General Discussion

While at the Leipzig Games Convention Jon Wood had the opportunity to sit down under a tree and follow up on the conversation he had with Erling Ellingsen at ComicCon, where they discuss DirectX 10, forum censorship, and Age of Conan's issues after launch.

Watch the interview here

Hi Jon,

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Please told me you asked him why he said "PVP was not an intended featured at launch" during your last interview?

But hey, I can't complain, you ask more hard hitting questions than most others in the industry.

Great interview.  Learned a lot. 

Seems like the folks at FC have learned a lesson as well; no more promising dates of content and major repairs to their badly battered game.

The real clue they missed was to make sure their product is closer to being as advertised. 

What a joke...  I'm sorry too Erling, sorry that we tried to make AoC work for our guild.  Hope you are happy with the ~10k you soaked us for.

Good luck trying to win us, or anyone else back to any FC product in the future.

Funny this smacks of desparation to me.  But when you lose 2/3 of your original subscribers then maybe desparation is a good thing.

In no way could they pull out another Steak/Hamburger statement.  As for the forum moderation, it was drastic.  Basically this is the last stage of damage control.  Sticking your head in the sand didn't work.  PR spinning out the wahzoo didn't work. Out right lying didn't work.  Forum Nazism didn't work. So let's try the truth.

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=93936 Is a list of bugs still in the game after 3 months.  So much for your smooth release.

Nice one Jon, a good follow up with good  community questions. funcom must think these boards are important to give you the chance to do that interview.

lol, he is sorry for everything....

I am sorry too...

I won't come back to AoC, it could be a great game, fights are cool, but looks like they don't know how to do a great game and how to keep players in it

Its funny, everyone wants them to own up,  And when they do... more bitching. This also isnt the first time he has said most of this info, yet people will continue to cry about DX10 (even if they cant use it).

All of his responses seemed completely reasonable to me.

Well I wish funcom the best, they have a long road to hoe to get this game to a satisfactory level, I just hope they have the time and funds to do so.

Good stuff Jon, asked alot of great questions.

Although EE did admit the odd flaw in the game existed, and that is definitely refreshing to finally hear them say, I still feel he seemed to be backpedaling alot for comments he had made in previous interviews.

Half truthes are just that. Theres a distinct difference between admitting there is a problem, and admitting that you denied the existence of the problems to begin with, until it was deemed acceptable by the powers that be to tell the entire truth on the matter.

I'm gonna give them another 6 months, and then perhaps I will check the game out again and put my CE to some use.

Originally posted by Mrbloodworth

Its funny, everyone wants them to own up,  And when they do... more bitching. This also isnt the first time he has said most of this info, yet people will continue to cry about DX10 (even if they cant use it).

All of his responses seemed completely reasonable to me.

I agree.People should be bitching about the developers that tell you nothing..cough Blizzard ..cough,make you buy there products with no clue if your getting all the content or not.Then they will sell you an expansion pack that was probably suppose to be the old content they didn't give you ..lol.Another thing players should be bitching about is lack of updates after the game has been launched for awhile.I mean players pay out there monthly fees for a game that is already completed..cough Blizzard ..cough,they better start seeing updates to the game that EQUALS the amount of money the game is raping the players for.I mean if a developer is scraping by that is one thing,cut them some slack,but if a game is raping players for millions ..cough Blizzard..cough,you better darn well start seeing some MAJOR updates.

I think FUNCOM has been using there initial cash flow to try and update there game steadily,i would say they are giving it an effort.They still have servers to pay for a staff to pay wages too and it's not like they are making millions anymore.Funcom could have taken that early cash and ran,but i truly believe they are giving an effort to make there game last.

I think you would have to ask the players that are still playing if they are satisfied with the games direction now and if they feel satified the game is making strides.I mean keep things in perspective,are these guys putting out an effort equal to some of the bigger giants in the industry?Are they at least communicating with there player base?If all are true,then cut them some slack,there is much bigger fish to fry..cough Blizzard..cough.