All Posts by puffmouse

I just played the game for the first time.  I had to rebind everything to make it work like all the other mmos on the market do automatically, but whatever at least i could set things up.  I did not specify strafe keys at all.  I set 'a' to left turn and 'd' to right turn.  When I hold the left mouse button down those keys now automatically become my strafing keys without any additional setup.  Just doing that alone makes the game work properly for me, i can run forward and strafe around people without issue.  Except that just strafing in the game is very slow hops instead of a steady walk.

Then I spent five minutes trying to figure out how to jump....

When you log into funcom.com under your account use the support petition form to request help.  I would maybe do that on a daily basis until the account gets fixed.  So far on the official forums there is nothing that i can find addressing it, people are overwhelmed right now with piles of other issues to be screaming about.

Well they fixed me up either sunday or monday and i can get in now finally.  All i can say is, if your able to play the game and your enjoying it, dont bother with the forums.  Its nothing but trashed by people ass aching about their moms.  There is very little in the way of help for quests, hints, or constructive gameplay discussion right now.

What i wish funcom would do is put their announcement and patch notes section of the forum into anonymous access so everyone can read it whether or not they have the game.

Somehow just ignoring the issue I am now able to enter the forums.  They probably just did a round of fixing in the last day so maybe just go give it another try.

There is a giant stickied thread at the top of this forum about this issue already.  Yeah there are tons of us with the same problem all week.

Originally posted by Sarcazmo

Who doesn't have a debit or a credit card?  Honestly.  It's the 21st century.

People under the age of 18?

I am no longer banned.  I am now insufficient privileges.  At least things are moving along.

you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

i agree, so far game experience has been fantastic and thats really what matters.  I think overall they will see this launch as extremely successfull.

But anyone showing up here saying they were banned and dont know why should not be met with lectures about bad behavior.  Its a funcom issue, sit tight for the day and it will likely be resolved.

If that was what was happening then yes it makes sense.  But currently there are broken accounts.  My account for instance I was able to install the game, enter the key, log into the server, and play the game.  But i am instantly banned from the forums for no apparent reason.  There are many people finding themselves in this situation currently.

I am happy with the idea that only registered users can post, but when registered users are prevented from even reading the boards its because funcom broked their shit and needs fix.  I'm hoping when they open the boards to anonymous read-only that they will also solve the broken forum accounts.

idiots...

alot of aoc accounts including mine were placed in banned status in the last 24 hours for no apparent reason.  This might get changed once they give read access to anonymous users again. 

My account was also shut down - the game kept saying my password was invalid.  I put in my keycode again this morning and got the subscription restarted and was able to get back into the game and play.  In which case the error should have said account disabled instead of invalid password.

For some reason my aoc account is still banned from the forums for no given reason and no time for reinstatement.  I went in and created a new name and password for the forums to see if that helps but so far now it just says invalid password.  Those forums are the ONLY source of any real technical support so having just read access to them right now would be extremely helpful for alot of payed customers having problems.