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• • Join NCsoft at Games Convention 2008!

  • reposting this announcement here

    guildwars.incgamers.com/showthread.php

    As you probably have read in our newspost, NCsoft Europe will be on the show floor at the Games Convention in Leipzig.

    Why am I telling you this, you ask? Well, the crazy people over here in Brighton that call themselves the Community team are very excited about it, as it is another brilliant opportunity to meet you - our players – in person! So we will prepare a ton of activities for you to participate in – and of course, we will also bring some goodies to give away. ;)

    
    We can't give you all the details now as we are still using our collective brainpower to come up with even more crazy ideas, however what we have currently planned:

    • Our booth will be awesome! Seriously, it will be!
    • The whole NCE Community Team will be there – which also means that you can talk to us in quite a few languages about all of our games! Check our nametags, they will tell you which languages each person speaks. Unfortunately though, Klingon is not available…
    • We will bring our beautiful Guild Wars models and a host of gorgeous Aion models – so if you rather watch beauty instead of the beast, you got it!
    • We will make you play! When you visit us, you will be able to gain quests from us.
    • Sunday is Community Sunday! That means a whole day dedicated to you, our players. And we will be doing stuff that you might want to prepare for. Examples? Here you go:
      
      Costume Competition! Come dressed as your favourite character from any NCsoft game - Guild Wars, Aion, City of Heroes, Lineage 2, Tabula Rasa, Dungeon Runners (First person coming in a full Exteel robot suit gets a special prize ;) ), face the competition on the catwalk, and walk away as a winner! So get your stitching/welding tools out and be creative!
      
      Live acting on stage! We will give you the centre stage so you can show us the most funny/tragic/boring moments your guild experienced so far – in form of a small play! Stay tuned for more details later.
      

    Phew, looks like it will be hell of a show! So keep an eye on our websites in the lead up to Leipzig for more exciting news about what we have in store for you. We'll see you all in Leipzig!

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    Martin Kerstein
    European Community Team Lead - Guild Wars
    NCsoft Europe
    http://de.guildwars.com
  • Posted: 7/04/08 9:29 AM
    Guild Wars
• • MMOs at the end of their existence, or are the just getting started?

  • Originally posted by Beatnik59
    

    I'm starting to think that MMOs are a fad.  Too expensive to make, to expensive to buy, too risky, and too problematic when compared to single-player games with optional peer-to-peer.

    I'm thinking the future is going to bring us more games like Grand Theft Auto and Metal Gear 4: games that are relatively cheap (when compared to MMOs), with online capability, borrowing the best of current MMO features.

    Because when you get right down to it, the "massive multiplayer" aspect of MMOs is something many of us (and many game publishers) are willing to do without.  I mean, if PvP, PvE, raiding, grinding, and loots are all MMOs consist of, we can do that all without the "massive" format.

    I somewhat disagree, because altho MMOs support massive - they also support single player RPG

     

    PC RPG games are practically dead now -- why?   mainly because of MMOs

     

    there used to be dozens of RPG games in the 80s and early 90s

    - now theres only a handful, and only 2 successful ones Oblivion and Neverwinter Nights

  • Posted: 7/04/08 8:17 AM
    General Discussion
• • Welcome the new king of MMOs: Age of Conan

  • Originally posted by Flywheel
    

     How accurate is the actual sales figure and is it just the case that the 700,000+ being quoted is what had shipped ? I don't remember Funcom actually quoting their own sales and subscription figurea.

    its 700k registered accounts

    www.funcom.com/wsp/funcom/frontend.cgi

    With more than 700.000 accounts created so far we have a fantastic platform to build from

  • Posted: 7/03/08 1:39 PM
    Age of Conan
• • Welcome the new king of MMOs: Age of Conan

  • AOC may never reach 1 million subs

    but , long term, it will probably do at least as well as LOTRO -  if not better

     

    sub counts don't matter too much to people playing the game tho

    -- what matters is whether you are having fun

  • Posted: 7/02/08 9:24 AM
    Age of Conan
• • latest sales figures Age of Conan still Selling Well

  • in the past, I commented that NPD does not include digital sales

     

    but that no longer matters because AOC offers digital now too

    funcom.cachefly.net/WebFiles/CRM/Prospects/us-au.html

     

  • Posted: 7/02/08 9:10 AM
    Age of Conan