All Posts by BoudahXL

Originally posted by Deathstrike2

Originally posted by levsix

I'll take a text based game over a game with great graphics and boring/repetitive/shallow gameplay. Sure, graphics are nice, but...

 

Honestly though, what MMO doesn't have boring/repetitive/shallow gameplay?  They're all collect this, go there, kill x of these, etc.   If no one is going to offer original gameplay, they might as well look cool.

You sir are one of the few mmo connaisseur, mmo=video game+internet+grindage

Cimmeria server RP-PvP server pop is healthy.

I hear there are 2 other PvP servers that are popular too, as for PvE server I have yet to log on one with a healthy pop size.

Now for demonologist, this has to be the most unpopular class in game atm, but from what i hear last patch was pretty good for them.

I like that website too, strangely they have different PoV on lots of games than mmorpg.com.Feels more like a newspaper blog type than here.

I'm still waiting on a website that  have set technical points in their reviews, and a rating system that goes along with it.

Also I'd like to see sub-categories as mmorpg.com seems to call mmo, anything that have a client/server scheme.

Originally posted by RDBeast

Hey guys, i have read articles and forums etc all about Age of Conan and there is as you all know, mixed views...   i was wondering though how is the PvP at this stage of the game?

 

I know there are various ways you can go about PvP in AoC but, generally, Is AoC's PvP any good?

it's good but not PvPcentric as you cannot level up by killing other players, you need to level up through PvE in order to wear your PvP rewards because at some points they requires a certain level of PvP and PvE.

Originally posted by Wolfkrone

Originally posted by Tarka

* Commons District for level 75+

 

 

Commons district is 45+ isn't it?

Yep couple quests at 45+ then another batch at 60+, and if memory serves me right there are a couple of solo repeatable, someone could correct me on this?

Originally posted by Unfinished

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Most people voted it over a 7 here:

 

And it has bee rising the past few weeks. What does that tell you.

Didn't we just discuss teh rampant problem of people making as many user accounts as they please?? It tells me someone has way too much time on their hands. 

That sharp rise followed immediately after a poor front page review here on MMORPG.com and the fanbois became enraged and wanted to lynch the guy.

And Yes, I really do beleive someone would go to all the trouble making that many user accounts to bump the number up, it seems to be the life's mission of a few rabid nutjobs around here to try in anyway possible to get some kind of public vindication of their personal emotional investment in this title.

If you can take the time to copy and paste screenshot s and add it to your post to prove a point that almost everyone agree from the get go, well then, I guess you just proved people can go to great lenghts just  to satisfy their egos.

Don't get me wrong, this is not bad, the better you feel about yourself the better you are to people around you.

As for the main topic, it all boils down to whether you like a game or not.And to jump on the bandwagon of love or hate is just the same, it's an EASY RIDE WITH THE FEELGOOD MOB!

Nice zone so far, would be nice to see new lvl80 instamces connected to this place!

NPC
* The stable masters have received a small selection of exotic new beasts.

Nice addition, anything new/more is welcome in an mmo methink.

Have they release a resoneable ETA for Darkfall yet? If they keep delaying this game they gonna face another game engine update overhaul and delay the whole game again.

I found a small problem, if you use overlay in a game that support SLi and you have that setting on, your fps will dip in the lows.

With SLi I get solid 65-120fps, which can dip to 20-28fps if I press F12 and bring in the overlayed web browser.Othe other hand if I use say... EQ2 in-game web browser I have no issue at all, even in Vista Aero if SLi is on you get low performance with this browser whenever you bring it on-screen.

Could someone test this with XP?

Nice, installing as we speak!

New ideas, different concepts, anything out of the EQ/WoW mold will just die...

It's sad, but the mmo community is just not ready or open minded.

-Those mmo's need time need time to acheive maturity 18-30 months.

-They need to cope with the low pop, service need to be built around low pop.

-They need to build instances to receive a low population.

-Those projects need to be maintaned by small developpers team in order to survive and develop community until anything else than elf,dwarf, is accepted as mmorpg setup.

Those large corps are very short sighted, the mmo community exploded after WoW phenomenom in america, and it's gonnna take a while before those new players are ready to accept anything else than auto-attack and timer based button/skills...

From what I understand at first they will only bring DX10 features a couple at a time not the whole thing at once, so yeah I'm pretty optimistic.

This has to be the best course of action, one feature, small impact...optimize, then release a second feature, so on and so forth.

Funcom is not the best, AoC has a history , but beyond your grief and anger one has to admit they are doing better, going in the right direction.

Originally posted by Malickie

After reviewing the review section here, I'm actually amused by this. So according to MMORPG.com matrix online is a better game than AOC as is every Asian grinder out there and NGE SWG lmao, it's actually third from the worst only beaten by Scions of fate and dark and light, hows that for objective journalism! rofl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hehehe you got that right, I have to admit I read the review out of curiosity, but frankly mmorpg credibility went down the drain a long time ago...

I remember reading a reviewer talking about dynamic shadow system in WoW (1st year of release).

It's not easy to review a product and yet remain objective, but honestly...

Originally posted by Halandir

Originally posted by BoudahXL

Cry more noob, I bet you're the kind of player that moan on forums when someone ninja loot your epic drop!

 

Thank you for injecting the 12yo perspective to this thread. I am certain that all of us learned a lesson from your amazing insight.

OT: Never experienced any SOE games or the problematic Mythic games - Only followed the LOTRO launch and am still subscribed. When I look at the various forums it seems pretty clear that at least one deciding factor is the human/social aspect: Smedly, Gaute Godager and even Erling Ellingsen types generate an amount of hate when it turns out their actions/claims does not hold water.

The arrogance of Gaute Godager (wasting considerable development time sending dev. teams in different directions pursuing GG Ideas and more) clearly (retrospective) infested the whole company to a certain extent. One example being the way Lumache+housemate was treated for reporting the 'female attack speed problem'. At that time I lost most of my interest in the official forums and in the process I also formed a pretty negative opinion of a part of the 'community' - For some reason the partial post I quoted gave me a flashback.

In short: Funcom was punished for the GG+EE factor, but now with (some) direction in development, Gaute out of the shop and Erling on extended vacation AoC does deserve a second fighting chance.

 

Erm 12 yo injection...How about a reply in term of William Claude Dukenfield, I really meant to use kid mmo trash talk to illustrate the point using cynicism, I didn't expect someone to read otherwise but if I had to redo my post I'd prolly add *cynicism* at the end to be sure.

Oh and btw I agree with the rest of your post.The person in charge of PR should have directed those players (GG and EE) a whole lot better.Or maybe GG just went over PR, history will tell.For my part I don't think any company could really say publicly:"we fucked up big time".

Probably a new kid in MMO, had he a little of experience he would remember the lag spike problems, raid server crash and speed hacks in WoW which lasted from launch till almost 18 months later.

The duping, falling through map, hell I even remember rollback in mmo's because a patch was so out of place people losing days of play.

I even remember Blizzard issuing free gameplay because a patch went wrong, gee people have very very short term memory or they're just too new to mmo and expect everything to run smooth like those 4-8 years old mmo.

This has nothing to do with marketing lies, if at least you were complaining about that.And even then I'd be very surprised if you could do in a constructive manner.

Someone lied to you, the best thing you could do is forgive them and help them correct their mistakes.Won't help if you shout, cry, enrage...

Trust me most long time mmo players know better we decide what's best for us, you posting in every forums about how you hate this or that won't change anything, but if you could in a constructive manner add infos, trick, tips, it would help the community a whole lot more.

Originally posted by bnwoodman

Every day I here someone on OOC say they got stuck and how do I get un-stuck...  I think to myself, "noobs".... Then I got stuck today...lol

I have never encountered a mmo with so many places to get stuck!! 

And fyi.. I love the game.

Obviously you never played HGL or Vanguard to name a few.But judging by your sig, you play AAA mmo titles which explains, don't get me wrong AoC is fun but not stellar or AAA.And not every game has to be AAA to be a good title either.

Originally posted by lumache

Originally posted by openedge1

Originally posted by lumache

Originally posted by arimer

I didn't see Funcom doing anything different from any other MMO at launch.  They released with stuff still not finished like most mmo's.  They played the deny and excuse game like Blizzard did with the honor system that was supposedly ready for launch and that turbine did with most things in DDO.   They Overhyped their game knowing it wasn't ready to hold subscribers like EQ2  and Tabula rasa did.   To me the only thing that changed was the players.  In past launches the players would take whatever they were given and they'd deal with it.  In AoC everyone had the "this game should be perfect and any bug fixes should come instantly " attitude.  Then it took on the Napoleon Dynamite quality as I like to call it where it's cool to do something.  Like watch a crappy movie and say it rocks.  But in this case it was the cool thing to do to say it sucks even if you've never played it.

Was AoC ready for launch?  No  Did it get treated abnormally compared to other MMO's? In my opinion Yes.  Was Gaute Godager an idiot?  Yes and this was known since AO.  The fact is AoC will be just Like AO.  It will start crappy but come back to have a pretty strong and loyal following after Guadager left.

 

What about the interviews that EE did with the press prior to AoC's launch touting the PVP as epic - even though sieges were disabled for release? ? Why is the PVP system still only half in the game 153 days after launch? HMMM - of course they did things differently everything from improper billing to out and out lying! 

No company has done so much to alienate their customers all at once as this one has done.  SOE maybe got close with that outta nowhere complete revamp of SWG.  Yea they screwed up almost as bad as FUNCOM, ALMOST being the key word there.

Yet, AoC still hovers between #35 - #40 on Xfire...and where is SWG? Vanguard? Matrix?

People feel AoC at least has something to offer, and are willing to give the new director a chance...and this is something SOE cannot offer, and has stepped over their customers time and again...

Don't get me wrong, Funcom screwed up...big time, but the recent moves to fix that issue (which was Gaute all along) made the difference...

Look at Vanguard to see how a game can progress when you get rid of the disease in the first place...it at least is making headway...AoC deserves just as much of a chance...

 

Deserves? When they send me a mercedes maybe.... But I just dont see myself renewing when my account expires in december.... I gave them my money for 6months and was digusted enough to stop regularly playing august. But Ive put my money where my mouth is and until my money runs out, Ill keep running my mouth.

Well if you get a mercedes for 6 months worth of subs you drop me a line please.

This is just to show the imbalance between facts and emotions people put with mmo's.Your feelings are worth a mercedes... Cry more noob, I bet you're the kind of player that moan on forums when someone ninja loot your epic drop!

Originally posted by arimer

I didn't see Funcom doing anything different from any other MMO at launch.  They released with stuff still not finished like most mmo's.  They played the deny and excuse game like Blizzard did with the honor system that was supposedly ready for launch and that turbine did with most things in DDO.   They Overhyped their game knowing it wasn't ready to hold subscribers like EQ2  and Tabula rasa did.   To me the only thing that changed was the players.  In past launches the players would take whatever they were given and they'd deal with it.  In AoC everyone had the "this game should be perfect and any bug fixes should come instantly " attitude.  Then it took on the Napoleon Dynamite quality as I like to call it where it's cool to do something.  Like watch a crappy movie and say it rocks.  But in this case it was the cool thing to do to say it sucks even if you've never played it.

Was AoC ready for launch?  No  Did it get treated abnormally compared to other MMO's? In my opinion Yes.  Was Gaute Godager an idiot?  Yes and this was known since AO.  The fact is AoC will be just Like AO.  It will start crappy but come back to have a pretty strong and loyal following after Guadager left.

Easily one of the best post in ages in these forums.

A company has to redeem itself for lying, but if you kill it there is no way to accomplish this nor chance to do otherwise.

Originally posted by oscarkool2

Ahh cool, thanks for the replies, seems to make sense now.  Assuming funcom may go under, its not wise to invest in them right now.  But I've noticed that EA is pretty low, along with activision blizzard.  Would it be a good time to buy up on these stocks knowing that they will eventually go up?  I don't see EA and Blizzard going under anytime soon.

Stock and your personnal appreciation of a title has little to do with it.Stock price is also changed based on the forecast for the company and whether their profits are expected to increase or decrease.

Seeing the based subscription falling from a possible 800k(estimated sales) to 400k, is also pointing to a decrease in profit, so stock change hands and price is adjested accordingly.

Add to this the world economic situation, check Dow Jones, read about it and then check again, you'll see that tons of  companies are in the same boat.

No FUNCOM doesn't have less money, those stocks were issued almost 2 years ago, they already sold them and got their money.What it means though is that if they need more money, let's they want to start a new project and need financing, because of the low value right now each new stock issued would be so low they would have to issue a whole lot more and lose company control eventually.

Another problem which is encounter would be a situation where the company would have to borrow from the bank(loan).The bank would loan the money accordingly to the company asset and stock value.

So no, FUNCOM is not going under whether you like it or not, mmo is a slow pace industry and a company can feed from the same product for some time.We're not talking about movies, or your standard off the shelf videogame which produce 3 months revenues.

If I were you I'd be much more worried about your next mortgage or creditcard, because those will suffer much more from world wide financial dip we see right now.

GM stock went under $4.76 lowest in 50 years...Gee do you guys read antyhing else than mmo forums?