Age of Conan

Originally posted by D3mis3

Anyone who cancels is a complete retard.

1) This is a STRESS TEST. I repeat, STRESS TEST. It WILL run like crap and it WILL be buggy.

2) It is a BETA. Not a TRIAL or DEMO

3) It only levels you to 13. That to me is more of a extremely small preview. Anyone who thinks this beta is meant to sell copies obviously doesn't know or has played a lot of MMOs through their testing stages.

Wrong played many betas that ran great.

Originally posted by D3mis3

Anyone who cancels is a complete retard.

1) This is a STRESS TEST. I repeat, STRESS TEST. It WILL run like crap and it WILL be buggy.

2) It is a BETA. Not a TRIAL or DEMO

3) It only levels you to 13. That to me is more of a extremely small preview. Anyone who thinks this beta is meant to sell copies obviously doesn't know or has played a lot of MMOs through their testing stages.

As i explained, i cancelled not for anything wrong with the game, was personal preference, i know what i like. Don't assume you know why people cancelled and call them retards as you made yourself look like one with this post.

Originally posted by D3mis3

Anyone who cancels is a complete retard.

1) This is a STRESS TEST. I repeat, STRESS TEST. It WILL run like crap and it WILL be buggy.

2) It is a BETA. Not a TRIAL or DEMO

3) It only levels you to 13. That to me is more of a extremely small preview. Anyone who thinks this beta is meant to sell copies obviously doesn't know or has played a lot of MMOs through their testing stages.

Normally that would be the case but on the article posted on this site yesterday it was stated that:

The thing is that there were a couple of lingual missteps here. While Jorgen addressed one of them, in saying that they probably should have called it the Fileplanet beta rather than an open beta, I would go one step further and say that it probably should have been called the “Fileplanet beta preview”. In the end, that’s what it is. It’s a preview. The AoC General Beta is still alive and kicking and is separate from the FP “Open Beta”. I honestly think that Funcom heard their audience calling for some kind of an open beta preview (when people complain that there won’t be an OB, I would suggest that it’s because they want to test the game before buying). And rather than not providing players any chance to try the game pre-launch, I think that the AoC folks probably set up this deal with Fileplanet in an attempt to give players a bit of a preview.

Link: http://www.mmorpg.com/blogs/Stradden/042008/1605_The-Age-of-Conan-Beta-Debate-Now-With-One-More-Theory

Now this is just a blogger's opinion, but I think it is pretty accurate. This whole fileplanet beta was just a sample of the product. I find it enjoyable for what it is, and have enjoyed the tech betas and pvp weekend that I have gotten into as well, but Im not deluding myself about this "open beta".

Cheers!

edit and from the developer himself: “We are just a few weeks away from launch, and when moving into the final push beta stage it’s important for any MMO to ensure a final push attention as well. In my experience most all MMOs these days use the last few weeks for a more marketing orientated beta process, and Fileplanet seems to be the #1 gaming site in that regards.

link: http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/191/feature/1915

Originally posted by D3mis3

Anyone who cancels is a complete retard.

1) This is a STRESS TEST. I repeat, STRESS TEST. It WILL run like crap and it WILL be buggy.

2) It is a BETA. Not a TRIAL or DEMO

3) It only levels you to 13. That to me is more of a extremely small preview. Anyone who thinks this beta is meant to sell copies obviously doesn't know or has played a lot of MMOs through their testing stages.

Please do some more reading, performance issues have been noted in the closed beta as well, with half empty servers. Anyone who has beta tested a couple of MMOs and enough brain cells to process the information knows that there are no major chances in performance from open beta to launch day. I have played AoC in two computers, one can run it, one can not. Nothing has changed in 6 months in that aspect. They're both well above minimum requirements.

I'm very glad for those who can run it smoothly, but for those who cannot, don't get your hopes up.

I agree 13 levels should be enough to let you know if you want to spend your hard earned money on it, personally I do want to spend my money on it. Having said that no I don’t think 13 levels will tell you if you truly love the game and will abandon your life for it or not but it should tell you if you like the game well enough to shell it out.

I'm keeping my pre-order....this is beta...patches will come...and come and come and things will be smooth.  I remember WoW's open beta and the same thing happened and the same things were said and to tell you the truth...it will work out.   Never judge a book by it's cover.  For this game may have tons of blank pages, but they will be filled.  And when it does....I'll be there.  Be your own judge...you will be paying the money to play it.  If you don't like it, then it's easy as 1, 2, 3 to cancel.  I was a beta tester for tons of MMOS, some I liked, some I hated, and some I thought were a waste of hardrive space and the creators should go work at Pizza Hut....but you know what...I decided if I liked it or not...not some kid who thinks the game should be 100% complete, no flaws, no bugs, etc. during a beta. 

yeah im deffinetlly canceling there were bugs in beta and it lagged on 3 servers with 50,000 people in the first stress tess

yeh im so  canceling

does it hurt to be stupid?

Originally posted by Pride1

yeah im deffinetlly canceling there were bugs in beta and it lagged on 3 servers with 50,000 people in the first stress tess

yeh im so  canceling

does it hurt to be stupid?

 

No, but it hurts to be ignorant. The issues people are mentioning also happened in mostly empty servers.

AoC is the first slasher mmo i've played in quite a while (playing EVE).  I'm not judging the game, but I'm not sure if I enjoy this genre anymore.