General Discussion

HAHAHAHA

This is starting to be as entertaining as watching swg devs flub there mistakes.

Even if all of Funcom's newest promises suddenly came to pass tomorrow (which is highly unlikely, given their history with promises), they still won't win back me or my guild.  We've sworn off any Funcom product going forward.

Ironically, while we WERE playing AoC we glanced at WAR and went, "meh".  But now that WAR is actually here and we've played the hell out of it in Open Beta and the preview weekends, we're staying with that.  No shortage of quests.  Fair PvP from level 1.  PvP ranks and gear.  Truly massive battles with hundreds of players.  In short, just about everything that Funcom promised for AoC, a lot that they never dreamed of, and a mere fraction of the bugs that AoC suffered.  Heck, I'd say that WAR at launch has fewer bugs than AoC does even now, four months after their launch.

So long, AoC!

I think what gets me the most is...

For at least 6 months before the release of AoC almost every "in game" video was showing a DX10 client.

The game comes out but the DX10 client isn't ready.  Ok if there were problems etc.. but then why did they show every bit of "in game" footage from the DX10 client nobody could have.

And as others have said... months later... its still "planned features" by the time this thing is ready...

Funcom will either be going through "restructure" or.. releasing their next MMO...

Or "Hell" will be a winter wonder land... something like that anyway.

I have to agree that it is too little too late. It is what they get for releasing the game way before it was ready just avoid going head-to-head with WAR and WotLK.

My contention with AoC is pretty simple.  I've done all the caring for a game I'm going to do on SWG.  I just can't allow myself to give a shit on any other game ever again.  As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't get much worse than what I and many others went through with SOE.

That being said, I rarely come back to games I've cancelled, and if I am to even bother with an MMO anymore, it's because something about it caught my interest pre-launch.  AoC was one that caught my interest, because it promised evolved features.  After a month of playing it, I once again felt mislead, and overall just flat out lied to.  What was in the game was bugged to hell and back, half of what was promised to be in the game at launch was non-existent, and as far as I could tell, none of it would have been in-game in an acceptable time frame.

After the first month, I will usually give a game and a company two additional months to pull something together, if the past month showed promise of major improvement.  If after the third month, the game shows that it actually has a stability in core gameplay that would merit foundation building, then I can stick with it.  So far, no game has done this.

FunCom really did nothing in the first month of Live.  I mean... they nerfed some of the classes, but I'm not going to sit on another game while the devs continuously nerf crap that doesn't need to be nerfed in the first place, all the while other major problems exist.

I'm sorry, but for this particular game, FunCom has lost this customer forever - along with my brother who will only play an MMO if I play it.

I just wish they would have given us some kind of headsup about DX10 coming, instead of just sneaking it inthere like that - at the very least they could have made a video or hyped it a little first, before springing something big like that on us

Too late for you Funcom. You can join Vanguard at the "Loosers Room".

And yes, WAR is like WoW, I played beta and was boring.

Almost everyone agrees that Age of Conan is a dismal failure on almost every level excepting graphics. Almost everyone agrees that the best action for punters to take is to cancel registration and abandon the game. Almost everyone agrees that the game was over hyped from the word go. Almost everyone agrees that Funcom lied to and deceived customers. Almost everyone agrees that Age of Conan is doomed to the trash can of failed MMO's. Almost everyone agrees that Funcom are finished as a company and will go into liquidation very shortly.

Almost everyone who has played Warhammer beta agrees that it is NOT at all like WOW. It is a far better all round product. Warhammer is a fantastic hybrid between WOW and DAoC. Mythic have nailed the market potential exactly right. Almost everyone agrees that in 12 months time Warhammer will be the best MMO game in the market.

For once on www.mmorpg.com we almost have a consensus. Warhammer is here to stay, WOW will wither away, and Age of Conan is no more.

Originally posted by Micro_angel

Too late for you Funcom. You can join Vanguard at the "Loosers Room".

 

And yes, WAR is like WoW, I played beta and was boring.

And no, WAR is not like WoW, I played beta and was far from bored. My opinion differs from yours.

What we do agree on is FC as a company joining VG in the Losers room.