All Posts by eric1000

Originally posted by d3moliti0n

Hi there

My question is, I have bought the pre-order box from HMV over here in the UK and I have pre-ordered a copy of the Collector's Edition. But say if I just bought a standard edition (with just the discs, no art book etc etc) of WAR, would I still be able to use my pre-order box codes for the open beta, early access and exclusive items in-game?

Thanks for your help.

No, the bonus stuff requires a valid CE edition key.

I stopped reading after he refered to the official forums as unmoderated.  This alone shows that he wrote that blog in the 1st week.  After that the forum moderators all turned into Funcom is god automatons with any hint of dissent being squashed.

Originally posted by Protus-AOC

with over 1 million subs i think its pretty obvious that people love the game. There is however a small group of maybe 20-30 people in the world that have had a few minor problems and cancelled. Since launch they have added lots of new subs to replace them though.

Server populations are pretty much maxed out so dont believe what all the haters are saying.

Have you noticed all these newish accounts with AOC in their handle?  It's the Funcom damage control & bullshit department, I'm sure of it.

Hold onto the code, you can't enter it yet.   OB isn't for awhile yet so they will have it sorted before you need it.

Originally posted by huxflux2004

Originally posted by eric1000

Well it's pretty clear what FC's strategy is with DX10.  Put it in at the same time WAR releases so they can try the same 'hey come look at our brilliant graphics' sales hype again.  I suppose I can't blame them for that, afterall, they have to have something to compete with WAR right?

 

So, the scenario that says, "they did not make it with DX10 at launch and their working their asses off to get it out ASAP", does not exist for you?

 

FC have already stated that DX10 will be coming in the fall,  lets see now, coincidence that WAR releases in the fall as well?  i don't think so.

Well it's pretty clear what FC's strategy is with DX10.  Put it in at the same time WAR releases so they can try the same 'hey come look at our brilliant graphics' sales hype again.  I suppose I can't blame them for that, afterall, they have to have something to compete with WAR right?

Originally posted by Niblix

NV actually sold (or put on the market) 4,000,000 funcom shares a few weeks ago. In need of a cash injection most likely.

They sold them when the stock was high, a simple ooh! grab the money transaction.  At that point the stock was at over 47.  This is the up to date picture http://www.oslobors.no/ob/aksje_kursutvikling?p_instrid=ticker.ose.FUNCOM&menu2show=1.1.2.1.&p_period=1MON 

and not to upset Avery here is the 12 month graph http://www.oslobors.no/ob/aksje_kursutvikling?p_instrid=ticker.ose.FUNCOM&menu2show=1.1.2.1.&p_period=1YEAR

No matter how you look at it FC shares are heading south. 

And:  Torleif Ahlsand, the Chairman of the Supervisory
Board of Funcom N.V., is a General Partner of
Northzone Ventures.

 

They have cut their holding in Funcom from 17.9% to 10.3%, read into that what you will but the chairman of Funcom's supervisory board should know a few things about the real situation right?

Originally posted by SgtFrog

you cant take back mmorpg games in the uk. you just got lucky

yes you can, read up on UK consumer laws :)

Sadly the best thing that could happen to the MMO industry at the moment would be for AoC to now collapse in spectacular fashion.  I feel bad for all the fans out there that really wanted the game to be something special, but one of the most anticipated MMO's ever taking a crashdive would send shockwaves far and wide.  Developers of future titles just couldn't ignore it and that would be good for gamers.

Originally posted by effendi

I don't normally care enough to post here and, in fact, the sad state of the AoC forum here has completely turned me away but hopefully if some sane people are testing the waters and have stumbled upon this slop bucket of nastiness looking for guidance I can dissuade them from being turned away from Age of Conan.

I run barely above the minimum requirements for AoC and experience no problems. The game is fun but certainly not intended for players that want to max loot or for those who derive self esteem from success in a video game. The combat system is elegant and is only "button mashing" for those who are not inclined to learn the subtleties. The community can be annoying but so can people.

I am perplexed by the negativity and I am only thankful that it did not stop me from buying the game. To those who continue to post their vitriol, it is well within your rights to do so but perhaps your energies would be better spent promoting something you like rather than attacking something you don't.

All the best

Misfits ...mm!

Okay I'll bite.  The gaming public as in most other areas of life can be seperated into three major and distinct groups.  Users, Doormats & Normals ( although I use the term normal simply because it's the largest group ). 

Users are those people that don't give a crap about anyone else and who will gladly step on the heads of the masses to achieve what they want.  They do this because the only heads usually available to be stepped on are those belonging to the doormats and that group carry huge signs saying head available, please step here.  A few normals also get caught up in the users upward climb but these are usually there to kick the bugger in the nuts on his way down instead of blindly trying to give him another leg up like the doormats do.  You get the idea.

How does this aquaint to the gaming world?  Well the User is the developer / publisher that releases a faulty product driven by marketing and media hype in order to rake in as much cash in as short a space of time as possible.  Funcom are guilty of this with AoC.  The game was nowhere near ready for release, had known issues and missing content that FC blatantly lied about and quite frankly bore no resemblance to what the media circus and PR was shoving down everyones throats.  Sure the game may one day become what it should have been at release but that is no excuse for what hit the shelves.

The Doormats are those that are happily oblivious to all this.  It wouldn't matter if a Funcom representative turned up on their doorstep waving an axe with the remains of thier pet dog still dribbling down his chin.  All they would see is that elusive light at the end of the tunnel and remain blinded by it.  They are the kind of people that never ever take anything back to the shop or complain that something isn't right, and they are destined to forever be walked on.

Thankfuly the majority of people belong in the normals group.  They do take faulty items back for a refund.  They do complain when something isn't right and they try at all costs to avoid being stepped on by the users.  This of course isn't always possible but the normals are also a vengeful lot and they will find some way of getting that User back for the indignity forced upon them.

On these boards the majority, as in life are normals which is why the majority of AoC posts are negative.  These people, like myself and although a little dubious fell for the FC hype.  In doing so we bought the game and were stepped on.  Guess what?  It became payback time very quickly.  The 1st payback appeared as cancelled accounts all over the place, the second as posts on various forums telling people just what was wrong with the game, posts that were and are for the most part honest experiences and to call those making them misfits is just plain wrong.

However, you may disagree with my three groups and think that the world is seperated into only two, the complaining misfits and the happily oblivious.  I think of those two choices I would rather be a misfit, at least I wont get a flat head from having it repeatedly stood on.

OP is 100% correct, good post.

And none of the main bugs or stability issues fixed

Originally posted by tvalentine

Originally posted by Zorndorf

 

Originally posted by tvalentine

wow ... what a true gamer, spends 7 hours on newbie island and decides to unsubscribe. Do you even like or have played any other MMOGs for more then 1 month? 3 months? 6months?

Perhaps he played already enough MMO's to see the old hat basics used in Conan underneath the beautiful micro graphics.

 

 

7 hours and 3 characters ...... that means he prolly didnt make it to 13+ on any of his characters. It would be like playing WoW for 7 hours and makeing 3 characters and only sitting in the newbie area and running around dodging mobs trying to explore. No game can be judged in 7 hours unless your playing some kind of FPS. get a f**kin clue dude.

It's like taking your broken PC to be fixed.  The local handyman may take a week or two to find out what's wrong, an experienced tech will tell you in 5 minutes.  If the OP has tried and played Tortage daytime then he knows how the rest of the game pans out and if it's not for him then it's not for him.  To say that he is unable to make that decision after 7 hours of play just shows the ignorance of some on these boards.

Originally posted by Nadril

 

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Originally posted by eric1000

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Originally posted by Mordria

 

 

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Originally posted by ssnautilus

 

I happily shelled out £35 today. After a few hours of installation and patching - I was very excited to see what AoC had to offer.
 

And 7 hours and 3 characters later: My cancellation reason to Funcom:
Extremely repetitive. No freedom of movement nor exploration. No way to skip cut-scenes. Cringe when I have to create chars - story extremely linear. TERRIBLE voice acting and accents. Non fluid char movements and control response.
Makes me sad. :(
Basically its a bad version of Guild Wars with an enhanced LOTR-ish feel with very awkward arcade key-mashing. Looks and feels good initially - wears of very quickly.
On the plus side: Good gfx. Good music.
Sigh. Flame me all you want, but  when you have played lot of MMOs as I have, you know can tell a true gem from the rest.
Regards.

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After you leave Tortage the game is just different zones and they aren't linear at all. I promise.
 

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Yes they are, don't lie to the man.  I'm lvl 45 and the post 20 zones are no different in gameplay to Tortage daytime.

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You make it seem as if any MMO somehow gets surprisingly different (quest, PvP, ect.) after the lower levels.

They don't but I'm tired of people trying to dupe people into believing this one is different.  After tortage the zones are a larger and more varied but that's it, the gameplay is identical to Tortage daytime, get a quest, complete a quest, get a quest, complete a quest, rinse and repeat until high enough for next zone.  You could of course go to the resource zones and run around like an idiot competing with others for the few resource nodes or try the awful crafting system but these are just addons to the standard gameplay, and not very well done addons either.

A lot of people are still finding the game new and fresh but after they have levelled a couple of characters to 80 they will be as bored of it all as they are with other MMO's.

Originally posted by Mordria

 

Originally posted by ssnautilus

I happily shelled out £35 today. After a few hours of installation and patching - I was very excited to see what AoC had to offer.

 

And 7 hours and 3 characters later: My cancellation reason to Funcom:

Extremely repetitive. No freedom of movement nor exploration. No way to skip cut-scenes. Cringe when I have to create chars - story extremely linear. TERRIBLE voice acting and accents. Non fluid char movements and control response.

Makes me sad. :(

Basically its a bad version of Guild Wars with an enhanced LOTR-ish feel with very awkward arcade key-mashing. Looks and feels good initially - wears of very quickly.

On the plus side: Good gfx. Good music.

Sigh. Flame me all you want, but  when you have played lot of MMOs as I have, you know can tell a true gem from the rest.

Regards.

 

After you leave Tortage the game is just different zones and they aren't linear at all. I promise.

 

Yes they are, don't lie to the man.  I'm lvl 45 and the post 20 zones are no different in gameplay to Tortage daytime.

I think the important phrase there is 'long term appeal' and it is here that AoC falls down.  The game is pretty decent 1st time through, 2nd time a bit of a chore doing all the same stuff to level an alt, 3rd time? forget it.

Gave the game a 6. 

1) graphics are excellent

2) sound is good - very good

3) starting area is a yawn fest, very bad idea by Funcom to make it this way.  Currently in an 80 strong guild and 90% of members hate the place.

4) bugs, bugs and more bugs.  Crashes, broken quests, invisible barriers, vanishing skills, vanishing mobs and players etc. etc. too many to list.

5) Crap community. 

6) Crap customer service approaching SoE standards

7) very linear quest progression

8) no real distinction between so called good & evil characters, even the evil ones are given the good oriented destiny quest line.  Would have been much better with an evil version to follow as well.

9) cookie cutter characters once in game, every member of a class wearing the same stuff and using the same weapons etc.

10) boring combat system once novelty wears off

11) dungeons are bland and relatively small

12) loot tables are pathetic, even boss mob drops in dungeons are very ordinary

13) terrible resource & crafting system

The game as it stands is a bug ridden pile of eye candy to be honest, I'm here posting now because the Khemi zone is borked on Ymir atm with nobody able to leave it.  Before the flames start I have a high-end system and have levelled a guardian to 45 so make of that what you will.

you have to buy the game and upgrade with the retail key

Originally posted by WiccanCircle

 

Originally posted by pinkstarfish

More rpg than mmorpg.

 The chat screen needs an update,

combos... are kinda cool but I've seen better.

long load screens.

 i hope the real world doesn't suck as much 

currentley I'd give the game a 6/10 only because the graphics are stellar but the gameplay sucks and is so unoriginal.

OK, I will pass out the troll food for this one.

 

Item #1 - More RPG than MMORPG?  Are you out of Tortage yet?  Nope, because you "can't wait for 20th" so you have not entered the big part of the MMORPG yet.  NEXT.

Item #2 - Chat Screen Sucks.  Agreed!  My godz, how can these companies consistantly overlook this aspect of MMORPGs?  City Of Heroes has done it exceptionally well, all the rest could use some work.  OP's point is well justified.

Item #3 - Combos cool but OP has seen better... OK, I'll call your bluff.  Which MMORPG has them better?

Item #4 - Long load screen.  I have been timing mine with simple counting, not scientifically tracking them with an atomic clock or anything, but the longest I have had is about 15-seconds.  Not even enough time to take a sip of my tea.

Item #4 - Someone that is dissapointed with within a few hours of playing with their new toy should seek out real life for a little while.

Item #5 - Six out of Ten?  Meaning roughly half the games on the market are better?  Name the games that push this down to hardly about average. 

The game play sucks?  Unoriginal?  How much do I want to bet that after saying this sucks and is unoriginal the OP heads back to Scooby Do land in WoW? 

Seeing as you trolled him for having a valid viewpoint I'll re-troll :)

item #1 Intended to be like an RPG, in my opinion however FC have made a huge error by having the starting zone like this because 1st impressions are golden.  Tortage is linear and tedious, more so as Funcom have now gone back on what they originally said yet again about only needing to do it once.  Sorry altoholics, you have to suffer the damn thing everytime.  FC have said they may allow us to start at lvl 5, well woop-de-fooking-do as that takes all of ten minutes.

Item #2 no argument here, chat box does indeed suck.

item #3 Combat animations are very good, I have no complaints in that department.  The combat system however is a failure.  Let me explain:  I like many others have a gaming keyboard and all my combos are now programed into my macro keys.  This means that I only need to press 1 key to fire off the complete combo faster than anyone alive could do it with a mouse.  This gives me a huge advantage in PvP against anyone without a gaming keyboard and takes all the so called skill out of it, which defeats the object but has to be done in order to remain competative with other players with gaming keyboards.

item #4 load screen time depends a lot on how good the users PC is, especially how much memory is on board so different people will get different load times.  The problem here isn't the load time but the fact that there are so many of them.  Completely zoned worlds went out with Adam but to their credit they do make for smoother gameplay.

Item #5 I gave Tortage 4/10.  After Tortage I give it 7/10.  Your reasoning assumes that the OP gives 10/10 to other games which may not be true.

Item #6 Tortage gameplay doesn't suck but it doesn't impress either.  The gameplay after Tortage is better and the game does grow on you after that so why only 7/10?  Well, for a start the world feels small and it is compared to other MMO's on the market.  The game is riddled with bugs, a small number of which are serious while the majority are just annoying.  The world is more open but this is largely a clever illusion as with most MMO's, in fact the game is still very linear in progression but levelling is fast so getting to the endgame will not take too long.  The community is awful and I hope it improves with the new players arriving after release.  The pickup groups I have been in so far have been full of clueless, whining morons that have no idea how to function as a team, only with guild groups has there been any cohesion and I can see this getting more and more the case as time goes on.  Funcom have made the same error that all devs make every time with prices.  Large bag 30 gold, mounts an