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Good news!!!!

Now we are waiting for the resignation of John Smedley from SoE.....mhhhh that would take a miracle though

Originally posted by xtravert

Originally posted by ILOVEFUNCOM

Actually AGE OF CONAN has about 500,000 subscribers that is not a failure and Gaute left for his own reasons and he may have not been the best for the game but he certainly was not the worst so you can pretend AoC is going to die but how can it be dead when it has 50 servers and 500,000 customers???

 

Where do you get the 500k from?  Funcom won't tell us how many subscribers they have.  How would you know?

i m guessing it was proberbly what he heard from someone in game . every smaller mmo i ve ever played is full of people who think its the best game ever . most actually do have something to offer though i would say to be fair to them .

im not a hater of AOC, but i think this is good for both AOC and FC

I think everyone could see this coming...

A company that defrauds costumer's expectations, selling them a unfinished product (1 million copies sold, they say...), charges them with monthly fees, feeding them with promisses of future great adventures, and other cheap talks...

Trying to sell their costumers an expansion to solve them all their problems and fulfill their dreams... (we all know the buggs and lack of content will still be there)

I just wonder why some people still pay them a monthly fee... are they just kids? are they addicted? don't they feel cheated?
 

Of course this game as no future (I already said it before in 07/10/2007 here: www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/1505908#1505908 , when the game was still in development, and everyone flamed me for making my judgements public) and after all this mess, neither the biggest Producer or Game Director can undo the lack of credibility they managed to achieve.

Originally posted by ste2000

Good news!!!!

Now we are waiting for the resignation of John Smedley from SoE.....mhhhh that would take a miracle though

I am eagerly awaiting the incredibly-long-delayed "Smed Special" game (the one about playing a secret agent). Because I fully expect it to fail magnificently, hopefully finally forcing Smeds to go away.

If Smed does resign, I *might* consider someday giving SOE some of my money again. But they'd have to roll back years worth of bad changes to the games I once played, and I just don't think they will. Too bad, as I really liked old-school Planetside, and I had fun in EQ1 and EQ2 for years. I'd like to revisit them, but omg are they full of drek now :(

About time that he resigns, too bad its a little too late to save the game. Most people have already given up hope on Funcom as a company

I'm guessing he was actually fired.

Craig has done a really cool job with AO. It will be interesting to watch this one fold out in 12 months. 

To all those who re-sub thinking now things will be different. Don't be a sucker!

Granted things may indeed be different but has FC earned that trust? Wait until the game is proven to have been improved before you give FC more money for another marketing ploy.

Originally posted by drarkanex

Resigns??  More like Who did Godager piss off?  Doncha love it how even Erling can be so cordial about techincally firing Godager.  My question is, how can you "Pour your heart out" on a project like AoC and leave/resign/get fired 4 months later.  Why don't people just be truthful and just say what they mean.  Like rats leaving a sinking ship.  I don't understand why they didn't put Craig on AoC to begin with.  It doesn't matter now because FunCom will never see the launch numbers ever again.

I mean, companies gotta blame someone and look who they blamed.

HAHA!  At least they didn't pull an SOE and blame the players for the state of the game!