Age of Conan

 LMGDAO I love it. Thank you for delivering my humor for the day.

As if you worked at Smith Barney and are going to school us on how FunCom is going to soon go insolvent.

 LMGDAO.

 Look at any other stock for any other company that you consider moderately successful like.. oh.. I dont know... Sony or Microsoft .. DOW chemical.. freaking Exxon.

LMGDAo jesus

www.euroland.com/SiteFiles/company/company.asp

down 9% or so

everyone needs something to do. I guess the OP was bored.

Yes we can read the newspaper, yes most of us have traded stock, yes most of us are successful in our stock analysis, so it is fair to assume that yes most of us know why what when how regarding funcom's stocks.

Is there really a reason to be here doing this? no. That goes for everyone.

Originally posted by Battlekruse

Those shareholders who wouldn't listen to our warnings lost hundreds of millions of dollars. Everyone knows that stock markets around the world have taken a hit for some months now but Funcom stock's performance is abysmally poor. Funcom tried to borrow tens of millions of dollars a few years back, a request that shrewd bankers wisely refused to entertain. Now we see the result. The final result have showed and the hyper have peaked. Now Funcom share start to sky drop as seen on the graph!!!.

Having played the game for a month out of beta, I am not surprised by this turn of events at all.

A) AWFUL login interface. You had to login through their web page, which was done...ooohhh, about FIVE YEARS AGO with little success. Why in gods name did they think it would work now?

B) Bad graphics engine/lag. There wasn't a top end machine out there that could run the game at medium settings with more than 20 FPS. I am used to low graphics in MMORPGs but this takes the cake. SWG is the only other game I know to do this and it has FAR more interactive modeling/animation and structure. There was no excuse to have such a poorly coded graphics engine, most times you wouldn't even load an NPC until you waited for 30 seconds in the same room, and even then they loaded as a grey polygon model for the next 2 minutes while it tried to load their color skin.

C) Promises made, not kept. A LOT of inovation and design went through with this game and quite a bit was promised in beta or told there was so much more to be shown upon release but they wanted to keep it secret. NONE of this secret stuff ever appeared, the bugs and promises made never appeared and they made not even 1 small jump in performance or enhancement from beta to release.

Overall, this has to be the most pathetic excuse for a GAME (not just a MMO) I've ever played in my life. Rubies of Eventide had a better chance at surviving than these people ever did. I'm honestly glad their game never made it big, hopefully they won't ever try again and others will learn from this mistake.

After reading thos post on the other forums it looks like bad management all round I did not see either of the 200 Co-worker doing a good job.Bad management usually leads to business failure and Age of Conan does not seem exempt from that rule.

I suspect the chain of causes looks like this: Bad management leads to incoherent execution of original design leading derivative (safe) design decisions to finish and ship the product. So I agree that Age of Conan failed to take off because it lacked differentiation from other games but I think the cause was bad management not a failure by any one designers to come up with original ideas.

Okay, you got me on the graph.  However, everything else that you said was utter garbage.  My rig runs the game at 1920x1200 resolution at max settings.. 30-50 FPS constantly.  They've been patching twice a week.  There have been several performance upgrades... yes, my guess is that you logged into the game and played very sparingly on a goat bus of a computer and decided to spread lies across the forums because you don't have a high end or even middle market computer to play AoC on. 

When people show me facts, I may change my stance on things.. but when people flat our lie and when they have no clue about anything that they are talking about.. that's what bugs me. 

News flash!!  People are leaving because of the lack of high end content.  Not because of performance issues or mechanics problems.  You would know this if you played the game.

Originally posted by bachanam

Is there really a reason to be here doing this? no. That goes for everyone.

Yes, I for one am interested in when they pull the plug on The Secret World MMORPG they are developing. Won't be long now.

Originally posted by Battlekruse

 

Could you please link the source for your graph (its a good thing to do so your readers wont belive that you made the graph by yourself)?  I for one believe that +20 in 6 months is rather good now when the global stock market is shakey and when we have in mind that fc is a rather small company...

And why does this board have so many doom sayers?  Could anyone please tell me why? Shouldnt we be happy that the mmo industry has companys that are fightiging over the subsribers? Or have I once again drunken to many bottles of coffe so Ive missed the probs when a game company fails...

Originally posted by DAS1337

Okay, you got me on the graph.  However, everything else that you said was utter garbage.  My rig runs the game at 1920x1200 resolution at max settings.. 30-50 FPS constantly.  They've been patching twice a week.  There have been several performance upgrades... yes, my guess is that you logged into the game and played very sparingly on a goat bus of a computer and decided to spread lies across the forums because you don't have a high end or even middle market computer to play AoC on. 

 

When people show me facts, I may change my stance on things.. but when people flat our lie and when they have no clue about anything that they are talking about.. that's what bugs me. 

News flash!!  People are leaving because of the lack of high end content.  Not because of performance issues or mechanics problems.  You would know this if you played the game.

Two patches a week that break more things than fix, yes regular patches are great.

....and you guys are basing this on the stock market?? ROFL. We all know how stable the stock market is and stocks rise and fall all the time. Good grief people.