Anniversary Mount

Age of Conan General Discussion
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Why are you so eager to defend corporate greed? Don’t you think that placing anniversary gift behind paywall and marketing it as free is a false advertisement? Especially when it comes to the event which is all about community that dedicates its time to enjoy this game. To think that people want to defend such practises reminds me a bit of Stockoholm Syndrome.

I believe it is right thing to call Funcom on this - Turning event about gratefulness into another opportunity to make money is quite low. I don’t think treating all players with dignity should be an abstract concept (especially during anniversary). F2p players shouldn’t be perceived as some kind of leeches, but important part of AoC shrinking community.

In my opionion this mount is quite a PR disaster, but perhaps we deserve it for sticking so long with this company.

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I grew up in a time where you payed for a game and played it. No freebies and no crying.

Why dont you give me 50000 bucks for free? As I’m part of the human community?

Nothing to do with corporate greed or stockholm syndrome. You dont have to pay for anything and still get the mount and other freebies. You can play this game for free, you dont need this mount. But if you want to use it just pay for a game which provides you many hours of entertainment.

Grow up snowflake.

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Folks why you even arguing so much on an uninspired generic rushed mount? It contributes to the overall gaming experience as much as the fart emote. We are all here to have fun, and you folks waste your time on such a crap topic… :joy:

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For arguments sake the fart and piss emote was way, way more important than this mount.

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You literally get year worth of grind as rewards from this event, and still have audacity to complain about not being able to use a crappy mount for free.

And yea, I never would have figured that company is out there to make money.

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That surprises me the most, to be honest. They’re worst than awol in the swl section, and that is a bar set really high…

What these people seem to ignore is it wasn’t some standalone issue, it was a change.
Pretty dumb to defend something with ‘haha f2p leech scrubs’ and ‘this is business’ if it’s a change - wasn’t it a business too during all those years, when the event mounts were usable to everyone, right from Tortage?

Many players used to log back during these events, roll a new character and level up. For them the mount was a nice convenience bonus, no walking-only until 40, just ride everywhere from the start. You could saw every time in similar events that Tortage was stuffed with new, low level characters.
Those players were kicked to the curb with this change, and mind you they are not just free players. You could be even a subscriber with thousands of golds on your other alts, this mount is still just a useless junk on your new character.

Which gets to the point of CaoCao, the false advertising. They promoted this event the same way as all the others in the previous years.
Never said, nowhere, that the mount will be unusable to anyone below 80. The first time you noticed it was when you claimed it on your character - and ofc then it was already too late, even if you have 80s with advanced riding you couldn’t pass it over to them. Just a junk dead weight in your inventory.

Not a surprise though, it is just the usual Funcom way: oversilence any bad changes, hide under the rug until the ragestorm fades, and let the fluffers and forum warriors to defend any negative moves. Not just this one (the total absence of any form of response on the issue), they always do it.
The Nebless mentioned Vanaheim, the (crap, debuffed) T5 items as sub reward, etc.
Funcom’s “solution” is always just to ignore all comments long enough until the players move on to some new topics.

I have no idea what was their goal with this change, why put the gift mount behind advanced riding.
At the next event I definitely won’t create a new character, instead I will just log in a few times to spread out the expertise points among the existing ones and then leave.

Over the years, these events were a nice incentive to a lot of players for returning to the game. I guess that’s over, nobody will trust in the “… and a free mount!” promise again.

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Just remove the mount from the daily rewards and you will all be happy, replace it with “kings feast” or " 1 expertise point"

get this communist crying festival over with

Oh wait, having those aa points will cause screeching too as people with no khitai will cry

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It is very much possible, that whoever put the mount into the game did not even realize what it means to design it to need advanced riding, I bet no one at Funcom knows their own game well enough to remember tiny facts like advanced riding only beeing accesable for current subs. Or the swift mount design has a default setting to “advanced riding”, and someone forgot to check the box for “speed scales to characters riding skill”.
Nonetheless, everyone who logged in got the mount, and it was free.

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I’ve never seen so many people whine for a free useless mount.

“PR disaster” haha

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Do you even still play the game? AA points have been usable by EVERYONE since 2016, Premium, F2p, with Godslayer or without Godslayer, doesn’t matter.

Everyone get’s the kill xp towards full AA points and everyone can use the AA points they give in these special log in bonuses (50 exertise points in the first 2 weeks of login).

Only thing that stands out with AA points now is only those with a sub get the 1 point each time they level up.

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I do play, and the mount is not important. get over it :joy:

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I guarantee this was an issue where they simply forgot to remove the advanced riding requirement.

Not sure why people are getting heated over this, on both sides of the aisle. While the mount requiring training does break precedent, it’s pretty obviously an oversight.

I find the same group of people in every thread arguing to make things harder for new players. Not sure how this helps the game or population to make things less accessible. You all whine that you want new players to have to “work” for gear instead of going into RF (while simultaneously whining how bad they are, showing there is no desire to actually play with the “RF Scrubs”), that PvE gear should outshine pvp gear, and now you want the anniversary event to give nothing as well as gatekeep a dumb mount from f2p players?

Where’s the fun in all these requirements?

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My post had nothing to do with the mount. It had to do with you not knowing the state of the current game, you should either read my post or look up how AA points are handled now. Since from your post you don’t have a clue.

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Why do you want to make it harder to play PvP for new pvp players? why dont let them have their shiny PvE gear in PvP?

you are just the same, you just dont care about PvE and just focus on your beloved PvP which gets no love from Funcom since forever.

I don’t see why all these snowflakes feel entitled to get everything for free. Don’t they get paid for their working hours?

Also mounts have not always been available without any riding skills. I play since 2011 and you needed some kind of riding skills and it was never a problem. Now it’s like the end of the world because folks have to invest time and money in a game they can play for free just to use a absolutely useless mount which is worse than lots of the mounts already ingame.

That’s exactly what F2P is all about. You can play the game for free, but you pay for the extra shinies.

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Seems like the louder an apologist, the lesser their accuracy… Nebless corrected the other one about AA points, so I’ll take this one :slight_smile:

First, the year means nothing. I play since launch, and that fact alone doesn’t give my post any more weight than yours. Accuracy does. Leave the whole “fake news, my opinion beats your fact” crap to politicians…

Second, the topic is not mounts, general, it is event (login reward) mounts. Which were always for everyone - until now. Just think back on the ugly spider, or the punk panther, or the golden lion (that was actually cool), or even the zombie mammoth, while you couldn’t use it inside Tortage, it was a mount for everyone. Probably there was more, I am not very frequent in AoC lately.

Point is, the complaints about this change are valid and justified. Also, just as I said above, it is not only a f2p vs subscriber issue, you can’t use this mount even as subscriber, on new (or existing but under 80) characters.

And that’s why those strawman additions over the course of the thread (‘it is ugly anyways’, ‘absolutely useless mount which is worse than lots of the mounts’ and such) are irrelevant, these anniversary mounts were never about looks or efficiency - for the record, the zath spider is the ugliest mount ever :slight_smile:
It was a convenience bonus for leveling, saved you the on-foot running around until you reach 40 - regardless of free or subscribed new character.
For old characters these mounts were always either useless, or (golden lion) just cosmetics. That’s why this change seems pointless, but… funcom logic.

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Oh my apologies, that I have bought khitai and a sub on the game that been on for… 11-12 years now
I mean it would be quite of struggle to play that long on f2p acc with nothing in it, but I can see why u need the mount now. :smile:

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lets break down your post a little.
Everyone should work for their gear and aa, that is what mmorpg is about. PROGRESSION.
and yes the players are bad, but the biggest reason is because they CAN farm RF without actually playing proper content that requires you to get better at the game.

Like how hard is that to understand? I will obviously be better player if I level myself with new class to 1-80, and do dungeons and real raids. Than if I go afk at RF and WB getting gifted stuff for free, because nothing is expected of me. Even with the best gear in game these people are not capable of doing easiest level 80 dungeons in game, which is absolutely pathetic. Mind you, this was not the case before RF generation (as much at least :stuck_out_tongue: )
And for that reason I do not see why I should ever invite any hardcore RF player on group, I am not spending my time having a ignorant vegetable in my group about his “ways of playing”

And really, the anniversary event already gives year worth of grind as a reward lol, so crying about some crappy mount is completely unreasonable.
I mean if you ask me, only thing we would get for anniversary is some event quests with only social stuff as a reward, that wont help your character at all.

And pve gear does not outshine pvp gear, majority of the players still use pvp gear and it is better.
Barb in pvp gear two shotting clothies is fine, tanks being immortal and farming clothies for breakfast is fine. But dear god when mage has t6 gear (or sin) and they can do somewhat more dmg on the said tanks, let the crying begin.

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Sry, but i could not believe that someone can write that much made up bullsh*t in one post.

The year means that i have seen a few events in aoc, as you should have if you play since launch. But it seems you forgot the older events where we got mounts but needed advanced riding or exotic riding. So how about your accuracy and fake news? Get your facts straight.

Point is, snowflakes like you cry about something they are not even entitled to. You got free stuff, why are you even crying? Funcom is not obligated to give you any gifts. You behave like little kids that got 9 of 10 gifts they wished for and are still crying like they didn’t get anything.

I don’t see any of your complaints justified as we are talking about freebies everyone gets.

So you call out strawman additions and that it doesn’t matter, but complain that you can’t use it at lvl 1? That not every fresh F2P account can use it straight from tortage?

Your logic is garbage. Like the whole post of yours.

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Agreed.

Point: The ‘FREE’ Mount (as advertised) - 1 per account - Requires Advanced Riding → on the character receiving it; even subscribers.

Advanced Riding Cost = 50 gold
Free to Play Gold Cap = 10 gold

Impossible for free players and 50g for subscribers.

The ‘Free’ Mounts advertised last year had the run speed scaled to riding skill, therefore, it’s reasonable that players expected this ‘Free’ mount to be the same and are disappointed.

I claimed the horse on a level 20 (subscribed account) and will have to pay 50gold to use it. Compared to the Legendary Royal War Steed (2 month subscription) with -50 stagger, this year’s would be a waste of 50g.

Conclusion: Subscribers do not need it, free players can not get it.

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2750 funcom points and you got all riding skills as f2p.