Failed... Thats cute. A game that is not only still up and running but still maintaining subs and potentially gaining new ones, as well as just released an expansion and is still making money has somehow failed....
Thats good stuff.
Not reaching a hype level set by players before the game launched and having to overcome a tough launch to boot is not failing, if anything, the fact that its doing as well as it is even after the launch it had is a massive success.
Its one thing not to like a game, but to call it a failure.... really? I dont even play AoC but I atleast know the difference between a failed game (Tabula Rasa, Auto Assault, Earth and Beyond...) and a game that is quite a ways from failure.
lmfao
you posted this exact same response to somebody else awhile back that said AoC was a failure.
guess what...? its true!!!
i just went back to aoc to kill time in between rift beta events. ive played it off and on since launch. and all whooping 4 servers are empty as hell. there are a handle full of 80's that still play. but tortage is a ghost town, and the zones from there to end game are empty as well.
i checked all 4 servers to try to find the most populated ones. set seems to have the most. but overall, freakin dead game.
repost all the same rebuttles you have saved, but you cant change whats actually true.
This part of your statement is an abject falsehood.
I decided to give AOC a shot a few days ago. I am on the RP/PvP server and I can tell you that as of TODAY there are players everywhere. Tortage has so many people that you can group up nearly instantly anywhere.
I joined a Guild a couple of days in and we have had at least 15 new players (not alts) join between yesterday and today.
If you were alive today you'd be saying, "Help! Help! Let me out!"
Hmmmm.... AoC empty? Depends on what time you go on. Even over here in Australia I can still pop on to Conan and find plenty of other players. Players in my guild? No. Its an empty shell, it seems. And the big guilds don't seem to let in low level characters unless they're alts of their existing characters.
But AoC is still pretty cool as a solo player.
True to REH's vision? The landscapes are breathtaking. The graphics are unbelievable. The armour and weapons have the right feel to them. It could do with being a little more R-rated but its not bad. Certainly better than any other games I've tried.
But its full of werewolves and other wierd creatures that were never in Conan. There are magic using classes, which whilst their a must in any fantasy MMO, should never have been allowed in AoC. Magic was just so rare in Conan's world. Rare and inordinately powerful.
Its very much a D&D version of Conan. And perhaps it should have been sold as that.
Well since he boarded up his own house because he believed the other people in the place he lived were after him, and also that Conan was behind him with a massive axe every night demanding he write more stories - im sure he would have more pressing concerns. haha.
This is a very pervasive myth with absolutely no basis in reality. There is no evidence, physical, incidental or otherwise, that Howard ever boarded up his house. I've been to the Howard house, and can attest to seeing no evidence of it. As for the ghost of Conan, that's based on a misreading of a letter to Clark Ashton Smith, where he says Conan was so easy to write it was as if he was over his shoulder, dictating to him. Not that he was actually hallucinating the ghost of a long-dead warrior king.
Howard was eccentric - he was a writer, after all - and he showed many of the symptoms of clinical depression. But to say he was insane is a complete misunderstanding of the man.
I actually did a thesis on him during university, it was the year after I did Sor Arthur Conan Doyle, so you can tell those are two of my favourite authors I did a lot of studying and background studies into the man himself - and I can guarantee that the two facts I said are just that facts.
Really? Well I've been in contact with Rusty Burke, Mark Finn, Leo Grin, Rob Roehm, Dennis McHaney, Damon Sasser, and a dozen other Robert E. Howard scholars and experts, some of whom have been studying the man's work for over forty years. Nothing any of those people have written corroborates with your two "facts". So either you're taking the testimony of John Milius and Oliver Stone over top Howard experts, or you're somehow privy to information that has thus far eluded the entire Robert E. Howard scholarly community.
Its kind of Weird or Funny how, Him, H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe were all real good friends and were all mentaly unstable or Drug users...There was one other famous author in thier click, can't rember who it was though, but they were all unstable men LOL
Edgar Allan Poe died before Howard or Lovecraft were born. The third major author in their group was Clark Ashton Smith, who was a family man who lived a long and healthy life, though he more or less gave up writing after his two friends died. None of them, to the best of my knowledge, were drug users: only Poe.
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This part of your statement is an abject falsehood.
I decided to give AOC a shot a few days ago. I am on the RP/PvP server and I can tell you that as of TODAY there are players everywhere. Tortage has so many people that you can group up nearly instantly anywhere.
I joined a Guild a couple of days in and we have had at least 15 new players (not alts) join between yesterday and today.
Happy birthday RE Howard!
If you were alive today you'd be saying, "Help! Help! Let me out!"
Hmmmm.... AoC empty? Depends on what time you go on. Even over here in Australia I can still pop on to Conan and find plenty of other players. Players in my guild? No. Its an empty shell, it seems. And the big guilds don't seem to let in low level characters unless they're alts of their existing characters.
But AoC is still pretty cool as a solo player.
True to REH's vision? The landscapes are breathtaking. The graphics are unbelievable. The armour and weapons have the right feel to them. It could do with being a little more R-rated but its not bad. Certainly better than any other games I've tried.
But its full of werewolves and other wierd creatures that were never in Conan. There are magic using classes, which whilst their a must in any fantasy MMO, should never have been allowed in AoC. Magic was just so rare in Conan's world. Rare and inordinately powerful.
Its very much a D&D version of Conan. And perhaps it should have been sold as that.
This is a very pervasive myth with absolutely no basis in reality. There is no evidence, physical, incidental or otherwise, that Howard ever boarded up his house. I've been to the Howard house, and can attest to seeing no evidence of it. As for the ghost of Conan, that's based on a misreading of a letter to Clark Ashton Smith, where he says Conan was so easy to write it was as if he was over his shoulder, dictating to him. Not that he was actually hallucinating the ghost of a long-dead warrior king.
Howard was eccentric - he was a writer, after all - and he showed many of the symptoms of clinical depression. But to say he was insane is a complete misunderstanding of the man.
Really? Well I've been in contact with Rusty Burke, Mark Finn, Leo Grin, Rob Roehm, Dennis McHaney, Damon Sasser, and a dozen other Robert E. Howard scholars and experts, some of whom have been studying the man's work for over forty years. Nothing any of those people have written corroborates with your two "facts". So either you're taking the testimony of John Milius and Oliver Stone over top Howard experts, or you're somehow privy to information that has thus far eluded the entire Robert E. Howard scholarly community.
Edgar Allan Poe died before Howard or Lovecraft were born. The third major author in their group was Clark Ashton Smith, who was a family man who lived a long and healthy life, though he more or less gave up writing after his two friends died. None of them, to the best of my knowledge, were drug users: only Poe.
rest in peace, Robert ! i have enjoyed your tales of Conan and Kull !