AoC hits the market big

[mike470]

Wow...

http://community.ageofconan.com/wsp/...&table=CONTENT

"Historical pre-order and ship-in numbers for 2008’s most anticipated MMO, Early access offer oversubscribed and first review of game gives a 9 out of 10


Funcom is proud to announce that the Collector’s Edition of Age of Conan is now completely sold out in all markets. The exclusive edition was announced in January, and has since topped retail charts at numerous retailers. In some markets, the Collector’s Edition has been sold out for weeks, and as a result additional boxes were made. These are also sold out, and the total print run stands at 111.000 units. Lucky customers may still find some copies on retail shelves, but no re-orders are available.

Additional retail figures for the standard edition of Age of Conan are also highly impressive. In total, Funcom is shipping around 700.000 copies of Age of Conan on day one. This impressive figure for a PC game is powered by equally impressive pre-order numbers. As a result of the tremendous interest and recent order increase, Funcom has not been able to fulfill all orders of Age of Conan in several markets due to current server capacity limitations. Extra orders of servers are now in place to facilitate for handling of more customers.

“Everyone in Funcom is delighted and humbled with the historical pre-order numbers for Age of Conan. If the information we have is correct, they represent the highest pre-order number for any global launch of an original PC game, ever, including the original World of Warcraft launch,” said Morten Larssen, Funcom’s VP of Sales & Marketing.

More than one million unique visitors visited the Age of Conan websites last week, and as a result of the great interest in the game, Funcom's early access offer was swiftly oversubscribed. The three day early access program was a limited offer reserved for pre-order customers. While Funcom scaled the servers above anticipation, player demand surpassed expectations. As the Early Access servers launched last night, the servers and game held up exceptionally well. As the game launches properly later this week, Funcom expects additional large numbers of customers to enter the game.

All the positive signals are naturally not equal to eventual success, but early indications from the press points out that the game boasts unique qualities. The very first review for the game gives it a 9 out of 10 score from Game Reactor, the Nordic regions largest gaming magazine.

While Funcom is thrilled with the early success of Age of Conan, and proud of the game launching this week, the company regrets to inform gamers that the DirectX 10 version of the game will not ship with the initial launch. As Microsoft’s DirectX 10 is undoubtedly the future of PC gaming, Funcom has decided to ship only the DirectX 9 version at launch, giving the team more time to focus on building a DirectX 10 version worthy of Microsoft’s great vision for the future of PC gaming. This postponement will let Funcom include even more features in the DirectX 10 version of Age of Conan than originally planned.

The DirectX 10 version will be premiered at the German Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, August 20 – 24, 2008. A special preview showing off the advanced graphics made possible by DirectX 10 technology will be unveiled this summer at nVidia’s NVISION event in San Jose, California, August 25 – 27, 2008.

Age of Conan launches 20th of May in North America / Oceania and 23rd of May in Europe."

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I am personally shocked. I never expected to see AoC to have such large numbers. Congrats to Funcom.

Hopefully MO will have better numbers

[Shawk]

This is a Funcom made article hyping its own game with overhype and misleading statements..

the 9/10 was given by a very unpopular company and there is no proof backing up there shipped copies and nothing telling us how many of those shipped were actually sold. They sceemed to make more and more people get locked into a horrible game with pre-orders.. those who pre-ordered had an automatic 1-up on other player, people had to pre-order.

They don't mension any of their problem btw, the one huge one being 1/3rd of the people who bought the game can't even play it.. and even if you can play it, you are plagued by problems.. nothing like that was mensioned, at all.

And yes, I have played it, I have played alot of it, and 5 of my friends are playing it.. It's seriously one big overhyped nightmare of a mmo, this is no WoW killer, not even close.

[yXXe]

Well, that's fantastic.
For the people that have payed and CAN log in.

[mike470]

@ Shawk- There is nothing wrong with sharing the number of sales a company gets, especially if they are high like these.

And I do agree, they did ignore the fact that there are some who cannot log on. Not only that, but they are extremely cheap when they took away the DX10 for 3 months. That was clearly so people didn't cancel their pre-orders, which is the only reason they announced it so late.

As for the game- that is your opinion. I have heard many good things about it.

[The Last Spartan]

"Features available only on DirectX10" Star Vault, please ship this to DirectX9 with ALL the same features as DirectX10..>.>

[Heliopios]

As it stands, AoC is the Halo of MMOs.

[LoBo]

111.000 ? That sure is alot of females!

[Shawk]

Originally Posted by Heliopios

As it stands, AoC is the Halo of MMOs.

Wow, learn to compare games.

Halo is good, AoC blows.

And yes Mike, my opinion is AoC blows and anyone who disagrees either started playing MMOs with WoW or doesnt know jack about what a good game is. If you are inexperienced and are finding this crap new and refreshing, i can maby see why you would like the game.. but if you have played any mmo pre-WoW you most likely know that all AoC really is.. is another MMO pushing no boundries and doing the exact same thing over again.

Name one thing in AoC you have not seen in another MMO and I will give you 1 cookie. It's another addiction for you misguided junkies.

[Heliopios]

Originally Posted by Shawk

Wow, learn to compare games.

Halo is good, AoC blows.

I'd like for you to point out where I said that either game was good/bad?


Unless you have alzheimers, you'd recall that you first post in this topic was about how the game was over-hyped to hell. IM pretty sure you can use context clues to find out that's what my statement was about.

[Shawk]

Originally Posted by Heliopios

I'd like for you to point out where I said that either game was good/bad?


Unless you have alzheimers, you'd recall that you first post in this topic was about how the game was over-hyped to hell. IM pretty sure you can use context clues to find out that's what my statement was about.

And this is where your, "sarcasm.." or whatever you were trying to do went wrong, Halo was not overhyped, Halo 1 wasnt hyped, and halo 2 and 3 were hyped for a good reason.. Overhyped is a bad game getting alot of subscriptions simply because of a good marketing team..

Halo = hyped.. AoC = WAY overhyped.

My proof.. go to http://www.playrequiem.com/index.aspx

then play AoC, Requiem blows AoC out of the sky.. yet maby 1/4th of you guys know about it.

I aint getting into this whole AoC fanbois vs Me thing again though.. I bowed out of that to save my own mind a long time ago.. My point is that anyone who has alot of expereince with MMOs knows why AoC is shit on a flaming stick and why us giving it money is only going to ruine our chances for more good MMOs in the future.

[LoBo]

AoC is just another pussy arse mmo with no balls made for bitches!

Arenas: U R GHEY
Item based: U R GHEY
Gear based: U R GHEY
Levels based: U R GHEY
Grind based: U R GHEY
Zones: U R GHEY
Instances: U R GHEY
Harsh PvP restrictions: U R GHEY
Unbalanced: U R GHEY
Raids: U R GHEY

Go plant your balls in the dirt so they grow! Or play AoC and swing your pork swords in eachothers faces.

[Shinzon]

I could tell AoC was overhyped just from the PvP weekend, there was nothing you could get excited about, not the combat, not the story; not the female charachters running around in g-strings; who in all probability were all guys...

[Lector]

Now let's all calm down and remember one thing... no matter how disgruntled or happy we are with AoC... Darkfall and MO are coming out soon For this, we can all rejoice.

So no more throwing shit at each other >_>

[Zwarp]

Originally Posted by Lector

Now let's all calm down and remember one thing... no matter how disgruntled or happy we are with AoC... Darkfall and MO are coming out soon For this, we can all rejoice.

So no more throwing shit at each other >_>

The problem lies in the bold word..

[Rhygar]

Well I WAS looking forward to trying out the game. Didn't see the beta or anything. However, between the ridiculous split between the US/EU servers and now the Direct X10 issue I'm so pissed off that I'm not even looking forward to playing the damn game. Half the reason I was looking forward to it was because of the graphics! Now you can't even get the full extent of it. For a company that was so full of venom for Darkfall (and their lack of info) this is very underhanded...

So if we want DirectX10 version we have to buy it again? I am so disgusted.

And before someone mentions that DirectX10 might not make that much difference - I don't care - Direct X10 was one of their bragging points and should be available on release.

[mike470]

Originally Posted by Shawk

And this is where your, "sarcasm.." or whatever you were trying to do went wrong, Halo was not overhyped, Halo 1 wasnt hyped, and halo 2 and 3 were hyped for a good reason.. Overhyped is a bad game getting alot of subscriptions simply because of a good marketing team..

Halo = hyped.. AoC = WAY overhyped.

My proof.. go to http://www.playrequiem.com/index.aspx

then play AoC, Requiem blows AoC out of the sky.. yet maby 1/4th of you guys know about it.

I aint getting into this whole AoC fanbois vs Me thing again though.. I bowed out of that to save my own mind a long time ago.. My point is that anyone who has alot of expereince with MMOs knows why AoC is shit on a flaming stick and why us giving it money is only going to ruine our chances for more good MMOs in the future.

Such hate...

I personally have no idea what you are talking about. Halo, as much as I love it, was MUCH mroe hyped then this. Selling 300million copies isn't overly hyped? Bull shit.

Also, I have neither played AoC nor Requiem. But, unlike many people here, I do not blindly bash a game until I play it. I have heard the crapiest thing about Requiem, and I have heard good things from AoC. I am really questioning wether or not you played the game

If you did, then forgive me. But this is your opinion, and for some reason you seem to think you speak for everyone, which you DON'T. AoC can become a success, no matter how much people like you whine and call them "carebears".

[Shawk]

Originally Posted by mike470

Such hate...

I personally have no idea what you are talking about. Halo, as much as I love it, was MUCH mroe hyped then this. Selling 300million copies isn't overly hyped? Bull shit.

Also, I have neither played AoC nor Requiem. But, unlike many people here, I do not blindly bash a game until I play it. I have heard the crapiest thing about Requiem, and I have heard good things from AoC. I am really questioning wether or not you played the game

If you did, then forgive me. But this is your opinion, and for some reason you seem to think you speak for everyone, which you DON'T. AoC can become a success, no matter how much people like you whine and call them "carebears".

Ive said many times I played Both games, I don't critisize games blindly..

I'm not saying it is a Bad game, If we were back in 1999 when Everquest came out this would be the best game ever made. I'm saying that AoC is nothing I have not played.. I played what they have created back in 99, 01, 03, 05, 06 and 07.. why would I want to play something exactly like it again.

Hell, I aint even saying Requiem is that great.. it might as well be Lineage 2 with Blood effects, But it is not anything more revolutionary then AoC, I was using Req as an example of how Overhyped AoC is, there are 5-6 other mmos in development that are no worse than AoC, but exactly the same.

It pisses me off because devs make these games because people play them, people are too easily amused and satisfied by something they played 5 years ago.

I personally still play Halo 3 almost 3-4 times a week, it still has an amazing campaign, and an amazing online that still surpasses most current gen fps games, it isnt overhyped, nothing made me think that 70 bucks i spent on it was never worth it.

However.. when I think about the 70 bucks I spent on AoC, I hate that I even spent 20 bucks on the peice of shit.

[The Last Spartan]

Haven't played either, but hey, if people like it, they do.

But yeah, a lot of stuff will be repeated, but it's how you use it.

Think of it as plastic.

Haven't done this since First Year but here we go..

There is one type of plastic, you can bend it once, and that's it set, but it's very strong. It won't bend again, and if it does, it'll snap.

The second type is much better, but more fragile. You can keep bending it into new shapes, but it's fragile, and can easily be broken.

Now imagine this as game content. There's the content that's there and you can't do anything with it again, after that one time.

Now there's the second, where you can tweak it, and come up with a whole new idea.

AoC has apparently tried to do the second option, but turned it into the first.

[paade]

excellent marketing on their part, big numbers bring in even bigger numbers. Blizzard did the exact same thing with wow, i never played it, but i couldnt avoid seeing the headlines.

[Son of a gun]

Originally Posted by LoBo

AoC is just another pussy arse mmo with no balls made for bitches!

Arenas: U R GHEY
Item based: U R GHEY
Gear based: U R GHEY
Levels based: U R GHEY
Grind based: U R GHEY
Zones: U R GHEY
Instances: U R GHEY
Harsh PvP restrictions: U R GHEY
Unbalanced: U R GHEY
Raids: U R GHEY

Go plant your balls in the dirt so they grow! Or play AoC and swing your pork swords in eachothers faces.

I probably would have tried to say it more politely but that pretty much sums it up.

And like Shawk is saying, it's pretty much the same old thing again except with tits, gore, and more instancing and loading screens than usual.

It's just another race to max level so you can start PvE raiding to gear up so you can go to the next tier of raids to gear up for the next tier of raids. Oh, and some PvP instances where you can go to show off your leet gear.

I get depressed just thinking about it.

[Lector]

Originally Posted by Zwarp

The problem lies in the bold word..

Whatever Zwarp. I'm immortal. Soon means in a century for me ;p
However, just because I'm immortal doesn't mean I am patient... D:

[golani79]

I played AoC in Beta and I liked it.
Going to play on release and I think I will have a lot of fun with it.


But there are a few things at AoC I am not happy with i.e the simplified fighting system which was introduced as path-breaking in the beginning, the missing DX10 in release or the information policy from FC.
But I can "live" with these issues. DX10 will come at a later time and the fighting system is still "refreshing" compared to other onlinegames.

I cant understand the other things which are critiqued here - but in my case I there are a lot of new things for me in AoC.
At this point I have to say that I´ve only played Guild Wars (which is no MMORPG in my eyes) and Lord of the rings online before AoC.
I am looking forward to the open pvp, the rude mature world, the fighting system and exploring the conan universe which I like very much.

So I am looking forward for MO too and hopefully this game will be something completely different from the games we have seen until now.
But until release my place is in Hyboria

[LoBo]

Originally Posted by Son of a gun

I probably would have tried to say it more politely but that pretty much sums it up.

And like Shawk is saying, it's pretty much the same old thing again except with tits, gore, and more instancing and loading screens than usual.

It's just another race to max level so you can start PvE raiding to gear up so you can go to the next tier of raids to gear up for the next tier of raids. Oh, and some PvP instances where you can go to show off your leet gear.

I get depressed just thinking about it.

There are a good number of mmo's out that are 100% more PvP than AoC will ever hope to be, some even free to play. So the people playing AoC are a bunch of wuss sacks and want to be a bunch of wuss sacks. I have 0 respect for people who play AoC. You need to show AoC players that they have done wrong, like a bad dog.

[Ravenwoods]

Originally Posted by Shawk

Wow, learn to compare games.

Halo is good, AoC blows.

Halo is good? Ahahahaha.

Well, better comparison would be Halo of MMOs is WoW...both in popularity, accessibility and boredom...

[Shawk]

Originally Posted by Ravenwoods

Halo is good? Ahahahaha.

Well, better comparison would be Halo of MMOs is WoW...both in popularity, accessibility and boredom...

Ahh, biasts..

[Heliopios]

Originally Posted by Shawk

Ahh, biasts..

You say that as if you stayed completely neutral in the process of this entire topic.