Age of Conan reaches 700,000 players
Funcom announced today that Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures has entangled 700,000 players in its breast-reducing web. GameDaily reports that Funcom believes this makes Conan the #2 subscription MMO in the western world -- yeah, World of Warcraft is still #1 ... by a long shot.
According to NPD, Conan remains the top selling PC title in the US since its launch May 20. Funcom reported early last month it had shipped a million copies of the game to retail and now believes its current subscription numbers give it "significant development resources" to evolve the game over time. Hopefully this also means bugs that reduce anatomical parts will be caught in the future.
According to NPD, Conan remains the top selling PC title in the US since its launch May 20. Funcom reported early last month it had shipped a million copies of the game to retail and now believes its current subscription numbers give it "significant development resources" to evolve the game over time. Hopefully this also means bugs that reduce anatomical parts will be caught in the future.


















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'subscription-based' criteria needed to make it onto the list needed because GW has a few million :P
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Is it Massively Multiplayer? Check!
Is it a Role Playing Game? Check!
Is it Online? Most of the time.
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It could be a great game but they need to get their priorities straight or the success will be short lived.
In short, its not worth the $50-$80.00 price tag(depending onw hich version you buy) and definitely not worht the monthyl fee once you reach lvl 50. Some people might pay for a month after their free period if they game very casually and haven't reached 50 though but I suspect next month you'll see more and more pople drop out of AoC.
I know I did as it has nothing to offer me. Perhaps its my own fault for leveling my character to get to the end game? Maybe if I had enjoyed the ride and leveled very slowly or leveled characters from 8 classes at once, by the time I reached end-game they'd have had content to keep me interested?
Either that or funcom should have made some end-game content during theri 4 yeras of development time. No Directx 10 mode as promised yet, no pvp experience system and no functional(non-buggy/winable) mounted pvp combat. Three things that would add at least a point out of 10 to the games worth.
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Age of Conan is garbage, plain and simple. Subscription numbers don't make a game good, they just let other companies know that they can ship a broken product and still turn a profit.
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What do you think is more likely... That a few hundred thousand ppl disagree with you that the game is rubbish and actually like it, or that it's purely a matter of a few hundred thousand stupid people being fooled by the evil corporations that are Eidos/Funcom into spending hours playing the game?
Takes a while to get MMO's up and running fine.
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Anything else to add?
The whole story seems totally pointless. Pretty much a game based wholly upon a horrific battle system that makes absolutely no sense to me.
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So XxxSon0fLeonidas933xxX and Hotcowgirl16 are already taken?
*Interface is essentially similar to WoW, but with the option to choose your direction of attack... I don't see what problems you're referring to.
*The starting area is widely considered to be one of the best parts of the game... (Voice acting, story based night-time quests).
*Characters are much more customizable than most other MMO's (especially WoW)! Sure lots of people choose to be hot males or hot females... But believe me, you can create some really ugly bastards! Loads of stuff can be customized, I actually prefer the character creation in AoC to WoW/Tab.Rasa/LotRO/EO.
I think the main problem with character 'uniqueness' is not the appearance of the people, but rather the fact that there isn't enough variety in the armour appearance. That bugs me, but will be addressed over the coming months hopefully.
*Since when do people judge MMO's based on the overarching story? It's about the stories you encounter while questing, which are rather good (see my post about it further down). The main storyline with its voice acting is just a bonus.
*Why does the battle system make no sense to you? You mean the directional attacks? Has been pretty intuitive to everyone I've shown the game to...
Off topic though, I know I keep defending this game, but I just feel that the developers care about it and are going to improve it. Some people are ripping the game to shreds with negative comments and I think it's turning people off the game who might really enjoy. I have bought just about every MMO since WoW and I'm really liking AoC (I've been playing it since launch but I'm not that high level - I'm 41. But this is someone who bought WoW at launch and who's main is still at lvl 42 :p
The starting area is indeed quite entertaining and helps you think that the game is a beautiful experience, especially for an MMO (it is) but the night quests (to me) kill the point of an MMO. Sure, you can't get ganked while questing about.. but I think what is magical about MMO's is everyone is questing and leveling and playing on the same field. If you run into them, there they are. Instead, the night time quests is like running into an instance in WoW by yourself. And I pay 15 bucks a month for an online service so I can truly feel as if I'm online. Not playing my super nintendo. Then, I don't know if the night-time, solo questing happens throughout the game in other forms.
The interface is a bit of a mess and doesn't even attempt to look pretty OR easy to follow. If you want to reach your skills menu, gigantic stone pillars descend from the heavens blocking your view of anything in the game.. unlike WoW where a tiny little box pops up that somehow shows more information in a smaller space.
And lol, I guess I just have a thing for overarching story lines.
Ok so I did refute all that you said. I know that the AoC developers are doing everything they can to improve their little baby.. But the game is not poised to destroy WoW. It still needs a LOT of work. Even so, by far the second best MMO i've played.
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The Conan lore is a solid base for an MMO (I didn't know anything about it, but have started reading Robert Howard since playing)
I have more fun with the combat than I did in WoW
I love the PvP and can't wait until the XP update comes.
Graphics are gorgeous
I love the music
It's accessible
There are lots of really cool, non-grindy quests... EG a quest where you have to solve a murder mystery in the Tarantia Noble District, or one where you have to collect a bunch of insults to help you put down this obnoxious man in a bar. I have found the quests to be well written and interesting. Can't wait until they add in new quests and add voice acting.
Overall, I think the success is well deserved.
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While I've liked what I've seen, I can't recommend it. The game could have easily used another six months in testing, and Funcom has only just now opened a test server for actual players. Problems like stats on armor not actually giving any bonuses make the company look even worse than amateurs. Add to that the fact that Funcom has an enormous lack of communication with players and the game can become frustrating. Maybe some hard knocks (read: cancelled subs) and enough time will straighten the game out.
Pro: Leveling is easy, especially compared to any other MMO, including WoW.
Con: Heavily PvP-oriented gameplay at max level.
Extra Con: Most PvP-oriented gamers tend to be major douchebags.
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Psyclerk, the prophet. CoD4 comes to mind.
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In another cool quest you have to track down who has poisoned the water supply to a city. You travel to different parts gradually unraveling what happened.
Lots of the quests are written with a good dose of humour and have made me lol occasionally.
Imho the quests are good, I consider myself a fan :)
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Entire guilds are leaving this game, take it for what its worth but I know myself and my guild has. It's not so hard to believe other people saying they're experiencing the same thing on the boards when you've already personally experienced it yourself.
This game isn't worth the money or the frustration. By the time they get all the features into the game that are missing but were advertised on the box WAR and WoTLK will be out. If you haven't bought this game already but really really want to try it then do yourself a huge favor and wait at least 6 months to get what's actually advertised on the box. (hopefully the features will be in by then)
Also Funcom's cancellation page is "bugged" when a player cancels and cites a reason from the drop down box it automatically changes the reason you selected to "Financial Reasons" when you hit the submit button.
Dunno If I trust any numbers from Funcom after I experienced that little "bug".
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age of conan gold
low price ,faster delivery
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The combat system and graphics are phenominal. There are of course things that Funcom needs to fix, but they are working on them and releasing those fixes in weekly patches.
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