seems like it will provided something I have yet to see in AOC and that is that it will be FUN!
I'm not saying AOC doesn't look good and all, but when I look at the videos that have been released it just does not look like it will be, well fun(there is that word agian).
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Who gives a monkeys to how polished it is compared to WAR? Not me!
Best thing that could of happened if they were confident the game was up to scratch was to put the release date back till the autumn. Not to mention its Conan's 75th Anniversay year, ride the crest of the wave I say as much as possible. Plus don't put it back any further, some Conan console game is coming out early '08 dont want any confusion there either! Polish, Polish as much as you can and deliver to us the game we already know will be King of all competition. WAR looks cool but come on, Conan is dark, gritty, atmospheric, great looking class structure, combat system and guild owned towns with unique siege battles. Warhammer wont slam nada, more like a little touch, AoC is good enough to stand the competition, but only time will tell, and i bet the faith with be justified.
Wish they'd put out some crusty browser game for us to play until then. Would keep me interested and in anticipation and it would be a nice way to keep us up to date on info aside from their forums and to form a solid community, with guilds and all that and would be a nice advertisement for them. Just something goofy and off the wall for us to mess around on and start making contacts with until the big show.
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I don't think the release of conan will be any different. They are a very small company. They just don't have the resources to ensure a smooth release.
That said the players that hang on after the bumpy start will probably be able to enjoy a great game for years to come.
Just like SWG basicly killed AO by decimating its subscription base, so will Warhammer do to AOC...I know I was there(probably unlike most of you).. I was there when I had to give up my PVP towers due to the fact that my normal enemys that I would fight day in and day out suddenly dissapearing.. Do to the fact that 7/8's of my guild was playing SWG..
Funcom were fools to try to release a expansion within the same period of SWG (which everyone thought would be a good game, to bad they didn't know). But now they are going to basicly do the same thing all over agian here in 07, the only difference here is that Mythic is not SOE. They have a track record for a very fine game under their belts not to mention a instant fanbase from that game. Put that together with the Huge IP that is Warhammer and there is no way in hell AOC has a good launch in the same Window as Warhammer, no freaking way.
Funcom has alot working agianst them people (if you actually played their games before you would know this). From possible one of the worst MMORPG launches in History, to alienating their player base with foriegn content (Shadowlands anyone?..). To a weak game engine that had Huge problems with lag during large PVP battles, to which their answer to this was to just upgrade that weak engine. Hell even in that beta leak video you could see some problems (um gliding) that you used to always see in AO, but I thought this was suppose to be a new and improved game engine...And thats just what we saw in that little 2 min video with very few people fighting, there is no telling whats going to happen when these huge battles kick off. My money is on the same thing that would happen in AO, people would lag all over the freaking place and then just leave the PVP area due to it.
AOC has it's work cut out for it, those of us that actually played thier other MMORPG know that. Last thing they needed was try to put themselfs up agianst a game like Warhammer and a company with the track record of Mythic. A smart person picks their battles, knows there limitations.
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You see, every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You spread to an area, and you multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.-Mr.Smith
I care how polished AOC is compared to WAR because one of your fanbois posters tried to say AOC is more polished than games released. I see one SHITTY video and not much else other than a whole lot OF TALK about how great your game is going to be but you guys have the nerve to keep pumpin it?
Please keep telling me how great your game is when at this point in time, for me its maybe ONE NOTCH ABOVE DARKFALL but yet you AOC fans keep defending it to the death. Wait I take that back, Ive seen more darkfall videos than I have AOC vids.
Daily I see new videos about my game of choice. I see actual employees explaining how there making music for the game, how there promoting the game, how they have come to an artistic decision and the list goes on and on and on.
WARHAMMER shows everything and Im hyped and Im looking forward to it.
I see very little from AOC other than one terrible gameplay vid and some very polished screen shots.
Too bad talk dont make video games, cause as much as you guys YAP how great your game is, WoW would of taken a back seat to AOC by now.
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I care how polished AOC is compared to WAR because one of your fanbois posters tried to say AOC is more polished than games released. I see one SHITTY video and not much else other than a whole lot OF TALK about how great your game is going to be but you guys have the nerve to keep pumpin it?
Please keep telling me how great your game is when at this point in time, for me its maybe ONE NOTCH ABOVE DARKFALL but yet you AOC fans keep defending it to the death. Wait I take that back, Ive seen more darkfall videos than I have AOC vids.
Daily I see new videos about my game of choice. I see actual employees explaining how there making music for the game, how there promoting the game, how they have come to an artistic decision and the list goes on and on and on.
WARHAMMER shows everything and Im hyped and Im looking forward to it.
I see very little from AOC other than one terrible gameplay vid and some very polished screen shots.
Too bad talk dont make video games, cause as much as you guys YAP how great your game is, WoW would of taken a back seat to AOC by now.
While a little heated, logangregor does have some valid points. We're just now learning about AoC's classes in detail, and they aren't showing a single grain of concept art of screenshots, where WAR shows concept art/screenshots/in-game videos of their classes when they release them.
I think it's just different development styles, but I think it's about time the developers are more open about what they're doing, how they're doing it, and how far along they are.
I know exactly how I'm going to look as 12 different classes in WAR. In AoC I haven't seen any class-specific screenshots, and only a handful of concept art pictures.
The comparison between the development styles is ultimately going to hurt Funcom, since people have already started saying "Why aren't we seeing PvP videos? EA Mythic has already shown at least 7 PvP videos and they've been in development of WAR a year less than AoC"
I still find it insanely hard to believe that AoC is in beta, and there hasn't been a single PvP video. Here's hoping that they'll stop showing freaking pythons, camels, hyenas, and other animals and start showing some PvP videos.
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