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Age of Conan: Launch Date Set for October 30th, 2007
GFulls
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Age of Conan launch date set for October 30,2007.
Funcom and Eidos announce a new release date for the hugely anticipated MMO 'Age of Conan - Hyborian Adventures'. Widely heralded as one of the most innovative and best looking games in development, co-publishers Funcom and Eidos have now decided to further hone the qualities of the game. The new release date is set to the 30th of October 2007 and will further ensure an online experience with truly stunning impact.
"Age of Conan" brings something brand new and highly innovative to the MMO genre' says CEO Trond Arne Aas. "Age of Conan" today looks and plays fantastically, as countless press previews and industry feedback attest to. Even so, we believe that by spending even more time and effort into polishing and enhancing the game we will ensure that the game reaches its full potential in terms of quality and subscriber base. We are confident that our fan base will appreciate this commitment to quality. The prolonged development time reflects our ambition to meet and exceed the expectations of our fans for this game.'
"Age of Conan is truly a labor of love for Funcom and I am proud and amazed at the accomplishments of our world class development team. The extra development time on Age of Conan will enable us to deliver a truly awesome MMO gaming experience - with next generation MMO-combat and a lush and vibrant world to live in, said Gaute Godager, founder of Funcom and Game Director on 'Age of Conan'. "Now we can pack even more punch into the brutal world of Conan, and, by Crom, I feel certain that we will deliver a game that will appeal to a broad range of players as we introduce new features to the genre.'
'Age of Conan' is currently in closed beta. Funcom will soon announce a unique chance to secure a spot in the open beta of the game. If you are, or will shortly become, a part of the 'Age of Conan' community you will have a unique chance to influence and impact the 'Age of Conan" game as it approaches its last stages of development.
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It's really quite easy....................do a little empirical research over at the official Age of Conan forums using the search function. No mystery or majesty about it. It does, however, require a little more work than posting witty one-liners.
It's really quite easy....................do a little empirical research over at the official Age of Conan forums using the search function. No mystery or majesty about it. It does, however, require a little more work than posting witty one-liners.
That's assuming most followers of AoC actually post on the forums.. If you ever lurked around the SWG forums, you've no doubt heard of "the silent majority". Plus, when you do that search, a good deal of the threads you pull up are from the same people over and over who feel passionate enough about the subject to run it into the ground. So, i'm still looking for a place to sign up, have been for a long time. Also, witty one-liners are the back-bone to any good thread, don't knock em'.
Also, While I believe they will use this time to tweak and enhance thegame, I do believe that this falls in line with MS wanted to have Vista/360 shared games to release simultaneously.
Anyhow, I look forward to this game!
IMO they want to bring the pc and the port/x-box out at the same time to rival you know who! in sales and active accounts. It 's hard biz out there with a cluttered mmo market and if you cant fill up the servers you will never make the long term investment goals or meet their projections to the investors. plus I hate when games and sofwarz are dropped in a box still needing huge patches cuz they want to get the money rolling in but still need months or even years of work(microshaft) is the king of this. for all you soon to be fustrated Vista peeps will be loving the 3 or 4 games you can play with Dx10 including AoC.
Also, a good pissing match makes for a fun forum. So let'm rip!
My point is simple and two fold.
1) I believe that the whole new MS drive to try and release Vista/360 shared games at the same time MAY have something to go with the delay (commenting on an earlier post mentioning that).
2) I hope that there are seperate servers because I find that the PC gaming community is WAY less immature than what *I* encounter on the 360. As I have said, I have been gaming for over a decade, so I obviously do not let immature gamers get the best of me, but I do PREFER to play with less immature people and I feel that I would find that more on a PC only server as someone else has mentioned. Like I also said, I love the Xbox Live service, but I find it has more immature users. Also, I agree with you on WoW as that was my biggest gripe with playing WoW.
Just my $.02, feel free dispose of it!
However that might just be wishful thinking on my part. Age doesn't necessarily guarantees maturity
However that might just be wishful thinking on my part. Age doesn't necessarily guarantees maturity
Playing: Darkfall Unholy Wars
Played: Darkfall, EVE, AoC, Ryzom, Ragnarok Online, GW2, PS2, Secret World, WOW, City Of Heroes/Villains, Champion Online.
All in all, I'm glad if Funcom follows Blizzard's approach on polished products rather than Sigil's approach on rushed early betas. I just hope two years after the release they don't introduce a perversion like Shadowlands was for AO.
Most companies really don't know how to produce an expansion without breaking the original game.
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I find it rather sad that people turn away from a game, all because its development schedule is being pushed longer and longer. Would you rather get your greedy little claws on a good game, but with lack of promised features and polish? Or a Great game that is everything that was expected to be.
5 months isnt that long. Suck it up, follow the game, and play other things in the mean time. MMO's arent the only genre!
Thats bollocks.
I consider myself a mature gamer (i am 30 too *cough*), i have been playing MMOs for longer then is probably good for me, and i own a 360. I also think that conan coming out on the 360 is a good thing.
You obviously are passionate about it. Others are not. Be carefull though what you count as the majority.
It's really quite easy....................do a little empirical research over at the official Age of Conan forums using the search function. No mystery or majesty about it. It does, however, require a little more work than posting witty one-liners.
But again, it's not that I disagree with you.. Just for different reasons. Different servers would be beneficial as the 360 lacks integrated KB/Mouse support for gameplay rendering it inferior mostly for communication. Can probably use a keyboard to communicate, but it'd have to be used in conjunction with the controller and that'd just end up being cumbersome. We have to rely on silly voice chat, which may have me treating the game like a single player one.
In closing I halfway expected this thread to actually be about age of conan not a bunch of whining about console vs. pc gaming lol.
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Polish and committment to quality are things I don't see too much of in mmorpgs. It's nice that a few companies are holding to this, such as Funcom. Seems they've learned from Anarchy Online, which was released in such a poor state, but gained a lot of respect once it was polished sometime after.
Mmorpgs that are polished and made as complete as can be for launch will be really something to behold. I hope AoC will be one of these, along with some others like Heros Journey and Fallen Earth. Both Simutronic and Icarus seem to be taking their time and really taking care of details, even if it means another delay. If the end product will be noticeably improved, I think it's worth waiting for instead of getting a less than spectacular first impression of a buggy game.
My only question is about the release date. Is is only for PC, or is this date also for the console version?
As for the PC users who are too mature to play with 360 users, I hope they do have their own server. I don't want ignorant fools like that playing with me, so by purporting that they are sequestering themselves into a haven for "high-brow discussion and mature appreciation of the finer points of the game", they are actually saving the rest of us from listening to them drone on endlessly.
I can't understand how you could say something like, "I hope I have a different server because I'm more mature," when talking about an MMORPG. WoW, and I know this has been brought up earlier, is a perfect example of THE PC MMORPG COMMUNITY. This is what mainstream PC users are like. You tell me that they are more mature, inherently and because of their choice of gaming hardware, than Xbox Live or PS 3 users.
Just the other day, while playing Rainbow Six Vegas, we broke off after a match for a cigarette, drink, etc. and started to talk about An Inconvenient Truth and hybrid cars, more importantly the government's alleged impedence of their development. What started out as kind of shaky became the most mature conversation I have ever had with 8 strangers. On a system like Xbox Live no less where everyone must wait for their chance to speak. This is, of course, an example of my experience only to show that 360 users and PC users are not intrinsically mature or immature, it's the user behind the gamepad/keyboard.
Wow, that did turn into a rant. Sorry folks.