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• • Funcom: Staffing Cuts Won’t Affect ‘Age of Conan,’ Xbox 360 Version Still in Development

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    Originally posted by AmazingAvery
    

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    Originally posted by Elsabolts

    Avery you still think these guys are gonna pull this thing out of the grave. Man you gotta start adding things up and its not good.
    

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    Yes there were no WMD in Iraq.  The Russians are not invading etc etc. Same principle. Time to take the shades off. The 360 version has been going for a while, more people than the DF dev team working on it. Whether it happens in 2009 or not is another topic. 360 is growing in popularity each day and there is a market for this type of game. Whether people still want to call sinking ship every other month like since the start of the year is ok, but FC is still here and the fact is money is still in the bank to support the development of this. Re-structuring of staff to better provide service is also feasible and I havent read of any direction correlation since staff went directly effecting players in game. Same as when they let the same titles of those staff that went in September too.
    Microsoft already gave the green light on 360 AoC.  There is nothing more to say than it is still in development and they are not ready to release more info than that at this point in time.
    The company is re-assuring that the cuts won't effect either, just like they assured us they would staff up because there was a need in these area's - and they did. There is nothing to go on to think otherwise imo.

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    Uhhh...Avery, you DO realize that the article reference that you posted was 2 years old, right? December 2006 post date hardly qualifies this as current and viable imformation.

  • Posted: 12/02/08 8:34 AM
    Age of Conan
• • How can they really expect people to buy this?

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    Originally posted by Ngeldu5t
    This is what IGN and Game trailer said about a month after the game was released.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU1oPqxye0s
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL1V1AUUZ8U&feature=related
    I don't understand how people missed these reviews! I decided not to play after the so called OB then waited for 6 months and now I`m giving it a try.
    Don`t tell me those who were in CB did not know the State of the Game before release and yet they chose to pre-order the game.
    If there is someone to blame,players should blame themselves for pre-ordering CE/ rushing on every single MMO released and then they whine for missing content
     

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    Actually, I was in AoC Closed Beta for quite awhile and I can tell you right now that and overall majority of Closed Beta testers absolutely knew that the state of the game at Launch was going to be horrible. There were numerous post on the Beta forums begging FC to not launch the game because of all of the problems it was having.
    Yes, the Closed Beta testers informed FC ALL THE TIME about ongoing bugs but these bugs never got fixed. Towards the end of Beta, FC started to acknowledge that there were alot of game breaking bugs in the game but that they had a "Miracle Patch" that they were going to put in right before Launch that would fix the majority of bugs as well as increasing game performance. Well, that "Miracle Patch" actually made the game worse.
    Also, there were numerous posts on the Closed Beta forums asking the testers if they were going to pre-order the game and 80% of these testers voted that they would NOT be pre-ordering this game due to all of the issues that it was having, however they would consider buying the game about 2 or 3 months after Launch when the game got tweaked a bit more.
    So, for those people out there who try to put ANY blame on the Closed Beta testers. We tested the game well and we documented all the bugs that we found and set them in like we were suppose to. If FC chose NOT to act of that information then it is solely FC's fault that AoC is in the stae that it is today and not the fault of poor testing of the game during Closed Beta.
    Also, FYI, the Closed Beta group were always kept separate from the Open Beta crowd. Also, the Closed Beta testers were different from the Technical Beta(PvP testers) group as well.
    If I remember correctly, the Technical Beta group were able to test the PvP content 3 or 4 times before Launch(correct, the PvP testing was done sporatically and wasnt a continual process)

  • Posted: 11/27/08 7:33 AM
    Age of Conan
• • By christmas fc will be no more.

  • Gotta luv Carp even if you pull it from yer arse.

  • Posted: 11/19/08 11:17 AM
    Age of Conan
• • How come EQ II doesn't attract more players?

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    Originally posted by Loke666
    

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    Originally posted by jnewl

    I  haven't read through the entire thread here. I just thought I'd throw in my .02 as one of those players who's played every MMOG under the sun, but has never bothered with E2. Why? Because of the name. If I want to play Everquest, I'll play the original. Maybe if I were such a huge fan of E1 that I wanted MORE MORE MORE, I'd be all over E2, but since there are lots of other games that have surpassed E1 on my Funmeter, the prospect of playing E2 does exactly nothing for me.
    E2's sales are relatively flat (that is not meant as an insult, even if it sounds like one) for the same reason Origin or whoever cancelled Ultima Online 2: sequels--well, remakes, really--have little power to pull in new players. Their audience is going to mostly be limited to existing customers of the original game. (Note that I said "mostly." Sure, there will be new players, but not in the numbers companies are looking for to justify the expense of  a major game release.)
    

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    Eq2 is a very different game from the first one.
    Also, sequels can be huge, look on Diablo 2. So far we havn't seen any huge MMO sequel except Linage 2 but keep your eyes out for Guildwars 2. Wow 2 is a sure bet also, Blizzard loves making sequels.
    EQ2s problem is that it launched buggy with too litle content a month after Wow. Once they sorted that out, most players never bothered about it.

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    Not to be nit picky but EQ2 was launched 2 or 3 weeks before WoW launched.
    SoE knew that WoW had a very big following and that WoW also had a pretty big advertising campaign, so SoE pushed hard to release EQ2 ahead of WoW. However, since SoE tried to push EQ2 out the door way too early, the game that hit the stores was very buggy and also needed a high end machine to even run it at low to medium settings. Many people quit EQ2 shortly after it launched. WoW then launched and that game ran much smoother than EQ2 did even on extremely low settings. Yes, WoW had a lot of bugs too but the game was playable. EQ2 was not.

    4+ years later and gaming companies STILL havent the lesson that SoE did. Dont try to beat another game to market when it isnt ready. Funcom fell into the same Greed Trap that SoE did. Funcom wanted to beat WAR to market when AoC wasnt even near ready to be released and now Funcom is in a financial mess. If Funcom had waited another 4-6 months before they launched, they would have come close to destroying WAR.
    Greed will kill these gaming companies if they dont wise up.
    

  • Posted: 11/17/08 5:57 AM
    Everquest II
• • WARNING WARNING - AUTOMATIC PAYMENT ENABLED !!

  • Yes, we ALL understand what you have been saying, over and over again. However, you are NOT understanding what we have all been saying.

    YES, you chose the option that will ONLY charge your credit card for 1 month which would then auto-cancel your account.

    Mythic, as well as ALL the other gaming companies which charge a monthly subscription fee to play their MMOs are entitled to change any and all of their billing practices provided they give the proper notice prior implementing the new changes.

    You have stated that they did indeed send you an email.
    You have stated that you have received the email.
    You have stated that you have read the email.
    You have even stated that you understand what the email said.

    Is it just that you are lazy and that you dont want to log into your account and cancel your account manually instead of it being cancelled automatically?

    Honestly, I dont think you will be getting much sympathy from these forums for being lazy.

  • Posted: 11/14/08 6:11 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)