Age of Conan

I'd post this on the official forums, but sadly my account isnt active atm.

AOC and WAR were the two games many folks were looking forward to this year to give us something new and a change from the same old same old MMO's.

Sadly AOC was plagued with bugs and just simply not being done, and war... well... its just not the DAOC 2 most of us wanted.

However, now almost six months since launch, AOC seems to have implemented most of the changes that those of us who quit back in may and june desired. However, most of the vets are warry to give AoC another shot. Here is something I propose.

Offer a relaunch of AoC. Give your vets a week or two weeks of free play and do a major advertising push. Granted AoC may not be quite ready for this... Im not in game so I cant tell if the small scale pvp changes are in, if pvp exp is in, and if you can actually purchase the pvp armor.

If you can...then I think this would be a good idea.

#1 it would get all 750k some odd original players back active again.

#2 it would give folks who are quitting WAR now in droves an alternative.

#3 it would give funcom a chance to show the positive changes that AoC has done since july.

Anyways, just my thoughts. Im trying to get a buddy key so I can see if the game has gotten the fun factor reimplemented. I still think this would be a good way for funcom to double its player base.

A relaunch is probably going to happen , with free playtime for old and new players ( its already been hinted at ) , tough now is not the right time , untill common district is launched and the notoriotary system is perfectly in place , i wouldnt hold my breath , sometime around xmas or in january would be a guess when this will happen.

Originally posted by Scarren

A relaunch is probably going to happen , with free playtime for old and new players ( its already been hinted at ) , tough now is not the right time , untill common district is launched and the notoriotary system is perfectly in place , i wouldnt hold my breath , sometime around xmas or in january would be a guess when this will happen.

 

Yeah they need to make damn sure that they have the game functional, and with the features the box spoke of. PvP exp and levels and rewards was all I really wanted, but I have heard some rumors that the rampant spawn camping an inability to choose a new spawn spot are killing pvp.

Originally posted by Pyrostasis

Originally posted by Scarren

A relaunch is probably going to happen , with free playtime for old and new players ( its already been hinted at ) , tough now is not the right time , untill common district is launched and the notoriotary system is perfectly in place , i wouldnt hold my breath , sometime around xmas or in january would be a guess when this will happen.

 

Yeah they need to make damn sure that they have the game functional, and with the features the box spoke of. PvP exp and levels and rewards was all I really wanted, but I have heard some rumors that the rampant spawn camping an inability to choose a new spawn spot are killing pvp.

If you can jump to another spawn to avoid campers, how is that killing pvp? You are avoiding the no skill losers. Giving yourself a fighting chance to give  them a rez. Besides, every game that has rez points in them, has spwn campers, it doesnt help or hurt pvp in any way. The good players dont need to.

i just gotten the game a few weeks back so i can't really give you to much endgame info since iam only in the low 50's. They have pvp xp levels and gear now.. i think out of the 10 pvp levels they have gear that goes to lvl 5 right now, which is really hard to get to. They also have the murder system in place for people that gank lowbies.

You can't be rez pad camped because aslong as you stay on the rez pad you are immune to any attacks, until you attack or move from the pad then your shield fades.  They have also added crafting recipes for Culture armour and weapons.

I am sure someone with more knowledge of the game can help you out since iam a newcomer to it, but i hope some of this helped anyways.

Originally posted by lugal

Originally posted by Pyrostasis

Originally posted by Scarren

A relaunch is probably going to happen , with free playtime for old and new players ( its already been hinted at ) , tough now is not the right time , untill common district is launched and the notoriotary system is perfectly in place , i wouldnt hold my breath , sometime around xmas or in january would be a guess when this will happen.

 

Yeah they need to make damn sure that they have the game functional, and with the features the box spoke of. PvP exp and levels and rewards was all I really wanted, but I have heard some rumors that the rampant spawn camping an inability to choose a new spawn spot are killing pvp.

 

If you can jump to another spawn to avoid campers, how is that killing pvp? You are avoiding the no skill losers. Giving yourself a fighting chance to give  them a rez. Besides, every game that has rez points in them, has spwn campers, it doesnt help or hurt pvp in any way. The good players dont need to.

If you spawn and are insta killed by 10 people camping the spawn, that isnt pvp thats gankage. As long as you have a chance to get away, and then fight a more fair fight... then Im game. Last I played you could pick your respawn. So if oasis was camped you could switch to the city and then attack once your group got back together.

If its spawn die, spawn die, spawn die... thats killing pvp. Thats what I meant.

Originally posted by gan3f

i just gotten the game a few weeks back so i can't really give you to much endgame info since iam only in the low 50's. They have pvp xp levels and gear now.. i think out of the 10 pvp levels they have gear that goes to lvl 5 right now, which is really hard to get to. They also have the murder system in place for people that gank lowbies.

You can't be rez pad camped because aslong as you stay on the rez pad you are immune to any attacks, until you attack or move from the pad then your shield fades.  They have also added crafting recipes for Culture armour and weapons.

 

Nice to hear they fixed that. Last time I played the rez immunity didnt work...at all.

No !

the only thing that may make me think about going back, is if a completly new team working on the game, the probleme with aoc is the talent team devs lacks, so even with a kinda new game director wont change the fact that the actual team is incompetent, the bugs, patchs, the way aoc came out, lacking the most basic features and balance, aoc was supposed to be a revolution on pvp mmos, but ended up a piece of crap, maybe now they added few features, but in my opinion with time the game will struggle, how their team will come up with new ideas for aoc evolution ? theirs ? i dont really trust them capable of any imagination or genius to make aoc what was supposed to be...listen to community and end up doing crap again ?...maybe just copy ideas from other games, wich leads us to another crap game.

personnaly i think in order to aoc survive, it must switch hands, i dont trust funcom, and i really surely think they lack brains capable of making a good game.

PS : for info most talented dev team members working on aoc, quit funcom in the middle of aoc developement like in 2006/7....maybe has somehting to do with all this