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Age of Conan - The Secret World Forums
Funcom, please continue focusing your efforts to making the game Age of Conan reach the potential it's great engine has.
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Quote: : Funcom, please continue focusing your efforts to making the game Age of Conan reach the potential it's great engine has.
I can agree that it's odd of them to announce multiple projects;
TSW and Browser-based games when they're still trying to fix AoC.
But all in good time I guess.
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Well, they didnt exactly announce them now.
They have more or less been known,planned and worked on all the time.
Im a bit suprised to see that most think this is new news.
These projects was already started since long before AoC's launch.
Im also a bit stunned to see that people thinks these new projects will spell the doomfall of AoC.
As much of FC's future on the success of AoC at the moment I have no doubt that they are working as hard as humanly possible to improve the game
(a game which is already truly magnificent, yet still so utterly misundertood).
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Yes, I've probably gone mad, Memo.
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We're all mad Calelena.
We're all mad.
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Try to find how many people work at funcom and then realize your issue is none excistant.
Also "QQ"
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Quote: : Try to find how many people work at funcom and then realize your issue is none excistant.
Also "QQ" I know 400-500 people were involved somehow on the development of Age of Conan - looking at the state it was in when it was released, they needed every person Ok, that was a cheap shot.
Anyway, yes, they have loads of people and could probably hire in more people for individual projects if need be, out-of-house help so to speak.
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When working on AoC last year FC had somewhat over 230 total employees, and AoC had ome 170 on it's crew (August 2007)according to this interview http://gry.o2.pl/publicystyka_special/?co=pokaz&id=84 with Erling Ellingsen (likely some more for the final crunch), also according to them they have kept the entire development team working on AoC for the foreseeable future, hiring to fill up the new needs of the company.
In fact they took part of the TSW crew to help AoC development on the final stages, so any worries of FC not giving enough importance to AoC's continued work are not well funded.
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I've heard and seen Gaute in a norwegian video interview say that there's been over 400 individuals involved with the project at some point during the development.
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Well, you need to keep the art department busy.
There is really very little for them to do in AOC.
Even the new areas that are likely to be patched in to AOC are probably already designed and ready to go.
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Quote: : Well, you need to keep the art department busy.
There is really very little for them to do in AOC.
Even the new areas that are likely to be patched in to AOC are probably already designed and ready to go.
An expansion and updates with "new" areas and dungeons are on the works, and all we have seen of those it's new art.
Cal, i seem to have missed that intervew, the highest number they have referred to in the interviews i've seen it's 170, with the addition of the TSW crew that would be some 200, of course i can't read or understand the ones in Norwegian
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I heard the game was kinda a disapointment but if the game took soo much time to be created think how long it'll take to creat a patch and additions ???
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Quote: : I heard the game was kinda a disapointment but if the game took soo much time to be created think how long it'll take to creat a patch and additions ???
It is a disappointment.
A massive disappointment, infact.
Over 400,000 people who bought the game have already stopped subscribing.
And no, that's not fanboi conjecture...
That's from Funcom's own quarterly report.
It also shipped with a lot of promised unfinished, or not included in the game at all.
And don't even get me started on the bugs, including the infamous "grey map" which sees the client crash every 10-15 minutes on most 32-bit Vista machines.
Or the unending series of patches from Funcom which break more than they fix.
Yeah...
It's a deeply disappointing game.
Spend some time in its official forums and you'll see that these aren't the words of one dissatisfied customer, but several thousand people who can still be bothered to post about it.
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Well its safe to say that the game will die soon egnofe do to the fact that if u publish a game u must have a gruep of ppl always working to improve it but they went for a completly perfect product whithout any additions to it so it was there mistake to begin whit and the game will eventioly die in about a year or soo
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Quote: : It is a disappointment.
A massive disappointment, infact.
Over 400,000 people who bought the game have already stopped subscribing.
And no, that's not fanboi conjecture...
That's from Funcom's own quarterly report.
It also shipped with a lot of promised unfinished, or not included in the game at all.
And don't even get me started on the bugs, including the infamous "grey map" which sees the client crash every 10-15 minutes on most 32-bit Vista machines.
Or the unending series of patches from Funcom which break more than they fix.
Yeah...
It's a deeply disappointing game.
Spend some time in its official forums and you'll see that these aren't the words of one dissatisfied customer, but several thousand people who can still be bothered to post about it.
The forums are flooded of trolls, and while the game is not all that most people expected or wanted, more than half of the initial buyers are still playing, and given the enormous hype and initial sales that's not really surprising.
There are also lots of happy customers, most of which don't post and when they post they just get flamed and trolled, and their posts moved pages down cause those that post complaints don't feel satisfied posting once, twice or ten times the same stuff.
AoC forums (the general ones mainly) are really not helpfull at all, neither to get information nor to measure the opinion of people in AoC, they do are good to present a doom and gloom scenario, tho.
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I think, with all respect, it's too easy to write off the official forums as full of trolls.
Trolling, in general terms, is when people post "controversial and irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community" (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet))
To my mind, the topics people are posting over on the AoC boards are definitely controversial, yes, but they aren't irrelevant or off-topic, on the whole.
And I've read a lot.
It's really disturbing, actually, when someone can make a great, well-thought-out post over there, showing how a game mechanic isn't working, or similar, and there is a mini army of pro-Funcom people who will call them a troll immediately;
Probably without even reading the post.
Now, I agree that there are some trolls, in the actual sense of the term, but it's too easy to say that anyone who is unhappy with AoC, and determined to talk about it while they still have forum access, is a troll, per se.
I've seen too many people called trolls when, really, they're not.
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Quote: : The forums are flooded of trolls, and while the game is not all that most people expected or wanted, more than half of the initial buyers are still playing, and given the enormous hype and initial sales that's not really surprising.
There are also lots of happy customers, most of which don't post and when they post they just get flamed and trolled, and their posts moved pages down cause those that post complaints don't feel satisfied posting once, twice or ten times the same stuff.
AoC forums (the general ones mainly) are really not helpfull at all, neither to get information nor to measure the opinion of people in AoC, they do are good to present a doom and gloom scenario, tho.
Or people just venting and some people moan about everything.
I still remember a person that was moaning that a certain class sucked but he refused to use certain spells and combos because he couldn't be arsed.
You also have people attention whoring, most civil places are the class forums the most uncivil are the general forums where people go directly to to moan.
Testlive forums have improved, mainly due to many whiners leaving and several people just being muted or kicked from there.
All in all forums also give a complete wrong impression of the game itself and the community, this is true for -every- game.
Incase some people don't know it.
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I want to test this game again, probably sometime after the content update.
My experience with the game goes from launch and a month beyond that, so I'm assuming my thoughts are fairly outdated when it comes to bugs and such.
I know the instancing and such will still be there, but I don't know, most things deserve a second chance to be honest.
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Quote: : I want to test this game again, probably sometime after the content update.
My experience with the game goes from launch and a month beyond that, so I'm assuming my thoughts are fairly outdated when it comes to bugs and such.
I know the instancing and such will still be there, but I don't know, most things deserve a second chance to be honest.
Give it some more time.
I've stayed current on the forums and, reading the feedback there, the bugs that were there 1.5 months ago are still there.
Plus more.
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Since you're still keeping tabs on the game, do you too plan to give it another go eventually?
Thanks for the heads up about the bugs still being there.
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