Age of Conan

Everyone knows there is alot of hate on this site for conan.  I have come up with a theory to why they did not deliver what they have promised and not finish the game as you all claim. It is to get rid of all the immature people who just complain and whine all day and do not actually play the game. Think about this for a second before judging. If you read all the posts you see people complaining called funcom failcom and say things like this game should die and other kinds of a response a 12 year old will give you. Now how many of you actually play the game? probably most of you dont i assume. Now how many people on here actually do play the game? The ones that arnt all big babies about this im guessing. You see what they did? They want mature people playing so they did all this on purpose. Now we all know some people are still gonna play it and act like a 12 year old but hey funcom is making money off of it so they could probably put up with it. It was their secret plan all along.

what's really disturbing is part of me thinks you are not being sarcastic

If that's true then they screwed up, because I have been a Funcom customer since 2001-2002 or so and I have recently canceled my Age of Conan account and my two Anarchy Online accounts.  I was served infractions on their forum by Cabe and Lufkins for discussing what I felt were serious concerns with the game and how they manage their community, topics which are apparently not to be discussed with fellow subscribers.  I never really flamed or trolled them either.

The secret plan is this. . .

FunCom creates AoC at the start of a five year development period (I think thats what it was).  They work on AoC sparingly and divert most of the attention to "The Secret World".  Running out of money FunCom decides that they need to offload one of their games to make some cash for the other (this would be AoC).  Now that FunCom has money from those that bought AoC they can continue developing The Secret World.

See we can all pull things out of our rears, its just who can make the more believable scenario.

I think I must fall under the big baby label.

Tho I never posted on their forums.. I just hit cancel and let it go.

Or I cried myself out on SWG... that could be it.

Altho lol to be honest general chat was so bad at times I was hoping a lot of people would quit.. then the patches came so I figured it was easier to quit myself.

/big baby signing off

That OR:

The plan was to take all the annoying people away so WAR wont have a bunch of Dummies playing it?

Sounds like somthing Europeans would do in any case

Here it is.
The funcom scam

Have you ever seen the Mel Brooks movie The Producers?  I think Funcom used their formula for AOC.

Leo explains. "The IRS isn't interested in the show that flopped." "You could've raised a million dollars, put on your $100,000 flop, and kept the rest!" Max proposes the ultimate scheme:

Step 1: We find the worst play ever written. Step 2: We hire the worst director in town. Step 3: We raise two million dollars...One for me, one for you. There's a lot of little old ladies out there! Step 4: We hire the worst actors in New York and open on Broadway and before you can say Step 5, we close on Broadway, take our two million, and go to Rio.

OP, this isn't the X-files, it's good old-fashioned nerdy MMO gaming business.

Funcom just overlooked key areas that could have made AOC a success.

Considering the huge potential of the game pre-launch, they screwed up big time in what is quite possibly the most spectacularly mismanaged MMO ever released

Shareholders would be well advised to push for a new management team who could clean out the entire place and bring in a new team that could actually turn around this Titanic of a company

Failcom is the right word: GG, EE and Co. should never be allowed near a game that has any potential to succeed, ever again.

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Originally posted by Schonk31
Have you ever seen the Mel Brooks movie The Producers?  I think Funcom used their formula for AOC.
Leo explains. "The IRS isn't interested in the show that flopped." "You could've raised a million dollars, put on your $100,000 flop, and kept the rest!" Max proposes the ultimate scheme:
Step 1: We find the worst play ever written. Step 2: We hire the worst director in town. Step 3: We raise two million dollars...One for me, one for you. There's a lot of little old ladies out there! Step 4: We hire the worst actors in New York and open on Broadway and before you can say Step 5, we close on Broadway, take our two million, and go to Rio.
 

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