Recent patches

[ariotis]

It's kind of sad, AoC has, very slowly, started becoming a better game. Yet another one of those "I wonder what it could have been like..." things, where if they held the release off by a few months, or even a year, they may have had a much better game.

I strongly beleive if the game stays around by this time next year it will have become a very good game. Whether it's successful or not by then is unlikely, though.

Anyway, for those interested. Our city now has lots of merchants. Also, each building gives a bonus to every class. Example, the temple gives everyone 1 resist, or something like that.

They've also, it sounds like, started slowly finishing off levels 60+. It's still not really there yet. and honestly I'm going to drop AoC soon, but still, it seems like it truely is becoming a better game.
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Ariotis Meteoris

Guild Leader -- Clan Meteoris

[Tasmpriest]

See that's the part to me that is *UNACCEPTABLE*. When you cap at level 80, finish the content from 50-80. It is unacceptable to have a game where you cant "finish" the first phase of progression. Every other MMO you could, except "Better get it out before WOTLK and WAR", aka Age of Conan.

[Tasmpriest]

See that's the part to me that is *UNACCEPTABLE*. When you cap at level 80, finish the content from 50-80. It is unacceptable to have a game where you cant "finish" the first phase of progression. Every other MMO you could, except "Better get it out before WOTLK and WAR", aka Age of Conan.

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[Zaanus]

Funcom is norwiegan, if htey survived the total disaster that was the AO release, this is a massive success.

You aren't really allowed to go out of bussiness in Norway, you especially aren't allowed to lay people off. The business laws there are really fucked if you're used to U.S.

I know a lot about the company because my buddy married the ex girlfriend of Funcoms graphics engines guy... he moved to london for two years to be closer to norway, then moved her back here.

Long story short: if you lay people off you must still pay them until the company closes, if you expand again they must be hired back. if you close the company there is no incorporation like in america so you lose your house/everything. luckily though, the government makes a ton of money off oil and basically subsidizes norwiegan owned business that compete internationally. there is a lot of movitation in that country to find a way to keep a business going (but not much to start one).
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[shasta]

I'm betting that the purse strings forced this release. The fact that they're a norwegian company, though, is extremely positive news for their future success of the game. The company still needs to answer to the investors, though.

The delays lowered the value significantly:
http://www.conanhq.com/funcomcorrelation.php

Look at the spike around May08 when the game launched:
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=FUNCOM.OL#chart1:symbol=funcom.ol;range=6m;indicator=dividend+volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined

AoC should pick up the pace pretty quickly. Not only because their employees are protected, but also because they now have a large river of cash flowing in and an incentive to appeal to their customer base to push development.
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[Kalamor]

It will be interesting to see how many people will continue their subscription to AoC. I believe many people will probably quit playing and go back to WoW or whatever MMORPG they were playing before. It seems that AoC will probably become a game that tides you over until War comes out or atleast until the beta. I always had a feeling that AoC was just a filler game, especially when I reached lvl 40. I started to lose hope on the success of the game. By lvl 30 you start to notice the gaps in the game and bugs and by 40 its completly noticeable. I will probably continue to play so I can get to know everyone in the guild better, but I am hoping War will learn from AoC's mistakes and not rush out a game simply due to the bean counters or suits that are short sighted.
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[ariotis]

Kego and my accounts are canceled of today. =(
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[Erridor]

i haven't logged into aoc for like 3 weeks now. I'm gonna unsubscribe it myself. Might come back in a year or so if it's decent, but right now, it's nothing worth playing once the graphics oohs and ahhhs go away
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