Age of Conan

If a game is really bad..most people will talk bad stuff about it in forums, if ppl get scammed and lied to, they are gonna be mad..and talk bat things about funcom...the game fails becauuse it sucks really bad...its a shame a company has the balls to bring out to public a game like aoc..and brags about it, making a huge hype about it...

There are bad games out every day..yet nobody talks bad about them..they just suck...the problem with aoc is funcom overhyped aoc, told us the game had epic content, huge world etc and when the game is out we find out they lied to us..its not a huge world, it has no content, its full of loading screens everywere, its overinstanced to the bone...

If funcom had told us the truth about the game..there would not be so many people bashing it on the forums..and thats a fact...people are mad with funcom..

In my personnal case i wish funcom goes down really deep, i hope all those liers and scammers are fired and never get a job making games ever again...

Pfft...forums didn't destroyed the game, Funcom did. Anyway, is this game dead? Last I heard it still got a healthy population. Remember that a few 100k's subscribers is a blitingly huge success. WoW numbers is in fantasy land and I doubt any mmo will ever get those numbers again.

Gamers with access to the internet need to realize that if you don't like a game you just don't play it and that's all about it.

Noone really cares if you like AoC or not, no need to bash it then, because that is what's killing it.

Randoms here and there, sign up on any gaming forum they can find and bash the game they dont like.

Just dont play it. Its that simple.

Funcom didnt deliver what they promised i agree.

But the game is fairly playable and by far more enjoyable than most of the other games out there.

I dont think anyone is forcing you to play their game.

In fact i believe that the haters are actually the ones who like the game and want to play it but some aspects of it drive them into hating it.

Forums didnt destoyed this game, Failcom did.

Originally posted by Sevensodd

Originally posted by Xenosaiyan

 but will ruin this game is the xfire population I treat like a saint

 

And therein lies the downfall of game population.  The bandwagon.  It's like a domino effect.  5 people say the game is shit and post about it.  200 people read that post and are persuaded by it.  I have seen numerous players dissuaded to play a game because of one persons "review" of it.  If someone doesn't like that game, fine.  You are more then welcome to your opinion.  But do not start imposing that opinion on other people. 

For example the other day, in the forums, someone stated the have played the game for 2 minutes.  Hated the controls and posted a thread warning others to stay away from the game because it sucked.  Now where is the sense in that?

This is complete nonsense! You're making it sound like that all the players are linked together and if one goes over the cliff they all go.  I think the most likely senario is that people got caught up in the mega-hype that Funcom surrounded this game with. Everyone was like, "Oh! Oh! This gonna be soooo good! Hell! Just about every new post on these boards was AoC posts!!  ' After a few days or weeks of playing it people soon realized that the hype was covering the many warts this game has. Now everyone is like, "Oh! Oh! What a smelly pile this game is an I got ripped off!" So then all those people go on to the forums and word-of-mouth gets out that AoC wasn't the big WOW killer or even close to it that everyone thought or Funcom wanted it to be. The forums may have been the delivery system but AoC was a real bomb!! Bad product gets bad word-of-mouth, product stops making money. Period! See SWG for further example.
 

Maybe people say it sux because they played the game....and it sux.  I haven't played every game out there, but i've played several major mmo titles and out of all of them, AoC was the least fun i've ever had, and one of the most underdeveloped.  Say what you want about the forums, but where there's smoke, there's fire, and funcom burned a lot of people.

Originally posted by Sevensodd

Think about it.

If the game was great, then forums would not destroy this game.

AoC isn't a great game. So the forums will not have threads like "I LOVE THIS GAME!" or "AoC pwnz WoW" and so on... FC failed with AoC. It's sad this game looked good...

The players were there. The promotions/advertising was there. The hype was all the way there.

The only ones not there were the game developers. Poor implementation and poor customer service. As several people pointed out, games kill games. There are enough 'Big Titles' out there (and even the F2Ps that have some heart) that folks won't stay with a game that isn't good. Sure a small handful will always hang around for one reason or another (and if they enjoy, good for them!) but to be a continuing commodity, a game has to be good. People even understand that things don't always work right right out the door. That said, if things aren't fixed post haste, people have other choices.

AoC and those who put it out did their own damages to FC. Whether they could have avoided these damages or not, I don't know.  I tend to think that at some point (or several points) FC threw up it's collective hands and said ' That's it. We have to go with what we've got and pray to Crom that miracles happen.' (I feel the same way before exams now and again! ) But the miracles never manifested and they ended with a game only slightly more polished than Gods and Heroes and not much else.

It's not the question wether the forums destroyed the game (also its a funny thought) or not. Fact is, that without forums you would still sit before youre TV screen believing all the ads you see, buying a half-finished game, don't like it, get angry. But no where to go, to express your anger. No where to go to discuss the topic. Hell, without forums, the Internet wouldn't exist.