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Darkfall and Age of Conan
Elsabolts
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Can Darkfall's launch be compared to how Funcom handled Age of Conan? I can see some comparison, does anyone else.
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Honestly, no comparison at all. The only similarity is that Both games were labeled as 'bad launches'.
Both had bad launches (is DF truely even launched?). But the issue AoC had wern't anywhere near the pain we see in Darkfall. Heck, AoC is actually an attractive MMO option now
Torrential: DAOC (Pendragon)
Awned: World of Warcraft (Lothar)
Torren: Warhammer Online (Praag)
...didn't the AoC servers come online on Launch Day?
...couldn't you purchase AoC (from multiple venues) on Launch Day and login?
...didn't American Credit Cards work in their billing system on launch day?
...My preorder was fully processed by that time...
...Did funcom shut down their Forums? I'm pretty sure they were up.
I KNOW AoC had an Open Beta where anybody could download and try the game.
...AoC is starting to look like a Golden Child, where's the comparison?
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aoc's launch was relatively smooth- the client just wasn't ready for launch yet- still beta.
darkfall still seems to be in alpha from all honest reports.
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So here is your logic:
AoC is bad.
You don't like Darkfall for some reason, therefore they must be the same.
Seriously, how are the launches ANYTHING alike? AoC's launch went decently smooth (not the best, but then again no MMO has ever really had an amazing launch...maybe a few, but not most), Darkfall's launch is having a lot of server issues.
The reason AoC was branded a huge fail is because the game SUCKS. It sucks all the way to the core and can't be fixed short of completely redoing it.
So, how about you wait a little bit, try out Darkfall, and then comment on it? The only people who seem to be claiming this game is a fail are those who haven't played it yet.
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I was in the OB for AoC and it went fine, I was in the early access for AoC and again it went fine.
I pre-ordered the CE version of AoC and got it fine and I entered the game with no issues other than the obvious bugs that where present at the start and yes the forums where up and working throughout the launch.
There where no where near the amount of drama as there is for Darkfall, however if ppl where to compare this to AO being launched then yes I would wholly agree with you, I still fondly remember the rare times I managed to log into AO when it launched, think I was able to move about a few feet every 10 minutes with the insane lag, it was driving me nuts that I just had to log off and play EQ1 again rather than endure it more.
lol you got be kidding, you can't even log in to the game for more then a hour or so and the sever have been down most of the time for darkfall
I hate to use any of the cool internet cliches...but I am going to on this one.
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I'm not going to act like I'm surprised.
Elsa will go to great lengths to hate on AoC.
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AoC had at least posibillity to buy game at launch in shops with even gamecard.
When they launch i could play it was terible tho major lag and stupid game with loadscreen after loadscreen with carebear pvp and waxmuseum mobs wrong sounds in wrong areas and exploiters reaching in 48hours lvl80.
After 2 months most was still not fix so i quit it was a terible game.
Darkfall i have played beta 5 weeks and lag is np at all and if server stayed up for 10hours it was super stable.
Launch Darkfall is worse then AoC yes but if they manage to fix that its by far superior to AoC becouse its truely free for all FULL LOOT PVP in zoneless huge OPEN world with total freedom, that AoC dont have.
Games played:AC1-Darktide'99-2000-AC2-Darktide/dawnsong2003-2005,Lineage2-2005-2006 and now Darkfall-2009.....
In between WoW few months AoC few months and some f2p also all very short few weeks.
True. I guess the only thing they have in common were a lack of features, but Darkfall isn't really lacking there... Just everything about it's launch sucked long and hard
At the speed of light the post counter on darkfall forum here go up why you guys now starting to post in The PUB?
Games played:AC1-Darktide'99-2000-AC2-Darktide/dawnsong2003-2005,Lineage2-2005-2006 and now Darkfall-2009.....
In between WoW few months AoC few months and some f2p also all very short few weeks.
AoC had great launch, but the game was pretty bad/unfinished at that time.
Darkfall had terrible launch, and the game is pretty bad/unfinished.
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Umm AoC SUCKED
So I'm sorry if you haven't ever seen a good patching team because AoCs SUCKED and I'm sorry that you are mad because 3 hours in Darkfall were better then you whole time in AoC. So now you feel that you must protect absoultly utter crappy F'ed up game. The only reason people hate Darkfall is because it had some patches on release day and are mad that every game they have ever played were pointless when they logged into Darkfall.
<WoW GM> so why are leaving WoW.
<Me> WoW sucks
<WoW GM> Are leaving for a differant game if so what is it.
<Me>yes I am and its...........................
DARKFALL B17CHES!!