Age of Conan

Originally posted by ethion

My vote is to sell it to soe and add it to station pass :P  Guess thats cause I like station pass.

Holy crap, not even Jackdog is cruel enough to wish that fate to any game.

Originally posted by Raztor

Originally posted by ethion

My vote is to sell it to soe and add it to station pass :P  Guess thats cause I like station pass.

 

Holy crap, not even Jackdog is cruel enough to wish that fate to any game.

Hells yeah, lets give AoC a chance to be Smedley'd!

Originally posted by Souldrainer 

700K have signed up for an account... how?  The ONLY way to get an AOC account is to buy the game.

Beta accounts are still accounts that were created without purchasing the game.

Pre-orders created accounts without purchasing the game and only putting down a deposit.

To be completely open minded about the exact phrasing they don't even say game accounts let alone boxes sold.  As far as we know they could be talking about every single type of account from game, beta and forum that they allowed people to create. 

No where does the 700k statement clearly state it is game accounts post launch, not does it state games sold.  That is all information that Funcom wants the readers to assume. 

I'm sure AoC will hit 700k copies sold and it might be there right now, but that carefully crafted statement by Funcom is vague on purpose.  If they had sold 700k copies I'm certain they would have said that, but they didn't.

Originally posted by Raztor

Originally posted by ethion

My vote is to sell it to soe and add it to station pass :P  Guess thats cause I like station pass.

 

Holy crap, not even Jackdog is cruel enough to wish that fate to any game.

Can't do any worse that FC is doing. EQII is still an OK game, I hear even Vanguard has improved since Sigil sold out. If they would price Station pass at 25 a month with free clients and add in AoC I would pay it probably.

Aren't they starting to honour buddy keys? Another way to boost the figures.

I love the way a rabid fanboy is claiming this game has 700k subscribers. ANYONE who has actually played the game since release will let you know that:

a) The number of instances spawned has dropped and many zones now run in a single instance.

b) Many of their friends and guild members have quit. Its pretty easy to tell a subscription is being lost when your friends say things like ' this game is s**t, Im going back to WoW'.

c) Just running around the game world you see less people playing the game than a few weeks after launch (I say a few weeks rather than at actual launch because it didnt take much more than that for people to spread across the majority of zones).

d) Finding groups in many areas has become harder as there simply arent people there to group with.

None of the above need any figures to substantiate - simply play the game from launch until now and you would have to be immensely dense to even think this game is growing at all. This game has bled subscribers since launch faster than any MMO since the genre started. I dont even think this game has 25% of the intial registered players since launch left in the game.

Too much stuff in this game is broken and there is too little content - simple - even those with too little sense to leave after the first paid month will be leaving within a month or so after that, because put simply there is absolutely nothing to do after a certain point - any ideas you have of sieges being fixed soon and active forget it - Funcom have already proven that they cant fix s**t and there wont be enough players available and willing at the time to actually get a full siege going.

Anyone who does stay after, say 3 months, of playing needs to see a psychiatrist because they either have too much money, believe all the bulls**t Funcom are spouting, or are so desperate to play an MMO that they will put up with ANYTHING in the hope AoC will work. They certainly wont be there in 3 months because this is a polished game brimming over with content. This turd will take a hell of a lot of polishing before it shines.

Originally posted by Flywheel

Too much stuff in this game is broken and there is too little content - simple - even those with too little sense to leave after the first paid month will be leaving within a month or so after that, because put simply there is absolutely nothing to do after a certain point - any ideas you have of sieges being fixed soon and active forget it - Funcom have already proven that they cant fix s**t and there wont be enough players available and willing at the time to actually get a full siege going.

Anyone who does stay after, say 3 months, of playing needs to see a psychiatrist because they either have too much money, believe all the bulls**t Funcom are spouting, or are so desperate to play an MMO that they will put up with ANYTHING in the hope AoC will work. They certainly wont be there in 3 months because this is a polished game brimming over with content. This turd will take a hell of a lot of polishing before it shines.

People stuck with Eve through many rocky months of crap.  Some gamers will play anything.  Gotta love em.

I don't use Xfire myself so it isn't taking into account the fact I'm a subscriber still.  I am enjoying the game quite a lot.  It has lived up to my personal expectations of what I wanted from the hype.

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