This weekend during peak hours there were 7 instances of Tortage running on Eu Crom server. Thats more than twice as many as before trial, so there has been a huge influx.
Sure there are multiple instances in Tortage during peak hours and I'm sure Tortage has at least twice the people than what they had before trials, but I was just waiting for some huge influx of players. You know something we had at launch?
I guess most people have moved on to other games.
100% difference is a huge influx of players -.-
So you are saying that if Tortage had 10 players before, and after trials there are 20 players (100% increase), that is a "huge influx"?
It took over 8 months to get from 800k registered users (not subsribed) to roughly 100k subsribers right now.
Warhammer Online failed just as bad. It went from 750k registered users to only 350k subscribers in a month!
Yes, Age of Conan has 100k subs TODAY but low point was 50k a couple of months ago.
WAR did NOT fail as bad as AoC did. Just look at the numbers YOU wrote. From 800k to 100k (actual number is 50k) and from 750k to 350k is not the same thing. WAR lost about half of its subs while AoC lost about 90%. Also today WAR has almost 4 times the subs AoC has, so I think WAR is a much bigger success.
p.s. About those personal attacks.. please stop doing those. I want to discuss games without being attacked
It took over 8 months to get from 800k registered users (not subsribed) to roughly 100k subsribers right now.
Warhammer Online failed just as bad. It went from 750k registered users to only 350k subscribers in a month!
Yes, Age of Conan has 100k subs TODAY but low point was 50k a couple of months ago.
WAR did NOT fail as bad as AoC did. Just look at the numbers YOU wrote. From 800k to 100k (actual number is 50k) and from 750k to 350k is not the same thing. WAR lost about half of its subs while AoC lost about 90%. Also today WAR has almost 4 times the subs AoC has, so I think WAR is a much bigger success.
p.s. About those personal attacks.. please stop doing those. I want to discuss games without being attacked
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You are personally attacking people too. And appearently don't even notice it.
And you are tearing my statements way out of context!
WAR dropped from 750k to 350k subscribers within a month! That was even worse then Age of Conan.
No one knows the actual subscription numbers of Warhammer Online today, as EA still has to release their Q4 2008 report.
The only official information we have on WAR subs, is from the Q3 2008 report stating that after the first month of WAR launch, they only had 350k people actually subscribing to the game.
I have played WAR till half january this year and from European servers alone, I can pretty much tell you that they have far less then 350k subscribers left.
Phoenix Throne (US) and Karak Eight Peaks (EU) are basically the only real High Pop servers left. The rest of the servers are struggling with population from wich only a handful have Medium population, while most of the servers (even after migrations) are just downright empty! People are still crying for more mergers today!
I know, as I saw my own guild in WAR going from still 20+ average users online each day end october (that's the second month mind you) down to only 3 of us left in January this year. Me and 2 officers. All three of us threw the towel in the ring in January and gave up on Mythic in ever fixing that game.
Several guilds within our alliance went through the same of massive quits.
So again. You keep continue'ing to make stuff up, have nothing to back it up against and are just on a crusade to discredit Funcom.
WAR doesn't have 4 times the subscription numbers then Age of Conan. Those numbers are not known. But from personal knowledge of playing and experiencing the game, community and servers activity till half january this year..... I can tell you that WAR isn't doing that much better then Age of Conan right now.
Cheers
And oh..... I have Norwegian girlfriend, that's why I moved from Holland to Oslo last year. I don't speak Norwegian nor understand it that well (yet), .... nor am I working for Funcom.
The trouble with AoC is that even if subscriptions jumped by 100% you wouldn't see it in game. Even if you had 100k new accounts it wouldn't make a difference to your gaming experience due to zones being instanced off when they hit a certain cap. AoC mechanics are no different than Guild Wars, if 1 million players were in town you wouldn't know the number by looking around as every instance of that town has a cap.
What am I trying to say? I'm trying to say that if you play and enjoy AoC, don't worry about how many subscriptions it has or how many are playing on your server. Since wether it's 100 or 5000 on your server the difference to your playing experience is negligable, which is the whole point of instancing zones.
In my opinion this makes AoC a CORPG like Guild Wars, only Funcom are claiming it's an MMORPG so that they can charge a subscription fee!
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
if ur lvl 80, you hardly gona see new faces till they ding 80 , in month or two
Lol I'm not a total idiot. Of course I know trial people won't reach level 80 in a couple of days.
I didn't mention on my post that I started a new character, Bear Shaman, and was expecting to see tons of people in Tortage. But it was almost empty.
Honestly I saw no evidence that there was a trial which was very disappoiting.
Hi,
I tried the 7 day trial, and to be truthful, I rolled three characters and went into "night" Tortage each time. So I only seen live players for maybe a few minutes. That maybe the case, that a lot of new players were switched to the single player night time. I found a copy of the game cheap on Ebay, so I will give it a month. I'm a Conan fan, so I'll give it that long to see it hooks me or not.
if ur lvl 80, you hardly gona see new faces till they ding 80 , in month or two
Lol I'm not a total idiot. Of course I know trial people won't reach level 80 in a couple of days.
I didn't mention on my post that I started a new character, Bear Shaman, and was expecting to see tons of people in Tortage. But it was almost empty.
Honestly I saw no evidence that there was a trial which was very disappoiting.
Hi,
I tried the 7 day trial, and to be truthful, I rolled three characters and went into "night" Tortage each time. So I only seen live players for maybe a few minutes. That maybe the case, that a lot of new players were switched to the single player night time. I found a copy of the game cheap on Ebay, so I will give it a month. I'm a Conan fan, so I'll give it that long to see it hooks me or not.
Age of Conan is a lonely persons game. Unless you play with RL friends, you are most likely doomed to playing solo. Sure you can find groups every now and then but it's difficult since the game is instanced and the zones are small with only a handful of players.
if ur lvl 80, you hardly gona see new faces till they ding 80 , in month or two
Lol I'm not a total idiot. Of course I know trial people won't reach level 80 in a couple of days.
I didn't mention on my post that I started a new character, Bear Shaman, and was expecting to see tons of people in Tortage. But it was almost empty.
Honestly I saw no evidence that there was a trial which was very disappoiting.
Hi,
I tried the 7 day trial, and to be truthful, I rolled three characters and went into "night" Tortage each time. So I only seen live players for maybe a few minutes. That maybe the case, that a lot of new players were switched to the single player night time. I found a copy of the game cheap on Ebay, so I will give it a month. I'm a Conan fan, so I'll give it that long to see it hooks me or not.
Age of Conan is a lonely persons game. Unless you play with RL friends, you are most likely doomed to playing solo. Sure you can find groups every now and then but it's difficult since the game is instanced and the zones are small with only a handful of players.
This is not true. You can always join a guild and make friends there and several gaming possibilities open up from that point forward. Just like in any other game.
if ur lvl 80, you hardly gona see new faces till they ding 80 , in month or two
Lol I'm not a total idiot. Of course I know trial people won't reach level 80 in a couple of days.
I didn't mention on my post that I started a new character, Bear Shaman, and was expecting to see tons of people in Tortage. But it was almost empty.
Honestly I saw no evidence that there was a trial which was very disappoiting.
Hi,
I tried the 7 day trial, and to be truthful, I rolled three characters and went into "night" Tortage each time. So I only seen live players for maybe a few minutes. That maybe the case, that a lot of new players were switched to the single player night time. I found a copy of the game cheap on Ebay, so I will give it a month. I'm a Conan fan, so I'll give it that long to see it hooks me or not.
Age of Conan is a lonely persons game. Unless you play with RL friends, you are most likely doomed to playing solo. Sure you can find groups every now and then but it's difficult since the game is instanced and the zones are small with only a handful of players.
I rerolled 2 weeks ago and have run into plenty of people and have been in PuG's whenever I or someone else was looking for one. And I even play on a EU RP-PVE server. Wich isn't exactly known for it's high population.
Age of Conan is a lonely persons game. Unless you play with RL friends, you are most likely doomed to playing solo. Sure you can find groups every now and then but it's difficult since the game is instanced and the zones are small with only a handful of players.
This is not true. You can always join a guild and make friends there and several gaming possibilities open up from that point forward. Just like in any other game.
Problem is that in Age of Conan it's usually faster to level by yourself. Even if you are in a guild, players prefer going solo since for most players the destination is more important than the journey.
More forced grouping would have been a good thing for this game.
Age of Conan is a lonely persons game. Unless you play with RL friends, you are most likely doomed to playing solo. Sure you can find groups every now and then but it's difficult since the game is instanced and the zones are small with only a handful of players.
This is not true. You can always join a guild and make friends there and several gaming possibilities open up from that point forward. Just like in any other game.
Problem is that in Age of Conan it's usually faster to level by yourself. Even if you are in a guild, players prefer going solo since for most players the destination is more important than the journey.
More forced grouping would have been a good thing for this game.
With the constant danger of being attacked by other players, nowadays I find much easier to level up in a group rather than solo.
I think I would agree with you back when the game was launched, but currently the pvp is so intense and you get attacked so often (tipically by other groups of players) that you actually have to increase your survival chances (and speed up your leveling) by playing in a group.
Leveling up in groups of 2-3 players is strongly advised IMO.
if ur lvl 80, you hardly gona see new faces till they ding 80 , in month or two
Lol I'm not a total idiot. Of course I know trial people won't reach level 80 in a couple of days.
I didn't mention on my post that I started a new character, Bear Shaman, and was expecting to see tons of people in Tortage. But it was almost empty.
Honestly I saw no evidence that there was a trial which was very disappoiting.
Hi,
I tried the 7 day trial, and to be truthful, I rolled three characters and went into "night" Tortage each time. So I only seen live players for maybe a few minutes. That maybe the case, that a lot of new players were switched to the single player night time. I found a copy of the game cheap on Ebay, so I will give it a month. I'm a Conan fan, so I'll give it that long to see it hooks me or not.
Age of Conan is a lonely persons game. Unless you play with RL friends, you are most likely doomed to playing solo. Sure you can find groups every now and then but it's difficult since the game is instanced and the zones are small with only a handful of players.
I rerolled 2 weeks ago and have run into plenty of people and have been in PuG's whenever I or someone else was looking for one. And I even play on a EU RP-PVE server. Wich isn't exactly known for it's high population.
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Don't worry. I was just commenting on his "with a trial = no new players" from the OP post. I was just simply suggesting that it might be the case that people were in the night tortage. It really seemed that the 7 day flew by really fast. I didn't get to see too much of the game world because I was trying to figure out which character class worked best for me. I still didn't figure it out either. And with 1.05 coming I'm still not certain.
I strongly disagree with the statement that the game feels lonely and people are not playing. I've started out on Crom (EU General PVE) and there are lots of lots people, a bit too much for my taste, especially Tortage, that is just fully cramped. I have switched to Hyrkania (EU RP-PVE) and the server feels much better. People are much more friendly and it is much easier to group. Though I think AOC is a niche mmo, is not for everyone, you either like it or not. I still really enjoy the game.
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Sure there are multiple instances in Tortage during peak hours and I'm sure Tortage has at least twice the people than what they had before trials, but I was just waiting for some huge influx of players. You know something we had at launch?
I guess most people have moved on to other games.
100% difference is a huge influx of players -.-
So you are saying that if Tortage had 10 players before, and after trials there are 20 players (100% increase), that is a "huge influx"?
[Mod Edit]
It took over 8 months to get from 800k registered users (not subsribed) to roughly 100k subsribers right now.
Warhammer Online failed just as bad. It went from 750k registered users to only 350k subscribers in a month!
Yes, Age of Conan has 100k subs TODAY but low point was 50k a couple of months ago.
WAR did NOT fail as bad as AoC did. Just look at the numbers YOU wrote. From 800k to 100k (actual number is 50k) and from 750k to 350k is not the same thing. WAR lost about half of its subs while AoC lost about 90%. Also today WAR has almost 4 times the subs AoC has, so I think WAR is a much bigger success.
p.s. About those personal attacks.. please stop doing those. I want to discuss games without being attacked
[Mod Edit]
It took over 8 months to get from 800k registered users (not subsribed) to roughly 100k subsribers right now.
Warhammer Online failed just as bad. It went from 750k registered users to only 350k subscribers in a month!
Yes, Age of Conan has 100k subs TODAY but low point was 50k a couple of months ago.
WAR did NOT fail as bad as AoC did. Just look at the numbers YOU wrote. From 800k to 100k (actual number is 50k) and from 750k to 350k is not the same thing. WAR lost about half of its subs while AoC lost about 90%. Also today WAR has almost 4 times the subs AoC has, so I think WAR is a much bigger success.
p.s. About those personal attacks.. please stop doing those. I want to discuss games without being attacked
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You are personally attacking people too. And appearently don't even notice it.
And you are tearing my statements way out of context!
WAR dropped from 750k to 350k subscribers within a month! That was even worse then Age of Conan.
No one knows the actual subscription numbers of Warhammer Online today, as EA still has to release their Q4 2008 report.
The only official information we have on WAR subs, is from the Q3 2008 report stating that after the first month of WAR launch, they only had 350k people actually subscribing to the game.
I have played WAR till half january this year and from European servers alone, I can pretty much tell you that they have far less then 350k subscribers left.
Phoenix Throne (US) and Karak Eight Peaks (EU) are basically the only real High Pop servers left. The rest of the servers are struggling with population from wich only a handful have Medium population, while most of the servers (even after migrations) are just downright empty! People are still crying for more mergers today!
I know, as I saw my own guild in WAR going from still 20+ average users online each day end october (that's the second month mind you) down to only 3 of us left in January this year. Me and 2 officers. All three of us threw the towel in the ring in January and gave up on Mythic in ever fixing that game.
Several guilds within our alliance went through the same of massive quits.
So again. You keep continue'ing to make stuff up, have nothing to back it up against and are just on a crusade to discredit Funcom.
WAR doesn't have 4 times the subscription numbers then Age of Conan. Those numbers are not known. But from personal knowledge of playing and experiencing the game, community and servers activity till half january this year..... I can tell you that WAR isn't doing that much better then Age of Conan right now.
Cheers
And oh..... I have Norwegian girlfriend, that's why I moved from Holland to Oslo last year. I don't speak Norwegian nor understand it that well (yet), .... nor am I working for Funcom.
So nice try with that personal attack (see).
The trouble with AoC is that even if subscriptions jumped by 100% you wouldn't see it in game. Even if you had 100k new accounts it wouldn't make a difference to your gaming experience due to zones being instanced off when they hit a certain cap. AoC mechanics are no different than Guild Wars, if 1 million players were in town you wouldn't know the number by looking around as every instance of that town has a cap.
What am I trying to say? I'm trying to say that if you play and enjoy AoC, don't worry about how many subscriptions it has or how many are playing on your server. Since wether it's 100 or 5000 on your server the difference to your playing experience is negligable, which is the whole point of instancing zones.
In my opinion this makes AoC a CORPG like Guild Wars, only Funcom are claiming it's an MMORPG so that they can charge a subscription fee!
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
CS Lewis
Lol I'm not a total idiot. Of course I know trial people won't reach level 80 in a couple of days.
I didn't mention on my post that I started a new character, Bear Shaman, and was expecting to see tons of people in Tortage. But it was almost empty.
Honestly I saw no evidence that there was a trial which was very disappoiting.
Hi,
I tried the 7 day trial, and to be truthful, I rolled three characters and went into "night" Tortage each time. So I only seen live players for maybe a few minutes. That maybe the case, that a lot of new players were switched to the single player night time. I found a copy of the game cheap on Ebay, so I will give it a month. I'm a Conan fan, so I'll give it that long to see it hooks me or not.
Lol I'm not a total idiot. Of course I know trial people won't reach level 80 in a couple of days.
I didn't mention on my post that I started a new character, Bear Shaman, and was expecting to see tons of people in Tortage. But it was almost empty.
Honestly I saw no evidence that there was a trial which was very disappoiting.
Hi,
I tried the 7 day trial, and to be truthful, I rolled three characters and went into "night" Tortage each time. So I only seen live players for maybe a few minutes. That maybe the case, that a lot of new players were switched to the single player night time. I found a copy of the game cheap on Ebay, so I will give it a month. I'm a Conan fan, so I'll give it that long to see it hooks me or not.
Age of Conan is a lonely persons game. Unless you play with RL friends, you are most likely doomed to playing solo. Sure you can find groups every now and then but it's difficult since the game is instanced and the zones are small with only a handful of players.
Lol I'm not a total idiot. Of course I know trial people won't reach level 80 in a couple of days.
I didn't mention on my post that I started a new character, Bear Shaman, and was expecting to see tons of people in Tortage. But it was almost empty.
Honestly I saw no evidence that there was a trial which was very disappoiting.
Hi,
I tried the 7 day trial, and to be truthful, I rolled three characters and went into "night" Tortage each time. So I only seen live players for maybe a few minutes. That maybe the case, that a lot of new players were switched to the single player night time. I found a copy of the game cheap on Ebay, so I will give it a month. I'm a Conan fan, so I'll give it that long to see it hooks me or not.
Age of Conan is a lonely persons game. Unless you play with RL friends, you are most likely doomed to playing solo. Sure you can find groups every now and then but it's difficult since the game is instanced and the zones are small with only a handful of players.
This is not true. You can always join a guild and make friends there and several gaming possibilities open up from that point forward. Just like in any other game.
Lol I'm not a total idiot. Of course I know trial people won't reach level 80 in a couple of days.
I didn't mention on my post that I started a new character, Bear Shaman, and was expecting to see tons of people in Tortage. But it was almost empty.
Honestly I saw no evidence that there was a trial which was very disappoiting.
Hi,
I tried the 7 day trial, and to be truthful, I rolled three characters and went into "night" Tortage each time. So I only seen live players for maybe a few minutes. That maybe the case, that a lot of new players were switched to the single player night time. I found a copy of the game cheap on Ebay, so I will give it a month. I'm a Conan fan, so I'll give it that long to see it hooks me or not.
Age of Conan is a lonely persons game. Unless you play with RL friends, you are most likely doomed to playing solo. Sure you can find groups every now and then but it's difficult since the game is instanced and the zones are small with only a handful of players.
I rerolled 2 weeks ago and have run into plenty of people and have been in PuG's whenever I or someone else was looking for one. And I even play on a EU RP-PVE server. Wich isn't exactly known for it's high population.
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Age of Conan is a lonely persons game. Unless you play with RL friends, you are most likely doomed to playing solo. Sure you can find groups every now and then but it's difficult since the game is instanced and the zones are small with only a handful of players.
This is not true. You can always join a guild and make friends there and several gaming possibilities open up from that point forward. Just like in any other game.
Problem is that in Age of Conan it's usually faster to level by yourself. Even if you are in a guild, players prefer going solo since for most players the destination is more important than the journey.
More forced grouping would have been a good thing for this game.
Age of Conan is a lonely persons game. Unless you play with RL friends, you are most likely doomed to playing solo. Sure you can find groups every now and then but it's difficult since the game is instanced and the zones are small with only a handful of players.
This is not true. You can always join a guild and make friends there and several gaming possibilities open up from that point forward. Just like in any other game.
Problem is that in Age of Conan it's usually faster to level by yourself. Even if you are in a guild, players prefer going solo since for most players the destination is more important than the journey.
More forced grouping would have been a good thing for this game.
With the constant danger of being attacked by other players, nowadays I find much easier to level up in a group rather than solo.
I think I would agree with you back when the game was launched, but currently the pvp is so intense and you get attacked so often (tipically by other groups of players) that you actually have to increase your survival chances (and speed up your leveling) by playing in a group.
Leveling up in groups of 2-3 players is strongly advised IMO.
Lol I'm not a total idiot. Of course I know trial people won't reach level 80 in a couple of days.
I didn't mention on my post that I started a new character, Bear Shaman, and was expecting to see tons of people in Tortage. But it was almost empty.
Honestly I saw no evidence that there was a trial which was very disappoiting.
Hi,
I tried the 7 day trial, and to be truthful, I rolled three characters and went into "night" Tortage each time. So I only seen live players for maybe a few minutes. That maybe the case, that a lot of new players were switched to the single player night time. I found a copy of the game cheap on Ebay, so I will give it a month. I'm a Conan fan, so I'll give it that long to see it hooks me or not.
Age of Conan is a lonely persons game. Unless you play with RL friends, you are most likely doomed to playing solo. Sure you can find groups every now and then but it's difficult since the game is instanced and the zones are small with only a handful of players.
I rerolled 2 weeks ago and have run into plenty of people and have been in PuG's whenever I or someone else was looking for one. And I even play on a EU RP-PVE server. Wich isn't exactly known for it's high population.
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Don't worry. I was just commenting on his "with a trial = no new players" from the OP post. I was just simply suggesting that it might be the case that people were in the night tortage. It really seemed that the 7 day flew by really fast. I didn't get to see too much of the game world because I was trying to figure out which character class worked best for me. I still didn't figure it out either. And with 1.05 coming I'm still not certain.
And what's with all the "mod edits" now a days?
I strongly disagree with the statement that the game feels lonely and people are not playing. I've started out on Crom (EU General PVE) and there are lots of lots people, a bit too much for my taste, especially Tortage, that is just fully cramped. I have switched to Hyrkania (EU RP-PVE) and the server feels much better. People are much more friendly and it is much easier to group. Though I think AOC is a niche mmo, is not for everyone, you either like it or not. I still really enjoy the game.