AOC - General Information

[Oblio]

I pre-ordered two nights ago and after readings these boards today I called Gamestop to see if they had any books left. They said yes and set one aside for me, that I can pick up tonight. So thank you FoH Forums for helping me get my copy :P

Seriously though I was really skeptical about this game a year ago, but the more I read the more excited I get. Conq and DT sound amazingly fun, AoC might be the 1st MMO to get a Damage Dealing Tank Class done right. Or atleast I hope so.

[Viktorr]

Originally Posted by Wyrdo

Any ideas yet if there are going to be region locked versions of this game? I'm in the UK but everyone I play with is from the US so I always end up on US servers and have to get hold of US copies of region locked games.

The reason I'm asking is I was about to pre-order but I'll hold off until I know for sure what's happening.

Yes, the game is region locked, so if you order in EU, you play on EU servers, if you order in the US, you play on US servers. The guild I am in has both US and EU players. Our leaders are in the process of handling the orders for our EU players. Be sure you order from the US if you want to play there.

[Wyrdo]

Originally Posted by Viktorr

Yes, the game is region locked, so if you order in EU, you play on EU servers, if you order in the US, you play on US servers. The guild I am in has both US and EU players. Our leaders are in the process of handling the orders for our EU players. Be sure you order from the US if you want to play there.

Thanks for that, I guess I'll be grabbing myself a US copy.

[Hatorade]

Originally Posted by Viktorr

Yes, the game is region locked, so if you order in EU, you play on EU servers, if you order in the US, you play on US servers. The guild I am in has both US and EU players. Our leaders are in the process of handling the orders for our EU players. Be sure you order from the US if you want to play there.

Wait which one is censored again? UK version right?

[Pyros]

Originally Posted by Hatorade

Wait which one is censored again? UK version right?

German version is probably censored, but don't know about UK. It's probably a bit complicated since AoC is going for an adult rating when other games usually try to keep it to teens and up rating, so it might not have to be censored but well. Not like it matters much, you'll see uncensored clients on torrent as soon as the game releases anyway.

[Vatoreus]

Kind of cool, and haven't seen this in a beta before, but they're having us tech test the billing servers by spamming registrations for it for an hour. Gave us 10 codes (don't actually work obviously) to make dummy accounts over and over to hammer the sign up process.

[Guzrog]

German version censored. Dug it up on the boards.

Server Types:
* Server types (PVE, PVP, RPPVP). There will be rules of etiquette and a restricted naming policy on RPPVP server.
* There will be European and US servers. If you buy a US version of the game, you can only join on US servers, if you buy a Eu version (UK, german, french, spanish), you can join any Eu server. The censorship is based on the dvd key, german version is cut, you will see blood, but no fatalities like chopping heads and limbs off. US version will be uncut now (Correction Thread). You could buy a european version of the game in the US, but then you can only join EU servers and will get higher pings and the timewindow for sieging will be late night/early morning for you.

Also found this here - An all things Age of Conan interview with Jørgen Tharaldsen - Massively

Massively: We know the NA version of the game will contain everything but full nudity. Will there be any method -- possibly via age verification -- to unlock the 100% uncensored version of Age of Conan?

Jørgen: No, I am afraid not, but please note that there is no "uncensored" version. In fact, the North Americans ARE getting the full uncensored version of Conan as we created it and intended it, so there is no secret version some place. Perhaps some sunny day over the rainbow it will be ok for games like Age of Conan to contain full nudity, without causing complete havoc, but that day is sadly not there, yet.

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Originally Posted by Vatoreus

Kind of cool, and haven't seen this in a beta before, but they're having us tech test the billing servers by spamming registrations for it for an hour. Gave us 10 codes (don't actually work obviously) to make dummy accounts over and over to hammer the sign up process.

That kicks ass theres been at least 2-3 MMO's released in the last few years that probably wished they tested their billing system more rigorously. I haven't experienced any billing troubles but I know from reading these boards a few years that alot have.

[Tolanin]

so there is no like thailand version we can all play with full nudity and anal raping a decapitated body?

[Clericnon2boxed]

Ok as a german who likes to see some fatalities and play on european servers, I have to get my hands on a UK version...

saw a preorder box (that said on the outside that it contains the key for a war rhino) today, whopping 48 euros (~75$), maybe it comes down in price since they had a lot

[Flight]

Massive amounts of infoz and links here :

Consolidated thread of Stickies - Videos, GDC 08, Summary of important topics - Age of Conan Forums

[Flight]

Originally Posted by Clericnon2boxed

Ok as a german who likes to see some fatalities and play on european servers, I have to get my hands on a UK version...

saw a preorder box (that said on the outside that it contains the key for a war rhino) today, whopping 48 euros (~75$), maybe it comes down in price since they had a lot

Play in the UK have Rhino version for 30 euros

AoC at Play

[Flight]

Originally Posted by 8ounce

I think AoC will be very polished, decently balanced and have lots of content.............by dec/08. Probably be right around the time it launches for x-box. May 20 is when the real beta starts.

Hehe that said I will still be pre-ordering and playing from day 1, what can I say I'm a sucker for new MMO's on release, a new world the freshness, its a feeling that you'll never get jumping in later.

Originally Posted by Hatorade

My take on what will happen.

EQ2 all over again. HUGE player base at launch they will go down drasticaly after the second month. 8 Months and 4 major patches later its polished and more return but not enough to be called a success.

I wish this wasn't so but thats what it is looking like.

Unreleased Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures somehow topped charts, says X-Play - MMORPG News - QJ.NET That is why.

A few points to underline, that are important :

i) Most importantly, having been in every major games beta, this is THE best, in my opinion, in terms of management of the game, organisation and development.

ii) There are two sets of beta testers. general beta folk get to play the game most of the time. The vast majority of general beta invites going out these days are given to folks who are in the technical beta. If you get a beta invite now you are probably going into the technical beta,

iii) Technical beta testers only get to log on for a couple of hours every week or so, to do specific jobs - eg this weekend everyone is hammering the account creation process. Then Funcom spend time working on the findings of those tests.

iv) The beta client IS well out of date in terms of the dev and bug fixing work. Funcom state this clearly; the 'mythical build' with fixes IS a reality in this case.

v) This is a 'true' beta. They are running a lot of debugging code while you play, so don't judge performance or graphics as a reflection of the live game.



You're used to me, rightly, criticising developers for their management ability and control of their development processes. The opposite is true here. With respect to the companies development and management processes, I find myself turning into a Funcom 'fanboi'. Add that belief to the innovation we saw they are capable of in Anarchy Online and I find myself hyped about the game for the right reasons.

[Viktorr]

With the pressure to launch before WAR off of Funcom's back, I'm wondering if they may decide to delay again, perhaps to July / August. Wouldn't be surprised to see it happen

[Draegan]

This game still won't patch for me.

[Wanand]

The beta client IS well out of date in terms of the dev and bug fixing work. Funcom state this clearly; the 'mythical build' with fixes IS a reality in this case.

I have been in beta a while and i am starting to get concerned because they keep saying this yet they are running out of time to give us this magic build.

The build at the moment that beta testers are playing is no way near ready , if they do have a magic build I think it is time to start sharing it pretty soon. If they don't have a magic build and launch with the build at the moment or even a build 25% better they will lose so many people within the first month of play.

The higher you go in beta the more you realise how much is needed to be done