All Posts by daylight01

I think that amazon.com sell games not make them and this is there date not the devs from aion so take it with a pinch of salt.

Not sure where I figure on your list,I am going to roll pve but I am looking forward to siege's etc,I wont roll on a pvp as I like to enjoy the game and take in the sight's without the chance of some 5 man ganking group comming over the hill on a griefing mission.

 edit-I see you added 1 that fits me nicely :)

Originally posted by Recant

 

Originally posted by daylight01

 

Originally posted by Recant

AoC is an ultra-linear borefest and WAR is just a medicore WoW clone (sorry, but it is) that sounds great on paper but really isn't very much fun.  My money is on WAR flopping pretty hard, AoC at least has some class underneath it's myriad of technical problems.

This is just my opinion, don't hate me for it.  I don't have a crystal ball or anything.  Maybe one of these games will take the MMORPG scene by storm.  Who cares!  I've got some pedestrians to run over and bitches to have warm coffee with.  You lot in the meantime, have the following waiting for you:

Achievement Unlocked:  Disillusioned fan-boy - Waited 2 years for an MMORPG only to be disappointed.

Muahaha :P  I'm only being half-serious here.

While I agree I cant hate you for yor opinion,I have to ask you have been waiting for a MMo for 2 years but wont give a MMo a chance this close to launch?

 

I am sorry but dont you think the reason you have been waiting 2 years is that you havent given a game a chance or indeed MMo game's arent for you?

 

I haven't been waiting 2 years for an MMORPG.  Well, I did get kinda hyped up about Vanguard, perhaps I'm suffering from some post-Vanguard-stress disorder, but I'm kinda happy with MMOs as they are now.  I don't understand why so many people are desperately hoping that the genre is suddenly going to change dramatically.  If you don't enjoy MMORPGs, why bother wishing the next one will be one you like.  Perhaps the game you originally liked hasn't been killed by it's evil developers, perhaps you're just tired of the genre and need to move on?

I'm not talking to you, specifically, rather everyone who thinks MMORPGs are in a state of ruin atm and are hoping the next game will be the holy grail.  You can't have the holy grail, cos it's sitting on my mantlepiece right now, granting me eternal life, and you don't know where I live.

Ok my life quest will now be to find the MMo I (we)need,failing that hunt you down and steal the grail,I am easy either way.....

Originally posted by Recant

AoC is an ultra-linear borefest and WAR is just a medicore WoW clone (sorry, but it is) that sounds great on paper but really isn't very much fun.  My money is on WAR flopping pretty hard, AoC at least has some class underneath it's myriad of technical problems.

This is just my opinion, don't hate me for it.  I don't have a crystal ball or anything.  Maybe one of these games will take the MMORPG scene by storm.  Who cares!  I've got some pedestrians to run over and bitches to have warm coffee with.  You lot in the meantime, have the following waiting for you:

Achievement Unlocked:  Disillusioned fan-boy - Waited 2 years for an MMORPG only to be disappointed.

Muahaha :P  I'm only being half-serious here.

I am sorry but dont you think the reason you have been waiting 2 years is that you havent given a game a chance or indeed MMo game's arent for you?

Personally I think this just shows the attitude of the MMo gamer today,we used to have polls saying which would be the best but now we have which will be the worst,I start to wonder do gamer's these days want a game to flop more so they can get there post count up and feel important more than they would enjoy a game to do well?

Yep you might think this is a stupid question but is it anymore stupid than having a poll for 3 AAA+ titles which will flop the hardest?

I wont vote unless you add"I hope all do well" to your very scepict poll.

Originally posted by Digna

XFX GeForce 9600 GT Video Card

 

Anyone using this card in game? I was thinking of changing over. I'm geting too many BSoDs on the 8600GT I have.

 

Any info is appreciated.

I wouldnt change anything till you play the final client,changing now you are doing it blind and may end up spending money you dont have too,just my opinion..

edit-if you do decide to upgrade then you would be better with a 8800 series card than the 9600,again just my opinion,again though I would wait.

I think the problem is maybe some of the ppl reading about zoning have no idea what it means and automatically think they will be "zoning"every 2 mins,which isnt the case,maybe once they try the game and get a feel for the zoning they wont mind it at all.

yeah....Lets get this right alot of ppl seen alot of improvment from the last patch and with OB closing on Sunday they still have time to sort out why alot seen improvement and a few seen a dip,Is there any chance we gamer's being the fickle bunch we are can at least give them to launch to prove themselve's and there game before we bury them?

I mean we whine for months we have no new game's but as soon as 1 pops its head out we want to bury it.This trend is alittle worrying.

Originally posted by Shannia

 

Originally posted by Fion

The game works like many other MMOGs in that once a zone gets to a certain capacity in players, it creates a duplicate of itself. Right now there are several instances for the zones folks are in because the zones are so overloaded with players. As the game is released and the populations spread out, the only place you'll see it happen is in Tortage or other zones during large events.

 

They don't call it it Age of Clonecraft for nothing.

 

To the OP yes there is zonning,In many posts by the devs they have said this would have to be so as they wanted to have the graphic's they wanted and they had to set the game this way,they had to give and take with something's and this is one of them,dont be mislead into believing you will have to zone every 200mtrs etc but yes you will have some loading screens when you travel larger distance's.

All this depends on your point of view(also your system)if this will be a major problem,I mean you could end up being in the same zone all night and never see a load screen or if you do maybe it will be quite fast,time will tell.

It has been said a few times that there are no "healbots" in AoC,all healer's will have other role's such as CC,debuffing,buffing.

Take the PoM when he does certain heal's his dmg out-put will increase so that shouldnt go to waste,a good healer will be someone who can balance there attacking and healing,place hots on your group, cone healing well maybe also run into the combat at the right time and use knockback(other cc spell).

The "main heals"from other games are here,as in the heal x for certain amount but they will more than likely only be used in emergence,I think you will really see the difference from an average healer to a good one in this game and will be a nice challenge,no-more standing at the back spamming 2 or 3 keys.

It is not they are useless it is just that there heal's are not the only thing group's will depend on.

Will be AoC,I was also looking forward to TCoS but with another delay and still no mention of the US publisher they had lined up(which lead to the delayed release off the game in europe,or at least that is what they said)I have my doubt's this game will even release this year.

AoC seem's to be shaping up nicely so that will fuel my MMo adiction.

Yep it seems the website is down atm but I am sure Candy is on top of it .

Originally posted by Zorndorf

 

Originally posted by daylight01

ffs the 2 mil I said was an example<sigh>I do believe though that LOTRO went upto 1 mil and faded,At the end of the day I stand by my point,you have no idea what this game will be on release date or indeed how well it will do,you are just using your own point of view on the matter and everyone(thank god)is an individual.

Look again at this chart ...

 

http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart7.html

LOTRO highest point was 1.3 %(now 0.9) It would mean that about 350 K subs was the maximum they had ever. They had the lore, they had the mass market, they had the medium computer market.

Now look at the MMO's who made even higher market penetrations.

Surprise  !they mostly run on older hardware.

Wow has 62.2 % marketshare.

Why do I always get this feeling MMORPG is complete out of proportion with the real base of MMO players :)))

I'd say feet back on the ground to the editor of MMORPG and certainly to you.

Yep and before WoW we all sat around and played card's,Yep believe it or not you got to play WoW because game's kept evolving and they continue to do so,Whats that,ohh your pc isnt good enough,well to bad suck it up and get a new one or just be quiet instead of silly insult's,Also if you check your all mighty graph(loling btw)and do some real research you will find that the like's of lineage had almost 2 mil ppl playing at 1 point.

ffs the 2 mil I said was an example<sigh>I do believe though that LOTRO went upto 1 mil and faded,At the end of the day I stand by my point,you have no idea what this game will be on release date or indeed how well it will do,you are just using your own point of view on the matter and everyone(thank god)is an individual.

Originally posted by solareus

Vista 32 SP1 (reading 4 gigs)

4 gigs  ram

4200+ x 2  64  AMD (might get a new chip)

8800 GT 512meg

BFG 650 Watt PSU

SB audiogy sound.

.................................................

Had 2 gigs installed prior. I test some other games as well and they are running incredible, but the AoC open beta client performs the same.

Got a new Seagate HD on the way but I don't think it will come before the 10th so there would be no way in seeing if it is a hard drive issue ..

The ram will for sure help on pre-loading times of texture's etc,also can I ask after you D/L did you run a defrag as this will also help.

Originally posted by Zorndorf

 

Originally posted by daylight01

I am sorry m8,normally I agree with your posts but this statement I dont,

"And btw, AoC will have a CONSISTENT sub count of ~200k until it either A) irons out the wrinkles and improves performance for the common man, and/or adds content or makes game improvements"

Can you back up this?or again like so many other's just pull a number out of your head?

I know you maybe have YOUR doubts but they are YOUR doubts,If you can show me a pre-order selling list I maybe will agree,not to point out that almost every european seller is now sold out of the CE I find you point hard to believe and also that they cant get enough OB keys to please ppl even though OB is near its end...This could be agrued till the sun come's up but the truth is niether you or me know the number's so why assume them?

While it wasn't my post, but there are two  simple reasons why the subscriptions will stay at 200 or 300K.
First:

 

the tech specs : go look to your next computer game store and see what the people are buying.

No the mainstream isn't the 3GByte 8800GTS with 10K rpm hard disk. That's 5% of the market.

Second reason is that gameplay isn't there ... yet.

Higher graphics coupled with loading times of every building, zone or scenario you enter isn't game play. It's a show off (with serious hic-ups) at the moment of some more pixels..

Show offs don't sell games. They are mostly a fad and fads don't live long.

IF Conan happens to have game play after all, well than they could double these figures, but until than I think the man is right about the 200K subs.

O BTW subs aren't copies sold. Subs are the long term users who pay to play for months to come.

Look I cant prove anything all I do know is everyone is different and you saying "yep 200k subs"is just being stupid as you have no idea how this game will release and indead how many ppl will sub with decent pc system's.

I could say like you"hell everyone has good system's now and everyone wants a new game and this is the game for them and I think it will get 2 mil subs"

Something wrong with the above statement?

Yep I cant prove it and is alot of nonsense.

At the end of the day I think the reason why AoC is getting so much hate or so much love is very simple,It is the 1st TRUE AAA+ title to release in quite sometime,yes we potbs and TR but this is the 1st true 1 I think since LOTRO,now come the end of the year we could have,lets see,WAR,AION,TCoS and maybe 1 or 2 other's if <cough>they meet there release date's,atm AoC is getting it from every mmo player,it doesnt matter if it is there sort of game or not,MMo player's at this moment are a fustrated bunch(well they normally are anyway)so this is the main target and tbh how other game's will be judged this year.

Lets look at the bright side at least(for whatever reason,)(thought I would cover myself here)FC are releasing and not delaying for whatever reason and we can at least play something new .

Originally posted by Zorndorf

 

Originally posted by zodden

What I still wrestle with is that if I do wait a few months you don't get that excitment  of  playing the game at launch. Its almost the same idea of  seeing a good movie on opening night. The theatre is full and it creates a more exciting time. Wait a few months and leveling up is a far less populated experience which has its plusses and minuses.

 

 

Playing ANY MMO at launch is a nightmare..

 

Too crowded. Everybody stumbles over each other and it is NOT because you miss the first days that you'll always be behind the first to go in.

In this case of Conan every sign is there that points to a very rocky and unstable (technical) launch so I think that you don't need to feel guilty in missing "the opening night". There will be many more nights to come.

I take it you never played LOTRO on launch day then.

I am sorry m8,normally I agree with your posts but this statement I dont,

"And btw, AoC will have a CONSISTENT sub count of ~200k until it either A) irons out the wrinkles and improves performance for the common man, and/or adds content or makes game improvements"

Can you back up this?or again like so many other's just pull a number out of your head?

I know you maybe have YOUR doubts but they are YOUR doubts,If you can show me a pre-order selling list I maybe will agree,not to point out that almost every european seller is now sold out of the CE I find you point hard to believe and also that they cant get enough OB keys to please ppl even though OB is near its end...This could be agrued till the sun come's up but the truth is niether you or me know the number's so why assume them?

Christ!

What a nightmare this is,I mean who care's if this is "better than WoW"or indeed better than any other MMo.

AoC is trying something(by today's standard's)alittle different and there seem to be alot of ppl that instead of giving it a chance to release want to bury it right here and right now,Everyday I check a few forum's and see so much hate towards it or like this post compare it to WoW,trust me there was MMo's before WoW..

Yes there are,what 10 mil ppl playing WoW now and I say good luck to them,I aint a hater or a fanboi of it but if ppl enjoy playing then good on them and indeed goodluck to the ppl looking to WAR,Darkfall etc etc.

There seems to be a new thing,well over the last 3/4 years were people jump on game's and call them failure's even before they release or indeed judge them on other games,hell I even see people saying "lol this game will be lucky to get 250k subs lol fail"these ppl have no idea what they are talking about!

So yes you will indeed need a "decent rig" to play this game and yes maybe that will lower the subs,so what?I think most pc gamer's upgrade there rig in one way or another maybe once every 2-3 years(if not more)so that wont be a problem,yes I could probally set my microwave to get WoW to run but time's move on and so does gamming,either move with it or dont try to keep up.

Yes by all means "think before you buy AoC" but also think before you mock what it is trying to do....