Age of Conan

i ve had a look through some of the early reviews online , it makes some interesting reading . most are pretty favourable i must say but nearly all of them say to be certain that you pc its close to the recomended specs ( not the required specs ) if you dont want a frustrating time of it . some go so far as to say this is a fatal flaw in the games design .

http://www.theburialgrounds.com/Articles/Article8.shtml

if funcom has overestimated the power of the average home system  .i wonder how many of those 400 thousand player will be there in a months time . i m already hearing rumours that possibly as many as a half of them could cancel thier subs .

my recomendation to anyone who does nt have a system thats somewhere near the recomended specs is to wait for a free trial , see how it runs on your pc first .

if aoc runs on the average system like some posts say then funcom really should put one out asap . put peoples minds to rest . ( even if its a three day trial )

theres a lot of potential customers out there holding off buying because they dont want to waste thier money .

No doubt many folks will have trouble running the game, and some number of people will cancel their subs, happens in every game.

What might happen is some folks might go out and upgrade their hardware which will slowly increase the number of subs in the coming months.   (its what I did)

Better for the gamers if the game overshoots the requirements and thus remains relevant for years to come than undershoots and is obsolete from day 1.

Worse for the company of course, since the subscription numbers will be lower. So?

The fatal flaw in that review  is system requirements. MOST people who play games have no idea how to setup their computer to maximize their performance in these games. This is the computer age, FUNCOM shouldn't be penalized for people's ignorance of computers or the fact their trying to play the game with something as powerful as my Ipod.

This is not Vanguard, it doesn't take a supercomputer to run it. People who claim that are ignorant of their computer systems or just inaccurate in that comment.

This is an old beta review...

Was even quoted by the one doing the review on this forum a while back..

Ohh well..

Originally posted by Riho06

The fatal flaw in that review  is system requirements. MOST people who play games have no idea how to setup their computer to maximize their performance in these games. This is the computer age, FUNCOM shouldn't be penalized for people's ignorance of computers or the fact their trying to play the game with something as powerful as my Ipod.

 

This is not Vanguard, it doesn't take a supercomputer to run it. People who claim that are ignorant of their computer systems or just inaccurate in that comment.

Yes they most certainly should.

I'm not a fanboy of any game however Vanguard runs better on my rig than AoC.

Originally posted by Riho06

The fatal flaw in that review  is system requirements. MOST people who play games have no idea how to setup their computer to maximize their performance in these games. This is the computer age, FUNCOM shouldn't be penalized for people's ignorance of computers or the fact their trying to play the game with something as powerful as my Ipod.

 

This is not Vanguard, it doesn't take a supercomputer to run it. People who claim that are ignorant of their computer systems or just inaccurate in that comment.

Originally posted by kedoremos

 

Originally posted by Riho06

The fatal flaw in that review  is system requirements. MOST people who play games have no idea how to setup their computer to maximize their performance in these games. This is the computer age, FUNCOM shouldn't be penalized for people's ignorance of computers or the fact their trying to play the game with something as powerful as my Ipod.

 

This is not Vanguard, it doesn't take a supercomputer to run it. People who claim that are ignorant of their computer systems or just inaccurate in that comment.

 

Yes they most certainly should.

I'm not a fanboy of any game however Vanguard runs better on my rig than AoC.

VG and AOC are different games, my PC is between required and recommended, FC gives you a game, if you cant run it on your system, upgrade or dont play it.  In no sense should FC be penalized for it. Most gamers dont know what they are doing with their computers you see it soo often on the posts, a popular one is look i have a 8600 and its not running AOC well at all but 8800 runs it like silk hmm, so i need to pay more money to do that.  If you read the specs before you even bought the game you could see and know that your card/pc cannot run the game. Dont assume that you can run a game just because you can play another well. VG and AOC do not compare, different games, different concepts and most importantly different shaders/and graphics.

If the gamers don't have a good experience with AoC, due to technical issues, then they will unsubscribe. When that happens, any company will lose. I guess it's in the nature of the beast, called PC gaming.

I like how the people who are playing it are like, "yea if the user cant run it its not funcoms fault it is just their fault for not knowing how to work their computers lol."

I'm pretty sure most gamers are going to know how to work a PC whoever said, "Even if Funcom loses subs because it needs a major computer to run... So?"

Well, you won't be saying So? when Funcom isn't making enough money from subs to run servers, put out updates and expansions, and ultimately just drop all support for the game.

Also, Funcom is going to be penalized no-matter-what for making it run on computers that need to be upgraded. They're penalizing themselves for making something most mid-range gaming PCs won't be able to run at the moment, which is technically their fault for being inconsiderate towards the class of people who only have low to mid-range PCs. That's a good majority of people, which probably exceeds people with high-range computers by a major amount. And for the person who said you don't want something that will be "dead on day 1"... well, if you have a game that you can't run during your first impression of that game, you're probably not going to sit around and say, "Well, in a couple of months I'll just upgrade my computer and start playing." The beauty of being one of the first to play the game and having more games pushed into the PC gaming market is going to just overshadow AoC until the point where you don't want to play. Maybe 1/5 of the people who couldn't play it will return over time, but that's not many.