AO Public Apology

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Hmm... An apology admits wrongdoing and responsibility for said wrong-doings. So, what they are saying is "Yep, we did this on purpose." The difference between the AO situation and the Tribes2 situation is, to my knowlegde, Dynamix never admitted responsibilty for the game being released two months too early.

Continuing with the topic of games being released before they're done, I'm glad Operation Flashpoint isn't being released in the US until September. The three months of release in Europe (aka "public beta testing") will hopefully work the kinks out of that game. I've played the European release and Holy Still-in-Beta, Batman. That game needs some serious tweaking.

i played this in beta and this games kicks ass at the end of beta there were no problems it was all fine it felt done. its only when it went live all this shit started going on to me, well in any way this game kicks ass eq,av, and uo are crap compare to it not cosidering how old this whole fairtaly style is. and i remember how bad was EQ launch so i cant realy complain about AO much.

i was really REALLY looking forward to this game

i got my beta cd key and downloaded beta 4 in a snap

played it for litterally 20 minutes and just totaly decided it was a shit game

wasnt even worth my time to even figure the game out....

Well .... win2k is a piece of crap. Of course you would have to reboot to get it to connect ... sigh.

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Ok, I played this game for a couple weeks in the last stage of the beta, and it was very good at that stage. It had a few issues with things like certain missions not working, some zones crashing,etc. With games like this, they're never truly "done"....and eventually they DO have to get pushed out the door. Hell, EQ has been going for 2 years of weekly patches, and AO hasn't even been out a week now. My experience with the FINAL game has been pretty close to that of the beta. Only more lag issues. Which is to be expected, because of the 100,000's of logins, instead of a few thousand at once. Nobody can EVER accurately predict server load with games like this on launch days anymore. EQ went thru it, Battle.net was shit last year when D2 launched, Tribes 2 had problems, and so of course does AO. However, from what I've seen of the game so far, is so absolutely fucking AMAZING, it's worth waiting for whatever patches they need to do. The amount of detail in the game is incredible. It has some of the best weather effects I've seen in a game. GREAT view distances on the horizon when you're out in the wilderness areas. When lightning strikes the ground, it leaves a mark. Tall grass blows in the wind. The animations on the creatures probably rivals anything else out there right now. I could go on for pages on some of the cool shit I've seen in this game. Right now, most of the people who are bitching are the 12 year olds who have signed up for the game with mommy's credit card, and the people who either a)don't know how to configure their system or b)the ones who don't understand how the fucking internet works when you get hundreds of thousands of people trying to access a server at once. I like how Funcom is handling it for now, and they're actually being sympathetic towards their customers. If this were Verant's game, they'd be like "STFU!".

I'm still waiting on the public apology for Daikatana.

are the servers in the US or are they in Europe? Does it matter?

I read this as AOL Public Apology and I thought to myself "It's about damn time" Then i read the story and felt like i'de been robbed.

It's a pretty sad state of affairs when everyone testing a game screams "Its not done!" and the publisher puts it on shelves anyways.

[insert obligatory Tribes 2 rant]

A good game is only late until it ships... a bad game is bad forever, regardless of how many times you patch it.

Did anyone actually buy this turd?

I saw this coming after the beta left me feeling like I had wasted my time downloading 560MB of wasted potential.

fuck this shit who gives a fuck?

remember that if you give your CC# over the phone, you're using "unsecured" communication as well, and in fact the chances of having your CC# yanked by phone eavesdropping are significantly higher than by internet snooping...
security is relative

Once again, greed ends up screwing everybody. With products pushed out the door to suit the industry's bottom line, wise gamers should realize by now that the rules have changed: don't buy anything the minute it appears. Wait. Let others be early adopters (a.k.a early sufferers). See if the product lives up to claims. Discover what they didn't tell you on the box or at sycophantic print-anything gaming sites. If and when the bugs are worked out, that's the time to buy new software. Not before.

On a scale of 1 to 10, I give this game a 11 for potential and a 5 for the current state. They still have quite a lot of technical issues to iron out, and the final result will depend heavily on how well the storyline aspect plays out. But it's an entertaining and beautiful game when it works.

The only really shocking part of the launch was the lack of a secure registration system. Playing the game requires you to register your credit card number, and for the first few days they had no secure way of doing so. The manual promised things were 100% secure, but they clearly weren't. They got the secure servers up after a couple of days though, blaming it on the certification authorities.

Even if you think AO sounds like fun, you'll probably be better off waiting a month or so before buying it. That way you'll get more out of your first free month. Right now it's barely playable.

Steve, if it's dhcp related, in win2k you can type " ipconfig /renew " in a command prompt to renew your connection.

i think the headline should read "AOL Public Apology"
Anarchy OnLine

AO RULKES I AM LVL 4 NANOTECHNICHUIAN ONCE THE GAME WORKS IT WILL RULE

This game and the people who are responsible for it deserves to die along with Tribes 2 and WWII Online.

There's a reason they call it Anarchy Online.

Isn't Funcom working with the people doing WW2O?

2 shitty rushed games in a row!

As any good american, I am afraid of all that which I do not understand.

This frightens me

People should really not be so concerned about sending your credit card number unencrypted over the net. You really expect some l33t h4x0r is going to pick your number out from within the terrabytes of traffic going over the net (that is, assuming they have cracked some core router)?
The fact is your credit card is far more secure unencrypted on the network that it is once it sits in their database on some unsecure operating system, or even worse, in some 17 year old's hands at the local gas station.

Is this game cool at all?

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FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!