Age of Conan Beta

[Nerf]

360 version isn't dropping until ~1yr after pc release.
I take back my earlier comment about swedes, I have some swedish friends, and when I think about it, the guys at funcom probably just need to tone their drinking down.  On the other hand, maybe I need to move to sweden, being sober and responsible isn't all it's cracked up to be.

[Modern Angel]

360 version isn't dropping until ~1yr after pc release.
I take back my earlier comment about swedes, I have some swedish friends, and when I think about it, the guys at funcom probably just need to tone their drinking down.  On the other hand, maybe I need to move to sweden, being sober and responsible isn't all it's cracked up to be.

And Funcom is a Norwegian company to boot!

[Nerf]

360 version isn't dropping until ~1yr after pc release.
I take back my earlier comment about swedes, I have some swedish friends, and when I think about it, the guys at funcom probably just need to tone their drinking down.  On the other hand, maybe I need to move to sweden, being sober and responsible isn't all it's cracked up to be.

And Funcom is a Norwegian company to boot!

I withdraw my previous withdrawal.  Fuck norway.  What they have ever done for us?

[bhodi]

More like snoreway.

[SnakeCharmer]

Been reading their forums, and holy hell poop on a stick people are going apeshit.  Yeah, I was whining about it being delayed, mostly because I was really looking forward to it, but understand the necessity of the delay and I've already gotten over it.  But damn, some of those people have really lost it.

This the first MMO delay you've seen the official forums for, then?   It's been like that, along with contrasting "OMG they're fucked, this means it sucks hard, they can't fix it!"  and "Omg they're just going to make it that much BETTER now, SEE!!" posts, for every game I've ever seen.  Including WoW.

It's been a while since I've much attention to prelaunch official forums, to be completely honest.  I try my best not to watch O forums until right up until launch.  I really think that companies should not have open official forums until the game goes into open beta anyway, so I steer clear of them.  You can keep customers and potential customers up to date just as well without engaging in dialogue with those outside of beta.

[DraconianOne]

I withdraw my previous withdrawal.  Fuck norway.  What they have ever done for us?

Vikings and Roald Dahl.  Plus Odin, Thor, Loki, Fenris, Frig and Freya and all that lot.

Also, if you count Lief Ericsson as Norwegian by way of Iceland, discovered America. 

[Nerf]

I withdraw my previous withdrawal.  Fuck norway.  What they have ever done for us?

Vikings and Roald Dahl.  Plus Odin, Thor, Loki, Fenris, Frig and Freya and all that lot.

Also, if you count Lief Ericsson as Norwegian by way of Iceland, discovered America. 

That's nice.  What have they done for me lately?

[Modern Angel]

Gravlax!

[Baldrake]

Boatloads of oil that doesn't come from the middle east?

[Nerf]

Boatloads of oil that doesn't come from the middle east?

So they're causing global warming.  You're not helping your cause.

[Baldrake]

It's part of Norway's plan to become the Florida of the north.

[Nerf]

It's part of Norway's plan to become the Florida of the north.

Unless those plans also include stealing Halliburton's hurricane machine and opening a mighty shitload of kosher deli's it's not going to happen.

[DraconianOne]

So they're causing global warming.  You're not helping your cause.

Global warming is a NASA Y2K bug.  If Norway had produced the data, this would never have happened.  FACT.


Also, they got Amy Whinealot to stop singing which is A Good Thing and makes up for any environmental damage caused by whaling, overfishing, oil production or discovery of America.

[Evildrider]

So AoC got pushed back to March 2008 I see.

[Montague]

So AoC got pushed back to March 2008 I see.

Brave man stepping in front of a runaway derailment like that.

[Evildrider]

So AoC got pushed back to March 2008 I see.

Brave man stepping in front of a runaway derailment like that.

/flex 

[Hoax]

N-N-N-N-NECRO!@!!

Some news on AoC.

Highlights:
-Euro & US get different game versions and servers.  If you want to play w/ US you must find a way to get US copy.

-Germany's fear of violence in games will lead to server-side lockdowns for German players.  Fatalities will happen but you will not see their glory.

-More beta invites.

-No Open Beta before 2008.

P.S.  Sport pvp is for pussies.   

[Signe]

You do realise that the internet is pwning you, don't you?

[Nebu]

N-N-N-N-NECRO!@!!

Some news on AoC.

Nice link!   

[Hoax]

Rofl fucking windows copy pasta...

FIXT.

Would you believe me I came across that link from reading our Politics board?

[sam, an eggplant]

Yes they finally started beta. Releasing in march that gives them ~5 months of testing. Got my fingers crossed!

[Mrbloodworth]

I am excited! are you? 

[Signe]

You're freaking me out, man.

[Der Helm]

-Germany's fear of violence in games will lead to server-side lockdowns for German players.  Fatalities will happen but you will not see their glory.

I love my country.

Unless there is a workaround, I will not buy this game.

[dr_dre]

yes there will be a workarround. Play on the english server :)

or if i correctly interpreted their text. you can choose any language on any server.  so play german version on UK server.

[Der Helm]

The way I read that the server will determine what version you see by checking your IP.

[dr_dre]

The way I read that the server will determine what version you see by checking your IP.

soz read over that part.
"they have server technology"
well there is always the US server you could try :)

[Signe]

Dr. Dre is making me confused.  I demand a refund.

[CharlieMopps]

I wonder if any of these studios are starting to grasp the concept that over-hyping their games while they are still in beta, or even alpha stage might be detrimental to their release when everyone is suddenly underwhelmed. Or, even worse, when they have to push out a release date like this or stop beta like in other games and destroy all the hope people had.

I wish they'd just STFU until a week before it's ready. Don't even give us a release date.

[UnSub]

I wonder if any of these studios are starting to grasp the concept that over-hyping their games while they are still in beta, or even alpha stage might be detrimental to their release when everyone is suddenly underwhelmed. Or, even worse, when they have to push out a release date like this or stop beta like in other games and destroy all the hope people had.

I wish they'd just STFU until a week before it's ready. Don't even give us a release date.

Ultimately it'd be a nice experiment to see a MMO only start spuiking itself when it was 95% feature complete and three months from an open beta stress test. The experiment would be to see if this builds a better community than the current "start the forums five years before the game even vaguely looks like coming out" ala Fallen Earth or Exanimus and actually attracts enough attention from MMO players.

I also believe that devs shouldn't be allowed to talk too much about their in-game systems before they can show in-game footage of them in action. But then again, what is sensible for community management may not be smart marketing.

[Venkman]

For how derivative this genre has become in many ways, I am surprised how devs continue to talk about the game systems at all. 5 years ago when everyone was learning and the audience much smaller, it makes sense to continue the relationships and methodology from the MUD days, where the line between creator and consumer was fairly narrow. Nowadays, it's just too big and broad for people to think the same sort of interplay between both ends can exist. Even though dev studios have quintupled in size, the playerbased has only grown geometrically (once you consider the previously-unmeasured titles in the mix).

I'm a big proponent of stopping the noise of beta unless it's strictly controlled and only for a limited duration. And don't explain shit until the players are in the game. Having them dissect broad theory and/or systems out of context is only bad.

[SnakeCharmer]

Who the hell is Soz?

[CharlieMopps]

I also believe that devs shouldn't be allowed to talk too much about their in-game systems before they can show in-game footage of them in action. But then again, what is sensible for community management may not be smart marketing.

The bullshit rendered "Trailers" they release should be just plain illegal.
"This is what our game looks like... actually, no it doesn't look anything like this at all. Even if you had the most expensive computer on earth it wouldn't look like this. But this is sort of what it would look like if you squint your eyes and pretend a little..."

[Der Helm]

well there is always the US server you could try :)

But I want the bOObies as well, and I am quite sure there will be none on the US servers.

[Secundo]

So what servers will have both blood and boobies then? :D