when vanguard launched , Sigil had open beta and announced they're out of money and this is how the game is launching.Also they dropped there NDA for open beta which lasted about 1 month before launch. You cant get much more honest than that and for me it was good enough. I bought the game and have had a sub ever sence.
Now funcom could have done the same thing , but they didnt. Like I said honesty is always the best policy.
If you want to make Funcom look bad, compare it to Bioware or Blizzard. Comparing Funcom to Sigil is...well... like comparing Florida Apples to California apples (lol). Vanguards launch was much worse than AOC, and firing people in the parking lot was just rude.
Guess sigil could have done what Funcom did and hid behind a selective open beta , left there NDA up till the day the game launched . than maybe they wouldnt have had to fire those employees. I guess if you where in charge of a multi million dallor mmo and you had to fire some people, would you do it well they still had access to thier computers. Or, as has been noted on many news sites, the reason the employees were let go was due to McQuaid burning through the cash for drugs. That is a much better approach! Soe has never done any wrong to me only game ive played of thiers is vanguard and in the two years ive played they have given me over 6 months of free playtime to other Soe titles. no I didnt play them but I appreciated the jesture. no other game company has ever given me free time. Funcom has given me free time. AO was given to me and they replaced time for the downtime in AoC. But, really, the reason SOE gives away so much time is to try and get people to play their games with such small populations. They can continue to give me free time in SWG, but I will never play it. So, I do not understand how free time makes any difference in how a company acts? Who care's about a cash shop in vanguard. people have been paying real money for gold and items and characters for years in every game ive played. I dont pay real money for items in a game and no one in my guild will either so dosent affect me and if it does all just cancel my account. Correct. But, that is not the point. The point is they clearly stated NO CASH SHOPS...yet went back on their word. How is this so different than Funcom? It isn't You can spin it anyway you want doesent change the way funcom released AoC No it does not, you are correct there. But it also does not make SOE or Vanguard any better either. The difference is Funcom is attempting to make good on what they messed up with...SOE gives the Vanguard players...Station servers.
comparing fcom with sigil .. yes this works ... both released a unplayable beta without content lol. Aradune Mithara (Brad McQuaid) and his buddys are now rich man's because they just selled and no one ever heard something about em.
i wait now for fcom's selling announcement. i bet $OE will buy it immediately.
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If you want to make Funcom look bad, compare it to Bioware or Blizzard. Comparing Funcom to Sigil is...well... like comparing Florida Apples to California apples (lol). Vanguards launch was much worse than AOC, and firing people in the parking lot was just rude.
comparing fcom with sigil .. yes this works ... both released a unplayable beta without content lol. Aradune Mithara (Brad McQuaid) and his buddys are now rich man's because they just selled and no one ever heard something about em.
i wait now for fcom's selling announcement. i bet $OE will buy it immediately.