Funcom Fails Again - Age of Conan Battlekeeps

[YG_Bot]

Ever since launch, all the top guilds in Age of Conan were stuck at Tier 2 guild cities due to a bug. That bug got fixed yesterday, and it allowed guilds to finally build Tier 3 guild cities. The cities themselves don't do much (yet), as most of the city features are not yet implemented, but the reason everyone wanted a Tier 3 city was PvP - it's a prerequisite to build a Battlekeep to the borderlands PvP areas.

So, in very short order the biggest guilds built the first Battlekeeps, and once they got that out of the way, they naturally tried to participate on the "endgame" PvP by sieging another Battlekeep built by a competing guild. Just one small problem; The game mechanics in Age of Conan do not allow that.

Read on for the all the sad details...

Read entire article: http://www.yougamers.com/news/19289_...an_battlekeeps

[valtterieranen]

Why am I not surprised.

Why am i not surprised that Jarno once again delivers AoC failure reports. Do you get paid by Blizzard or what's your beef?
I think it is good to point out flaws, but if your coverage is so biaised as Jarnos then you start wondering...

[NukemNazi]

That title is a tad too strong and some of the tone used in the article is a little harsh (just trying to help so don't go frying me).

[Sraz]

I love the objectivity. Nothing wrong with being critical, but this isn't even journalistic. I might as well just listen to the general rabble on the AoC forums.

[Jarnis]

I'm harsh for a reason. They marketed Age of Conan as offering massive PvP battles, then designed it so that there will be no PvP battles.

and you get paid by blizzard. that helps.

[Jarnis]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

and you get paid by blizzard. that helps.

Nope, I'm paid by Futuremark, the owner of this site.

Don't get my reporting wrong - I'd love to see AoC as a fully-fledged MMO that is enjoyable to play. That just doesn't stop us from reporting what's wrong with it. Only way all the Funcoms of the world will get their act together and polish up their products before release is if someone stands up and says how it is when they publish unfinished stuff.

About EvE. 50% of server pop isn't in even 50 corps if you don't take into account the noob corps

Your journalistic skills amaze me (not)