PC Format DAOC turnabout

[Crookshanks]

My main concern is the lack of advertisement and distribution DAOC gets in the UK. Quite a few French and German servers have very high populations where as the English ones have taken a huge hit, its almost impossible to buy DAOC from the store in the UK

Well Amazon do have it back in stock - so at least we do now have <some> method to aquire the game (I havn't been around to the Southampton stores recently to check if the shops have it).

What does slightly concern me however (and this is in no way intended as a negative remark directed in GOA/Requiel's direction) is that Req. can chat to the PC Format jouranlists and the next issue has a glowing article. Are our journalists that fickle in that they take the attitude "oh well they won't talk to us I won't give them a good report" ? I had hoped they actually reported acurately as they saw it

In my mind's view - there should be a huge untapped MMORPG market out there - we all know how addictive they are (I can't remember how life was before DAOC). With the huge increase in popularity of broadband in the UK over the last 3 years, plus all the "English" speaking countries (Scandinavia, Eastern Europe countries, etc) the English servers have the potential for the greatest daoc population of all the languages I would have thought?

Anyway thanks for making the effort Requiel - lets hope it pays off and the English speaking servers are returned to their former glory

 

[Job]

DOAC is the most unknown game going, I walk into computer games stores and mention expansions and they're like 'Dark age of what?????'

No-one has ever heard of it.

Guys I work with play lots of games, usually world war 2 stuff, they have NEVER heard of it.
Their kids have NEVER heard of it.

The things frekin things based in England FFS.

A quick question
How did YOU find out about DAOC?
My friends builders daughter played on the US server, I was looking at EQ at the time, he mentioned it to me.

 

[Crookshanks]

A quick question
How did YOU find out about DAOC?

I admit - it was a work colleague who mentioned it (who quit about 3 months after I started) - but then again I wouldn't have even considered an online game which you actually pay per month for (when Ultima-Online came out - I remember thinking "Who on EARTH is going to pay to play?") unless I'd have found people who played.

 

[Draylor]

PC Format's opinions change with advertising $$$s (or in this case €€€s)

Always has, always will.

Why people waste their money on it I dont understand

 

[Danamyr]

The idea of Master Levels is to encourage teamwork. Besides, changing all encounters to be doable by 8 people would mean a massive decrease in the levels of mobs. They would be constantly farmed, shattering market value of rare items, and making kitting out your template far too "easy", with little excitement value.

Eggy, I agree with your views on MLs, but you're wrong about artifacts IMHO. This is exactly what the game needs to make it more inclusive. ToA is a nightmare for casual gamers like myself. I am casual through the demands of my job, just like many other emploed adults - not through choice.

It should be no more difficult to obtain a decent ToA template then it used to be to get a decent SC suit. I am happy to leave the levelling requirements for artifacts as is, because you can always level them solo - obtaining them in the first place is what's hard if you can only play infrequently.

 

[IainC]

PC Format's opinions change with advertising $$$s (or in this case €€€s)

Always has, always will.

Why people waste their money on it I dont understand

Well I went to their offices and presented the game to them, showed them around a Catacombs server and generally explained things and they were genuinely interested and impressed. I guess it's the difference between getting a review copy and being told to take a look at a very complex game that isn't easy to review at a glance or having someone who knows the game come and show it to you.

I can tell they were genuinely nterested and not just being polite because I was getting MSNed by the games editor over the next week or so wanting to know more about various things.

 

[rampant]

does help when u have a level100 toon to display with as well - did ya solo the dragon to them