Maybe you should consider spawning the outdoor Ice/Antleets ... We can't get into Santa's Workshop now .....
Teleport failed. The destination playfield has reached its player limit.
Liwa
Maybe you should consider spawning the outdoor Ice/Antleets ... We can't get into Santa's Workshop now .....
Teleport failed. The destination playfield has reached its player limit.
Liwa
A new offer without additional Funcom Points or items like last year and the year before, that is just sad.
Not for me, because i have not played AO since January or TSW but i liked to take the special offer like last year or the year before. Now it is absolutely pointless to waste money on this.
Good luck
it's leets now, and some gingerthings running fastOriginally Posted by Liwa
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So if we re-up for anything less than 12 months we can count on not being expected to provide unpaid beta testing for AO?
It's not an unpaid beta.
Indeed. It seems you have to pay a lot to be able to WORK for FUncom...
And yes, beta testing is work. It's outrageous imo that FC asks people to pay for the ability to beta test something.
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its funny how AO requires so much grinding and effort to make any progress, both ingame and in Development
Isnt this exactly what every, absolutely every single company that sells their games for money does for beta invites ? Anyways, if you don't wanna beta test u can still pay.. It's not like you pay just to beta test. U pay to be able to log in to your characters on the live server.
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Please point me to game beta where you get paid to test, I could use some extra money
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Well getting paid to test was not my point.
I've played many betas, but I've never paid anything to do so.
I guess it's ok, if you still like to play the current game and get the extra perk of checking the beta.
But for someone like me who doesn't get anything from the current grindfest on live, where you must do everything dual/triple/quadlogged and have to buy lootrights and pretty much everything because there is not enough people to do the actual content with, it's not worth it to pay for a years sub to be able to work for funcom as a beta tester.
I open my accounts occasionally for a month or two, but no way i'm going to pay for a year for a game which might not be around after 6 months.
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its funny how AO requires so much grinding and effort to make any progress, both ingame and in Development
You "have" to do everything dual/triple/quad logged? Its an MMO go make friends and join a Org, problem solved. If you don't want to make friends then that's pretty much your own fault for being in the above predicament.
Let's leave the harbringers of doom out of it eh? I've had 7 years with people complaining and whining, predicting that AO would die in a month. Who has the best track record? The doom-sayers or FunCom?
Secondly you don't "have" to pay to test the engine, you can sign up for the beta and cross your fingers for access Q1 2014. FunCom gives people an option of paying to gain faster access. However that choice reflects upon FunCom is for each and own to decide.
But let's not pretend that it is something UNIQUE that FunCom just pulled off, pay for early access is the FOTM for game developers. Don't believe me? Go on steam and tell me what you find.
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some wanna /lft and then just peform the function of their profession when the team has started.
It's enough people to do the stuff with. It is just FC who doesn't fix their systems.
The game has become a bit incohesive and like 'several seperate grinds'. *daily h8*
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With all due respect to the currently paying customers, but the people already having payed for more than a decade and helped out in countless beta testing in the past should have the highest priority.
That said, I will not and have never chosen a different payment method than the one month subscription.
Also:
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I came back to game shortly (within a couple months) of the server merge. I joined 3 different orgs Clanside, 2 diff orgs neutral side. One of the Clan orgs was even part of an alliance. Another of the orgs is actually the one Alternity/Vizier is in. None of them became some magic group that allowed me to stop multi-logging. Keep in mind that I take initiative to start teams and will team with almost anyone (assuming they aren't a total tool).
Players need to stop blaming players, calling them lazy, etc when they can't find a team. From a game perspective, I have every key/critical profession and I probably have taken more initiative to start teams than a grand majority of the playerbase and even I have trouble. Forming a team in AO is way way way too much work and the reason why is because the game has a low population to start with and too many potential tasks at endgame that split the constantly dwindling population. At TL7 alone one might be doing Pande or APFs 13/28/35 or APF-S42 or Biodome or DB1 or DB2 or DB3 or Collector or Gauntlet or DB Quest or 12man or Vort or Mitaar or pvping in Bor or leveling in inferno or questing in inferno or battlestations or tower wars or tara or or or.. get my point? That's fine when there's a huge population but when you have a very small community, splitting it up between 20+ things (and that's just at 1 title level) can make the game feel empty when you're trying to get a particular thing done. Special mention to the excessively long lockout timers of some dated content which prevent people from attending the same thing again (in other words, less of a pool of people to choose from if someone did something an hour or 2 earlier).
Compare this to almost any other MMO out there where the looking for team/group (whatever its called) can yield you a team relatively quickly with no effort on your part and you'll see why people feel as if teaming in AO is impossible. "Get friends" from where? A lot of people won't even team with people they don't know or aren't in their org. Everything in AO is done in small strike teams to increase loot chances so finding someone that just wants to team up for the fun of it or social experience is extremely rare.
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It really really ain't hard to make friends in AO Jill
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Trolls are right, the greatest achievement in AO now consists in being skilled at begging.
It is for me.. and I guess a lot of others which is why you see people posting on forums that they have trouble finding/making teams. Honestly, I only commented because your statements just seemed a bit harsh and unrealistic. Being that we're in the same org, I figured I'd express my experience because clearly, at some point, you must've seen me asking people to team in org chat, spamming neutnet, dnet, ooc, etc.. so know that I'm not one of those people to just sit on LFT and hope for the best. Regardless of the efforts I put in, I still had trouble finding people to play with. In other words, your statements don't apply and aren't representative of a true solution to the problem some people are experiencing.It really really ain't hard to make friends in AO Jill
For me personally, this isn't/wasn't a big deal. When you have multiple accounts, you improvise... and I think that brings us to the point the guy was making above. I feel as if I need multiple accounts in order to play AO because the alternative would simply be painful. Yes, I could've tried to find an org that was active USA prime time but then I'd have to sacrifice being part of one of the only orgs that pulls off their own side at S42. There's some omni orgs that I know have an active USA prime time but I'm not willing to swap sides on 3 accounts worth of toons. In other words, the 'social' aspect of having a community of people to chat with and do things with (day to day) didn't outweigh the benefits of me being able to do an org sector 42 raid. That really is the bottom line, for me. That doesn't mean I don't recognize that there is an issue with teaming in AO.. and I'm really shocked that you don't see the issue, tbh. But I guess we can agree to disagree.
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