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"MMORPG.com:

There are those who say that this is all too little, too late for Age of Conan. Can you speak to that?
Craig Morrison:

There will always be the merchants of doom!..."

erm, how about you answer the bloody question you were asked rather than wax lyrical about your dream MMO. Personally I feel insulted that you lay at my feet, the responsibility for this game not measuring up to its promise, with my unfeasibly high expections.

Dont know about the rest of you... but I expected it to do exactly what it said on the box. Was that too much to ask? Am I a merchant of Doom when I say that Funcom has a massive Credibility deficit to recover before I will ever cross their palms with my silver again?

fair enough...

DOOM! DOOM!

GET YOUR DOOM RIGHT HERE!!

WTS DOOM GOING CHEAP PST!!

Originally posted by Soultice

I am having fun and to me that is all that matters. 

I couldn't put it any better than that tbh.
Same goes for me, I was gonna hold off on buying this (I was a launch day player of AoC :S )

But I took a chance, and have been playing since friday.
and like Soultice said above: "I am having fun and to me that is all that matters".

Remember remember the 13th of November
Warcraft, Level 80 and and what not.
I see no reason why Deathknights and Lich kings
Should ever be forgot...

hehe...
sorry Erling but here's where most of us will be when you get your pvp patch sorted:

Wrath of the Lich King Invades Stores November 13

In the frozen wastes of the north, the Lich King Arthas Menethil rallies his undead army and schemes to bring an end to all life on Azeroth -- and in a couple of months, you’ll begin your epic journey into Northrend to confront the Lich King and his minions yourself. Blizzard Entertainment’s second expansion to World of Warcraft -- Wrath of the Lich King -- will be in stores on November 13 in North America, Europe, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Russia, and on November 14 in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Singapore, and Malaysia. The expansion will be available in Korea and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau on November 18, and the launch timing for China will be announced at a later date. For more information, read the press release or visit the Wrath of the Lich King website.

Wrath of the Lich King will be available in both a standard edition and a special Collector’s Edition (in select areas). The Collector’s Edition will contain an art book, behind-the-scenes DVD, exclusive in-game pet, and more. For pictures and a complete list of contents, check out the Collector’s Edition page.

Retailers in Europe are currently taking pre-orders for the game. Reserve your copy now!

announcement timed just before WAR goes on release... harsh. lol.

Also gotta wonder how many of AoC's "400k" (lol?) suscribers will be left on 14th of November.

Personally I hope they all stay afloat - competition is good... but damned if i wont be rolling deathknight in November hehe.

I can emphasise with pretty much everyone in this thread tbh.

Before The Burning Crusade came out I was in one of the Top raiding guilds on my server - Source of Strength, on Turalyon. That guild collapsed due to the effort and time required by its members to maintain 'pve progress' in AQ 40 and then Naxramass.

The same fate awaited my next guild DrAmA, the GM took some time off for Medical reasons, the then Main Tank left to join another guild that would keep him in epics and some others followed suit, breaking the back of our raid team while we were trying to crack SSC and tempest Keep.

Since then most of us that enjoyed playing together have banded together and stick to heroics, 10 man raids, leveling alts and messing about in the Battlegrounds to keep entertained until the new expansion.

(we tried to migrate our guild to Age of Conan... dont think I need to elaborate on how that turned out).

None of us want to get back into the sort of time and life commitment to a computer game that we sacrificed in the past, really whats the payback of that kind of effort? epeen? prettier pixels? bigger stats?
Hence none of us will ever see the inside of Black temple, Mount Hyjal, Sunwell Plateau etc...

The new 10 man / 25 man versions of the wotlk dungeons etc is a really big factor in the appaeal of continuing with Warcraft for me and many of my friends. we can experiance the content and have fun while the epeen-brigade still get to feel like they are superior, strutting around Ironforge in off peak hours in their 'Purples'...

everyone's a winner hehe.

who's taking odds that this expansion is going be just about all of the stuff that should have been there at launch?

The missing content from 50+, the pvp stuff etc, new zones / dungeons...
 

I know! rather than include that stuff in a timely fashion for your rapidly diminishing playerbase...
Lets label it an expansion and get the morons to pay for the game again! - failcom logic.

I digress... i quit after my months sub ran out. With a lvl 63 barbarian and some alts (the female ones got put on ice after the 'female characters do less damage' bullshit). I gave it a chance and was let down.

Here's hoping Mr Ragnar Tornquist's 'Secret World' mmo doesn't share AoC's shortcomings.
What was a 'must buy' for me after 'Dreamfall' etc... is now a nervously optimistic wishlist item.

I've exhausted any good will i had for funcom awhile ago.

While I could have forgiven features like DX10 delayed, even class balance stuff (all mmos need months of balancing after release, tbh it never ends), they deliberately released a non-finished game to take advantage of the 'wow-weary' players who wanted something new. they achieved massive retail sales, at the expensive of longevity.
As we are seeing, its most likely that had they waited to launch the game until after they had a PVP system (with points / Ranks / gear etc), stats that meant something (currently you can play naked without too much of an issue), Content for players at lvl 50+ (NOT including the repeatable Villa solo instance grinding)...

They would have launched after WAR and probably WOTLK.

This barefaced Cynicism and contempt for their customers for the sake of the almighty Dollar...

means i'll think three times before buying another FC product.

My wow guild disbanded and we defected to AoC... only for it to fall apart due to the absolute mess the game is in.

cheers.

Now its back to WoW and alts.

(oh and the WAR beta - \o/ )

good job putting some of the more difficult questions to him - even if he did squirm his way around some of them.

cheers.

:)

I guess I'll add my name to the list of folks here left with a bitter taste in their mouths by Funcom.

When you have the temerity to print features on the back of the box and then leave them out at launch... with a 'ship it and patch it later' attitude (and i mean crucial content like the pvp system and gear, the level 60+ pve content etc, DX10 support)...

that's showing nothing less than contempt for the customer base.

I do have the capacity to listen to other peoples views though, I'm not about to throw grief at the OP for daring to like a game I've past all reasonable milestones of patience with. Good for him, I'm happy that he's happy etc.
I think the hostility from the so called 'tin foil hat brigade' basically comes down to exasperation that others are happily indulging on the AoC marketing spin and still remain hopeful that change is on the horizon -  a bit like an abused spouse (imo).
It's time to live and let live guys.

"Be Excellent to one another" etc

:P

Originally posted by Cursedsei

Originally posted by Guillermo197

Didn't any of you notice the part that said Eidos isn't showcasing Age of Conan in their stand at E3.

Appearently Eidos is trying to distantiate themselves from Age of Conan already and know more then most of us.

If Age of Conan is such a success, then Eidos would have been proud in Showcasing the product they distribute isn't.

Says enough really (and sadly).

 

Mhm, certainly makes sense to me. Hell, Microsoft was quick to rub it in Sony's face that they got the NA PS3 Exclusivity out the window and now are releasing FFXII on the 360. So honestly, if the game was doing so well, I think Eidos would of been prancing around and bragging about it. But they arent.

Hmm... just thought of this...

Perhaps... Funcom, is the Uwe Bole of MMOs?

nah. most people would agree (i hope) that 'The longest journey' and 'Dreamfall' are two of the best story focused games ever. They should just just slap the AoC dev managers aroung the face a bit with an angry sea bass... then work exclusively on 'Ragnar Tornquists' games.

Originally posted by tinywulf

Would love to see how many subscribers fell off after the 1st month.

I know I was one of them, lack of communication and game stability.

How about fixing all the bugs for a Holiday Edition.

yup, me too.

"Xbox360 version of the game to launch in late 2009"

...same time as the rest of the content that should have been there at PC launch?

/bitter ex-customer off

/sigh.

Originally posted by craynlon

"yep septembre to decembre will hopefully be very busy mmo month

i alreaddy pitty the people from chronicles of spellborne or ddo making beutifull games that have to watch from the sidelines when wow dukes it out with war

also i wouldnt want to be in the skin of the war guys because the pressure and expectation after the so-so conan launch must be immense. to me all of their concepts look brilliant and seem to evolve the mmo genre a good step forward but simple details like ui and controlls, the atmosphere or technical issues can really be only evaluated after the launch."

 my thoughts exactly.

i played AoC at release, im disgusted at the people responsible for releasing it early in the state its in now. FC have a mountain to climb -to win back all of the people who have since cancelled thier subs after the first month.

my guess is that by the time they get the missing content patched in and the core features - currently broken - fixed... me and many others will be gearing up for WAR or Aion or WotLK.

have already renewed my wow sub and am leveling alts... :(

sorry to say, but im on the 'cancelled sub, waiting for fixes' bandwagon.

I blame Eidos in all of this, They are the publisher, they are the reason the game is in the shops now instead of in closed beta still - where it belongs. Greed and ineptitude on a grand scale.

Just hope the backlash against Funcom isnt too severe.

I'd really like to see Age of Conan in all its glory.

Right now i have a level 60 babarian. from 1 - 50 it was quite fun. now the content is spead so thin that grinding in repeatable daily solo dungeons is the norm.