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• • Is the collectors edition unopened worth anything?

  • Gamestop gave you something for free?

    This MUST be a joke.

  • Posted: 11/20/08 10:25 PM
    Tabula Rasa
• • Saving T.R

  • Unless I've been drastically misinformed... Aion is more of an Asain Market style of game...

    And sell the game to SoE!? Udder maddness! NCSoft may be a real hit and miss kind of company, but SoE is almost nothing but miss. They wrecked Star Wars Galaxies, released Vanguard as an unfinished mess, Everquest was a grindfest of the worst kind and don't even get me started on the disaster that is Matrix Online (whoever came up with the plan to have Sony and Sega team up to make an MMO based on a sub-par action movie seriously needs to be dragged into the street and shot)! And even the very small number of games that SoE got half-way right like Planetside were treated like red-headed step-children getting no funding or upgrades while Sony went off on their next hair brained scheme to milk Everquest with another pointless add-on or to drive away another few thousand subscribers from SWG. SoE has no clue what they are doing.

    I would sooner sell the game to Funcom than SoE. Funcom would probably just make it open PvP and let everyone gank themselves to death they all cancelled their subscriptions. SoE would release a patch that would triple the number of bugs in the game, add no content of any kind and somehow manage to totally alter the combat system in some way that would require everyone to have their characters reset to level one. That would be MUCH worse.

  • Posted: 11/20/08 6:28 AM
    Tabula Rasa
• • FC stock on the rise. Main Investors position themselves for acqusition of as much 10% of existing Equity.

  • Originally posted by CobraSolidus
    

    FC stock up today and yesterday +20%

    
     

    This is a lie. Otherwise known as a false statement. Otherwise known as a fictitious claim. Otherwise known as... well, it just isn't true I guess would be the main point I'm trying to get at.

    I went to hit up Google's finance page and BAM, right on the front page was a link to Funcom's section:

    http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=FUNCOM.OL

    Its DOWN by 11%, not up at all. And that 11% only accounts for a .40 change anyway, which isn't a big deal. the actual price of the stock has clearly been hovering around 3 points for some time now.

    Its funny, usually when someone starts one of these threads making wild declarations about the meaning behind a rise or fall in stock price the AoC fanboys are the first to claim that stock pirce means nothing. And yet we have the #2 AoC fanboy on the forum starting such a thread and spreading lies about the stock going up at the same time. What exactly was the point of this?

  • Posted: 11/20/08 4:01 AM
    Age of Conan
• • Saving T.R

  • The problem with creating an access pass for all NCsoft games is that NCSoft knows (and in fact planned it this way on purpose would be my guess) that about half of their games appeal mainly to the asian market while the other half appeals mainly to the rest of the world. So an all access pass would still be seen as only HALF useful by any given person they might attempt to sell it to. Plus you then have Guild Wars which throws a whole other money wrench into the equasion by being free to play.

    Thanks to the fact that Auto Assault and Tabula Rasa have both bombed, the only thing an all access pass would really be good for is CoH. I already have a subscription to that. Paying extra to get access to TR doesn't sound like a good deal to me. (Even the OP sounds like he would only be buying it for his kids and not himself...) Such a deal might fly in the asain market where NCsoft actually has a few subscription fee based games which are successful but I can't see it happening in the rest of the world.

    Honestly, I doubt NCsoft has even really thought about this. They strike me as being very "hands off" when it comes to all their games outside of the asian market. They pretty much let Cryptic do whatever they wanted with CoH for a long time. And ArenaNet has always been pretty much running the show with Guild Wars. Up until now their plan to let their developers have such a long leash has worked pretty well both for them and for gamers. But they gave our buddy RG wayyyyyy too long of a leash when it came time to work on Tabula Rasa and that didn't work out quite as well. Hopefully NCsoft will not only learn a lesson from all this but will also learn the RIGHT lesson. The right lesson in this case being to hire a lead developer who is located on the same planet as the rest of the dev team. Sadly they will probably learn the wrong lesson from all this and turn into hyper control freaks like a lot of publishers do when they hit a bump in the road...

  • Posted: 11/20/08 3:33 AM
    Tabula Rasa
• • Why Excelsior Fell and how I recruitted

  • I've read this whole rant, plus your last whole rant and even the whole rant posted in your profile.

    I still agree with everything you have said about AoC and the problems with MMOs in general (the point you made about people being too forgiving of MMOs being broken at launch is my personal favorite).

    I also feel for you in terms of how AoC killed your guild that you put a lot of time and effort into. I had the exact same experience with Shadowbane so I know how much that sucks.

    But there is still something funky about this. Your 2500 number is somewhat more believeable if you say that was the total number of people you invited over the course of time, not the number of people you had all at one time. But I did a google search trying to find your website and not only did I not find it but instead I found posts on the AoC official forums. Are you the real CobraSolidus? Sometimes the Cobra from the official forums posts messages caliming to be from you, other times he posts messages that look like they are directed at you. And in the midst of it all you seem to get flamed by everyone. It sounds like you spent most of your time in-game sending blind invites to noobs and cussing out other guild leaders.

    The fact that you admit in this rant that you ropleplayed a "pompus annoying jerk face" tells me that assement probably isn't far off course. I'm going to tell you right now, I've never accepted "roleplaying" as a valid excuse to behave like an ass. I saw too much of that crap in Shadowbane from the elven players who thought it was okay to flame and troll the forums because it was what real elves would have done. Thats crap. You act like an ass expect to be treated like an ass. And I think its safe to say thats why you keep getting banned from this forum...

    Look, this forum is a waste of your time. You obviously only want to flame the AoC fanboys here, and I can't blame you for that. But the sad fact is that right now an AoC fanboy is in charge of this forum and posts he doesn't agree with either get locked, flamed or simply mysteriously disappear. Even if you tone down the flames in your posts and cut back on the profanity, you will still get shot down every time so if I were you I would just move on. Put your guild website back online, write up a history for your guild telling everyone about how AoC screwed you and let nature take its course. Its pretty much all that can be done at this point. Trust me, I've been where you are now.

  • Posted: 11/19/08 8:16 PM
    Age of Conan