Age of Conan

Originally posted by Lieberung

The last couple of years I have been following forums and kept myself updated on various articles around the net as WAR and AoC have been developing. Im originially a Warhammer fan (from the wfrp era in the mid 80's), but as time has gone by I have slowly moved my attention more and more from WAR over to AoC, simply beacause the game seems to have more new and exiting feautures to offer.

There is a another thing tho that has come to my attention, and that is the growing hostility towards AoC on the forums here at mmorpg.com compared to other but similar forums on the net (for example betaleaks forums). Some members at mmorpg.com forums are really hostile towards a game that isn't even out yet. Why is that? If the beta is that bad, it really should show at the betaleak forums, eh?

From what I have learned after spending some time reading feedback from betatesters I have purchaced 500 stocks in Funcom instead of upgrading my PC.. I hope that tells you something about the game that is to come.

Don't mean to sound hostile though :p

After reading this article: http://gameratty.com/article/b9e53a66b16b4a75fe7aa0ef0d84c154 and others I am really confused about what funcom is doing?

They have a good game that from the closed beta testers words and articles (since the NDA is partly lifted) is a great game and then they present an old hardly working version of the game to the world in the stress test?!?

Didnt they realize that this would probably have a huge impact on how people will look at the game? Dont they understand that words from fellow players means a 100 times more than professional reviews when it comes to MMOs? And now it will spread out that this game is bad because it had made a very bad first impression among large parts of the player base and you dont get second chances.

Can the harm ever be undone? I dont know. Someone at funcom should considder his position atm.

That being said the sharks who roams boards like these is smelling blood and is now using this to their full advantage. Players who love other games has an interest in hurting a game like AoC because the more people who leave their game to play a game like AoC the more their personal game experiene in the games they like is hurt. So when they see a good chance to discredit AoC they will use it.

Originally posted by Lieberung

The last couple of years I have been following forums and kept myself updated on various articles around the net as WAR and AoC have been developing. Im originially a Warhammer fan (from the wfrp era in the mid 80's), but as time has gone by I have slowly moved my attention more and more from WAR over to AoC, simply beacause the game seems to have more new and exiting feautures to offer.

There is a another thing tho that has come to my attention, and that is the growing hostility towards AoC on the forums here at mmorpg.com compared to other but similar forums on the net (for example betaleaks forums). Some members at mmorpg.com forums are really hostile towards a game that isn't even out yet. Why is that? If the beta is that bad, it really should show at the betaleak forums, eh?

From what I have learned after spending some time reading feedback from betatesters I have purchaced 500 stocks in Funcom instead of upgrading my PC.. I hope that tells you something about the game that is to come.

Then i suggest you have a look at Darkfall here on MMORPG.com. There you have the worst hostility i ever seen on any website, and guess what, the ones that is most hostile towards Darkfall is the Age of Conan fanbois. So i can nothing but laugh at your comments about hostility towards AoC. Dont throw bricks in a glasshouse. AoC followers asked for being tormented on this website and myself i laugh at any bad comment AoC is getting. You AoC followers deserves them all.

Originally posted by _Kyle_

I blame stupid people that should have been aborted instead of born. I also blame their stupid BETA REVIEWS.

This is a sad world where we live surrounded by idiots even more so then times long ago. Good bye world of intelligence.

It'd be wonderful if these idiots would actually TEST like beta was intended for and send that feedback to Funcom so the issues can be fixed instead of ranting on forums like a bunch of raving retards.

a wise man once said, "you get what you pay for".

put out whatever argument you want, a fact of life is that no one wants to work for free.  beta is either a free chance to play a game, or it's a job where you test for bugs and such.  how much are these beta testers being paid?

you get what you pay for.

they're being paid nothing?  i guess that the company paying them nothing should expect...

nothing.

they should expect any non-paid beta tester, at best, to be a free advert.

i'm sure there are some people who feel it is their god-obligated duty to actually perform 'beta testing' for free, so that a company can make multiple millions of dollars. 

let that sink in for a minute.

free labor, company makes millions...

and companies should put forth realistic launch times.  if they're not going to make the launch, all pushing it back multiple times does (for me) is make me lose any interest in the game.  they can't set and make a realistic deadline, but i expect them to be competent enough to deliver a FUN game? 

none of this is directed at any one company, it's directed at all companies to which it applies.

again, spin it however you want.  a lot of people are tired of pissing away THEIR hard earned money on craptastic games and are tired of wasting THEIR precious time "beta testing" for free.

eventually enough clue lights will come on.

Originally posted by dradrules

just wondered if this isa the same build why cant we play in directx10

This beta =/= release version.

Originally posted by Aragon100

Then i suggest you have a look at Darkfall here on MMORPG.com. There you have the worst hostility i ever seen on any website, and guess what, the ones that is most hostile towards Darkfall is the Age of Conan fanbois. So i can nothing but laugh at your comments about hostility towards AoC. Dont throw bricks in a glasshouse. AoC followers asked for being tormented on this website and myself i laugh at any bad comment AoC is getting. You AoC followers deserves them all.

When does Darkfall OB start?

Originally posted by Qayne

Originally posted by Aragon100

Then i suggest you have a look at Darkfall here on MMORPG.com. There you have the worst hostility i ever seen on any website, and guess what, the ones that is most hostile towards Darkfall is the Age of Conan fanbois. So i can nothing but laugh at your comments about hostility towards AoC. Dont throw bricks in a glasshouse. AoC followers asked for being tormented on this website and myself i laugh at any bad comment AoC is getting. You AoC followers deserves them all.

When does Darkfall OB start?

Second Tuesday of next week. But only if it rains from purple clouds.

Originally posted by afoaa

Didnt they realize that this would probably have a huge impact on how people will look at the game? Dont they understand that words from fellow players means a 100 times more than professional reviews when it comes to MMOs? And now it will spread out that this game is bad because it had made a very bad first impression among large parts of the player base and you dont get second chances.

Can the harm ever be undone? I dont know. Someone at funcom should considder his position atm.

That being said the sharks who roams boards like these is smelling blood and is now using this to their full advantage. Players who love other games has an interest in hurting a game like AoC because the more people who leave their game to play a game like AoC the more their personal game experiene in the games they like is hurt. So when they see a good chance to discredit AoC they will use it.

I don't care if AoC succeeds or fails, I'm just looking for a new game to play.  That said, after three days of open beta, Funcom has lost my money.  I won't be pre-ordering and might not ever buy AoC.  I beta tested and played Anarchy Online at launch.  Funcom fooled me once.  They won't fool me again.

I don't believe in the "magic patch" and still find it hard to believe they are testing two versions of the beta client.  If it's true, it's outrageously stupid.