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*NEW* OFFICIAL FUNCOM CONTEST: Find The King's Seals - Anniversary Contest
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Find The King's Seals- Anniversary Contest
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The King's Seal
The preparations for the anniversary of King Conan's crowning was occuping the Kingdom and the people all over Aquilonia were anticipating a week of celebrations in honor of their saviour's arrival. With every shining moment, a light in these dark times, comes a shadow that falls upon Hyboria and with it the more sinister creatures and minds that dwell in the gloom. Crawling in the mists these people have found a way to hurt the Kingdom of Aquilonia and cut off one of it's most crucial tools of reign: Communication.
King Conan had issued the production of intricate, detailed seals that would ensure safe communication between him and his contacts. These seals were constructed by the finest craftsman in all of Tarantia, a good friend of the King himself, a person of trust. The shadow did fall on this particular person, and in a moonless night, two shadowy figures entered the house of the honest man, killed him and his wife and stole the silver seals and the golden seal of the King himself.
King Conan did not hesitate the moment he got word of the brutal crime and sent forth messengers that should ensure no one would mistake his seal to be trustworthy until all seals are recovered. In addition he let his Black Dragons contact you in person, to ask for your assistance in the recovery of the seals, before they can do harm to Aquilonia and the King's contacts.
The golden seal is the most important one, as it serves as the source of replications. Any replica of a seal bears small errors and because this error accumulates with every replication, only the seals created as a replica of the source seal can be used for communication. Replications of replicas are useless.
Little is known about the thieves who stole the precious items, but that they left the town in different directions, obviously trying to use the seals somewhere in Aquilonia, before the word of their theft reaches the outer corners of the country. You must hurry and follow their tracks and recover the seals, before any harm can be done to the jewel of Hyboria!
Contest Rules
King Conan needs your assistance. His royal seals have been stolen and they need to be recovered by all means.
(example seal)
To participate in this contest you have to check out the websites listed below. All of them have several seals hidden away on their pages (Content). Every seal comes with an unique code written on it. Find them all and write down every code. Afterwards post all the codes you found in this special subforum on the official Age of Conan boards.
Besides 25 silver seals for each language (10 for Spanish), there is also one golden seal hidden somewhere on one of the listed webpages. If you also manage to find that one together with the 25 silver seals for your language, you get the chance to win the grand prize ... a lifetime subscription to Age of Conan!
Please note: there is only one single golden seal for ALL languages combined - so an English player for example also would have to check out the other language websites to hope to find the golden seal.
You can only partake in one language territory and the codes are exclusive for every language, so you cannot use codes from the seals of another language.
US players need to check these websites to find their silver seals:
AoC Vault (7 silver seals)
English Community Portal (6 silver seals)
Ten Ton Hammer (6 silver seals)
Famine's Blog on mmorpg.com (6 silver seals)
EU English players need to check these websites to find their silver seals:
AoC Vault (7 silver seals)
English Community Portal (6 silver seals)
Ten Ton Hammer (6 silver seals)
Famine's Blog on mmorpg.com (6 silver seals)
French players need to check these websites to find their silver seals:
JeuxOnline (4 silver seals)
MondesPersistants (4 silver seals)
Hyborian Codex (4 silver seals)
Univers Virtuels (4 silver seals)
Luna Atra (3 silver seals)
Hyboria Info (3 silver seals)
Official FR-Communityportal (3 silver seals)
German players need to check these websites to find their silver seals:
AoC-Wiki (4 silver seals)
AoC-Welten (4 silver seals)
AoC-Gamona (4 silver seals)
AoC-MMORPG-Planet (4 silver seals)
AoCSzene (5 silver seals)
AoC-GameSzene (4 silver seals)
Spanish players need to check this website to find their silver seals:
Juegaenred (10 silver seals)
And don't forget! In order to find the one golden seal, you would have to check ALL of the above (no matter which language).
The winners will be picked randomly from all participants who post the correct codes for their lanaguage. Odds of winning dependant on number of entries. Entry to this competition is void where prohibited by local laws. The conetst ends on 31st of May - midnight.CET All entries must be received until then to participate in the drawing of the winners.
Good luck!
List of Prizes
5x Lifetime Account (GLOBAL on all communities comined) - Only if you found all 25 silver seals for your language and also the one golden Seal.
+ Custom Forum Avatar
+ Custom Forum Title
5x 6 Month free Subscription
+ Custom Forum Avatar
+ Custom Forum Title
5x 3 Month free Subscription
+ Ingame Items
2x 3 Month free Subscription
5x 1 Month free Subscription
+ Ingame Items
2x 1 Month free Subscription
5x Ingame Items
+ Custom Forum Avatar
+ Custom Forum Title
2x Ingame Items
10x Custom Forum Avatar
+ Custom Forum Title
10x Custom Forum Avatar
Comments
So how did this work out? Anyone here find the seals? ( sounds like a special ops FPS LOL)
Anyway it looks like some decent prizes if you are a AoC fan. DiD they ever do anything ingame, other thanthe one they attempted which is covered in the otehr thread?
I miss DAoC
The player base does not seem very impressed:
forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php
And some of them were quick to point out the obvious.
Quote from Xappie
"Let me translate it for you... this is more about building relationships with the people who build and run those various websites than it is about building relationships with us. More traffic for those websites means more money. This has "promotion designed by marketing department" written all over it. (As most promotions are.)"
Quoted from Casca707
"They wanted to get the sites that give them good PR a ton of hits............."
I've been around alot of MMO 1 year anniversaries and this is by far the most lackluster event I've heard ever from a "professional" developer. It's simply bottom-of-the-barrel development and a look at the official boards will tell you just how pissed the current subscribers are at this whole fiasco. They've squandered alot of the good fatih they've managed to build the last few months, time will tell if they'll get a second chance next year.
The most misused word on the internet:
loose
adjective, looser, loosest, adverb, verb loosed, loosing.
adjective
1. free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
2. free from anything that binds or restrains; unfettered
The word you are looking for is L-O-S-E. YOu can NOT loose a game.
Take this angle in for a moment.
Look at all the websites there that have good info on AoC. Then look at all the non English language ones on there (3 times as many).
Then consider this if your a current player (which I don't think any poster in the thread here is at the moment here (plus consider such a short period of time in game had and level attained as well as how much the game has changed now in many areas from same posters) ) - would it not be a community thing to bring all these resources for players into the open more?
Famine's Blog here with Dev Interviews and insights
TenTonHammer for all the guides
AoC Vault for the all the guides, patch impressions and game related articles
For the player that just visits mmorpg.com and may be new this is a good way to have overlapping interests.
The simple fact is you spend 10 mins on each site browsing through and each page the Seal is on should have something interesting attached. They are well placed.
The way that it is set up is that it is a community event. If your posting here your interacting with that community whether you like it or not. Remember where it is aimed at and what overall effect that has on you, then factor that in with any reply.
Whether the community likes it or not is a different matter, but those in the community will know that this is the first of more info to come over the next few weeks about more things. Obviously some people would rather have a race in game for whomever has the biggest guild wins.
We as a community also have far more many contests out there from many organised community websites not including the trial. Machinima $8k in prizes contest for eg.
Don't forget that also to celebrate the inbound patch 1.05 there are the first of some vet rewards too.
AoC 1 year Anniversary Screen Shot Contest: that ends today s276595797.onlinehome.us/ageofconan/screenshot/
Fact is there are some nice things going on at the moment and more in bound, plenty on the official forums.
For me the bottom line is that this comp promotes the resources that players old and new might not know is out there and at the end of the day, whether these websites gain money from game ads just like any other game, the player has the potential to benefit from something they may not of known about game related before.
I can totally understand when you have people not playing the game and never visting or even aware of some these sites how this doesn't effect them in any way and how they may be upsetting no matter what the agenda for posting is.
See post #3 in this thread, those are quotes from ACTIVE PLAYERS, also see forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php for more responses by ACTIVE PLAYERS. FC's BS is wearing very thin on the player base. You're 'everything is getting better everyday' speech is out of touch with the actual community.
See post #3 in this thread, those are quotes from ACTIVE PLAYERS, also see forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php for more responses by ACTIVE PLAYERS. FC's BS is wearing very thin on the player base. You're 'everything is getting better everyday' speech is out of touch with the actual community.
Can I ask you why are you trying to derail the thread?
This is a non ingame contest, your linking to a cancelled ingame event that was cancelled before it started, had an announcement post 24 hrs before and which post had 1000 views prior to it's proposed time and cancellation message that it was not put across in the desired way. Coupled with the linking thread that proves ppl up until the cancellation annoucement just show that it is indeed a player event and confusion around this also proves cancelling was the right thing to do.There are couple threads about that already.
Like I said I will take it that you in trying to derail the thread proves my post. You already had my acknowledgement that I can understand this upsets you. I don't know what else to say because I don't get how this personally effects you?
Maybe that is your motivation for trying to derail? hmmm
Fact is this contest sends people playing the game or those new to it, across a wealth of game resources. Simple fact in my eyes is that can be useful and potentially for longer subscribed players too. For yourself I don't get the interest or where your coming from in making some grand broad sweeping non connecting comments, especially given your history in posting here.
I think that no matter what announcement we have you can always find people who disagree. On the PR statement though, it's more of the idea with pulling more of our community to sites that host great Age of Conan guides and information. TenTon and Vault both have various guides they have written that explain different systems in detail. The MMORPG blog hosts different interviews with designers and general information. The other regions are following the same theme.
Glen ''Famine'' Swan
Senior Assistant Community Manager - Funcom
I think that no matter what announcement we have you can always find people who disagree. On the PR statement though, it's more of the idea with pulling more of our community to sites that host great Age of Conan guides and information. TenTon and Vault both have various guides they have written that explain different systems in detail. The MMORPG blog hosts different interviews with designers and general information. The other regions are following the same theme.
From the EU Forums:
Quote Raffachicken
"Found all of them on the blog and official portal. But I've given up on IGN and TTH. Not found a single one in either and they're horrible archaic sites with hardly any recent updates or even up to date stuff. Does anyone even use sites like that anymore? All seems a bit 2001 to me."
forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showthread.php
P.S Still waiting on my CE Refund Famine.
I think that no matter what announcement we have you can always find people who disagree. On the PR statement though, it's more of the idea with pulling more of our community to sites that host great Age of Conan guides and information. TenTon and Vault both have various guides they have written that explain different systems in detail. The MMORPG blog hosts different interviews with designers and general information. The other regions are following the same theme.
From the EU Forums:
Quote Raffachicken
"Found all of them on the blog and official portal. But I've given up on IGN and TTH. Not found a single one in either and they're horrible archaic sites with hardly any recent updates or even up to date stuff. Does anyone even use sites like that anymore? All seems a bit 2001 to me."
forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showthread.php
P.S Still waiting on my CE Refund Famine.
I have some info that might shed some light on that particular reply. Believe it or not, not everyone in AoC is level 80 and done everything. These sites still have info that pertains very much to the game in it's current state. To dismiss them completely, that information without any examples in putting across as a whole is very short sighted.
As for the comment about not all players are at level 80, I got that from Sil: http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=121656&page=5 and subsequent replies.
Keeping that in mind and the fact the guides are not only class and content guides but also encompass particular level ranges does this still make Raffachickens comment wholly relevant anymore?
Doesn't matter what they look like does it? The info is there and be found easy for anyone with a PC. Do you know where the seals are and what pages? take a look where they are put.
Doesn't the 14 other non English sites count for anything or not either?
humm sounds fun might give it a try
I think that no matter what announcement we have you can always find people who disagree. On the PR statement though, it's more of the idea with pulling more of our community to sites that host great Age of Conan guides and information. TenTon and Vault both have various guides they have written that explain different systems in detail. The MMORPG blog hosts different interviews with designers and general information. The other regions are following the same theme.
I agree with this statement.
However, I don't think speaking in platitudes serves the discussion here; which is Funcom's particular methodology when it comes to their community events. What my colleagues learned this past week was that the community team seems to have little to poor communication with the development team; and that a full fledged events team is non existent.
Also learned is that the development tools for community based events were never developed or developed to the extent that would actually promote the title in the same capacity that other triple a titles would. It was clear from the communication that there is a well intentioned team who wanted to put something together, despite the tool limitations they had; but their efforts did not play out as intended when those world design issues (instances) killed off any potential promise for events like this in the future unless the limit was for the instance was removed or the design changed altogether.
So let's be candid with one another Glen, here is what transpired:
You can be cavalier all you like about whether customer's appreciate your efforts, but this week two of the reasons I play this title will no longer subscribe. Not because of the event, but because of your team. For them, you ate up the last of the goodwill and capital you earned these last 8 months when they were reminded once again of their experiences with Funcom's management at launch and the months that followed.
I don't mind logging in for a few hours, enjoying anniversary or special events. In the case of Age of Conan's anniversary events, I am told you're sorry for cancelling the first one due to system issues of your own design; and in the second instance the premise for enjoying my second Age of Conan anniversary event is to log out of conan; and spend the next hour or two visiting third party sites....
Despite some of the well articulated responses above, it takes a tremendous amount of effort to not see it as obtuse in design and implementation.
I don't know about you, but to me this is 1st time when a 3D MMORPG is dependable on 3rd party websites in RPGing.
They should've changed their genre to MMOG.
But CSR-people working for Funcom: Don't take it personally, you're just doing your job and in that you seem to be innovative and all. It's not always drivers fault that there's no success.
Hello.
I know I'm new here and all, and will probably get flamed for my post by some over eager people here (lets not post names), but I honestly think this is a bloody disgrace.
First they promote an event in game, then they say the players have misunderstood it (an insult to an average persons intelligece just a bit) and there was not supposed to be a real event, and then they make an out of game event where people need to sit for hours and click on silly websites for the chance to get a subscription prize.
I mean... you sit there. You click on websites. Fun... right?
To all those who will say - but you get subscription prizes! Well... some guy who got all the seals in the game forums told that it took him 10 hours to do so. And it's still not guaranteed that he'll win anything.
Now, if he would spend those ten hours... lets say... working. For money. He'd get more of a worth for it I'd say.
So now instead of an event that did not happen they have an event that is not worth it (in my opinion) and is definitly not fun.
Way to go funcom
P.S.
Not a native English speaker so if anyone will make fun of my spelling... well... then he's a jerk.
My posts in this thread were direct quotes from the ACTIVE AoC PLAYER Community. Maybe you should head over to those forums, and try explaining to them how wrong they are about feeling the way they do. I am guessing your comments wouldn't be very well received there.
My posts in this thread were direct quotes from the ACTIVE AoC PLAYER Community. Maybe you should head over to those forums, and try explaining to them how wrong they are about feeling the way they do. I am guessing your comments wouldn't be very well received there.
Considering you are not using your own opinion and other for many other reasons you imply, why resort to trolling the official boards for anything that looks "juicy" so you can bring 2nd hand info. I am sorry but that is not good enough.
You see you can't even reply to the direct context of my reply, just stating that someone, you think, is an active player.
Like I said these sites have content from 1-80 and beyond. Metrics for AoC but the majority of players under level 80 and I am not going to second guess some second hand info.
If you look at what you keep going on about and what is being talked about they are different things, can you see how uses someone else's opinion and not your own is a bit strange?
Avery even you should admit that this was a hail mary pass pulled out to make up for the FUBAR in-game event. If a web page scavenger hunt was all they could come up with as the main Anniversary event I would be ashamed to admit it.
Also instead of ragging on unfinished you might go here and read what active subscribers think of the event...which was not much from the posts I read at least
forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php
I miss DAoC
I am a long time player, I love the game..
And I agree with everything you wrote.
This continues to make Funcom the brunt of many a joke when it comes to launching ANYTHING. I grow more fearful every day of what Patch 1.05 will be like. I grow more fearful of how much longer this game can survive.
Funcom continues to prove they do not have the skills to run an MMO. I would like to ask now that they give up the rights of this game to CD Projekt, and let them take over what is left of this game, and with some small hope CD-P can rectify this shambling corpse.
When all of the mess from the past has been put behind them, Funcom continues to allow more of this type of shenanigans to drive them into the ground.
I do not need any commenter with a "I told you so" crap or anything like that. I just want to state my opinion.
It is not good.
I will continue playing util my time card is up, and I think I need to add myself to the party of unsubscribers.
Cheers
My posts in this thread were direct quotes from the ACTIVE AoC PLAYER Community. Maybe you should head over to those forums, and try explaining to them how wrong they are about feeling the way they do. I am guessing your comments wouldn't be very well received there.
Considering you can't form your own opinion for many reasons and at the moment resort to trolling the official boards for anything that looks "juicy" all you can bring is 2nd hand info. I am sorry but that is not good enough.
You see you can't even reply to the direct context of my reply, just stating that someone, you think, is an active player.
Like I said these sites have content from 1-80 and beyond. Metrics for AoC but the majority of players under level 80 and I am not going to second guess some second hand info.
Considering you can't think of a decent reply to a major concern amongst the many posters for many reasons, and at the moment resort to attack personally anyone who posts anything "negative" about the event, all you can bring is 2nd class replies worthy of a troll. I am sorry but that is not good enough.
You see, you can't even reply to a person who is showing you the concerns of the PLAYER BASE of age of conan, just stating that someone, you think, can't form his own opinion.
Like I said, the way Funcom handled both events (and I use this term loosely) is a bloody disgrace. You speak of second hand info while you speak (at your own merit) for the majority of players, with no real base attached to such clames.
Maybe you don't realize that yet, but YOU are the second hand info. You're biased, rude, and when you got nothing to say you just attack the person who makes a point you do not like.
This was my civil response.
I'd tell you something less civil, but I don't want to lower myself to your level.
Cheers, oh amazing one.
This event was planned before anything. It's not something put together after the in-game activites.
Glen ''Famine'' Swan
Senior Assistant Community Manager - Funcom
Just wanted to toss out a general observation from my end here. Normally, when anyone comments positively about anything relating to the game they have a higher chance of being picked apart by the community. Naturally so, when there is negativity posted it seems to have a higher chance of the opposite. Looking at it overall you can see there is a certain unbalance to the positive and negative posts that come out of the community here. When both are as equal in our eyes because we can't just have all positive input without knowing the negative input. Thus when quoting positive posts to counter the negative posts it could have a higher change of be void on the given subject that you're currently discussing (i.e.: event) just because it is positive rather than negative.
Nonetheless, I also wanted to point out that not one person speaks for the entire playerbase. I think referencing concerns from threads is still a good thing however. It does give you a general overview of the feeling and attitude over what's going on. When we see such things, it at least gives us the direction on where we might have faulted or even progressed. Though again, it's not the entire playerbase and trying to reference it as the sky is falling to everyone wouldn't be correct.
Thanks for the input Satansbible and others.
Glen ''Famine'' Swan
Senior Assistant Community Manager - Funcom
Just wanted to toss out a general observation from my end here. Normally, when anyone comments positively about anything relating to the game they have a higher chance of being picked apart by the community. Naturally so, when there is negativity posted it seems to have a higher chance of the opposite. Looking at it overall you can see there is a certain unbalance to the positive and negative posts that come out of the community here. When both are as equal in our eyes because we can't just have all positive input without knowing the negative input. Thus when quoting positive posts to counter the negative posts in your opinion could have a higher change of be void on the given subject that you're currently discussing (i.e.: event) just because it is positive rather than negative.
Nonetheless, I also wanted to point out that not one person speaks for the entire playerbase. I think referencing concerns from threads is still a good thing however. It does give you a general overview of the feeling and attitude over what's going on. When we see such things, it at least gives us the direction on where we might have faulted or even progressed. Though again, it's not the entire playerbase and trying to reference it as the sky is falling to everyone wouldn't be correct.
Thanks for the input Satansbible and others.
Wow... I can't believe I got a response from Famine.
Well, first of all, thank you for replying to my humble post.
And yes, I do agree - there is an imbalance between the replies to positive and negative posts, but I believe they should be treated equally.
I think that when a person voices either his concerns or his appreciations, he should not be flamed for his views. There is a civil ways discussing such manners. Nor should that person be told that he can't form his own opinion and he's just a troll (like your own represntitive had done here).
Now - my own opinions on the events are not really relevant, I do think however AoC is a good game and I believe no one can deny it is getting better and better.
What I did speak against (in my last post) was a blunt and rude shutting up of others who did not share someone elses opinion. I hope you don't mind too much for me doing so.
Thank you very kindly again for replying.
No problems at all. I do however disagree with you, I think your opinion is very relevant even if you're active or not active in-game.
Glen ''Famine'' Swan
Senior Assistant Community Manager - Funcom
You dodged my question. Was anniversary event supposed to be like it was? Or did someone screw up and you guys had to make up a cover story of how the event was supposed to be like it was.
You dodged my question. Was anniversary event supposed to be like it was? Or did someone screw up and you guys had to make up a cover story of how the event was supposed to be like it was.
Wouldn't be much of a cover story if Famine revealed that to you then, would it?
You dodged my question. Was anniversary event supposed to be like it was? Or did someone screw up and you guys had to make up a cover story of how the event was supposed to be like it was.
Feel free to toss this in the other discussion thread on that event. I would hate to derail this thread even more than it already is.
Glen ''Famine'' Swan
Senior Assistant Community Manager - Funcom