Some of you guys are completely clueles...

These games sell enough to make a profit they have a sale base of several 10's of thousands at least. Which is more than enough for One man Dev team with some contract help.

Plus you guys always insult these games and most of you have never seriously tried to even play them. All you do is spew mindless crap out of your mouths.

The games are cool and fun to play. I still get a craving and break out a gameplay session of UCSE every few months. It is honestly silly and stupid how nasty you people are.

These are fun Space simulation games.

Its time for us all to ditch these modern shooters and start playing Unreal Tournament again.

That was such a perfect game.

Dont you think its just a little odd that nearly all of you seem to need to drop the f-bomb in every post? Good grief people get a bar of soap and wash your mouths and brains out.

Actually i said that as a joke to see what people here thought. That is exactly what obama is talking about doing and everyone seems all warm and fuzzy about being taken over by a hard left socialist.

It just sounds really stupid when you put what they are telling people into a real world situation.

(although i do like the idea of profit sharing within the company)

obama needs to get after this company!! They have a bit to much money a lot of it needs to be taken from them and given to the poor and needy so they can have a better life while doing whatever it is they are doing... like not working for blizzard...

165 million bucks a month.. that is INSANE! If this company was run they way it should be then every single employee there all the way to the janitor should drive a ferrari.

If all companys had sucess based profit sharing for their own employees the world would be a better palce.

I understand about tastes. Some like Fantasy more than SCi-fi. Personally i like SCi-fi.

I mean game mechanics and such i have tested or at leasst played a little bit of a lot of different MMO games. I really think that if AO had been released in 2005 with 2005 level graphics it would probably be pretty competative.

It still has 20K players or there abouts. And pretty much everyone you run into is a mature serious and helpful player.

btw

Would someone actually post what is so bad or wrong with Aoc. like in a list. I wonder what could be so wrong with the game and what is upsetting everyone. I talked to a few players in my area and none of them had installation or startup issues.

I still play AO. I play for a couple months then i take a few months off then i get the its for a couple months etc..

I have dabbled in some other mmos but for me personally AO is the best one out there. I dont really see what there is to complain about in that game. It still has decent graphics and you can do all kinds of stuff. Teaming is fun and i still discover new things that i didnt know before about the game.

I Think that once the graphics overhaul gets released it may see a big population jump. IMO the game is so good and so complete that with a new cutting edge graphics engine it practically could be rereleased all over again.

How is any other MMO (even Wow) superior or deeper than AO?

I am serious.

This comment was edited on Sep 30, 10:06.

Creston is right.

Everyone in the industry has gone crazy. If a game does not make them 50+ million profit then it is a failure and not worth doing.

look at mmos. Wow is supposed to be the only success story. Example Tabula Rasa, not everyone likes that game but it made its publisher 1.9 million last quarter. yet that is looked at as a "failure" that is on life support and may need to get canned.

If your game is pulling down 6 million a year That should be more than enough for you to pay a decent sized development team, servers, technology, and hold a decent community together for the gamers. And STILL be able to back a few hndred thousand pure profit per year.

What a fliping greed soaked world we live in these days.

It is an outright LIE for anyone to suggest that games are "pirated" because the industry is releasing bad games.

You are all freaking LIARS period. L I A R S. aka *scum*.

You would all steal any game you can get away with. PERIOD. The games being realeased are by and large good games. A few years ago before I saw the light I spent some time on edonkey and emule. Even 8-9 years ago people were pirating every single game released. Thousands of downloads of games. All of them pirated.

You guys are so freaking immoral these days that you cant even be honest about why you are thieving scumbags. The truth is you are all simply thieving SCUMBAGS. And it needs to be said.

90% of people on this site say every single game released is garbage and should be "pirated". Well one last time.. You are all freaking L I A R S and thieving sleezebags.

I see that same comment from other people at other sites. "carebear" game.

It always is the people that like to openly abuse other players. If a game has rules of conduct and doesnt let a few total losers ruin it for everyone else its a "carebear" game.

All this from people like you is a way to express the pure wickedness inside your heart. If you could get away with it you (and people like you) would be raping women. killing, looting and the like. These types of games simply let you express who you really are.

Its pretty sick.

This comment was edited on Aug 27, 14:13.

Why was the shadow lands a fiasco?

Ao is a pretty sweet game. It has tons of content and shadow lands is cool. I dont see how anyone can be negative about AO.

Funcom has made some really awesome games. Their MMO's may not be "perfect" for everyone but they are both quality games.





This comment was edited on Aug 26, 13:51.

ok, normally I think you guys are all crazy here but. After reading the interview and reading what you guys have posted here and what I have read other places from players....

These devs completely dont get it. Wich is pretty wierd. Players are leaving in droves because no high level cotent so they are adding a new level 30 zone inside and already exsisting city...

The guys claims to be listening to players but none of the content they are adding seems related to playrs complaints at all.

only 400,000 subscribers? Didnt they have a million or more to start out only a few months ago? That is horrible. How can you not take players seriously in the face of those numbers?

on another note,,,

I really like Anarchy online. I think its a great MMO. They obviously have some skill at this put seem to be in denial about where this game is headed. Its pretty obvious to me that this game is not likely to recover regardess of the expansion packs they are adding.

You dont lose 600,000 players in 90 days and have a prayer of staying afloat. This game toast.

PLus who cares if *2* games are developed on OpenGL? How does that suddenly make it something not to worry about?

300 games are comming out this year with DX9/10 support and 2 games with OpenGL.. dont worry everything is still ok and everything is completely stable and equal and going forward smoothly.

Personally i Like DX better than OpenGL, i am just pointing out how wacky it is to say that "Dont worry everything is ok" because one developer is going to release 2 games.

Plus Rage is DX anyway

ok so that does make me an idiot.

Though i could have swore tht was not there before.. *sigh*..

Hey if you are an idiot admit it.

Did you watch any of the "making of" mini documentaries on this game? The swing mechanics are exactly like the 2D NES game. There are no physics of any import at play in this game at all.

Just because some developer makes a deal with Nvidia so they can market the only feature (on paper) that makes them more interesting than the new Radeons does not actually mean that the game is *using* hardware physics for anything meaningful.

But yeah totally, You are a freakin Genius and Derek Smart is a total idiot. You get your info from a press release and Smart gets his from Developer relations and actually making a game.

Wow, I bow to your incredible intellectual capacities...

It would be impossible to conduct ship activities with players taking the role of a crew. It would probably be one of the most frustrating experiences of all time.

There are several episodes of Classic Trek and TNG where ship capitans work together to fight enemies. Hopefully they will have some sort of beam to the surface with a small slave crew where you can work with other capitains and their crews.

Flame smart all you want but those last screenshots he showed of his upcoming galactic command game are cool.

No its not crysis but it is obviously the inside of an entire capital ship. Who has ever done that before?

Mr. Smart is an easy target but he does deserve some credit. I ahve always found his games fun considering they are an indy space *simulation* on a large scale.

Anyone who slames his games has obviously

a. Never actually played one for any length of time
b. Hates detailed simulation games
c. Just likes to flame the guy no matter what.

C. is the major problem this site has anyway. One mindless troll with a keyboard after the next posting nonsensical drivel.



This comment was edited on Jul 28, 20:06.

Funny when i look at the below example i see pretty cool looking buildings and scenery considering the game engine is conroling the AI on the entire planet in real time even if you are on the other side of the contenant.

This is the point of my post below. You have to consider the scope of the game, the number of objects and scene space etc. Every game is different and certainlly the scale of a Space MMO like Star Trek has a lot of ground to cover.

You guys all complain about consoles but you prove day after day that you are just as dumbed down as they are. Completely devoid of login and critical thinking about what you are commenting on.

Is it just me, or did they not show a single picture of a starship?

Now here is an example of the many "questions" and points you all have made. Now hmmm... Why would they not show a single picture of a starship or post much detailed information at this point?

hmm... I wonder what is going down on Aug 10th.... hmmm.. can i put the two together in my mind and figure it out?