I bet the whole funcom stab is playing Legion atm..
I bet the whole funcom stab is playing Legion atm..
Well, Merry Christmas Michi. Thanks for the well wishes, communication and lumps of coal you've dropped into our stockings.
Here's hoping that you and FC are proud of the customer service you've provided the AO community this year.
/insert very wet raspberry here
to be more fair to Michi i dont think he gets to deside to much, and if i were in his shoes to deside if i wanted to work on a old game or a new game.. the choice for me would be easy.
but i think funcom could spent some houers to try give us a rebalance part 2 to draw back population+xmas event, and then also try to throw out some hotfix obviously..
many people paying for these game and nothing happened (no christmas Event, current Exploid, economy with graces, much more)... I can not understand the business philosophy and support philosophy of funcom... now we losing more and more people about this...
i am sure they can get people back when they make some hotfixes, throw some patches out with stuff and a free week or two. but atm this game is going down a big downhill for sure untill they take action.
what i find weird is why funcom dont try put some apprentices or coders who would work on anarchy online for free, i am sure many many people would offerd themself to work free just to have a chanse to show what they can and to be climbing up as a coder in the future.
it is not easy to get a job anymore, and i am pretty sure there is a bunch of coders who would love to learn and work for free on anarchy online for a possible bright future.
The obvious answer is that FC has no intention of investing any more time/money on AO, and is perfectly willing to allow it run in maintenance mode until it is no longer profitable, at which point, they'll close it down.
Xmas Trees in NCL by food vendor have shown up. There better be coal underneath them! :D
my acc expired in late october and I haven't been back to game since. I want to renew, but am holding off until a new dev letter comes through and reveals details of - steam/christmas event. Christmas is only a few days away and there has been no communication for some time. A worrying trend if you ask me. Will this be the first year of AO w/o christmas? Does this signal the end of the game?
I and many others, await renewal based on the answers to these questions. Exploits have existed in game for both items/creds/etc. The game could bounce back from economic disaster with some time and potential influence by GMs/Funcom to restore balance. But there is no coming back for a game if the life support has been pulled.
So, tell us Michi. What is going on?
I was going to resub after 2-3 years away from AO, but after checking this forum as well as loging in some froob I really doubt I would do it....
I ll do some more testing with froobs as well try to find ingame some old friends before I decide to give even 1 cent to this "company" ...
Are the monthly updates missing? Or I need better glasses?
Think monthly turned into soon(tm).
I think it's more like quarterly dev letter these days than monthly. Tbh the lack of any news and complete silence about the recent exploits and other problems combined with threads about huge issues disappearing from the forums or getting locked is really starting to piss me off. Or maybe it's just me...
It's definitely time for the quarterly news letter.
I suspect that actual dev time spent here will be at minimum for a while:
From the Steam Community Update:
"Conan Exiles has sold over 320,000 units in the first week, which is incredibly exciting to all of us here at Funcom. It is both humbling and gratifying to see so many people being interested in playing the game and sharing their experiences."
So no Steam?