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About EU AoC and Rogue-Tank

DazarocDazaroc Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
in General Discussion
I have some questions about it. First of all, are they interchangeable? I mean, if I get a preorder here, will I be able to play on the EU servers? I guess not, but may aswell ask just in case.
If I cannot, then thing is, I want to play this game. But the EU company has quite a reputation about P2C and P2W features (I did read about both, but only found P2C). What I want to know is, if you're SO SURE there's not going to be any kind of P2W or P2C in the game, can I be sure there won't be any of that on the EU side of AoC by My.games? I really want to know that, irst and foremost because if I have to play on NA servers just to avoid P2W and P2C I will. That I know.
I would like to ask about content release dates. Will NA and EU be on par with each other? Will EU be behind in content like some other games have been doing?
And by the way, it's been a week and I cannot preorder on the My.games AoC website. I doubt this even goes here, but just a FYI.

Aside from that, there's a thing that made me fall in love with the class system, and it's quite a silly thing, but I wanted to know a little more about how can I expect classes to work. I heard the Fighter-Mage Charge-teleport explanation like 3 times, in 2 different interviews, but my question is a little more specific. Rogue tank.
I mean, according to the class chart, it is possible. Even more, it can be done with 2 different classes: Shadowguardian and Nightshield; or as I understand it: Rogue skills with Tank augmentations, and Tank skills with Rogue augmentations. I may be wrong here, but that's not exactly the point.
My point is, what can I expect from Shadowguardian for example? Backstabs that generate aggro? I know backstabs are ingame since you referred to them as an example a couple times, but I cannot figure out what to expect from a class like that. And my main problem is that is the one I struggled to find since 2009 when I first saw that as a concept and just fell in love with it, even when I knew in that game it wasn't a viable option, I made it so at all costs.

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  • SongcallerSongcaller Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    You will be able to play on EU Servers, yes. Before the My.com Deal there was no way to separate EU and NA players. I imagine IS will transfer everything you own to an EU server closer to game release. They did migrate to My.com for EU before but My.com removed it all so luckily IS copied all my items back to the standard IS Account. I don't see any issues in the long term and will play on EU.
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  • Cold 0ne FTBCold 0ne FTB Member, Alpha One, Adventurer, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    We haven't seen the rogue abilities yet so it is hard to predict what each augment will look like. If my understanding is correct you can pay for the game now and intrepid will sort out what server each account goes to later on. But I am still somewhat new and maybe mistaken.
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  • NoaaniNoaani Member, Intrepid Pack, Alpha Two
    Dazaroc wrote: »
    I have some questions about it. First of all, are they interchangeable? I mean, if I get a preorder here, will I be able to play on the EU servers? I guess not, but may aswell ask just in case.
    If I cannot, then thing is, I want to play this game. But the EU company has quite a reputation about P2C and P2W features (I did read about both, but only found P2C). What I want to know is, if you're SO SURE there's not going to be any kind of P2W or P2C in the game, can I be sure there won't be any of that on the EU side of AoC by My.games? I really want to know that, irst and foremost because if I have to play on NA servers just to avoid P2W and P2C I will. That I know.
    I would like to ask about content release dates. Will NA and EU be on par with each other? Will EU be behind in content like some other games have been doing?
    And by the way, it's been a week and I cannot preorder on the My.games AoC website. I doubt this even goes here, but just a FYI.

    Aside from that, there's a thing that made me fall in love with the class system, and it's quite a silly thing, but I wanted to know a little more about how can I expect classes to work. I heard the Fighter-Mage Charge-teleport explanation like 3 times, in 2 different interviews, but my question is a little more specific. Rogue tank.
    I mean, according to the class chart, it is possible. Even more, it can be done with 2 different classes: Shadowguardian and Nightshield; or as I understand it: Rogue skills with Tank augmentations, and Tank skills with Rogue augmentations. I may be wrong here, but that's not exactly the point.
    My point is, what can I expect from Shadowguardian for example? Backstabs that generate aggro? I know backstabs are ingame since you referred to them as an example a couple times, but I cannot figure out what to expect from a class like that. And my main problem is that is the one I struggled to find since 2009 when I first saw that as a concept and just fell in love with it, even when I knew in that game it wasn't a viable option, I made it so at all costs.
    Steven did address this not long after My.com were first announced.

    He's seen the issues they have in other games (or that players percieve they have, I'm not sure), and so he made sure that those same issues could not happen.
  • DazarocDazaroc Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    noaani wrote: »
    Dazaroc wrote: »
    I have some questions about it. First of all, are they interchangeable? I mean, if I get a preorder here, will I be able to play on the EU servers? I guess not, but may aswell ask just in case.
    If I cannot, then thing is, I want to play this game. But the EU company has quite a reputation about P2C and P2W features (I did read about both, but only found P2C). What I want to know is, if you're SO SURE there's not going to be any kind of P2W or P2C in the game, can I be sure there won't be any of that on the EU side of AoC by My.games? I really want to know that, irst and foremost because if I have to play on NA servers just to avoid P2W and P2C I will. That I know.
    I would like to ask about content release dates. Will NA and EU be on par with each other? Will EU be behind in content like some other games have been doing?
    And by the way, it's been a week and I cannot preorder on the My.games AoC website. I doubt this even goes here, but just a FYI.

    Aside from that, there's a thing that made me fall in love with the class system, and it's quite a silly thing, but I wanted to know a little more about how can I expect classes to work. I heard the Fighter-Mage Charge-teleport explanation like 3 times, in 2 different interviews, but my question is a little more specific. Rogue tank.
    I mean, according to the class chart, it is possible. Even more, it can be done with 2 different classes: Shadowguardian and Nightshield; or as I understand it: Rogue skills with Tank augmentations, and Tank skills with Rogue augmentations. I may be wrong here, but that's not exactly the point.
    My point is, what can I expect from Shadowguardian for example? Backstabs that generate aggro? I know backstabs are ingame since you referred to them as an example a couple times, but I cannot figure out what to expect from a class like that. And my main problem is that is the one I struggled to find since 2009 when I first saw that as a concept and just fell in love with it, even when I knew in that game it wasn't a viable option, I made it so at all costs.
    Steven did address this not long after My.com were first announced.

    He's seen the issues they have in other games (or that players percieve they have, I'm not sure), and so he made sure that those same issues could not happen.

    Do you happen to have the source of that? Would be a huge relief to read/listen if you do
  • NoaaniNoaani Member, Intrepid Pack, Alpha Two
    Nope, but I'm sure some of the EU posters here would have a better understanding of it.
  • XraelXrael Member
    Dazaroc wrote: »
    noaani wrote: »
    Dazaroc wrote: »
    I have some questions about it. First of all, are they interchangeable? I mean, if I get a preorder here, will I be able to play on the EU servers? I guess not, but may aswell ask just in case.
    If I cannot, then thing is, I want to play this game. But the EU company has quite a reputation about P2C and P2W features (I did read about both, but only found P2C). What I want to know is, if you're SO SURE there's not going to be any kind of P2W or P2C in the game, can I be sure there won't be any of that on the EU side of AoC by My.games? I really want to know that, irst and foremost because if I have to play on NA servers just to avoid P2W and P2C I will. That I know.
    I would like to ask about content release dates. Will NA and EU be on par with each other? Will EU be behind in content like some other games have been doing?
    And by the way, it's been a week and I cannot preorder on the My.games AoC website. I doubt this even goes here, but just a FYI.

    Aside from that, there's a thing that made me fall in love with the class system, and it's quite a silly thing, but I wanted to know a little more about how can I expect classes to work. I heard the Fighter-Mage Charge-teleport explanation like 3 times, in 2 different interviews, but my question is a little more specific. Rogue tank.
    I mean, according to the class chart, it is possible. Even more, it can be done with 2 different classes: Shadowguardian and Nightshield; or as I understand it: Rogue skills with Tank augmentations, and Tank skills with Rogue augmentations. I may be wrong here, but that's not exactly the point.
    My point is, what can I expect from Shadowguardian for example? Backstabs that generate aggro? I know backstabs are ingame since you referred to them as an example a couple times, but I cannot figure out what to expect from a class like that. And my main problem is that is the one I struggled to find since 2009 when I first saw that as a concept and just fell in love with it, even when I knew in that game it wasn't a viable option, I made it so at all costs.
    Steven did address this not long after My.com were first announced.

    He's seen the issues they have in other games (or that players percieve they have, I'm not sure), and so he made sure that those same issues could not happen.

    Do you happen to have the source of that? Would be a huge relief to read/listen if you do

    Lazy Peon made a video about it.

    Here you go.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGsXie8d8mM&t=374s
  • DazarocDazaroc Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    That settles it. Thank you very much, honestly. I knew it was going to be a big relief, but not that much. :)
  • VolgaireVolgaire Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Pretty sure my.com has no creative control and have to provide the exact same content and patch version as the US version, they are pretty much responsible for servers and player support (though even that had people worried) if they fuck up I'm sure it will somehow affect the contract.
  • GboltGbolt Member
    edited July 2020
    I read a post from my.com, where not long after they were revealed as publisher, they announced their intend to not be P2W and follow same path as it will be in USA. There reasoning for that was, previously, all games where free to play and AOC is not, so it does not require P2W cash shop.

    But time will show if these are just words or real thing.
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