tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172675.post3978313960228160668..comments2023-12-28T04:50:49.486-08:00Comments on The Many Relms of Relmstein: Can Age of Conan survive is Open Beta?Relmsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10358853054116842043noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172675.post-80092949050870040392008-05-14T16:55:00.000-07:002008-05-14T16:55:00.000-07:00zelmor:Vanguard is supposed to pretty good nowaday...zelmor:<BR/>Vanguard is supposed to pretty good nowadays though it will never recover from it's disastrous opening. <BR/><BR/>At least with AoC it seems no one is canceling their pre-orders. They just had to stop issuing early access key codes yesterday I think.Relmsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10358853054116842043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172675.post-24043821614590676342008-05-13T17:17:00.000-07:002008-05-13T17:17:00.000-07:00Tim also said, back in the days, that he will keep...Tim also said, back in the days, that he will keep supporting Sigil with a subscription to Vanguard as he sees the game a success-to-be, as did many of us. I wonder if ha had a change of opinion ever since. :) He probably did.Zelmorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08021284237142851039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172675.post-21143531439525691922008-05-08T06:23:00.000-07:002008-05-08T06:23:00.000-07:00Yeah, Its funny but while a lot of people were dis...Yeah, Its funny but while a lot of people were disappointed with the open beta I haven't heard of anyone cancelling their pre-orders. I think even the guy who does CTRL+ALT+DELETE said he was still going to hold onto his pre-order. <BR/><BR/>I have heard a couple of people saying they are going to wait until they hear feedback from the launch though.Relmsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10358853054116842043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172675.post-83023592946638766922008-05-08T06:16:00.000-07:002008-05-08T06:16:00.000-07:00Count me in the 90% I suppose..I haven't had many ...Count me in the 90% I suppose..<BR/><BR/>I haven't had many problems with the open beta client at all and I'm actually starting to get a little excited about the launch. I think the audience will certainly be there when the game goes live.aewtechhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10052830839818753538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172675.post-24135455313892195972008-05-07T17:19:00.000-07:002008-05-07T17:19:00.000-07:00Can they survive a bad open beta, or even a bad la...Can they survive a bad open beta, or even a bad launch? Well, technically, yes, of course, anything can happen. <BR/><BR/>That said, I think you may be underestimating the power of word of mouth. Maybe "finished" isn't an industry standard, but that doesn't mean that your customers are going to wait around for a year for you to patch in all the features and content people expected at launch - case in point, Turbine's free-re-trial of LOTRO this weekend, at its very first anniversary. <BR/><BR/>The lack of an open beta that you could get into for free pushed this game from "consider" to "wait and see" for me. If the word of mouth at launch is that the client needs work to fix crashes and non-latency-related lag (which it will be if even 5% of paying customers experience the issues that closed beta testers are currently reporting), I will downgrade it further to "maybe a few patches down the line, if they offer a free trial first so I know what I'm getting into". Problem is, they don't have that many patch cycles before the lead time they have on Warhammer and Wrath evaporates.Green Armadillohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15564045048380177626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172675.post-43239912595734822042008-05-07T16:35:00.000-07:002008-05-07T16:35:00.000-07:00Now I have played most new mmos since WoW was rele...Now I have played most new mmos since WoW was released (I am including WoW in this) and by far the smoothest release I have ever seen was for Lotro. WoW was hardly the glorified release of stability some people claim that it was (not on the different servers I tried playing on during release at least). Now I am sure AoC has some issues that needs fixing, but the biggest fallacy to me is that they narrows "open" beta down to fileplanet subscribers only rather than letting more people in to truly let people know that they have nothing to hide good or bad. You have to agree that 90% ayes is a pretty good score and if they had a huge crows testing it who give their friends positive reviews then all the better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172675.post-46695757854363882792008-05-07T15:51:00.000-07:002008-05-07T15:51:00.000-07:00In general what Funcom did to the open beta was ju...In general what Funcom did to the open beta was just stupid. These are mostly advertising events and have very little to do with actually testing the game. They should have known that and had a more stable client for fileplanet.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand I think the timing is good and the game represents the only new MMO content most people are likely to see any time soon. So they can survive the disaster of the open beta but it will be up to how stable the game is on launch day. If its crashing all the time when the pre-order people come in on May 17th then there might not be that many people on May 20th.Relmsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10358853054116842043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29172675.post-75609024142857221072008-05-07T15:03:00.000-07:002008-05-07T15:03:00.000-07:00I am curious why you are so negative in your openi...I am curious why you are so negative in your opening statement, then you summarize a yes in the end. I think you slightly overestimate what negative impact 10% of a player population with connection problems will have versus 90% telling their friends that they are having a positive experience.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com