One More Year

Friends and Frenemies: One more year of waiting for progress. Simply stated, IF AOC cannot fix frame rates, sign-in stability, and mechanics - I am out. It costs this ardent Hero $1K a year to support two guilds. Yet I hear from unknown names that either are noobs or re-named older playahs as white knights lately. So @Lex can be the silent supporter. The launch may be a bust. I say this as the 'doubting thomas' has good intentions while others are not touting reality. Be Safe during COVID times. Skaff,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fQwuvZJb7A

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WhitneyHagasMatsumoto

I hate to use these words, but ......

"It's useless to deal with them.
Honestly, I don't even want to take the effort to post this sentence in this thread.

I apologize if you are using the term without malice.

But if you are just saying these words to harass everyone, please leave this forum now.
And please do something useful for the people around you.
You are not doing yourself or anyone else in this forum any favors.

Just to be clear, I won't be throwing any more words at you, I don't want to think about anything unpleasant for even 0.1 second.

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Cold 0ne FTB

skafftaruss wrote: »

Friends and Frenemies: One more year of waiting for progress. Simply stated, IF AOC cannot fix frame rates, sign-in stability, and mechanics - I am out. It costs this ardent Hero $1K a year to support two guilds. Yet I hear from unknown names that either are noobs or re-named older playahs as white knights lately. So @Lex can be the silent supporter. The launch may be a bust. I say this as the 'doubting thomas' has good intentions while others are not touting reality. Be Safe during COVID times. Skaff, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fQwuvZJb7A

I am really curious. What costs a thousand dollars a year to maintain? I have been a member and an officer of many guilds over the years, some of them small and others massive upwards of 2000+ people. Some of them used teamspeak and had their own websites. Yet none of them cost nearly that much to maintain.

Sathrago

Cold 0ne FTB wrote: »

I am really curious. What costs a thousand dollars a year to maintain? I have been a member and an officer of many guilds over the years, some of them small and others massive upwards of 2000+ people. Some of them used teamspeak and had their own websites. Yet none of them cost nearly that much to maintain.

He was supporting 2 ERP guilds on the Moonguard server from World of Warcraft purely for the race and gender changes.

halbarz

I am not sure what the OP is talking about when he says: fix frame rates, sign-in stability, and mechanics.
The game is entering Alpha 1 in a week if I am not mistaken, if we are being realistic Ashes will at best come out in 2023 but most prob. 2024. There are bound to be issues, far worse than a bit of frame rate dropping at this stage.

Also, I am curious how you spent 1000 USD per year. If you are facing financial challenges consider asking for donations in your guild. Nothing wrong with that in my opinion, it's how we used to fund TS and the guild website for lotro in 2008.

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Cold 0ne FTB

skafftaruss wrote: »

@Cold 0ne FTB : It's called maintaining a couple of web sites, multiple nitro booster(s), an IT techy that understands discord, and some little cheap projects on a shoe string budget. What have you done to support and further AOC? I give constructive criticism because I am scared ashes will fail because of anecdotal evidence like Everquest Next. Namely, not ready for the surge of players at launch because server capacity is not prepared. Being cheap is just being cheap with cuddly platitudes and excuses. Remember Bard said - You only have one chance at launch. Note the video link below on a shoe string budget. Comments on YouTube were more thumbs down than thumbs up, and 'an awful video.' Payed a couple hundred bucks and I tried my voiceover in the Stacy Keach mode .... didn't quite work that way. Cheers! Skaff. https://video.wixstatic.com/video/5ddb65_3b317229fad14962bb6b8687a87b66c0/720p/mp4/file.mp4

I have provided feedback and paid for alpha 1 pack but at this point this game is out of all our hands. It's completely funded so paying for the Kickstarter or buying a pack doesn't provide any necessary support. Nor does providing feedback as it is almost completely up to Steven as to what the game will be like. I am also not really sure how this is relevant to my question.

I don't know the level or extend to the organization your guilds require but that sucks that you have to pay for an IT techy usually the guilds I am operate on a volunteer basis and they don't need to pay for that kind of service. The domains and boosting cost money but usually it is a shared cost.

Wololo

@skafftaruss you going to threaten me with TOS now while you start this thread with this lol

skafftaruss wrote: »

sign-in stability,

I just can not stand the fact that after backing and having hopes for a game every post you make is full of negative stuff that also makes no sence. In fact i have trouble even understanding half of the sentences you are saying. It is like a brain has been overloaded with impulses and just combined a bunch of strange words togethere till it looked like a negative enough story to grab some attention. My only explanation for that would be that a substance foreign to the body is influencing behaviour. Now this does not mean drugs but could be anything. I am going to apologise again though because this was not ment in a mean way rather, as a reminder to actually think a little bit before you type something

kanwesmuzzy

Regardless of AoC criticism, am I crazy or is this person talking like he's having a stroke? Someone tell me this guy is a nut or something? I really don't care if he has a legit or not argument about AoC, he is just talking weird.

Songcaller

Skaff might not be a native english speaker. I've always translated naturally to english from the information given. As a Trained Mental Health Nurse I do not like the backlash that is occurring based on presentation and not substance.

maouw

I'm pretty sure it's a language difference. Translation probably comes across as more assertive/aggressive in English, whereas I think Skaff himself is a go-getter type of person who wants to get straight to the point.

Personally, I disagree with your opinion Skaff. The roadmap is quite clear that we're a few years out from launch so you should expect that.

Just don't talk about "noobs" and "white-knights" - keep it to yourself.

P0NCH0

skafftaruss wrote: »

@Cold 0ne FTB : It's called maintaining a couple of web sites, multiple nitro booster(s), an IT techy that understands discord, and some little cheap projects on a shoe string budget.

Lmao, paying for a IT tech for discord is like calling geek squad to setup your router. And paying for nitro is just throwing your money away no wonder you guys are having financial issues.

McMackMuck

@skafftaruss
I understand that we are all dealing with lockdown differently, but I don't think this kind of post is easy to turn into anything positive.
If AoC doesn't end up being what you want, just walk away.
If you get fed up with waiting, just walk away.
If you need help waiting, there's a few games out there that people are playing to fill in time. Some of my guildmates are playing Valheim together atm. It should be good for a few months.

You may have shared some NDA breaking information and I hope that doesn't bite you on the ass.
Aside from a handful of trolls there's a majority in this community that want to help you (and everyone else) have a good time in life and be a passionate part of the community when the game launches.

Just in case it helps, here's a virtual bro' hug.
Mack

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PoliceGirl

I'm going to give my guild members all these 1k of precious pencil shavings... I've been saving them for when AoC looses the make-up store.

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