Age of Conan Open BETA starts today

Actually, despite all the ridiculously childish posting on the age of conan forums someone seems to have it right. THe game has supposedly gone gold now and is being pressed as we speak getting ready to ship out. Though its needing a silly number of patches already and will most likely be lots more. I'm not normally against that, but it doesn't exactly give it a great impression that all will be ready with the final client. Oh well.

THe other thing would be, if you read any of the threads over there on really anything there are tons if complete idiots. No idea why people have the impression its an "adult" oriented MMO so will be a much better community.

Anyone actually know how long its running, till launch or just a few days, a week or something. I assumed the former based on other MMO's open beta's pre launch, but someone hinted at it being much shorter than that somewhere.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Actually, despite all the ridiculously childish posting on the age of conan forums someone seems to have it right. THe game has supposedly gone gold now and is being pressed as we speak getting ready to ship out. Though its needing a silly number of patches already and will most likely be lots more. I'm not normally against that, but it doesn't exactly give it a great impression that all will be ready with the final client. Oh well.

THe other thing would be, if you read any of the threads over there on really anything there are tons if complete idiots. No idea why people have the impression its an "adult" oriented MMO so will be a much better community.

Anyone actually know how long its running, till launch or just a few days, a week or something. I assumed the former based on other MMO's open beta's pre launch, but someone hinted at it being much shorter than that somewhere.
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There is always loads of patches, during launch often daily with MMO's and then every week there after for the life span of the game.

Come on a 150mb patch is nothing to download these days and is a fraction of the game size (12gb!).
 
I didn't say you can't patch an MMO. But you've completely ignored the context with which i said it.

The game has apparently gone gold. This means a final version is being pressed, and is almost certainly completely incapable of running stably without patching. I was saying its not a great sign.

I really can't remember what happened with Lotro, was so long ago. I remember deleting the beta and reinstalling full version with high res textures, but I can't remember if the game client itself needed patching. As for the open beta, it was pretty damn good apart from the memory leak issue which, once i switched from nvidia to ATi card magically dissappeared.

Err, its also not a 150mb patch, theres been, afaik 2x180mb patches, a half dozen or more at 50mb or so, and i think a 150MB patch. Theres been about 10 small patches just today. Like i said, that doesn't bode well for a product they have essentially shipped now, and also one they said would be ready hours ago today, thought was working but needs a dozen patches in a single day to get working. I'm not saying their can't be kinks, thats obvious, but its a touch weird considering several things, they've gone gold, they've had working beta's for ages, theres 3 separate beta's supposedly. HOwever this is supposed to be pretty much the final build version just for stress testing and checking some other stuff.
 
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drunkenmaster said:
I didn't say you can't patch an MMO. But you've completely ignored the context with which i said it.

The game has apparently gone gold. This means a final version is being pressed, and is almost certainly completely incapable of running stably without patching. I was saying its not a great sign.

I really can't remember what happened with Lotro, was so long ago. I remember deleting the beta and reinstalling full version with high res textures, but I can't remember if the game client itself needed patching. As for the open beta, it was pretty damn good apart from the memory leak issue which, once i switched from nvidia to ATi card magically dissappeared.

Err, its also not a 150mb patch, theres been, afaik 2x180mb patches, a half dozen or more at 50mb or so, and i think a 150MB patch. Theres been about 10 small patches just today. Like i said, that doesn't bode well for a product they have essentially shipped now, and also one they said would be ready hours ago today, thought was working but needs a dozen patches in a single day to get working. I'm not saying their can't be kinks, thats obvious, but its a touch weird considering several things, they've gone gold, they've had working beta's for ages, theres 3 separate beta's supposedly. HOwever this is supposed to be pretty much the final build version just for stress testing and checking some other stuff.
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What tosh "doesnt bode well" every single MMO released (yes including WoW) has had loads of patches after its gone gold and definitely before an open beta.
 
At least they are working hard and producing these patches quickly. WoW had huge problems at release, servers were hardly ever up - look at it now.

On another note i'm not saying the game is decent as I haven't tried it yet :)
 
Robert said:
You'll just scav from someone else :p
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Too true :D
In all seriousness mind you, the Fileplanet/ beta situation is ridiculous. They charge you a sub, which amounts to about the same amount as a MMO to gain access to the betas, and nothing much else. (Yes they have D/L servers, but places like Gamershell provide them for free) Added to that the fact that with 99% of the stuff, there's no way to realistcally get a beta anywhere else, and it seems to me that they're milking a captive market for massive amounts on top of the game itself- Not on.

Patches wise, I'd much rather they fix things now than prat around. Look at the situation with many of the other MMOs & for that matter mainstream games- Bugs which haven't been fixed for years, with no fix ETA.

Cheers

-Leezer-
 
Same Guess login server is down

Cant login to funcom site either

Oh well good time to do the washing up
 
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What tosh "doesnt bode well" every single MMO released (yes including WoW) has had loads of patches after its gone gold and definitely before an open beta.
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sorry but again, you're simply ignoring what i wrote in favour of your own opinion on what i said.

IT doesn't bode well that a game thats shipped simply won't work as is.

Open beta will be final client, which means frankly, what is getting toward a gig of patches to get it even up and running to me doesn't bode well.

Lotro didn't have this amount of patching for either the open beta or final release, it also launched on time when they said it would and the early access days weren't an issue for anyone and pre-order was sorted way in advance.
 
Ive got around the problem by creating a new funcom account and using the key again. I had previously added the key to the pvp weekend account and that seems to be the problem.

Im now creating a character.
 
Think they must be allowing connections bit by bit, activating keys in batches so the server namster farm doesnt mutiny.

Still cant connect (pw invlaid).

Cant create another account as its saying my key is in use :/
 
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