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Funcom has announced that Age of Conan has been nominated for the Golden Joystick award in several categories, including PC game of the year, and game of the year.

We are honored to announce that we have been nominated for the Golden Joystick award and now you can help us win the final prize!

The public game award "Golden Joystick" is a tradition in the British gaming industry and this year we are also nominated in several categories! Now is your chance to help your favorite game score a place on the podium!

If Age of Conan is first for you in the nominated categories as it is for us, then please visit the award-page and cast your vote for your favorite MMORPG and show the world that truly the Age of Conan has come!

Read more here.

Originally posted by Szark

Funcom has announced that Age of Conan has been nominated for the Golden Joystick award in several categories, including PC game of the year, and game of the year.

The public game award "Golden Joystick" is a tradition in the British gaming industry and this year we are also nominated in several categories! Now is your chance to help your favorite game score a place on the podium!

 

If Age of Conan is first for you in the nominated categories as it is for us, then please visit the award-page and cast your vote for your favorite MMORPG and show the world that truly the Age of Conan has come!

We are honored to announce that we have been nominated for the Golden Joystick award and now you can help us win the final prize!

Read more here.

 SWEET!!!!

let the flaming begin!

Unbelievable.  The first mmo I've every played where, even though I easily exceed minimum specs, the game gets crap fps to the point of being unplayable. 

Ofcourse, I was reading AOC forums and some guy who was getting 2 to 10 fps was saying it was playable for him and he liked it.  Hahahaha.  Some people like to watch slideshows I guess.

Literally thousands of posts on official tech forums complaining about performance.  Not only ati people now.  Apparently there are quite a few nvidia people who are seeing declining fps, etc.  Don't believe me?  Head over there yourself and start reading.

Ofcourse, anyone can be nominated for anything.  But still, if this is the way of professional reviews and such I'm giving up on gamesites for anything other than screenshots and movie clips.

And no, I'm not a hater.  I actually love the game, and I want it to succeed.  But Funcom needs to get there head out of their assess and optimize their game engine.  The free month is essentially over and they are releasing everything but optimization.  People were getting better fps in beta, and fps for many has gotten progressively worse for more than just a handful of people.  Something is wrong with their engine.  Fix it, so people can play your game and give it a fair shake.

The game has potential as so many games do.  That is the frustrating aspect of this.  But it fails at the technical level for many people who meet or even far exceed even the recommended specs.  And there are apparently a lot of people for whom the game runs great.  And for those people I say congratz and I am happy you can play the game and have fun.  But acknowledge there are a significant number of people who are having problems.  The fact that you may not meet them in game might only mean many have given up on playing the game and simply no longer log in when performance for them is utter trash. 

Mmo's need subs.  They need a good community to be healthy and grow.  We are all in this together and I'm sure most if not all the people labeled as so called 'haters' would love to be proven wrong and play a really fun game. 

For the health of the game and it's future community, Funcom MUST optimize.  Otherwise it will dwindle and die.  Ofcourse, never underestimate the power of tits and a good beheading.....but still. 

Does anyone know what the criteria for these "awards" is...

I'm always leary of awards...

Originally posted by rubulator2k

Does anyone know what the criteria for these "awards" is...

I'm always leary of awards...

The best PR team wins.

I'm voting EVE...only real good mmorpg to play right now

Hey, you will always have some people that like a game and those that don't.  AoC is no different.  Of course there are not many MMO's coming out so the category does not offer much competition.  The thing is many people will play it until the next MMO is released, after that it will be another also ran.

It would not get my vote,  it had a lot more problems than a laggy client in my book, but my biggest issue was the horrible customer support provided by Funcom.  You can't put a bunch of monkies in a room at game consoles and expect to get passable support Funcom, but then that has been their modus operandi since they have been in business, silly me to expect it to change.

AoC is not a bad game, there are a lot of fun aspects to it, just that many of us just ran out of fun too fast.

Conan is a fun game that has alot going for it, but I agree they really need to optimize and bug fix over any balance or content changes.

LOTRO now theres a polished game although lack of real pvp caused me to get bored. Maybe Funcom can consult with some of these guys because technically LOTRO runs beautiful.

AOC does have issues with preformance, and bugs although it's goods do outweigh the bads for me. I however have a system that can handle it at usually 25-50 fps

No denying AOC needs to Optimize and clean the bugs out. I hope they start focusing on this soon.

Hopefully they won't fall into SOE's blunder of changing the game instead of polishing and bug fixing what they got.

In Short funcom, Prioritize! Optimize! or for lots of people forever it will be ByeBye!

Even DnL was nominated for an award once.