All Posts by Vortigon

Nothing received like this yet.

I am fairly sure that the days of deleting old accounts in MMOs is no longer.  I cannot think of a current MMO that has a policy of deleting old accounts.

Originally posted by Mordria

Originally posted by TheSheikh

Originally posted by Mordria

 Do a search on the AoC website. Funcom just released the official sub numbers and it's 500,000 active accounts.

I'm sure Briyan's Blog is really credible lol

 

Maybe you should link it.

 

Okay... the official numbers are:

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ROFLMFAO!!! good one! :)

Christ - This game is still in alpha and won't be released for at least 2 years.  How the hell can you come here and cry vapourware.  That sort of thread should be reserved for the Darkfall forums, as of yet, we are not deluded.

Although if I am still posting in these forums in 5 years time you have permission to flame Earthrise and call us all deluded fanbois.

There are no gameplay videos because there is no game-to-play its not even coded yet to a level where you can run around in a functional environment.

Go look up ALPHA TESTING then come back say sorry - LOL  :)

Welcome to the club that's growing larger everyday.  Once you hit this point in your MMO 'career' you will really struggle to find one that will hold your attention for more than a few weeks/months.

Unfortunately there is little you can do now, except wait around with the rest us for something special to be released.

I have hopes for Warhammer as the RVR aspect I think will re-introduce some drama into my MMO gaming that I crave.  Other than that, Earthrise sounds like it might be a change of direction and defintely one to watch.

MMOs have alot of potential, it may be another 10 years before the genre really matures.  By then I expect to see some incredible ideas and releases, until then I will try what sounds interesting and wait. :)

Although I am not a fan of AoC in fact I think its garbage, I have to say, that so called article is the biggest load of crap I have ever read.  Full of complete lies.

There is no wayyyyyy!!! Funcom requires 500k monthly subscribers just to break even, it's complete fabrication.

No MMO company in their right mind would project 500k monthly subscribers as an achiveable target and if they NEED 500k just to break even they wouldn't even launch the game.

Sorry I hate AoC as much as the next man, but that article is just rubbish and written by a total moron and WoW fanbois.

Originally posted by WiccanCircle

Retention Rate?  The aggregate will be Greater than 100%.

It will be like every other well-made, fun game, it will have a rolling increase in population.  Some will leave some will stay, but the numbers joining will cause the population to rise over the next year or more.

Sorry but MMOs don't normally work this way.  They usually hit their peak between release and 12 months, after that its downwards all the way to a stable level, and AOC may even push that back to the period between release - 6 months.

Industry norm' is about 35% retention rate after the initial release.  Which in about 8 months will mean(if their lucky) about 120k - 170k stable subscription base.  IMO.

Did the OP say dial up???  WTF! -  who the hell still has dial up??  You can't even GET dialup connections anymore in the UK unless its through some backstreet dodgy independent cowboy and you'd have to look real hard to find.

I'm amazed.

and to say that 'most MMO players have dial-up' he's living in a fantasy land or a time warp.

Don't worry it will come back and bite Funcom in the ass. 

Players will quit AO out of frustration and then once the AoC numbers start tumbling next month they will be looking at each other and thinking "What have we done?? We screwed our loyal customers and bet everything we had on this crap game."

Funcom believe their own hype and have gone all 'schoolgirl' on their shiney new game, soon they will be in the crap and realise they shouldn't of shafted their AO fanbase.

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I have to agree with everything you said, I am currently on a trial account and loving it. 

I have played basically every decent MMO ever released and at first I thought LOTR would be a bit too casual for my liking, but was won over by the environment, graphics and great content on offer.

Much better game than I thought it would be, in fact I list it in my top 5 MMOs for enjoyment factor.

I didn't really find the interface clunky, but perhaps that's due to me not coming from WoW and so have been used to interfaces that take slightly more effort?  But I find as smooth and intuitive as anything else I can think of.

I rate it 8.5/10 - great game that everyone should try I think they will pleasantly surprised. :)

Code worked fine thanks again :)  after I was cheking out the subscription fees on european site I noticed there were also EU servers and saw this trial for EU.

Hopefully others will give a try to, I am really enjoying it and plan to subscribe after trial expires.

I would like to play on EU servers though, can anyone confirm if I have to purchase the EU version for EU servers or can I buy the download version from US and then play on EU with that version?

WoW player throws a glass at a group of Orcs in the corner and shouts "Leeeeeeeroy Jenkins!!!!!"

WAR player tries to dance to the jukebox but finds he doesn't have the emote!

AOC player can't find the other 2 because he is in a seperate instance of the bar!

Looks great downloading now thanks :)

Using ONLY mouse for everything all the time, not only is that highly unusal but very very inefficient.  If nothing else you should practise gaming a bit more or you will always be behind normal players in reaction and practicality. 

You can't type with a mouse, you can't cycle targets quickly, you can't interact with items while moving around, just silly to be this limited during gameplay and there's no reason for a game company to include a feature that 1 player out of 1000 may use, and while using it will limit their gameplay to a sub-par stantard.

Fail.

1.  Did not live up to half the hype (disappointing)

2.  'Revolutionary' Combat was a dumbed down (Xbox friendly) version of normal MMO combat.

3.  Too small in every aspect of gameplay and exploration.

Originally posted by drkspartan

Originally posted by mike470

DF is doing the opposite of right [wrong]

When they have 6 months until release, yet they are unable to show videos and give updates each week, that is not really the correct way to handle development when 6 months from release.

Hopefully the reason that there aren't new videos and updates is because there trying to polish up the game real nice instead of focusing on videos.

LOL yeah SURE that's it!...why didn't everyone else think of that.  The reason they publish NO updates or even a Video or 2 is because they are too busy polishing the game.

AHAHAHA classic!!  The very definition of fanbois, clueless.

Thought this should be posted again to keep it on main page, here is the link to a 14 - Day Free LOTRO trial for EU players.

http://www.codemasters.com/trylotro/englishuk/index.php

Ah well all us jaded Vanguard ex-players will welcome the ex-AoC crowd into the fold of let down players.

Of course if they had all listened to us before they would not be dissapointed - the whole situation was completely obvious to old Vanguard players because we had lived through the exact same thing and knew the signs and had heard it all before. 

Almost word for word from Funcom was the same crap put out by Sigil.  You were warned.