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  • KSUowls
    All Star
    • Jul 2009
    • 5900

    #31
    Re: The Secret World

    Game looks interesting. I haven't been able to find a MMO that holds my interest for more than a few weeks in a very long time though. Any impressions?

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    • goh
      Banned
      • Aug 2003
      • 20755

      #32
      Re: The Secret World

      Darkness War was awful. Hope the rest of the game isn't as bad as that was. It's been decent so far but all the glitches and bugs are holding it back. They seem far more concetrated on eliminating benefical ones than game/quest breaking or frustrating ones.

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      • goh
        Banned
        • Aug 2003
        • 20755

        #33
        Re: The Secret World

        It's free for this weekend. You can do 30 missions.

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        • goh
          Banned
          • Aug 2003
          • 20755

          #34
          Re: The Secret World

          The Haunting = Everything right with this game.
          Homeland Insecurity = Everything wrong with this game.

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          • Crimsontide27
            MVP
            • Jul 2004
            • 1505

            #35
            Re: The Secret World

            I did not care one thing about this game. Dont like Sci-fi, dont like zombies, not a fan of anything the game had to offer...

            Until I played it....

            Got the trial to hold over time till guild wars 2 comes out, and ill be darned if this isnt pretty impressive. Only in the first main game area, but the story and the way the game plays is just....fun...

            If GW2 wasnt releasing this week, I would buy this game after my time in the trial. Would it be a multi-year game like WoW and Everquest was...who knows.., but to just run through the content once it would be well worth it.

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            • Pokes
              Bearer of the curse
              • Jul 2002
              • 4538

              #36
              Re: The Secret World

              Originally posted by Crimsontide27
              I did not care one thing about this game. Dont like Sci-fi, dont like zombies, not a fan of anything the game had to offer...

              Until I played it....

              Got the trial to hold over time till guild wars 2 comes out, and ill be darned if this isnt pretty impressive. Only in the first main game area, but the story and the way the game plays is just....fun...

              If GW2 wasnt releasing this week, I would buy this game after my time in the trial. Would it be a multi-year game like WoW and Everquest was...who knows.., but to just run through the content once it would be well worth it.
              Agree, I think this is one of the best MMOs that not a lot of people are playing.
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              • Crimsontide27
                MVP
                • Jul 2004
                • 1505

                #37
                Re: The Secret World

                Lot of people are soured at Funcom due to their last few MMOS that have been very lackluster. I didnt see any advertising about this and only learned about it through my old guids website, and even then it didnt look remotely interesting.

                Only downloaded the demo after reading a few impressions and being bored waiting for GW2 to release.

                Very impressed with what I got to see. I never made it past the first actual starting zone, but ended up having to find a passcode to get into the airfield, running through sewers with lasers....googling quest hints since some were pretty far out there....its a solid game... I just think it came out at the wrong time.

                With the WoW expansion and GW2 set for release within the next week / month respectivly, I just dont think this game could have come out at a worse time. Had the game released early in the year when everyone was burnt out of their respective games / MMOs....I think it would have found some success, but releasing right next to the most popular MMos expansion, and the most hyped up MMO on the horizon....just isnt gonna work I dont think, and its a shame.

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                • Pokes
                  Bearer of the curse
                  • Jul 2002
                  • 4538

                  #38
                  Re: The Secret World

                  Originally posted by Crimsontide27
                  Lot of people are soured at Funcom due to their last few MMOS that have been very lackluster. I didnt see any advertising about this and only learned about it through my old guids website, and even then it didnt look remotely interesting.

                  Only downloaded the demo after reading a few impressions and being bored waiting for GW2 to release.

                  Very impressed with what I got to see. I never made it past the first actual starting zone, but ended up having to find a passcode to get into the airfield, running through sewers with lasers....googling quest hints since some were pretty far out there....its a solid game... I just think it came out at the wrong time.

                  With the WoW expansion and GW2 set for release within the next week / month respectivly, I just dont think this game could have come out at a worse time. Had the game released early in the year when everyone was burnt out of their respective games / MMOs....I think it would have found some success, but releasing right next to the most popular MMos expansion, and the most hyped up MMO on the horizon....just isnt gonna work I dont think, and its a shame.
                  I don't think it's not going to work, odds are most people who are really into WoW wouldn't touch/like TSW anyway.
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                  • goh
                    Banned
                    • Aug 2003
                    • 20755

                    #39
                    Re: The Secret World

                    Oh it flopped alright. 50-60% of the staff was laid off.

                    Norwegian games maker Funcom is either laying off or putting half of its 330 employees on unpaid leave, following weak sales of its much-anticipated new game The Secret World. Around 165 workers at Funcom’s offices in Oslo, Montreal, Beijing and the US are affected, reported newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) on Thursday. Funcom had around 100 […]


                    Knew that was coming from the beta. People said it was too difficult,too glitchy and having 3 paid services was way too much.

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                    • Crimsontide27
                      MVP
                      • Jul 2004
                      • 1505

                      #40
                      Re: The Secret World

                      There was no hype surrounding the game, no advertising, nothing....

                      If there wasnt a thread about it on my old guild forums, Id never have known it exsisted.

                      The timing of this release could not have been any worse. You have GW2..which is the most hyped MMO release tommorow, you have the WoW expansion releasing 30 days afterwards etc etc.... just a terrible time to release the game.

                      Difficulty is another issue all together. I like the idea of sideways leveling, but I did not like having to kill the same mobs over and over and never really able to kill faster as I got more skills. It was tedious, but manageable. Some of the quests were over the top as well, because lets be serious.....how many people could look at a photo and figure out somehow they were talking about Vivaldi writing the Four Seasons, or how many people speak Hebrew and Arabic, or know how to translate morsecode.

                      Biggest problem I see here is that when you take an MMO that tried to buck the trend of WoW clones like TSW did, it failed on an epic level, such that repeat attempts probably wont be made...and we are right back to having more and more failed WoW clones to choose from.

                      There are actually a lot of good things TSW had going for it, and its a shame it will never get recognized for it.

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                      • goh
                        Banned
                        • Aug 2003
                        • 20755

                        #41
                        Re: The Secret World

                        As The Escapist reports, when Trond Aas changed position on July 2 from CEO to "strategic advisor" and chief strategy officer, he became eligible to sell his Funcom shares. He immediately tried to offload 1.5 million of them, though he only succeeded in selling 650,000.

                        On July 2, when Aas changed roles, Funcom stock was still worth $17.60 a share; yesterday, it reached a high of $2.17. The falloff has been dramatic. Norwegian authorities are now investigating the claims against Aas.

                        Perhaps insiders at Funcom knew that their MMORPG was likely to underperform, or perhaps it's a horribly unfortunate coincidence of timing. Either way, the allegations don't do The Secret World or Funcom any favors.
                        http://kotaku.com/5943281/insider-tr...e-secret-world

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                        • goh
                          Banned
                          • Aug 2003
                          • 20755

                          #42
                          Re: The Secret World

                          Halloween quest is pretty good. Need more like it. (It's available on the test server)

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                          • goh
                            Banned
                            • Aug 2003
                            • 20755

                            #43
                            Re: The Secret World

                            Is now buy to play and no longer has a sub-fee.

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                            • MachoMyers
                              Old School
                              • Jul 2002
                              • 7670

                              #44
                              Re: The Secret World

                              Will definitely pop back in during the holidays.

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                              • UNC_Pete
                                MVP
                                • Jun 2005
                                • 2487

                                #45
                                Re: The Secret World

                                Anyone still playing? Hopped on the Amazon deal for 17.99. Downloading the client..

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