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Like <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/08/turbine-lord-of-the-rings-online-monthly-revenue-has-tripled-th/"><em>Lord of the Rings Online</em></a> before it, <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/age-of-conan"><em>Age of Conan</em></a> has sipped from the free-to-play goblet and, oh, it was a good sip. Developer Funcom reports that, since migrating the previous subscription-based game into <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/05/25/funcom-planning-age-of-conan-unrated-f2p-launch-this-summer/">free-to-play territory</a> last month, <em>Age of Conan: Unchained</em> (the game's new moniker) has seen a spike in users to the tune of 300,000 -- overall, revenues doubled over the last month. That is, like, the total opposite of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PQ6335puOc">lamentation</a> for Funcom!<br />
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And to celebrate <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPQ99y8KaTU">the upcoming movie remake</a> of the original Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle, Funcom is hard at work on a free movie tie-in content pack called <em>Savage Coast of Turan</em>. It will add new areas, equipment, enemies and charatcers from the upcoming film, which is set to pillage your local cinema on August 19.<br />
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Hit the jump for the full press release.<p><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/11/age-of-conan-sees-300-000-sign-up-after-free-to-play-switch-dou/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Age of Conan sees 300,000 sign up after free-to-play switch, double revenue in first month</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.joystiq.com"><img src="http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Joystiq" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/11/age-of-conan-sees-300-000-sign-up-after-free-to-play-switch-dou/">Age of Conan sees 300,000 sign up after free-to-play switch, double revenue in first month</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.joystiq.com">Joystiq</a> on Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:20:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/11/age-of-conan-sees-300-000-sign-up-after-free-to-play-switch-dou/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/20015765/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/11/age-of-conan-sees-300-000-sign-up-after-free-to-play-switch-dou/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>age-of-conan</category><category>Age-of-Conan-Hyborian-Adventres</category><category>age-of-conan-unchained</category><category>business</category><category>free-to-play</category><category>freemium</category><category>funcom</category><category>mmo</category><category>pc</category><category>sales</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Hinkle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:20:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>