All Posts by Draccan

Originally posted by TenSpotting

Forget about the fact that this game is no where even remotely near the 40 million dollar products like WoW or War currently dominating the industry are, forget about the fact that based on all known info to date it looks like nothing more than a generic functioning combat system with dated graphics and poor animations, forget about the fact that it doesn't even have any solid dates for a Beta or a launch less than 3 months before the end of the year... and you still end up with the fact that it will be trying to succeed and make $ in one of the worste world economies ever...  surely one of the worste ever in the United States where basically all of it's player based would come from.

How many people are going to pay an EXTRA monthly subscription in todays economy to play a mediocre at best product like Darkfall with nothing but questionable features , support, community... when they can (and already are) pay to play War or WoW , Lich King which are all proven products with millions of players, quality support and no questions about their longevity or product stability?

Darkfall is not a product waiting to launch.. it's a product waiting to fail.

We shall see what the economy is like in ten years time when the game, MIGHT release!

Somehow I am puzzled people still believe in this game.

I can maybe - half way - understand a lot of people were swayed by the AoC marketing hype - but why people believe in this game, which have virtually nothing to show for it - is amazing.

I still have my doubts about this ever surfacing.

Greek newspaper? Sure - but how come a major mmo, developed in English - can not be shown off to all the major sites / gaming magazines that actually has a hold over most players?

How can they boast a finished engine and ready to beta test "if they cared" years ago - yet they can hardly show anything more than a picture of a supposed office with a handwritten sticker on the door?

I mean, wtf??

Anyways if this thing ever surfaces, it is bound to be a hollow thing, that will dissappoint much more than entertain.

A small company like this has not the ressources to deliver that many promises.

When Funcom struggles to survive and Mythic is just doing okay in many players eyes, how can you believe this Aventurine is able to deliver a finished game?

People never cease to amaze me!!

Originally posted by AOCtester

Originally posted by Draccan

On a sidenote: I wish I had access to the old pre-launch AoC forum. O my god. All the stuff I said was true. I was very active there and was flamed non-stop by the fan crowds.

Now I don't see any of them any more, except 1 - no names mentioned.

If people had seen the obvious 1-3 years before launch - we might not have been here today.

But I really wish I could have looked at my old posts and threads from back then. I called them foul on DX10, brawling, lies about launch dates, the combat system etc. etc. - and that was before I was in BETA!

 

Same here.  We tried to point out what was wrong - we tried to say this game was not ready.  CB testers did everything possible to do their job right but the game was just months and months away from anything finished enough to give real feedback.

This is where Funcom went overboard.  They never listened - they were never going to in the first place.

I really smelled something very bad was happening when they didn't let the main testers test the sieges..

But all the fans charged in and said there was a special team for it.. HA!

Originally posted by Darkhosis

I agree with you.

Seems most developers these days are just phoning it in.  Unfortunately they won't learn...  AOC isn't the first failure with such promise and won't be the last.

Doubt they'll go out of business though.  If anything they'd sell off AOC to another company.  Ever hear that saying 'The bad never die' seems to go for games too.  If Hellgate London, Asherons Call, Vanguard are still around.  Then this turd will linger around forever.

Think we all saw the potential for this game.  Then we saw it all blown.  Wasn't an easy thing to watch.

 

 

Didn't Hellgate close shop?

Vanguard only lives due to Sony big bucks and no new investment combined with the Station Pass, I think.

Reading through Funcom's financial reports and knowing the stock rate as well as the huge drop of players combined with the cost of developing AoC and the profit they managed to get, it seems to me they are tight-rope walking atm.

Originally posted by kasta

Originally posted by Praetoriani

A wise man once told me "girlfriends come and go, epics are soulbound."

That is an awesome quote!  

seconded !!

All games launched should be launched with a server transfer as well as a server merges infrastructure finished.

Almost all of them needs it.

Logic dictates that after a while if you have a huge launch servers become empty and needs a merge.. Once pop.. settles down to a more likely level..

AoC of course is special.. so many jumped ship that I bet they don't need instances any more..

On a sidenote: I wish I had access to the old pre-launch AoC forum. O my god. All the stuff I said was true. I was very active there and was flamed non-stop by the fan crowds.

Now I don't see any of them any more, except 1 - no names mentioned.

If people had seen the obvious 1-3 years before launch - we might not have been here today.

But I really wish I could have looked at my old posts and threads from back then. I called them foul on DX10, brawling, lies about launch dates, the combat system etc. etc. - and that was before I was in BETA!

I think it is evident that Age of Conan is now on a skeleton crew, the value of the company has deteriorated and by the time the next Q3 report hits the street the investors will bail completely. Funcom as a gaming company is dead unless the Norwegian government posts more funding to it.

I am really split. One part of me is sad it had to go this way, but considering the attitude of the company, I have to say, I have never seen anything as arrogant since the NGE in SWG. Maybe even worse. The NGE was stupidity followed up by lack of will to admit their mistake, but Funcom really cheated their customers and lied.

When I flip through the CE graphical book for AoC I can't help thinking how the art direction surpasses anything I have ever seen in a computer game before. The art is really cohesive, sinister and interesting. If I was the lead art director I would be pissed at company to see my work thrown out in a buggy, non-sensical gaming system.

So when Funcom closes shop, probably by the end of the year, I hope this is a lesson learned for the industry. Stop pushing out crap in hope of getting our $.

While SWG was the only real MMORPG - and even that wasn't in a finished or proper state (at pre NGE) - WoW is the only game that holistically is in a finished state. The rest is either early mmos that are dated and primitive today or crap that is copies of other games or half-baked potatoes. Now I don't play WoW and was never a F A N, but you have to respect how finished and polished the game is. Despite all the bravour, WAR is stale when compared to WoW combat. WoW is a RAIDfest which means it is not for me, as I like sandbox, but it certainly has a lot of things right.

I cancelled my WAR CE for now and taking a break until a real sandbox comes along. Cancelling WAR was 50% RL time issues and 50% because of concerns over the quality.. And I am a hardcore Warhammer fan, played GW and Warhammer games since the beginning (well 2nd ed.)!! I just can't stomach another (potential) dissappointment right now.

I really hope FUNCOM will NEVER MAKE ANOTHER GAME. And that people will stop supporting them!!

On a final note, I also think Game Reviewing websites and magazines shares a big part of the blame. They are so hungry for advertisement handouts, that they have ZERO journalistic pride or independence. It is all about getting money so they hand out 90%ish scores to half finished crap like AoC. SHAME ON YOU!

Draccan

*breaks out chair and popcorn - crunch*

Only question remains is who the 1 post OP who registered yesterday really is. Xxeon, eternalegg or ?

I bet Bioware will do like most developers these days:

1. Buy great IP

2. Make theme park mmo with raids and battlegrounds and one or two new features to say they are different than anybody else.

3. Grab the profit.

Player cities, shifting ressources, social encentives in the game, freedom of choice, skills will not be included.

Hell there probably won't be space f(l)ight at launch.

Originally posted by shohen

Wow.. i read this thread and figured I should check the beta center too, never got an email... And i'm also in the beta (wonder how long i've been in and just not known it).

 

Of course i'm on vacation in japan at my inlaws with a crappy laptop for the next 2.5 weeks..

 

I'm not suppose to be looking forward to finishing vacation! DAMN IT ALL! Guess i'll have to drink more so i can forget and enjoy myself till then

 

I also have been signed up since the first week.

Just enjoy the vacation.

WAR will be around for a loooong time

Originally posted by Zorvan

Fileplanet is stating they have a "stupendously huge" open beta coming. Anyone want to guess which game that may be?

I really, really hope they don't use fileplanet!

I am in beta, but I think it really would be a bad decision.

Originally posted by Galadourn

Originally posted by Draccan

So can you give us a date for when we can get an apology if DF is not released?

 

you can't expect an apology because the world will have already come to an end if DF is not released...

Oh that's why they call it judgement day

Originally posted by originalegg

lol kinda went over your head huh?  man they really are getting desperate, just totally ignoring discussion and just sticking with the random 1 liners...ok no more, not gonna get baited anymore than i already have, but you are added to my list of people who i will expect an apology from when DF releases

So can you give us a date for when we can get an apology if DF is not released?

Originally posted by originalegg

Originally posted by Draccan

Originally posted by Xxeon

Originally posted by Ephimero

So Adventurine signs an agreement with some people who could be their cousins for all we know, and this game stops being vaporware.

I love this forum.

 

its actully a major distribution company.

 

Ask yourself: If you even have to defend this game is legit and real, if there truly is that many doubts about its existance, does it exist?

Hardly.

This game is vaporware!

And besides Aragon and Xxeon not that many really believe otherwise..

 

 

Couldn't be more wrong.  You trolls (who are getting more desperate everyday) are actually the minority and it isnt even close.

Those who follow the game, especially with the recent events and a video on the horizon, all know its not vapourwarez because we use common sense. 

Now there are probably lots more people who are just indifferent and dont comment because they gave up on it.  See these people are actually normal and dont spend their time on forums commenting about a game they have decided isnt real or whatever, unlike you who has something to prove to someone apparently....

I would be interested to see how many trolls would take a bet if i offered say 5:1 on Darkfall's "vapourware" status.  I would think that most of you would find some way to back out of it.   Hmmm maybe i should do something like that if it would be allowed and i could find a good way to hold the money in escrow.

"I would rather have $50 in my pocket and vapourware, than $0 and AoC"

Kinda says it all, huh?

Originally posted by Xxeon

Originally posted by Ephimero

So Adventurine signs an agreement with some people who could be their cousins for all we know, and this game stops being vaporware.

I love this forum.

 

its actully a major distribution company.

Ask yourself: If you even have to defend this game is legit and real, if there truly is that many doubts about its existance, does it exist?

Hardly.

This game is vaporware!

And besides Aragon and Xxeon not that many really believe otherwise..

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Originally posted by revelatorX

read my first sentence.

"When you are playing AoC and the game-play is lame because of Bad design, Bugs and missing content."

go ahead and buy it if those are things you are looking for.

 

Just your opinion and not the mass opinion. Even magazines like Maximum PC US (just out) that give AoC 7/10 state the combat system is the best yet in any mmorpg. And thats not the first time I've read that around the web for average overall scores.

The design was stated two years before release on the website exactly how it would be for world design.

as for everything else, can you put up with a bugs?

never came across a ground breaking one (apart from one, in siege battles where got booted out of zone) was fixed following week..

"When you are playing AoC and the game-play is pretty alright, fun active combat, zoned pre-mentioned world design, a lot of Bugs since launch but FC making strides to ammend this fast, the question is do you think you would find it worth a sub yet? "

fixed..

Avery

You always ignore direct questions like this (I have tried many times) but don't you think this post is the most dishonest you have ever written???

Sure there are a [few?] bugs, but how can you say it like this and not acknowledge all the people with game breaking bugs?

You are just circling around the hot potatoe with these answers. Truth be told the majority complains of missing content, core features not adjusted, skills in the game that still doesn't work (because Funcom never sat down and programmed any working function for them).

This is pay to beta.

Can't you be honest about the sorry state of sieges and main content and be a fanboy the same time? At least find the middleground?

I mean, your latest posts make you seem like a ... well I better not say, but honestly this is not okay trying to mislead people. No?

Hmm...