The Netherlands-based Funcom says its recently released MMO Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures currently boasts over 415,000 customers. The game sold-in (to retail and digitally) 1.2 million units, and sold through (customers who have entered game client key and billing info) 800,000 copies to customers.
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TenTonHammer has confirmed layoffs at developer Funcom's US branch. Although the company would only acknowledge "staffing cuts," TTH reported rumors that 70% of the staff, mostly from the customer service and quality assurance departments, were let go. Although it's certainly no secret that Age of Conan is hurting at this point, the QA and CS departments are the two bookends of support on many MMORPGs. When there's no need for them, it speaks volumes about what happens next.
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"With its essentially amoral tenor, one can almost think of Age of Conan as akin to Grand Theft Auto, with swords instead of machine guns." Positive review of Age of Conan.
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Jyske bank (danish) have made prediction of 7 mill copies sold.
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The two companies have revealed their plans for evolving Age of Conan over the coming months, with heaps of new content influenced directly by player feedback in the pipes. It all starts out later this month with a major PVP update, which they are calling "To The Death." ... "Other planned updates include guild alliance warfare, allowing guilds to team up..."
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17 reviews have now been registered on Metacritic for Funcoms Age of Conan. The average score is now 80, which while still good is a substantial drop from the 86 they had last week. Lack of high end content is the main problem according to the most negative reviews. Funcom is working hard to deliver new content and have submitted their development plans for this summer. Critics suspects that these patches will rectify most of the negative issues.
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A new letter from the game director. Buddy key statement at the bottom.
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Game Director Craig 'Silirrion' Morrison wanted to give another preview on the upcoming update and here is what he had to share: The next game update is now progressing very nicely on the test server and we hope to have it ready for the live servers over the next couple of weeks. As anyone who has read the test server update notes or visited the test server will be aware the amount of changes and new content coming with this update is substantial...
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Original Story: Blizzard Entertainment CEO and co-founder Mike Morhaime today discussed the effects that the recent launch of Funcom's PC MMO Age of Conan had on World of Warcraft (PC). "Age of Conan released with some initial success," Morhaime noted. "We did see some of our players leave, [but] about 40% of those players have returned to World of Warcraft."
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Funcom N.V (NO) - The best selling PC game of May continues to hold the #1 spot in most markets - More than 700.000 gamers have registered an Age of Conan account so far
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