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• • what is wrong with some players?

  • Originally posted by BinaryDigit
    

    ROFLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

    Mr. OP:  I hate to be a troll, but you're guilty of the same problem your "griefing victim" suffers from.  Why don't you lighten the fuck up!?  The same can and most certainly should be said to your NEMESIS who was RUDE to you.

    You tried to help somebody out and they were an ass.  SO WHAT?  Get over it.

    To some of you other idiots: You were grinding xp and somebody "griefed" you?  Are you serious!?  Toughen up and grow a pair.  You bunch of wimps would have lasted about two seconds on AC Darktide before you went crying to your mommies, so why don't you go play Hello Kitty Online?  OH NOZ  that Kitty has the same face design as me!   

    The answer to your question: "What is wrong with some players?"  They're a bunch of losers who have their heads so far up their asses they've forgotten that its just a GAME.  As such, they proceed to blow every single event out of PROPORTION.  Please note that said losers HATE it when you remind them that they're only playing a GAME.  Maybe because they've all forgotten to PLAY and instead are busy WORKING towards a non-existant goal. 

    
     

    Sounds CareBearish. You need to have a go at AoC to get ridd of some of your missis features. LOL

  • Posted: 12/02/08 12:30 AM
    Lord of the Rings Online
• • The MMORPG Graveyard...

  • Originally posted by Milky
    

    Originally posted by metalhead980
    

    Originally posted by Milky
    

    I'd consider VG to be in that graveyard.  Its a shame too.  I should have been a flagship AAA title.  The concepts were great.  Sadly the poor management's execution was lacking big time.

    AoC is on its way.

    WAR, the same thing.

    And probably the same will happen to MMORPGs coming out in 2009.  There's just nothing good out there.  The whole inustry is just a big graveyard devoid of any life, fresh ideas, fresh execution, fresh gameplay.  Its all been dumbed and watered down thanks to WoW.  Everythings moving backward, not foward.  I would love for a true RPG mmoRPG online game.  Some people want actual substance than mindless raiding all the time.

     

    What the hell are you talking about??

    Both WAR and AoC have decent populations just cause you see people flaming AoC and WAR on this forums doesn't mean they're dying.

    Hell Lotro and EQ2 have similar sub numbers to WAR and AoC do you consider them dying also??

    Oh and VG isnt going anywhere if Sony can keep matrix online alive they can keep VG up easily.

    last time I checked a game with over 100k subs is a long way from closing down. A game would need less than 10k subs for a developer to even consider closing the doors.

    Look at games like UO, EQ and AC1 these games have an average 50-75k subs and they are going strong, SWG with 30k isnt closing anytime soon so what the hell are you talking about??

     

    Man I love sandbox games also but freaking attacking linear games all the time is sad, go play UO/SWG emu or mess with Ryzom or eve the games are out there, stop trolling.

    
     

    I dont know where you're getting your numbers, VG doesn't have close to 100k.  At the most you're looking at 20-30k.  To answer your other question I also consider EQ2 to be basically dead in the water too.  LoTR is probably doing ok.

    
     

    Either way your post is very retarded. Games with over 200 000 subs are certainly not dying, just because they are not as kitch as WOW. This smells like WOWtard talk.

  • Posted: 12/02/08 12:26 AM
    General Discussion
• • Cimmeria Guild Interview

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    A good interview with Redruum. Shit I have not even touched one of the Black Ring Citadel Mages yet. How many do we need in a raid to even think to about taking on this challenge?

  • Posted: 12/01/08 11:15 PM
    Age of Conan
• • In a Year From Now...

  • Anything FC does with AoC just gonna have 200% more imapact on its quality than any of the old technology games. The game without no doubt represents the most cutting edge technology in the gaming industry and there is no doubt about that AoC is THE GAME with the biggest potential. As the platform AoC is build on now is getting increasingly polished, every add on to the already existing product is just going keep diffrentiating AoC from any of the old DX9 (with no hope to upgrade to DX10) games till a point where it simply will not make sense to play anything else but AoC. I belive this will happen beginning Q12009 and I also belive we will see massinvaion of players in the game at that point. It is already happening in fact. Only players not joining AoC, will be people that crave that seamless world at any cost.

    One year from now. AoC easily gonna have 1.5 Mill subscribers.

  • Posted: 11/18/08 12:01 AM
    Age of Conan
• • Just reinstalled

  • Originally posted by noggy1980
    

    Originally posted by OrionMan
    

    Originally posted by noggy1980
    

    Originally posted by Mithrandolir
    

     

     

     

    Originally posted by Protus-AOC

    Yes come back although most of the servers you will have to wait in line to log into its well worth the wait.

    Originally posted by Unfinished
    

    The servers are so empty, please bring some friends if you do come back, please!!

    
     

    This is the kind of stuff that drives me bonkers. Who is BS'ing here?

     

     

    
     

    Protus is lieing, it's probably the biggest lie I've seen on these forums to be honest.

    There is about 5% of the activity on the servers that they had in June with the same ammount of servers, you can work out for yourself how empty that makes the servers feel.

    There are 2 or 3 servers that have an acceptable population, these servers get around a quarter of the population they had early on, tyranny and cimmeria are 2 most populated, they get around 600 primetime at the weekend compared to around 3000 in June. Many of the servers struggle to break 100 people and are unplayable really.

    If you want to play wait for server merges that should be coming before christmas.

    
     

    Do you think no AoC players are hanging over here since you so very unconcerned blurp up all these 5%, 100, 600, 3000 numbers. You have to give some references to these numbers, being a AoC player myself I doubt you will be able to. AoC in US has a bunch of active PvP and PvE servers. Cimmeria, Deathwisper, Tyrrany, Scourge, Bluesteel, Dagoth, Set, Wiccana, Thog, and possible more that I don't remember from top of my head. Cimmaria, Deathwisper, Tyrrany, Set, Wicanna have high population, so this nonsens about it's not possible to find a good place to play is really redundant.

    The 5% comes from the fact that xfire showed over 80000 hours at launch, now it ranges from 3500-5000 depending on the day of the week.
     

    The 100 and 600 comes from people doing server count numbers and then adding 20% to account for people who are anon. These numbers were done around a month ago so I was being generous and not taking into account the fact that xfire suggests another 25% drop since then.

    The 3000 came from using the search tool too at launch when you could take full population counts in a few seconds, once people started doing this and noticing the drop off funcom made it much harder to do and set all servers to show medium.

    How could I possibly think no one who plays AoC hangs here, you have the entire misinformation squad posting in this thread, the most servers have ques comment from protus is the most rediculous statement any of you have ever made, even worse than those of you who continue to post the ammount of people playing as 415k.

    Of those servers you listed

    Scourge 72% think the server pop is low

    Dagoth 49% think the server pop is low

    Thog 51% think the server pop is low

    Set 52% think the server pop is low

    Bluesteel 80% think the server pop is low 

    Leaving as I said 2 or 3 with acceptable populations.
    
     The most popular server Cimmaria only has 10% of people who think the server has a generally high pop

    These numbers come from 6 weeks ago and were stickyed on the offical forums, xfire suggests at least a 25% drop since then.

     

     

    
     

    Ingame serach does not work the way you want it to work. I know what you want it to tell you, but here is why yoor entire post on this is void. The number of people matching your search i.e increase with the amount of time you have been logged to the game, it is also different from person to person (this is very easy to test if you ever log on). The AoC guys keep making fun of this character called fluorAoC in the AoC forums. Fluor has posted numerous posts over and over again and I think there are some good explanations in his epic threads on why all his counts are off the wall wrong. Also for some reason he get really low numbers compared to everybody else. One last comment for the change of 3000 to 250-1000 range that is definitely due to less people on servers, but then again nobody dispute that AoC population has decreased 50%ish since launch.

    With regards to Xfire, if you read my posting history you'll see that I have serious doubts about use of xfire as a measure of population. AoC i.e. used to have issues with Xfire performance wise, also the fact that users of Xfire tend to be young PvP players. Since Wexx's population survey caught your attention I suggest you have a look on the population age on the various servers. PvE servers biggest population is in fact +40 year olds (way to go oldtimers!!!), second largest population group is 30-34 followed by 35-39. Xfire naturally would not tell jack about these people, as they are old and only play PvE. If I really wanted to test your Xfire logic I could even say that population might even have increased in spite of xfire having a marginal downward trend. If your xfire trend tell anything, it tells us that PvP players reduced their activity and started to log less in exactly when WOW's patch came out. Does is surprice you that other MMOs see the effect of whats going on over in all mighty WOW. Anyway, after all this handwaving we are bound to get whenever Xfirenumbers are discussed, I'd like to say that I belive that dramatic changes in Xfire are tied to population changes. Saying anything else would be idiotic. xfire is a sample of a population no matter how bad of an sample it is. That's why i posted a post some time back where I show that WAR had like -25% activity drop pr week and like -70% in a month. When stuff like this happens, it's not because a game is doing well. AoC did over 2 times better than WAR in steepest Xfire decline after launch if that is a comfort to you or others. Another thing, I see you made sure to take the server poll numbers from low population times. Why did you think populationnumbers for off peaktime was the most relevant?

    Last thing about that poll you refer to. Wexx also slipped in some very interesting questions about population development after the PvP patch (patch 2.0). I don't know why you left those out really as they are the most interesting numbers of them all. The best thing is that these results also are supported by more than 600 voters as opposed to in some cases 20 people for the numbers you refer to:

    Has the population on your server increased since  the PvP patch (Sept. 17th)?

    All PvE servers:

    I think it decreased: 18%         About the same: 54%       It increased: 25%     It increased by alot: 3%

    All PvP servers:

    I think it decreased: 16%         About the same: 36%       It increased: 39%     It increased by alot: 10%

    All RPvP servers:

    I think it decreased: 13%         About the same: 37%       It increased: 45%     It increased by alot: 5%

     
    Again these are the numbers from the AoC poll telling what people think about the population development. More than 600 people answered, now tell me why do you think more than 3 or 4 times as many people think population increased as opposed to decreased? If you look to both PvE, PvP, RPvP you can say that the majority think population is in a positive trend. So the survey you refer to tell me more than anything else that Craig with his team is moving in the right direction.

  • Posted: 11/09/08 8:53 PM
    Age of Conan