Age of Conan

Hordes of people playing this???? (august 22) all servers are at the medium.. doesn't look like hordes are still playing this game to me.. some servers use to be packed with people when the game came out yet there is not one that is populated passed medium.

How does this "great graphics" canard keep getting repeated?

The graphics in this game SUCK. They don't just suck a little, they suck a LOT.

They used every shade of brown ever known to man. There must be 16 million different shades of brown in this game.

And armor? Forget AO's cool armor. In AoC we get brown sacks and aluminum foil weapons.

Yay... flowing grass. Who cares? Everything that matters in the game looks like crap (character models, mobs, armor, and weapons).

Stop repeating this "stellar graphics" lie because AoC's looks like trash. Even the dev distributed screenshots look putrescent.

Tbh you don't know why the game wasn't as good as it should have been unless you were there because you can't just take one angry ex developer's word for it. It's all well and good saying the game woulda been great if it didn't have the changes to it but the game is like a baby to this developer and they're blinded by that and wont accept someone bad mouthing it. So really the changes were probably made for a reason in that the original game just wasn't that good. AOC isn't a bad game and I would rather play it over many mmorpgs but for me the zonging and the directional combat kill it.

You must be confusing yourself with yourself ;-)

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Originally posted by Glamis
How does this "great graphics" canard keep getting repeated?

The graphics in this game SUCK. They don't just suck a little, they suck a LOT.

They used every shade of brown ever known to man. There must be 16 million different shades of brown in this game.

And armor? Forget AO's cool armor. In AoC we get brown sacks and aluminum foil weapons.

Yay... flowing grass. Who cares? Everything that matters in the game looks like crap (character models, mobs, armor, and weapons).

Stop repeating this "stellar graphics" lie because AoC's looks like trash. Even the dev distributed screenshots look putrescent.

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Originally posted by Xris375

FC is well known to "exploit" their employees. That said, Norwegian laws is more strict than those in the states or GB. As I understand it from x-employees is that it's a good environment for gamers (you can play games during workours etc). This article for a couple of years ago confirm that you don't get paid for overtime.

 

Almost every company exploits there workers thats unfortuantly the world we live in.

Originally posted by Windlion

Originally posted by Xris375

FC is well known to "exploit" their employees. That said, Norwegian laws is more strict than those in the states or GB. As I understand it from x-employees is that it's a good environment for gamers (you can play games during workours etc). This article for a couple of years ago confirm that you don't get paid for overtime.

 

 

Almost every company exploits there workers thats unfortuantly the world we live in.

Yeah, that excuses Funcom. WHat were we ever thinking.

Originally posted by Mrbloodworth

AOC didn't fail.

 

Next?

Well MrBloodworth your friends at forums.f13.net/ seem to disagree, they moved Age of Conan from the 'MMOG Discussion' section to 'The Gaming Graveyard'. forums.f13.net/index.php

The problems I have with many of these "visionaries" is not only the fact that most of their visions are rather dull and uninspired, but the fact that they aren't flexible in accepting that their dream might not coincide with the theme of the game.

As arrogant as this may sound, I feel I could do a better job than McQuaid or Godager ever could.

People constantly, CONSTANTLY reference mis-management in this industry these days. I think a lot of these problems come from the fact that the person on the top has little-to-no concern nor understanding of what their staff wants/needs, and sadly doesn't care either.

For me personally, Age of Conan is officially dead. Typically, I like to re-visit games after 3 months or so, in hopes that whatever problem drove me away from the game initially will have been fixed by then. However, seeing this parade of failure, and down multiple venues (anywhere from the gem issue, to forum censoring, to totally incompetent GM's in and out of the game) has proven to me that Funcom not only lacks the awareness to fix the problems with this game... but sadly, they lack the talent as well.

That's the true tragedy here.