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Originally posted by CogL

Originally posted by Samundus

I am starting not to like this site. this is the most crapy and broken game i have yet to play, yet they never say anything negetive. its to late to make up for the lack that this game has. so take a year, take two years to fix, but your not going to do it with my money

 

I started to hate this site too, review or whatever they call is so one sided. That is fine, but if anyone want to discuss how flawed that review/whatever they call, they started to ban people.

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Ban me for Spam???? I only got one post and it stated what I see those flaws in the orginal post like others. At least ban me for something else like disagree with OP, or flaming the company. Guess I was the first one to reply and take the hit.

 

edit: oh I created this acct just to warn others, no more bashing OP and love Funcom or you will get ban lol too

Yeah, that's probably what happened. In order to silence you, a moderator went out of his or her way to give you a temp ban for a whole day. Long-term silencing.

We do have an appeals process, just so you know. You can complain to community@mmorpg.com. Our Community Manager Richard will be happy to look into this for you.

Originally posted by gatheris

Originally posted by mike470

Originally posted by gatheris

Originally posted by Stradden

Originally posted by Draccan

Originally posted by Stradden

MMORPG.com Age of Conan Correspondent Chris Carlis files this report on the upcoming PvP system for Age of Conan.

When we all saw the videos for Age of Conan, we were all motivated by the decapitations and fatalities that we saw. Then we saw all of the different siege warfare scenes that really got our blood flowing. And I know I’m not alone when I say that I was hell of excited about it. Age of Conan promised us lots of blood, gore and an active, fun playing system. Well it delivered most of all of it. Currently there are still some problems with the siege system, and there are some small imbalances in the classes. But in the coming weeks and months we expect to see huge game improvements including the PvP levels being enabled and the murder system. In this article I will briefly go over these new enhancements and what I think that they mean to players.

First, we will be covering the new PvP system. This is a system that was active in beta, but was not turned on when the game was released. Since then, the players have been begging and pleading with the developers to turn it on to give us some sort of content besides raiding at the end game and now, it seems like these changes are finally coming.

Read the whole article here.

Right.

This review should come with a disclaimer: Please note we are receiving tons of advertisement money from Funcom so this is not completely objective.

Could mmorpg.com write scathing reviews (if deserved, which it is) about AoC? Sure, but they would lose money, so in effect, no they can't. So why even write reviews if the outcome is fixed?

It makes no sense..

Actually, any advertising that we get from Funcom has no berring on what we write about it. I have explained many times the reason that this doesn't make sense, especially from a business perspective. Frankly, I'm tired of hearing it.  It's a knee-jerk accusation that clearly isn't too well thought-out.

The correspondent program is designed to appeal to players of the individual games who are playing the games. As such, the correspondents are people who actually play and enjoy the game so it shouldn't be a surprise when their articles reflect that.

No review outcome is fixed. I am also curious what part of this article you thought was a review? I didn't see the review tag on the article and I didn't see a score. You can camplain about bias in a review if you want (although, just to point out the fact that reviews are opinion-based by definition so bias doesn't really work there either), but this wasn't a review. Just saying is all.

 

 

i was thinking along the same lines as Drakkan as i read this article - i had no idea that "correspondents" were actually what most people on this site considers to be "fanbois" - i guess i was suppose to read something about this somewhere on this site

now that that is cleared up.........

i will now read these "news" items with the view that they are the site fillers that they are

 

 

 

Ugh...they aren't site fillers, they are useful articles.  They also have correspondents for LOTRO, ROSE Online, etc.  Even I went out for a position as one.

There's nothing wrong with these articles.  They inform the staff of news updates, and they write articles about the game of choice.  This was an article explaining the future (possible) PvP of AOC, and it was informing and a pretty good read.  This is no "site filler"  but a good way of keeping the community updates with all of the different MMOs.  I appluad the staff for this brilliant idea, so we could see updates from more games more often.

I don't see people complaining like this on other threads....God, you AOC people just attack anything possible, don't you?

i am not an "AOC people"
 

i read this article because of its title and all the complaints i have read about AOC pvp - figuring that this update would take care of some those complaints - whether it does or doesn't i don't know

this issue was that this "correspondent" (and who doesn't associate correspondent with news reporter) didn't seem to really know about the issues that players are/were having with AOC pvp

then upon further reading of the comments on the article i found that, according to this website,  a "correspondent" is a fan of a given game that would natually be giving biased views/reviews of said game

i would think a better title for these types of articles would be "fan mail from AOC, LOTRO, WOW or........."

 

WAs the article a little soft?  I suppose.  BUT, he was stating Funcom's future ideas (whether or not they will happen) and how they plan to fix the problems.

Correspondents can write articls, explain different things about the game, give reviews of the game, etc.

Originally posted by Stradden

MMORPG.com Age of Conan Correspondent Chris Carlis files this report on the upcoming PvP system for Age of Conan.

When we all saw the videos for Age of Conan, we were all motivated by the decapitations and fatalities that we saw. Then we saw all of the different siege warfare scenes that really got our blood flowing. And I know I’m not alone when I say that I was hell of excited about it. Age of Conan promised us lots of blood, gore and an active, fun playing system. Well it delivered most of all of it. Currently there are still some problems with the siege system, and there are some small imbalances in the classes. But in the coming weeks and months we expect to see huge game improvements including the PvP levels being enabled and the murder system. In this article I will briefly go over these new enhancements and what I think that they mean to players.

First, we will be covering the new PvP system. This is a system that was active in beta, but was not turned on when the game was released. Since then, the players have been begging and pleading with the developers to turn it on to give us some sort of content besides raiding at the end game and now, it seems like these changes are finally coming.

Read the whole article here.

After reading this "new" idea to deal with level 80s hitting on lowly level 1-20s, its actually giving these gankers what they want, the ability to show how pathetic they really are.

Why didnt the devs implement the Prison system? or a new system where players are actually BANNED from playing the game depending on their murder score?

Say, ganker guild a, just goes around ganking new players, rather than stopping them trading (which they wont really care about anyway) or entering towns, why not ban them for a set period of time.

Example..

Gankers guild a, goes around for first week and kills 100 level 10-20's, they amass 1750 points each.

So 10% of that is 1.7 days.

Now the whole of Gankers guild A, are in jail and Cant do jack, actually there banned from playing their characters.

Im sure this will get the message across to fight fair.

But alas, i as many other X-AOC players (got an ati card you see) will not be coming back for this system thats on the Horizon

at the risk of beating a horse on its last breath......

we already have a place for nonprofessionals (or at least unpaid staff)  to do reviews and post update information - it's called the forums

i don't see these articles as anything more than an Original Posting on a particular games forum 

just my opionion of course (and we all seem to have one of those don't we)

Good post, does a good job on the upcoming update to the pvp system.  Anyone know when it goes live?

As to the Siege system, well, lets be kind and just say it is not working at this time.  Siege was one of those things that they knew was broken at release  and would get to later, just that how later it will be no one knows.

i have waited for aoc 2 years, and i played 2months after the release.

the pvp system from what iv read about, it's just the basics of lineage2, neutral = white ; criminal = purple ; murderer = red , even adding this to aoc the game isnt going to be more fun, yes ffa would be a litle bit better, but not enough, i didnt like the battle grounds, nor the sieges, seriously whats left ? flag mini-games ?

i just find the pvp in aoc frustrating because of the lag, and more importantly not fun for so many reasons, funcom can always try to update their game, fanboys can always try to be patient, but in the end, i see no real happy ending for this game, so either they are incompetent becuz i see so many patch went wrong, some bugs really weird makes you wonder if their dev team have real experience in games dev, or just maybe they dont have enough people, either way funcom is loosin players evey day, they are loosing money for investment, and this is not gonna make it easier for them to fix the game.

solutions :

1-fix the game fast, and try to rebuild aoc reputation ( not gonna happen )

2-try to  launch an addon as soon as possible, to remake some money to keep up with the costs ( probably whats going to happen)

3-find a buyer for the game like vanguard did ( still need to find a corp crazy enough )

conclusion :

 age of conan is dead !

And yet again we see that FFA-style PvP is a failure and unable to keep a MMMORPG profitable.

How many of these failures will it take to shut up the ones always whining for a FFA PvP MMORPGs claiming it would be so popular.

Learn 2 History. 

Oh you mean like the PvP system that should have been in the game at launch?