I honestly believe they will sell over 500K copies within the first week or two. This game is very good and the only people flaming it are fanbois of a different game.

The graphics are better than any MMO on the market.

The PvP is very fast paced and on a large scale. Sieges, guild vs guild, mini-games.

12 UNIQUE classes. Every class is unique. If you just played levels 1-5 you wont see that. Play until 25+ and you will see that every class is absolutely unique. 80 levels in total

PvE raiding,dungeons, crafting, and lots of exploring with a bunch of cool mounts.

This game offers everything and more. Why wouldnt it have 500K + subscribers early on? Only reason I can think of is the economy in the US is doing poor and maybe ppl cant afford the game and/or a new system.

Dont listen to teh negative reviews, this game is going to be revolutionary.

ohhh boy... you are gonna get toasted for this post lol.

The hate is strong here :)

I think it will do very well and I can't wait to be there for launch.  I hope that they have everything that they need in place to handle the huge influx of players onto their servers.  I wish for a successful and fun launch.  I love to watch the players scurry around like chickens with their heads cut off when MMO's launch.  It's gonna be a blast!

While AoC will be no WoW killer, its being released at a good time. People are bored of WoW and want to try something new. I predict many people will end up buying the game just to try it out. Whether they end up staying or not will be up to funcom.

I didnt participate in AoC closed beta, but I am in WAR closed beta. That is all I will say. I dont break any NDA by saying I am in a closed beta.

Surely you mean 'Preview', I thought a game had to be actually released for a 'Review'...

Prove it. Just playing devils Advocate there.

But i believe that it is going to be good.

Originally posted by Raserei

 the only people flaming it are fanbois of a different game

 

 

 

This is not entirely true, when you realise the figures that are involved in gaming you have to conclude that there are professionally paid people out there do all they can to try and set doubt into peoples minds as to wheather or not to purchase a game, if you really believe that Blizzard and other upcoming game release companies do not pay people to splash themselves over the internet in evey way possible  to stir trouble, even websites like MMORPG would have an interest in keeping the forums busy with trouble striring, they have bills to pay and advertisment companies to keep happy, there are a few on here from the above selection, i best not post who as i had a post deleted earlier for suggeting such...with no explination as to why it was deleted lol.

dare i mention mrs twain

Originally posted by Raserei

Dont listen to teh negative reviews, this game is going to be revolutionary.

They might do average - good at launch, but I don't think they will be able to keep players for the long run. AoC is more visuals than substance.

Originally posted by Zoulz

 

Originally posted by Raserei

Dont listen to teh negative reviews, this game is going to be revolutionary.

There is absolutely nothing revolutionary about this game. Not a single thing.

 

They might do average - good at launch, but I don't think they will be able to keep players for the long run. AoC is more visuals than substance.

Nope...it is totally different than what I have played before..

But, if you can show me a game that plays the same exact way, I would be willing to try it

So many speculation about this game *yawn *

This game shuns family players.

This game shuns children

Not many families are going to play this like they play Warcraft.

Little kiddies will need to get their parents to purchase the game and pay for it.

Funcom has made it near impossible to reach 500k-1Million players, but this means the game needs to be a quality product to do well.  Which means, I'll be playing it.

Even a guy at work said "I've got a 3 year old, I'm not going to play this in front of my children." and he plays Warcraft because its much less violent.  The community is going to be pretty bad in AOC, which is why i'll probably play an assassin and play alone.

Originally posted by Nythious

This game shuns family players.

This game shuns children

Not many families are going to play this like they play Warcraft.

Little kiddies will need to get their parents to purchase the game and pay for it.

 

Funcom has made it near impossible to reach 500k-1Million players, but this means the game needs to be a quality product to do well.  Which means, I'll be playing it.

Even a guy at work said "I've got a 3 year old, I'm not going to play this in front of my children." and he plays Warcraft because its much less violent.  The community is going to be pretty bad in AOC, which is why i'll probably play an assassin and play alone.

I guess you havnt played either beta, with the children runnign around in game and on general chat.

Lol and you think ratings for video games mean anythign??? Nbody gives a damn about video game ratings.  You think its only 18+ yr old people playing GTA 4??? 

Eveevryone and anyone who can and wants to play the game will, be it 9, 10, 11-70. anyone and everyone who wants to play it will. You talk about families not goign to play, lol all the rp were saying how they and their families were going to play wow.  Also you think Fps game sales for example are driven by 30+ year olds?  Go play cod4 some sweeedish 11 year old nerd will probably kill u in 1 second flat.  HOW MANY TIMES, even adults act like.

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Originally posted by Nythious

 

Even a guy at work said "I've got a 3 year old, I'm not going to play this in front of my children." and he plays Warcraft because its much less violent.  The community is going to be pretty bad in AOC, which is why i'll probably play an assassin and play alone.

so.....are you saying the guy you work with is a bad person? or are you just contradicting yourself?