Age of Conan ships a million units

You know a company can make a lot of money with a userbase under 10 million too.

I understand that WoW has been the measure, but I wouldn't be upset to have 400k players in such a short time at all.

i so want this game...i really need a new pc though.

this games is kinda like shadowbane on hgh.

I just did a million. I'm ... kinda a big deal.

Anyway ... congrats to FunCom. Worse name ever but nonetheless in the current market with WoW Dominance that's still an impressive achievement.

I am in the game and it is great.

Don't get me wrong it has some issues but so far none of them have broken the fun for me at all.

AoC is sort of like a mashup of WoW and Guild Wars.

I didn't like it and cancelled after a week of play, but your mileage may vary. Great graphics (hard on computers) but there are still lots of bugs and gameplay issues.

I'd recommend learning from my mistake and at least waiting a few months to give it a try.

Good for them. Now lets see them sustain this increase for 3+ years like Blizzard has been doing with WoW.

Eh. I'll continue looking forward to the new EVE expansion.

400,000*$15= $6,000,000 a month

Oh, that's quite bad.... they NEED 15mil players.

Definitely has it's fair share of issues, but I think it's a great atmospheric game. Just bought the 'Complete Chronicles of Conan' by Robert E. Howard because I've been so sucked into all of the Conan lore (even though I had no prior knowledge of it).

There are some bugs and stuff, but since pretty much ever bug you encounter someone else will have too, you can just type it into the OOC (general) channel and someone will tell you how to resolve/get around it or whether to just ignore.

Prime example is that there is a quest called "Wounded Child" where you're supposed to find this blind kid that disappeared into the wilderness. You go to the area she's supposed to be and there's no sign of her. That's because the respawn timer is 90 minutes or something ridiculous, so she's basically never there. Every once in a while you will see someone ask "Is the wounded child quest bugged?" and people will answer explaining what's wrong with it.

That's about as serious as it gets, nothing to be too worried about.

The good definitely overrides the bad, at this early stage I would give the game about an 83% rating (based on my experience so far, as a lvl 36), and I would expect that once the end game stuff picks up and the new content gets added over the course of the summer (whole new outdoor areas, more quests with voice acting, pvp xp rewards and punishments, as well as ironing out any remaining bugs or performance issues) that score could go up by 10%.

"They were trying to build a new fresh mmo experience and the new improved combat does just that. IT IS NOT WOW. Geez, when will people realize that."

They *are* trying to build a fresh new MMO; sadly they're bound to run into players who will bring up WoW and say "I could do (action) in WoW, why can't I in AoC?!", not to forget the classic "launch was 3 weeks ago already, why isn't the whole game fixed to my liking?!".

Things will calm down past the first month of free play; the player base will drop a bit because of those who found out AoC is not for them for whatever reason, Funcom likely expects that. And once things settle down, things will progressively get better.

Who gives a shit if they can reach 10 mil? I'd take five to ten percent of those numbers any day. And I'd laugh all the way to the bank.

Conan isn't open world, though. Everything is instanced to the nth degree. I don't classify this game as a MMO.

People will continue to compare a 3 year old game to a less than a couple weeks old game cause it suits them. If you like WOW stay with WOW. I never got why blizz fans get annoyed when people insult WOW, tell them to leave then when something new comes out beg for it to die?

Still can't come close to the original glory of EQ1. I am talking early EQ1, before the last 7~ expansions. Then again, EQ was like a 3rd parent to me. It taught me a lot. I'm all grown up now, and it seems to be like a stale piece of bread with little appeal. But I still have those fantastic memories. /tear

I must be the only one on the planet that couldn't get into WoW. I still log into EQ1 from time to time. My 2 cp's.