Age of Conan

but its going to take a few weeks

www.massively.com/2008/07/01/female-avatar-dps-bug-will-take-weeks-to-correct/

"I know that many of you will probably be disappointed to hear that it might take us as much as another three to four weeks to solve this issue, for which I can only apologize,

but we want to make sure that we devote the amount of time that an issue of this magnitude and importance deserves ... I have to stress that even with our internal goal set and everything currently proceeding on schedule I cannot currently promise that this will be patched to Live at the projected date."

This is going to be locked.  Why?  Who knows why I posted copy from the board here and it was locked with no explaination as to why.   Anyway.   I hope that get it sorted out along with all the other stuff that needs addressed and fixed in game.   The game will be a success if Funcom would just get their act together and realize it is a game and was meant to be fun.  Right now it is to frastrating and aggravating.   Good luck Funcom, you're going to need it.

Funcom post that theyre aware of the issue, and are working to resolve it. Yet you bash them anyway? No surprise there, they cant win can they.

Originally posted by Artermis

Funcom post that theyre aware of the issue, and are working to resolve it. Yet you bash them anyway? No surprise there, they cant win can they.

I bashed them.  Where do I bash them.   Please point it out?

Any company that releases a game that bug ridden deserves to be bashed.  Something like what they did would be unexcusable on a console game, but because they can patch fixes in on PC games we allow them to get away with that garbage.  I hope AoC fails so it can serve as a message to future game developers that the player base is unwilling to pay to beta test.

This major bug seems to offer a sad look inside the development process at Funcom.

According to reports, this bug was heavily noted to the developers at least two months before launch (which would be very soon after the female avatars were finally added to closed beta).

The nature of this bug makes you realize that either Funcom failed at many different levels by allowing the animation timing problems to enter the game completely unnoticed, or they knew this bug was going to be in the game at launch, because it was the result of a deliberate "cutting of corners" in order to ensure they met their launch date.

It's almost impossible to believe that they didn't understand the need to normalize animation run times for all the female combat move animations. Depending on whether or not they have been working on the issue behind the scenes since launch, the total time to fix the issue could be as little as a month, or as long as three or four months. They obviously were not willing to delay the game to fix it and were willing to subject a large portion of the player base to a severely unfair disadvantage in game play and rate of reward for hours played.

That, to me, is completely unacceptable.

That female avatars came so late in the development process is just another solid example of the fact that launch was rushed. How a company that is in the books for the worst MMORPG launch ever with Anarchy Online (also the prime example of the permanently crippling fiscal effects of a premature launch on a potentially great game), could have gone on to repeat such a similar mistake is beyond me.

There is a lot to like about this game. If they had taken the time to not launch it "until it was ready", it's place as an MMORPG mega hit would have all but been assured.

This is one reason so many people get angry. We are sick of seeing these companies repeat the same mistakes over and over again, even when the cost/benefit analysis of a premature launch has been proven to be clearly against launching before the game is truly ready.

Originally posted by Teala

This is going to be locked.  Why?  Who knows why I posted copy from the board here and it was locked with no explaination as to why.   Anyway.   I hope that get it sorted out along with all the other stuff that needs addressed and fixed in game.   The game will be a success if Funcom would just get their act together and realize it is a game and was meant to be fun.  Right now it is to frastrating and aggravating.   Good luck Funcom, you're going to need it.

It was locked because goldyknight was making those stupid comments then I called him a retard. I got a warning, but I didn't think it was wrong that I called him a retard. He was really an amazing piece of work.

"Well woman can't swing a sword faster then a man its proven science. There upper area gets in the way of a swing and therefore throws off there balance in a speed sense."

"HAHAHA they did intend it, but you think they are going to say we made it that way and lose all the female gamers because of this. No they are going to give you a politically correct answer. sorry that you want to believe otherwise. Science strikes again!!"

I called him out for those 2 stupid idiotic comments. Yet, I was the one that got warned, funny how that works.

Originally posted by StuntyCrusha

Any company that releases a game that bug ridden deserves to be bashed.  Something like what they did would be unexcusable on a console game, but because they can patch fixes in on PC games we allow them to get away with that garbage.  I hope AoC fails so it can serve as a message to future game developers that the player base is unwilling to pay to beta test.

lol so we bash all MMO games ever released i guess, as all all of them are bug ridden.

Add to that most PC games as well.

Add to that a few console games as well.

Peoples like you should play board games to be honest, where there are no bugs.

Originally posted by VultureSkull

Originally posted by StuntyCrusha

Any company that releases a game that bug ridden deserves to be bashed.  Something like what they did would be unexcusable on a console game, but because they can patch fixes in on PC games we allow them to get away with that garbage.  I hope AoC fails so it can serve as a message to future game developers that the player base is unwilling to pay to beta test.

 

lol so we bash all MMO games ever released i guess, as all all of them are bug ridden.

Add to that most PC games as well.

Add to that a few console games as well.

 

Peoples like you should play board games to be honest, where there are no bugs.

 

Apart from what he said about hoping they fail , what was said that was incorrect or out of line? What he said is 100% true to todays market