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I told you so.
pirrg
Member Posts: 1,443
Around five months ago i posted the following thread. www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/176487
Time to gloat. 
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I am the flipside of the coin on which the troll and the fanboy are but one side.
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holy shit i cant belive you where right on pretty much all those points.
Add point 11 - This game will be F2P with FUncoms Free Play Program within 12 months, and a new generation of Froobs will arise.
Those people should apologize for calling you a troll.
Currently Playing: Metal Gear Online, Call of Duty 4, Grand Theft Auto 4, Oblivion. (Taking a break from MMO's)
How couldnt i be? I was in the beta, but people will be sheep. Oh well.. this didnt give me any satisfaction. Its painful to read how easily tricked some people are. Makes me feel sorry for them (yes i have a heart). Just hope i saved some people a few bucks.
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I am the flipside of the coin on which the troll and the fanboy are but one side.
I like the fan responses to that thread almost as much as I liked the original post. So much lying and BS from the funcom camp, lol. Why the hell did I give this game so many chances when they didn't deserve any?
Waiting for: A skill-based MMO with Freedom and Consequence.
Woe to thee, the pierce-ed.
You hit the nail on the head. I bought into the hype thinking this would be the next big thing. You were right 100%
I love reading the posts calling you a troll, you dont know what youre talking about, lies, etc, etc. You should pm all of them and ask for a public appology.
I tip my hat to yah.
Well for what it is worth I like the game together with 400000 other players. The game is fun so.
400,000 player. I guess this game is doing great.........
400,000 subs is good. I've also been seeing alot of people that left returning to AoC within the last week. AoC isn't going anywhere. It's no WoW killer and they did fail to deliver what they promised that I will give you.
My theme song.
"And last but not least, its fanboys. Ive noticed a trend in games that fail soon after release and that is; the crappier the game, the more rabid the fanboy. We saw this trend in Vanguard, Dark and Light, Pirates of The Burning Sea and DDO. All of whom can be considered rather huge failures in terms of hype pre-release versus success post-release.
All these games had huge followings of rabid fanboys that would burn alive any critic of the game no matter how sounds their arguments were. This trend has become painfully apparent in AoC and unfortunately, its due to these fanboys that would rather flame and troll then question the developers motives of not releasing a full scale NDA-free beta that will ultimately doom this game."
hmm
Just when you think you have all the answers, I change the questions.
I feel bad for you man honestly, those 400,000 people are gonna be CRAMMED into the 2 or 3 servers left after the servermerges they announced are now a priority.
On the other hand I understand if you made a typo and meant to say 40,000. That would make more sense.
It's ok man though, really.We all make mistakes. Typing isn't my strong suite either.
AoC is probably down to less than 5000 active players, with maybe 10000 subs that have yet to be cancelled. You think they would even consider merging servers if they had anything close to 400k people playing?
I feel bad for you man honestly, those 400,000 people are gonna be CRAMMED into the 2 or 3 servers left after the servermerges they announced are now a priority.
yup it'll be like a Clown Car.
Good call, OP.
It was plainly obvious that Funcom was hiding things from the open beta testers and game review sites. I mean c'mon, it didn't take a brain surgeon to see that there were major issues with the game, so why all these folks ran out and purchased it, especially knowing Funcom's history, still baffles me. I love MMOs, I've played many of them, but I'm pretty proud that I didn't jump on the AoC bandwagon.
Funcom should get out of the MMO business; they've released two titles with HUGE potential and both will go down in MMO history as epic failures. I'm just glad that the folks with any sort of brain activity left said enough is enough and showed they were displeased with Funcom's efforts, or lacktherof, by cancelling.
That is awesome.
That is the bad thing about fanboys though.. once the game goes bankrupt, they just stop coming back.
Hmmm, a population quote from 3 months ago. A bit out of date.....
The Three Stages of Truth
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Well done pirgg
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." -Edmund Burke
Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?"
(Psalm 94:16)
Think you got a bit too many zeros there fella. 40000 is a more accurate number. Servers are stone cold dead... Some are so bad there's like 8 people on the ENTIRE server.
400k Was what they claimed months ago... Even then they should have been embarassed because it means out of their 1 million box sells less than half even stayed for the first month. Like I said 400k months ago but not now and never will it go that high again.
OP-
You know man I saw posts like yours all around before buying the PRE-ORDER. If I'd only listened.... If I'd only listened... No way in hell did I think it was as bad as the BETA testers were claiming. Then it turned out to be worse than I ever imagined, lol...
Yeah I owe you people who tried to warn us all an apology. I apologize sincerly.
Yeah man, you where right on the money on that one, I too wish i would have listened, and not convinced alot of my friends buying this, i look like an Idiot now, even more so because of me even buying the game to begin with.
Fuck Funcom, anyone that claims these guys even begin to know what they are doing, anyone that claims that Funcom is treating its players right, anyone that claims that Funcom is NOT lying about everything they can, well, they just need to wake up and smell the ashes. . .
Ive never felt this fucked in my life ( in regards to buying a game and spending time on it ), and i still feel FC owes me alot of time. I know that it was my own choice, but they LIED .. what a man to do then ? .. wait and see, buy the crap, and see for one self, thats human nature and i wish i just listened to guys like you.
Exactly...Age of Conan had 415,000 customers as of August 14th, of which a large portion were cancelled accounts from July (where in July depends on the customer polling date...they no doubt massaged the timing a bit).
So what it likely meant is that they had 350,000 subscriptions at some point in July...which makes sense. The game was actually busy in July (at least the first half of it).
Now, 10 weeks later? Who knows what they have...but a couple posts backlogged here (especially from some supposed lawyer guy, but his posts were good nonetheless) calculated what Funcom's revenue translates to as subscriptions.
So I guess we will know November 15th or whenever they release their Q3 numbers. They can lie and fudge and mislead about a lot of things, but they can't lie about their audited revenue.
You know it made me laugh so hard when I read all of the above posts. Are any of you Adults? I would say no, but thats for another discussion. I find it very funny when people say they hate a game so much and they complain about everything, like kids who want a toy. All the doom and gloom and yet your still here!!
I know I know your here because Funcom lied to you about that Barbi Powerwheels car they promised you...
LOL Cmon guys when will it sink in that Funcom is here to stay and your acting very immature over a GAME!!!
Wow did you call that one, wish I read that thread before I payed for that game.
denial its not just a river.
Very prophetic words Op
Impressive early analysis
A pity so much came true as we all had so much potential for AOC
"after the time of dice came the day of mice "
Are you high on crack? Any game would be closed down with those numbers and AoC still have more players than EQ2 for one game. Yeah I played a lot of EQ2.
No they don't have 400K players now but 250K is qiute likely. That still needs merging if you open servers for 800K players and are considering getting more.
So the number one supporter of the NGE, is here to tell us why we shouldn't play AOC? Now if that isn't ironic, I don't know what is. You were right I'll give you that, however it's nothing to gloat about nothing you said was hard to predict. The game didn't even get a proper beta, who couldn't see problems boiling over due to that?
The "fanboi" prediction was the funniest, how long did it take you to figure that one out? Oh that's right you have personal experience in presenting company spin. Sorry nothing personal about what I just said, I just found a huge amount of hypocrisy behind the context of this thread and who started it.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Wow, did you ever get it right. I wish I'd have listened to posts like yours. A lot of people who trash talked you in that thread really look like idiots now. It's proof that the word "troll" is WAY overused on these forums.
Now, having said all that, can you give us any advice on Aion or CoS? I'm willing to listen this time