Game Director Letter – July 2013

[nikepilas]

I was watching Bane's request to Age of Conan Game Director and one nice link appeared:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Spbcmq18A


What shocked me was the music (Genesis, Land of Confusion). Totally matched the state in wich Age of Conan community is these days.



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[SelfRez]

By the way it didnt take long Joel to stops posting to official forums. Barely broke Sil´s record of 2 months.

[ViolentLeonidas]

Hi Joel

Can you answer some pvp related concerns

1 Why is pve weapons the best and most powerful choice to use in PvP?

2 Why is pve accessories the best and most powerful choice to use in PvP?

3 Why is pve armor (for most classes) the best and most powerful choice to use in PvP?

4 Why doesn't the pvp vendor offer the same powerful items

5 Why is the DPS stats on ALL pvp weapons so far behind pve weapon DPS?

6 Why does the pvp mini game que bug still exist in your game?

7 Why do i still (after many years) get knockedback under the mini game map and get stuck in the wall after being CCed?

8 Can you do anything more about cowards who leave mini game?
(How about a visible coward shame stat on all players?) and a stronger punishment?

Would really appreciate some kind of a response to the questions
because i really can't understand why pve gear is the best for pvp

[andistoteles]

The worst thing about this is that its so obvious that TSW is the game closest to Joels heart, and that we just get the leftovers from the dev team. We pay a subscription for AoC, and all the sub money goes straight into TSW development.

In the last 7 months, why havent the dev team, made a few tweaks to the ranger class that one shoots pepole in minigames? Or some changes to the OP conq class, or bugs or exploits with minigame maps? Why not a short patch for ressbugg and guildbank bugg? just small changes would be enough. No we get absolutley nothing at all.
TSW combat get tweaked all the time, with all sorts of small changes.

On the TSW forums Joel has already made several answers to the forums post about his GD letter. Havent seen him here

[Slith]

TSW, GAME DIRECTOR LETTER – JULY 2013
http://www.thesecretworld.com/news/g...tter_july_2013

Hi all,
The warmth of summer is upon us and most of the dev team is back from their vacation and raring to go on Issue #8. I’ll keep this update short and sweet.

AOC, Game Director Letter – July 2013
http://www.ageofconan.com/news/game_...tter_july_2013

The summer lull is upon us, and most of the development team is currently enjoying a couple of weeks of hard earned rest. As such this update is short and sweet

Now, I want to be civil about this so I will keep this "short and sweet":

which one is it Mr. Bylos? The team is back or off to vacations??
Sounds like a weak excuse to give all the focus to TSW.

[SelfRez]

LoL Slith i noticed the same thing. It just shows that Joel wrote AoC letter long time ago since there is really nothing to tell and progression on AOC has been minimal and all the resources that are at work are doing something for TSW.

[Slith]

LoL Slith i noticed the same thing. It just shows that Joel wrote AoC letter long time ago since there is really nothing to tell and progession on AOC has been minimal and all the resources that are at work are doing something for TSW.

and think that's worst :X

He knew IN ADVANCE that the progression in AOC will be, and I quote Funcom's dev meeting notes on this, "**** all".

[Religolibri]

It would have a been a good letter to tease us with the new minigame game map. There was a lot of space on the page. Oh well.

[Scandral]

Oh the rage ...

If Funcom can deliver on the promises of this months letter it will be a fantastic autumn for AoC. Two new Dungeons, at least 3 rewamped dungeons, achievements, tradecraft, pvp minigame and new raid.

Even if some of the features gets pushed back to winter or spring it is content overflow compared to the last couple of years.

I hope Mr Bylos does'nt read this rage thread. Nothing good can come of it.

[K4nnyc]

I hope Mr Bylos does'nt read this rage thread. Nothing good can come of it.

If he does read it so what? What's he gonna do? He cant develop less content. You cant have less than nothing.