There have been meetings between FUNCOM and HBO. Also Funcom have reported that they are working on their next MMO. A friend of mine have also found Ragnar Lodbrok style of pics in atmosphere similar to Age of Conan.
what you think? Anybody know something?
Fingers crossed for seamless world and awesome combat!!!
I have a hard time believing that Funcom could in their present state pull of another MMORPG even if they wanted to for the reasons here:
Who would fund a new MMORPG for Funcom?
Some of the top echelon talent are working in other companies or have created their own company and releasing titles.
The constant delays in content for all their MMOs.
The consolidation to NC I don't see as a "long-term" cost effective solution.
Non of their current products seem to generate a large amount of cash-flow or it would reflect in the current stock price.
They've made a statement or press release to the fact that they wont be getting into these kind of ventures but smaller project and adapt with the market.
However, if they pull it of more power to them as long as they don't neglect their other products like they always end up doing.
Originally posted by CrazKanuk Hey, I'm not going to complain about an AoC with an upgraded graphics engine. If they could pull that off, I'd be all over it.
Agreed. :-) Same would love to see some massive upgrade to graphics and physic laws for Lotro.
Originally posted by L0C0Man If it has Age of Conan style of combat and athmosphere, with The Secret World style of storytelling and character build, I'd be one that would look forward to it..
You missed something there :- Minus the terrible bugs, crashes and server failures.
Name an MMO that doesn't suffer from these issues.On another note blizzard just launched there new xpac and had probs with servers.Wether or not it was an attack ,well i'll leave you to determine has to wether or not they were honest about that.
It took blizzard only 7 days to fix problems, funcom ...well let's not go there.
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Originally posted by L0C0Man If it has Age of Conan style of combat and athmosphere, with The Secret World style of storytelling and character build, I'd be one that would look forward to it..
You missed something there :- Minus the terrible bugs, crashes and server failures.
Well, I played Age of Conan since release (pre-release, actually, I preordered to get it 3 days early), and while there were queues and server issues the first 2 days of pre-release, I don't remember any actual server problems or crashes in the 3 or 4 (don't remember exactly) months I played.
Note that I'm not saying Age of Conan was a great launch, far from it (if we stay within Funcom, I'd say that TSW was the good launch). The game did have its fair share of bugs, some very bad ones too like a memory leak that affected several people and slowed it down and took a while to fix, but what I think prevented the game from being succesful was that it just wasn't finished when it was released.
Some say it was forced to be released too soon, but the fact remains, the content just wasn't there at launch. The game experience was great in the starter area (I still consider one of the best in any MMO I've played), but took a dive as soon as you left. In several level brackets there was only one area to level in, and didn't have enough quests to level you up trough the whole bracket forcing you to do villas (single player mini dungeons that scaled with your level) over and over to get extra XP, tier 2 of raids weren't available for a while after release (Funcom basically said that they weren't ready yet and they didn't think people would reach them so fast), one of the most heavily advertised feature (the siege battles) just wasn't working because the engine couldn't handle so many player characters in the same spot at the same time, and weren't fixed for months after release (actually, when I left they still weren't fixed), other advertised features (bar brawl, for example) just were never added into the game.
That said, I played again after it went F2P, new content and areas have been added to fix the level gaps and most bugs have been fixed, I'd say it's a very enjoyable game as it is now.
I have enojyed all fo Funcoms mmos and for me Age of Conan is the best themepark mmo on the market and still one of the best looking, saying that I am not a big themepark fan..
Still Vikings is one of the best TV shows around at the moment so it would be cool to see it come to an MMO..
Originally posted by CrazKanuk Hey, I'm not going to complain about an AoC with an upgraded graphics engine. If they could pull that off, I'd be all over it.
Age of Conan still looks stunning on current hardware with everything on max and 60+ FPS
a HD texture update wouldn´t hurt though but overall it looks still amazing.
Funcom makes the most fun MMOs IMHO, I really like Anarchy Online, Aoc and Secret World
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I have a hard time believing that Funcom could in their present state pull of another MMORPG even if they wanted to for the reasons here:
not another from this publisher ...
Agreed. :-) Same would love to see some massive upgrade to graphics and physic laws for Lotro.
It took blizzard only 7 days to fix problems, funcom ...well let's not go there.
Boobs are LIFE, Boobs are LOVE, Boobs are JUSTICE, Boobs are mankind's HOPES and DREAMS. People who complain about boobs have lost their humanity.
Well, I played Age of Conan since release (pre-release, actually, I preordered to get it 3 days early), and while there were queues and server issues the first 2 days of pre-release, I don't remember any actual server problems or crashes in the 3 or 4 (don't remember exactly) months I played.
Note that I'm not saying Age of Conan was a great launch, far from it (if we stay within Funcom, I'd say that TSW was the good launch). The game did have its fair share of bugs, some very bad ones too like a memory leak that affected several people and slowed it down and took a while to fix, but what I think prevented the game from being succesful was that it just wasn't finished when it was released.
Some say it was forced to be released too soon, but the fact remains, the content just wasn't there at launch. The game experience was great in the starter area (I still consider one of the best in any MMO I've played), but took a dive as soon as you left. In several level brackets there was only one area to level in, and didn't have enough quests to level you up trough the whole bracket forcing you to do villas (single player mini dungeons that scaled with your level) over and over to get extra XP, tier 2 of raids weren't available for a while after release (Funcom basically said that they weren't ready yet and they didn't think people would reach them so fast), one of the most heavily advertised feature (the siege battles) just wasn't working because the engine couldn't handle so many player characters in the same spot at the same time, and weren't fixed for months after release (actually, when I left they still weren't fixed), other advertised features (bar brawl, for example) just were never added into the game.
That said, I played again after it went F2P, new content and areas have been added to fix the level gaps and most bugs have been fixed, I'd say it's a very enjoyable game as it is now.
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I have enojyed all fo Funcoms mmos and for me Age of Conan is the best themepark mmo on the market and still one of the best looking, saying that I am not a big themepark fan..
Still Vikings is one of the best TV shows around at the moment so it would be cool to see it come to an MMO..
Age of Conan still looks stunning on current hardware with everything on max and 60+ FPS
a HD texture update wouldn´t hurt though but overall it looks still amazing.
Funcom makes the most fun MMOs IMHO, I really like Anarchy Online, Aoc and Secret World