Age of Conan

Originally posted by Battlekruse

Just out of interest, can any of the fanboys quoting the above give me an example of a game that had a terrible beta and a good launch?

Can u name me a game thats had a good beta and good launch:)

A Question to those who played Wow beta and AOC Beta.  If AOC had been out for ~4 years ago, at the precise same time as WOW, and you where playing Beta versions of both game right now:  which game would you preorder?

Originally posted by Uthous

Originally posted by Battlekruse

Just out of interest, can any of the fanboys quoting the above give me an example of a game that had a terrible beta and a good launch?

Can u name me a game thats had a good beta and good launch:)

Lord of the Rings

Originally posted by Uthous

Originally posted by Battlekruse

Just out of interest, can any of the fanboys quoting the above give me an example of a game that had a terrible beta and a good launch?

Can u name me a game thats had a good beta and good launch:)

even though the game is not for me, world of warcraft had a good beta, and a good launch, the only problem with the launch was that it was SO popular, they didn't have enough servers to hold everyone, and that has nothing to do with the state of the game.

lord of the rings online also had a great beta, and a great launch.

Originally posted by elondor

 

Originally posted by Uthous

Originally posted by Battlekruse

Just out of interest, can any of the fanboys quoting the above give me an example of a game that had a terrible beta and a good launch?

Can u name me a game thats had a good beta and good launch:)

 

even though the game is not for me, world of warcraft had a good beta, and a good launch, the only problem with the launch was that it was SO popular, they didn't have enough servers to hold everyone, and that has nothing to do with the state of the game.

lord of the rings online also had a great beta, and a great launch.

 

LOL World of Warcraft launch was awful. If you think just server capacity was the only problem then you must have been in queue the entire time you played.

You really didn't play it if this is your opinion. I played beta, release, and after release.. I know EXACTLY how it happened and it wasn't pretty.

Originally posted by _Kyle_

 

Originally posted by elondor

 

Originally posted by Uthous

Originally posted by Battlekruse

Just out of interest, can any of the fanboys quoting the above give me an example of a game that had a terrible beta and a good launch?

Can u name me a game thats had a good beta and good launch:)

 

even though the game is not for me, world of warcraft had a good beta, and a good launch, the only problem with the launch was that it was SO popular, they didn't have enough servers to hold everyone, and that has nothing to do with the state of the game.

lord of the rings online also had a great beta, and a great launch.

 

 

LOL World of Warcraft launch was awful. If you think just server capacity was the only problem then you must have been in queue the entire time you played.

You really didn't play it if this is your opinion. I played beta, release, and after release.. I know EXACTLY how it happened and it wasn't pretty.

maybe you had some bad luck, but I and NO ONE I knew had any problems with the game except for server load.  I played wow up until right before the burning crusade came out and had not experienced ANYTHING other than server lag... you know with 8 million people trying to log in and all. 

I am sure somewhere in the game there were a few glitches, no game will EVER be *FLAWLESS* until we have robots writing code, cause humans are flawed.  HOWEVER, we can have smooth gameplay with little glitches here and there, and if you can name me 1 horrible glitch from either wow or lotro i'll say I'm sorry, but the fact is they had no game breaking bugs, and they had no performance issues.

A poll like this don´t giva any useful result at all, because everyone can vote.

I play the beta and the game is fantastic. See u all in Hyboria.

Funny I had the opposite experience.

Me, my brother, and several of our guildies had a FP account and through we try it out.

We all loved it and put in our pre-oreders this morning.

I had a really rocky start with no spell effects, black screen and stuttering. Turned out it was all on my end. I simply wiped all my drivers, reinstalled all of them and I got amazing results. The game plays very fresh and is a nice change of pace from LOTRO and WOW.

Im looking forward to playing this game in live. I realize this is an old build with a debugger in the background (press ctrl-\) and its the tutorial island. I dont think Ill quit WoW at this point, but Im going to buy this and give it a try. Ill give a few month spin then see where I stand then, weather im just gona stick with WoW, or move over to AoC.

Originally posted by Munki

Funny I had the opposite experience.

Me, my brother, and several of our guildies had a FP account and through we try it out.

We all loved it and put in our pre-oreders this morning.

I had a really rocky start with no spell effects, black screen and stuttering. Turned out it was all on my end. I simply wiped all my drivers, reinstalled all of them and I got amazing results. The game plays very fresh and is a nice change of pace from LOTRO and WOW.

Im looking forward to playing this game in live. I realize this is an old build with a debugger in the background (press ctrl-\) and its the tutorial island. I dont think Ill quit WoW at this point, but Im going to buy this and give it a try. Ill give a few month spin then see where I stand then, weather im just gona stick with WoW, or move over to AoC.

Seriously though, if you didn't like the game then your in the Minority. 

 2>1 should be getting easier for people on the fence to make their mind up, if they still can't then just wait it out, no harm done.

I'll be there at launch enjoying it for what it is. Different, new, refreshing. My wifes whole kindship from LotrO will be there too, they are about ready to leave that game after book 13 dissapointments.

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

 

Originally posted by Munki

Funny I had the opposite experience.

Me, my brother, and several of our guildies had a FP account and through we try it out.

We all loved it and put in our pre-oreders this morning.

I had a really rocky start with no spell effects, black screen and stuttering. Turned out it was all on my end. I simply wiped all my drivers, reinstalled all of them and I got amazing results. The game plays very fresh and is a nice change of pace from LOTRO and WOW.

Im looking forward to playing this game in live. I realize this is an old build with a debugger in the background (press ctrl-\) and its the tutorial island. I dont think Ill quit WoW at this point, but Im going to buy this and give it a try. Ill give a few month spin then see where I stand then, weather im just gona stick with WoW, or move over to AoC.

Careful, enthusiam for the game is not allowed on the boards here. Slightest sign of something good is