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Age of Conan Production Status and progress
abal
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Age of Conan – Production Status and progress
Age of Conan development
- Focusing on finishing content for game
- Continuous iterations and enhancements of combat system
- Optimizing client performance
Age of Conan Beta Status
- Ongoing stress tests. Positive data so far
- Focus-testing of key systems like combat and character development
- Press feedback
- Testing of technology. No major issue identified so far
Age of Conan Technical Setup
- Managed hosting and infrastructure management agreement for Age of Conan signed with IPsoft
- IPsoft is a world class outsourced network- and systems infrastructure support company
- IPsoft will host and operate the server parks in New York and Amsterdam
Age of Conan – Key focus areas
Focus area: Process:
• Internal focus testing
Combat system
• External focus testing
• Testing with press
• Beta testing
• Internal focus testing
Fun factor
• External focus testing
• Testing with press
• Beta testing
• Stress testing
• External evaluation and quality confirmations
Technical issues
• Iterative testing up until launch
For original source and extra information:
ftp://ftp.funcom.com/media/Age_of_Conan/reports/070516-Q1-presentation.pdf
Comments
ooooh ok
Always do the right thing
This has already been posted a while back, but you kinda got it wrong under the Technical part. You should search he dev tracker for a post Jayde made in relation to people thinking they know server locations.
I'm not sure I'd say that it's wrong, that's direct from the Q1 Financial Statement/Presentation. It's also not saying that those are the only servers or anything like that, just that the ones in NY and Amsterdam will be managed by IPsoft. I think people are trying to read way too much into that comment though, as I'd suspect that there will be other servers.
I think what's wrong is how people are perceiving it, as opposed to the info.
Which people perceiving what? Since you directly quoted Avery, you obviously take exception to what Avery said. It is better to quote devs than Joe Smo on the forums. Avery is spot on.
Fear not fanbois, we are not trolls, let's take off your tin foil hat and learn what VAPORWARE is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
"Vaporware is a term used to describe a software or hardware product that is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge after having well exceeded the period of development time that was initially claimed or would normally be expected for the development cycle of a similar product."
It just in that PDF report it doesn't link necessarily the tecnical side of AoC with what was summerised by the OP.
For Instance here is one Dev quote: http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?p=167418#post167418
and here: http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?p=642927 <- last month after the reports came out.
And obviously you can't take about the reports on the official forums, and some of what I read before was removed, so will just have to go by the 2 quotes above in relation to server status.
Im not knocking the OP its good people know where the game is up to, but interpreting the IPsoft into AoC isn't really valid as your saying that servers for the game will be based there, when there hasn't been an official statement supporting this yet.
I agree that most of the time he is.
FYI, I'm not quoting Joe Schmo, I'm actually reading the Q1 Financial Report and Presentation, think that's better and more solid info that some random poster on the forums, or do you think that random forum posters just get together and write up financial info for Funcom based on whim? That's just a T-Ball question for you.
Did I take exception? Is that really how you read it? Or did I point out that there are inconsitencies? Do you really believe that the Funcom Financial report is wrong, or do you think that it's maybe just a piece of the puzzle, and the rest of it is still to be figured out?
Well, it's not really interpreting IPSoft into AoC at all, I'm not interpreting that at all. I'm specifically reading that via the Q1 Financial Reports and Presentations. I've also read the quotes from Sil and Athelan before, and you'd have to admit that there is some inconsistency there, as one would seem to contradict the other, yes?
My point was very simply that people have assumed Amsterdam and New York because that's what they get out of reading the financials. After seeing what Athlean and Sil have posted, makes me feel that it does not preclude those being the ONLY sever parks, or the possibility of other, more regionalized servers. It makes perfect sense that those may not be the only 2 parks at all, and that's the conclusion that people are jumping too.
Athelan and Sil may well be aware that there could be other servers, and obviously there is still no info on how many servers will release. In both refereced posts I dont see either of them dismiss, much less even address the IPSoft agreement, or the info that's shown. In fact it probably supports it if anything. For all we know the agreement might be for IPSoft to operate clusters in other areas, but those areas have not be decided.
To bring it back around, I dont think the OP is wrong, especially when he's just quoting the official Funcom Q1 Financial Report. Saying that's wrong would actually have implications as to why Funcom, a publically traded company would share false information. It's real, but the question is how much, what applies, and what isnt there. The OP is actually 100% right with what he listed. HOWEVER, that is probably not the whole story, as evidenced by what Ath and Sil have said, it's just a part of the puzzle, and too many people are just taking that as the whole answer, which is probably incorrect.
Hello guys,
Yes, actually I just copy/pasted and did a little text formating from the original Q1 report. decided to just paste the information regarding the, IMO, important aspects regarding AoC that I saw in the report although I linked the original path to the funcom ftp server Q1 report PDF file for readers to go there and read the entire information from the official source.
Personally, I think in the beggining these datacenters in Holland and NY will be the start up and that makes some sense. I don't know about NY but in the case of Holland the Euro-rings as you can see in the below referred image:
http://www.cityservers.net/i/network/network_eurorings.gif
are a joint network of optical fiber backbone that interconnects all the major spots in Europe.
Basically taking advantage of the euroring network it's possible to provide low latency connections to other countries even if they are a bit far away.
Of course as soon as the game grows in player base some other datacenters will be considered. I mean, it all depends on the size of the player base. If Funcom suspects the players base to be huge from the start they may close other deals to put servers hosted in other datacenters.
Have fun guys. I hope that for some people this information was usefull at least.
Abal