Age of Conan

Originally posted by singsofdeath

 

Originally posted by Expatriate

Originally posted by singsofdeath

 

Originally posted by Expatriate

You might get a clue from the stock price (search funcom at finance.yahoo.com)

It started falling sharply on January 17th, 4 days before the announced delay on the 21st, hitting a low of about $19/share,so Norwegian traders seemed to know what was coming.

But after the announcement of the May release, it started climbing again and it's holding steady at around $34/share now.

From that, I would say if we see the stock falling sharply again, a new release date is about to be announced.

From what I understand, there are legal issues which FC must observe, concerning how much time before the original release date they must inform investors of a push-back. That is of course what lead to the stock-price dropping back in January but I believe I read in an article (not sure where, will have to browse again) that you need to inform investors at least 2 Months in advance of a push-back. A legal issue.

 

 

Since we haven#t seen stock-price drops so far, and if that info is correct (I can't guarantee it), there will be no push-back.

That's interesting.  If the investors knew 2 months ahead of the push-back, I wonder why the stock started falling 4 days before?

No wait, you misunderstood me. The investors have to be informed two months before the previously set release date.

 

 

Earlier this year, the release date was 25th of March. The delay was announced Mid January.

 

Sorry for being unclear. <.<

Good money to be made on the stock if they set a new release date.

Originally posted by Katashi-kun

 

 

Originally posted by Zorvan

But I agree with the others who asked: who the hell buys their games at Wal-Mart?

Not I, but getting to that point if not for Best Buy and Circuit City!  Wal-Mart has a better PC selection than Gamestop and EBGames do now........heh

 

 

 Also gotta remember Wal-Mart may not be huge in video games, but they are extremely huge all over the world, so if there was inside info to be had Wal-Mart would be one of the 1st to know this!  They have somewhere between 40k and 50k stores in the world.

 

Wouldn't surprise me to see the game pushed again, its not ready anytime soon!

Truth right there. Not sure whats going on with EBGames/Gamestop but their PC games section got turned into a castrated bargain bin 1 small section in the back of the store offer.

Originally posted by Euthorus

Originally posted by Katashi-kun

 

 

Originally posted by Zorvan

But I agree with the others who asked: who the hell buys their games at Wal-Mart?

Not I, but getting to that point if not for Best Buy and Circuit City!  Wal-Mart has a better PC selection than Gamestop and EBGames do now........heh

 

 

 Also gotta remember Wal-Mart may not be huge in video games, but they are extremely huge all over the world, so if there was inside info to be had Wal-Mart would be one of the 1st to know this!  They have somewhere between 40k and 50k stores in the world.

 

Wouldn't surprise me to see the game pushed again, its not ready anytime soon!

Truth right there. Not sure whats going on with EBGames/Gamestop but their PC games section got turned into a castrated bargain bin 1 small section in the back of the store offer.

I do buy games from walmart as they typically have lower prices than bestbuy and ebgames (which has f'ing retardedly expensive prices).

Originally posted by Khalathwyr

 

Originally posted by Zorvan

You mean squeaky clean Wal-Mart ( what a crock ) is actually carrying the game? Astonishing.

 

But I agree with the others who asked: who the hell buys their games at Wal-Mart?

Give it some time. The religious right here in the US is too busy making up their minds if McCain is conservative enough for them (and praying he doesn't take Romney as VP) to represent them in our upcoming elections. Once the elections are over they'll have more time to go back to dictating the morals that other people should live by and can get to writing nasty letters to Wal-mart.

 

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Who has completely misled you or what have you misunderstood to think that the religious right has anything to do with censoring games?  You are seriously misinformed.  When the politicians were raising hell about GTA:San Andreas, Hillary Clinton, a socialist and Democrat, was in charge of the majority of the people raising hell.  See: http://clinton.senate.gov/news/statements/details.cfm?id=241138 OR http://www.nationalreview.com/pfeiffer/pfeiffer200507250800.asp

If you were misinformed enough to think that the intent of the religious right was to tell people what to do, well then I am glad to straighten this out for you.  If you are just a republican/right wing hater, well then join the rest of the folks with Bush Derangment Syndrome.

More on topic, I haven't seen anything from WalMart as to a move-back date for AoC.  I have one of their preorder cards that I paid $5 bucks for this game, and I am still being told to come by at midnight on the release date. 

And for those who were wondering why someone would buy something like AoC at Wal-Mart, it is the closest "big" store within 45 miles of my area.  The Midwestern United States is like that sometimes.

AoC can only pray it will be released in time or at least before autumn 2008. Otherwise it will be blown out of the water by ...no not WAR.. by Spellborn.

A two week delay? Yea.. thats walmart being n00bs again :p

I wouldn't doubt if the game went Gold in the next 2 weeks.

Actually the game has gone gold since a few days back.

It was supposed to apparently. But there was no announcement from the publisher or Funcom or anything. So I don't think it has yet.