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Polish AOC launch postponed by 3 months
RexNebular
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http://www.gram.pl/news_8gzqGO,3_Premiera_polskiej_wersji_gry_Age_of_Conan_przesunieta.html
Translated using Google:
"Yes, we have good and bad news for Age of Conan players" - said Marcin Marz?cki, Director of Marketing CD Project.
"Bad news is, of course, that the launch of the Polish version of Age of Conan will not take place in October and slightly more than 3 months later, that is, in January of next year. How did this decision? At the end of summer we visited the Norwegian office Funcom. Presents us with the mass of innovations and improvements, which will be implemented by the end of the year. To launch the game in DX10 did huge impression, and it was only the beginning of a long list of changes. Soon it became clear to us that we are already a few months Age of Conan will be different, a much better game than the one that had its premiere in May. For the CD project and Funcom this was not a simple decision from the point of view of business. We decided to postpone the premiere in order to wait for the perfect game. "
In addition to long-awaited DX10 mode, players will get a full PVP system together with the whole sets of arms, possibilities to gain levels and ranks as well as the consequences of their actions. Can no longer kill with impunity vulnerable low-level players - this will involve the risk of loss of rank or even money. There will also be instances exclusively dedicated to the fight PVP.
The revised and balanced distribution of points system will be skills and talents of trees. The authors also make available a completely new sets of weapons usable forms of very personal nature. You will be able to get it in existing dungeons, which will be full of new items and new zones, targeted at the level 80 players. Added dozens of quests to fill "content gaps" occurring between the levels of 30-40 and 50-60, a new land and improved combat siege system.
"The good news is that the Polish players will be practically a new game - much improved and developed the original terms. At any price you want to avoid the "sin" of haste made recently by the publishers of MMO games. We decided to wait and offer players a game, which will be perfect and give them a 100% satisfaction. "At the end Marcin Marz?cki added -" But that's not the end of this good news. To reward the players lengthened the waiting time, we are preparing a huge surprise if it comes to subscription. Disclose the details soon. "
My translation: Last patch didn't change sh*t. The game is dead. If a miracle should happen, we'll launch in January. If not, we'll write off the expenses, happy that we haven't lost more.
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or maybe, the translation could be something like. "The good news is that the Polish players will be practically a new game - much improved and developed the original terms." sounds like someone doesnt want to do the same mistake twice.
Why would they change their business model now? wanting to make sure that lucrative Polish market doesnt get a bad product?
Fungerer som det skal
oooohh those lucky Poles. Still a polished piece of feces is still just a piece of feces.
I miss DAoC
And they realized that two weeks before the planned launch date? I believe AOC was going to be operated by CD Project there (local servers) - so before they invest even more money, they probably want to wait and see if Funcom is capable of turning the game around. Or whether it can survive til January.
I guess vast majority of polish players is already done with AoC anyway, and those few who stick with the game play the English version, so what is the point of making localized version anyway? The plans for this ware made before launch and I think everyone both in FC and in CD Project expected the game to be far more popular and successful then it turned out to be ( IMHO the game is doing very poorly: 32-34 place on Xfire, down from 100 000 hours/day to about 5500 in 3 months! ). Localized version can be attractive to non-english speaking player base, but those would be mainly teenagers and the game is mature rated...
And secondly, together with the polish version new polish servers ware announced. But at this moment the game needs rather server merge then new servers…
I would not be surprised if in 3 months we will hear that the polish version of AoC will never be release (seriously I cannot imagine who would make money on this anyway…). Announcing this right now, after Godager just resigned, could just create additional stench around the game (like: another promise not fulfilled – well this is true even with the postponing…).
Might have something to do with the new management. I'm sure stuff over there is pretty much a clusterflak as of this moment. Wouldn't be surprised if we hear about more position changes in the near future.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
He he yeah, the poles are not like the germans, the spanish or the french. They actually bother to learn english (at least from the experience I have had with poles).
"You are the hero our legends have foretold will save our tribe, therefore please go kill 10 pigs."
Look out JD, I got a warning for sayin the same thing with the only exception was that I used the word turd.
Why on earth making a polish version of AoC, when they have their hands filled up already? There are probably less than 100 polish subscribers left... and those are probably not even bothered by the english version. Silly..
its a trick they will release polishED game in January you cant sell unPolished game to Polish people
Futilez[Do You Have What It Takes ?]
its a trick they will release polishED game in January you cant sell unPolished game to Polish people
lol
good play on words ..lol
"after the time of dice came the day of mice "
Am I crazy or did the FUNCOM press machine just admit to the world that its going to take over 7months from launch to have the game release ready?
You are not crazy. That is exactly what they admitted to. In a nutshell:
We are delaying the release of the Polish version because we admit we released a game that was not ready. So we will be "finishing" the game prior to releasing the Polish version months from now.
What happened is last year around this time, some guys in suits sitting in an office decided on a 'worldwide' vision for AOC. This included things like the Polish and Russian language rollouts. They contacted local vendors who would actually run the game in those local markets.
Well, fast forward a year, and you have those local vendors saying "no way". Why would they invest in all the upfront costs when they've seen what funcom has done with the product themselves.
Would you buy a franchise in a restaurant chain if the original restaurant was empty all the time?
Jezuz... confusion between the Polish (as in the country) and Polished (as in turtlewax). First thing your Google translator took a crap in the text. Second thing, the Polish gamelauncher wanted to launch a version including DX10. That's all and that's that.
Jezuz... confusion between the Polish (as in the country) and Polished (as in turtlewax). First thing your Google translator took a crap in the text. Second thing, the Polish gamelauncher wanted to launch a version including DX10. That's all and that's that.
Polish, polished, russian, salad fork, they released a giant hunk of crap and now they are suffering the consequences...... SQUIRM Erling SQUIRM... When the next disappointing numbers are released, who do you think will take the fall Erling? It wont be the new director... hmm who does that leave to take the AXE to the NECK?
I've had some dealings with some of the guys from CDP and they are a very professional bunch.
I bet you anything that CDP took a look at the game, the forums, and some of the blogs and decided to tell funcom to get their crap together before they would launch it in Poland.