All Posts by Tordak

You mean your playing a DT, first. ;)    

I'm still trying to pick my first choice.  I change my mind every other week. .../shrug

  Yeah,  I'll stick with it if it has a rough start.

 AoC just might turn out to be the last MMO for me for a couple of years, at any rate, good or bad.

 I'm finished with high fantasy.  After AoC, I'm likely done with sword and shield all together. 

  Your  pre-order bonus code from the email or in store pickup doubles as your 3day early access key.   The game itself ships on the 20th. 

 So, you have to download the client for 5$ and you can start the downloads on the 14th of May. 

Originally posted by ProfRed

 

Originally posted by Wharg0ul

 

Originally posted by -Pawn-

When will people get it. Beta is not a Demo or a FREE TRIAL.  Beta suppose to help them out before launch on Technical Stuff.  Not let the customer base try the game for free.  Also this way they are giving you guys a bite of the cookie and not the whole cookie. Then this will make you buy it.

yep. Open Beta is supposed to be testers volunteering to help the company stress test the game, and find last minute bugs. The testers are helping the game company in question. They NEED the testers to get the job done.

 

So paying for a chance to do so is fucked up.

 

All it takes is 2-5,000 players to fill up a server.  Believe me they have been stress testing, and they will be this weekend.  They aren't asking you to pay to help them.  They are asking Fileplanet to host an Open Beta to allow you to play if you want, and they are not paying for it out of their own pockets.  Thus Fileplanet is collecting the money for it. 

 So, this isn't about AoC or even just Funcom, for me.  It concerns the entire industry. 

The only acceptable pay2test OB method that has ever existed, is as a bonus offer during pre-order with all costs covered, in that pre-order commitment.   No, third parties with their hands out for money, ...ever.

Afterall, If you plan to actually host an MMO, you should be able to handle the FTP servers for your own client downloads. <-- Again, talking industry wide here. 

 It's a shame that AoC, like many others, have gone this route and that I won't be taking part in the OB because of this.  I believe that I'm known as a fan of this Ip and that has not changed.  My pre-order is still going ahead because I've liked what've I've seen and I have hope for the games, overall, future(more hope than other MMO's have instilled in me).

 I do have a fair CB/OB testing background in MMO's and SP's, since the mid 90's.   As such, I'm(usualy) willing to help out a title(as best as I can) but I'm never going to pay to be a tester, other than the method that I've stated above. 

 I'll wait and get my chance to take in hyboria with the 3day headstart, instead.   ...Yes, I realize there's an extra charge for the pre-launch client but it's not for the status as a tester.  It will be for the status of full client with all the rights, priviledges and expectations that goes with being an end-line product consumer.  ie - I get what I paid for and I either like it or I don't.

 All the same, the involvement of third parties companies expecting you to pay them, aside.   The game itself is what I'm sold on, see you then.

 Fair rational Lobo',

 See you, when we see you, if we see you, I guess. 

 I agree the OB's level 13 cap reminds me of DDO's OB and how people thought it was a little to restrictive. 

 Although, I am staying with my pre-order.  I don't think I'll be doing the OB.  I've waited this long and I can wait a bit longer.  The 3day headstart is where I'll begin.

Originally posted by Zorvan

Funcom really screwed up giving Gamespot the keys for this.

Not only is the beta forum on Gamespot open for anyone to post and read, regardless of beta status, they have idiots breaking NDA all over the place, people trading beta keys for WoW, etc., and even have people posting links to torrents which have now been created from the beta client. Edit: Even better, Gamespot made the torrents.

Gamespot is still the crappiest game site on the internet.

 I couldn't agree with you more Zorvan. 

 Gamespot is not just having problems with DL's of the client and needing  the 1day extension for the event from Funcom. 

 They also needed an extra day to send the accepted emails.  Some of those who got in still haven't received an email(5hrs after the last keys were given out).

 To top it off, there are many people who only saw that  'thanks for registering...you'll be notified on the 16th' page. 

 It seems that if your one those who only saw this and not the whitebox page.  It wasn't a matter of you being processed(accepted or declined) but that the system simply crapped out on your initial registration and that your entry just wasn't counted for the event.

 There's been, atleast, 2 threads locked and removed so far, concerning this, on the gamespot beta forums.  But, I guess you can pan-handle(sell/trade/share) your weekend keys to the highest bidder, no problem. ....NDA's be damned, lol.

 The two threads, I had been watching that got locked on their first page with less than 10 posts each, didn't even have an angry comment in them. They just had a couple of 'It figures' and 'What ur J/k' after some long time members, of the site, tried to explain why people didn't get the accepted or declined message.

 I hope Gamespot made their handful of copper off of AoC's event, because, I for one(sure as s*it) would never hand money, directly, over to that site. 

 Well, I thought that Funcom was going to do their best at trying to stop the use of 3rd party macro's and I was sure they mentioned the G15. 

 I have no idea how they'd stop it's use and if they actually could, I don't doubt that it would be for very long.

 So, although, the Zboard is kinda of cool, sticking with your G15's seems like a good idea.  Then again, for anyone that doesn't have the G15, the Zbaord is fine alternative. 

But, if you can splurge a bit at the moment, go check the Razer site and look at the Tarantula keyboard(+or- the light docking addon), Lachesis(mula mula) mouse and the Destructor mouse pad.  These are on my personal wishlist at any rate.

Well pre-order reg's are out of the potential prospects, as that doesn't start until May14th.   So,.../shrug

  I just can't wait.  I'm 110% stoked for this release. 

 I'm traditionaly a Bartle EAKS player and still, I'm more than willing to mess with those test results, to get into PvP action in AoC.  Though, the overall game will be more than enough of a interest and fit well with my normal play style, all on it's own.

Awe inspiring...   Thanks for the link(s) to that press insider.  

...Gaute's reference to the player feed back - "Nah, Gaute you idiot.  I want to see my head pop off and have my enemy gloat over my corpse."   <---lol perfect, an instant classic.

  I pre-ordered from Gamespot, in NA.  It's just my usual game store since EB Games and it's close at hand. 

 So, I picked the Mammoth, eventhough, the Rhino looks like something I would've prefered.

 At any rate, I'm still picking up a horse, too.  I'll try and get all the other lower stat mounts, after launch, for a single toon.

 No idea, if I can do this but it would be nice to have the full compliment of mounts, at my disposal.  Plus, the one high stat pre-order mount for the sieges. 

Yep, that part is real Shannia.  I read somewhere that it's great for the earlier levels but, eventually, you'd be able to find equal or better, to it.

Originally posted by wicked357

 

Originally posted by Orthedos

 

Originally posted by Thunderous

 

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I'd rather wait another year to play Darkfall than wait 1 day to play a nerfed AoC that clearly isn't ready for launch.  The longer that NDA stays up the more it shows how badly this game is progressing.

You would think for a simple, linear, non-innovative game like AoC (which I was really excited about playing until recently) that the kinks might be worked out by now...  but nope.

 

Well AoC has NDA, but its already being tested out by thousands.  Unless you have the weird idea that all the thousand testers are fake, you should have no doubts that AoC exist.

 

You seem to have issues with an NDA, but you are comformtable with DF which has absolutely nothing but a list of promised features.  Is that odd?   You think AoC is hiding something b/c it imposed an NDA (while showing the entire game to thousands of players).  On the other hand, you think that DF is very cool and top notched hiding behind a smoke screen of words, and denying everybody on earth from looking at its products, b/c of what?  Hmm I do not know.

You criticise AoC as simple, linear, non-innovative, as compared to what?  Comparing an actual product like AoC to a virtual list of wishes like DF?  Hmm is that fair?

Not that I have any idea what DF is all about, or what it will be eventually (come on, who on earth knows?), but its unfair to use DF as a yardstick to measure anything.  Simply put, we know nothing about DF as a product.  Nothing.  A list of wishingful thinking, with no solid information on how the list is implemented, cannot pass as a final product.

 

 > Orthedos - That was very well put I couldn't have said that better myself.

   It's tiring, to constantly go over and over the philosophical, Nietzsche'ian 'Real vs. Ideal' debate.

Originally posted by DeaconX

The only way I could go with Blizzard is if they didn't make a WoW clone of Star Wars... the IP is way too huge and has way too many possibilities to be 'dumbed down' like that, no offense to any WoW or any other current gen 'clone' mmorpg players and lovers.

Personally I'd want a company who's willing to take the risk of making a much deeper, richer game.  Funcom/Bethesda/Whoever if not BioWare [BioWare is the perfect and most likely of course anyway].

 I want the game to be a true MMORPG and not a MMOG.  So, I pick the company that's proven they can deliver on this, over the other potentials.  Bioware's actual experience and success with SW lore far exceeds other dev. companies attempts, or the vague intentions of the other industry leaders with this Ip.

I picked less than 6hrs for a full rotation.  My ideal split would be 3hrs day and 2hrs night for a 5 hour ingame day.  I'd also like to see a ingame sundial option up near the radar/map.

  I voted for 'Troopers'.

 I like the Firefly idea, but the all out action of fighting for Earth's survival against the alien bug invasion would be a fun MMOG.  

EDIT--  Gah,.. Now you went and changed the poll.  

 Well the popularity of BSG is through the roof and Star Wars is the bread to Star Treks butter, in sci-fi, but I think fighting for the human race would be a blast.

 I'd pick BSG but there's only one Battlestar and I'd hate to be the laundry dude in a MMO. lol   So, since I'm looking for something different, it's between Space Above and Beyond and Starship Troopers.

 I'm sticking with 'Troopers' it's a good base for Massive battles in a MMOG.  Did I mention the overwhelming odds against us, laser guns and orbital bombardment? ..Nukem Rico!

P.S.-  In sci-fi/fantasy, I like the sci-fi better.  So, really anything would be fun. 

 I think Alien(s) should stay an SP game, unless, there's the Alien vs. Predator twist with us lowbie humans stuck in the middle. 

 Chronicles of Riddick would be a great sandbox if Riddick was an NPC, like Conan is in AoC, and it would be a real MMORPG.

 Dune could be done well with the 3 factions, as well, and yeah B5 would just rock as a MMO.

 So, I'd stay with Startship Troopers from the list, and I follow on with the assumption that a new Star Wars and the first Star Trek MMO's will be released, eventually.  But, a Riddick or B5 sandbox would be my ultimate choices.

  There's a thread in here(titled- What Could This be?) that links a page that says 'Registration May 2nd'. 

 Earlier predictions based on a Funcom interview vid., that showed a whiteboard with May 1st as the OB date, through IGN.

 So, it seems we'll see some type of OB around the first week of May but I wonder if we have to pay 5$ for the download, like we do for pre-order 3day early launch clients.

Originally posted by Xris375

Is the NDA finally lifted as well ??

Xris,

  I know it's the last thing we need, but rumor has it that the NDA will be lifted and access to the official beta forums will be granted for all. .../shrug

 Now about that May 2nd registration page.  Hmm, seems like an OB to me.  .../crossfingers

P.S.- Michiel is correct.  The link is back up.