Age of Conan

When you use a credit card , if youve chosen a 6 month sub, like I did at launch they continue to charge you through that period and give you game access. But given that if you pwn some newb in pvp you get banned when you are reported by a cry baby, there is no clarification here. you choose 6 months, cancel in that time, even if they ban you from the forums they continue to charge your card.

Pretty sure no one is being fooled at this point.

Well except the hardcore fanbois, but they are zealots, and zealots never see reason even if it's rammed into their eyeballs threw their backside.

When someone in Norway is editing the Wikipedia entry for Age of Conan to remove criticisms of the crappy game, you know the company's really run out of options.

It is only a matter of time before the ship sinks.  Wait a minute... Why does the ship have to sink? Why can't it burn? Fire is way more fun to watch!

To commit fraud, you have to intentionally mislead people with the purpose of causing harm to them, and it has to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law since it would be a criminal case(at least in the US). This is not intentional, it is a bug/error with their billing system. Many other corporations across the world have had problems with accidential credit card billing. 99.9% of them never get charged with fraud. Why? Because it was accidential and they remedied the issue in a (somewhat) timely fashion.

Heck, it's not even the first MMO to have such problems. Tabula Rasa and Hellgate most recently, if I was ambitious I would look up more.

Yes, they messed up. They deserve to be ridiculed and criticized for their mistake. They do not deserve to be called a villian or thief for it (Unless, by some obscure chance it is discovered to be intentional, in which case I will recind my statements).

Originally posted by Arthousesig

When someone in Norway is editing the Wikipedia entry for Age of Conan to remove criticisms of the crappy game, you know the company's really run out of options.

Well, you know, Gaute needs something to do with all his free time. It's not like he's actually doing anything at work.

Originally posted by Bazanko

 

If you look the report has many dates.

August 14th is the release date of the information as stated in the " funcom risk overview  " previously released.

August 14th is also the date it was authorised to be released and signed off.

june 30th was the audit date ( which facts and figures were collected and based upon ).

june 30th was the end of Q2 which if you look the first page is report Q2. august is in Q3 not included in this report.

 

the term " current " is current at the time the figures were collected.

Eg if i write a book at the time of the facts i put in it is Current,  but if i publish my book 1 year on it would still say current data, this is was current at the time of writeing.

 

 

Also you cannot go on the information in the presentation.pdf as fact,

I quote " Steady revenues from Anarchy Online and Plutolife. "

Funcom has actualy sold Plutolife to another company earlier this year, so they  no longer have steady revenues from this.

" 28 Jul  

Australian mobile content firm Jumbuck (ASX: JMB) scooped up Plutolife AS

, another mobile social networking company, in an acquisition valued at $3.7 million,

Mobile Entertainment

reports. Plutolife was the subsidiary of Swiss-Norwegian games developer Funcom, which is based in Oslo"

Actually, Funcom is receiving those payments for the sale of Plutolife in installments, thus it's a steady stream....http://www.funcom.com/wsp/funcom/frontend.cgi?func=publish.show&func_id=1315&table=CONTENT

Launch bubble I'm thinking. Investors are simply still coming to grips with how this market and it's launches work, but it turned out the bags of money didn't fly out of the windows of the Blizzard offices straight into the hands of the new thing.
 

I don't see the point of people referring to a drop in value of Funcom's stock. The stockmarket is hardly representative of the true value of a company. Perfectly healthy companies can accumulate a drop in value at the stockmarket simply because of emotional investors placing sell orders based on pessimistic and unfounded gossip. The technology market in general is rather unstable at best. Look at Microsoft, its stock has gone down approximately 23 % since January 2008. Doesn't mean that 23 % of the people recently switched from Windows to Macintosh or Linux.

So what does this drop in Funcom's stock value mean? Well it depends on wether you are interested in investing your money in stock, or wether you are a customer of theirs. In case of the former, now would be a good time to invest your money in Funcom, at least if you can stomach the volatile nature of the market. In case you are a gamer, you can rest assured that stock value will have no impact on your experience of the game.