With the server merges slated for Age of Conan complete, Funcom can now turn their full development attention to bug fixes and new content for their violent fantasy title. A brand new Director's Letter from Craig Morrison has outlined new shinies that are coming to Hyborea very soon - so soon they're already on the test server. The biggest chunk of newness has to be the Xibaluku dungeon.
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A lot of time has passed since Age of Conan launched last May and while some things never change, it seems like the player perception of FunCom's slightly misfired MMO doesn't want to play by the rules. It's a good thing, though, as a small poll seems to be showing. Now, we say small because the actual statistics in question only represent about one-to-two thousand participants. Still, as a snapshot of a community, that's not too bad.
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Funcom really really wants to make their Conan MMO launches successfully. So much so that they've secured additional funding to shore up their marketing and operational capacity for Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. Approximately $30 million in additional funding. What this basically means, ladies and gentlemen, is that Funcom isn't f***ing around when it comes to what has the potential to be the most successful game they've ever created.
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Server mergers have finally come to Age of Conan. Today the US servers will be down starting around 7:00 a.m. EST (or 12 p.m. GMT) for about six hours so that Bloodspire and Hyperborea can be merged. Originally planned for early December, the mergers had been postponed when a data problem was identified that might have caused certain items to disappear in the process.
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Age of Conan recently opened sign-up for beta testers and the response has been overwhelming. Through Easter weekend more than 100,000 gamers signed up for a chance to get in on the Conan beta. It is unknown how many who signed up will be granted entry into the "technical" and "general" beta programs or when beta hopefuls will be notified of acceptance.
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Delsyn returns to Hyborea to get his hands dirty in combat, kill a yeti, get dressed up and finally reach the city of Tortage.
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GDC is a great chance to catch up with people you don't normally see. Like say, people who live in Norway, or Hyborea. That was the case this week when we caught up with Funcom and Conan. The gang was in town showing off the latest improvements to the game. Though the overall shape of Conan hasn't changed much, there were a few new features that definitely made us even more interested in getting our hands on the final version.
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Expected to enter live service later this year, Age of Conan - Hyborian Adventures is Funcom's massively multiplayer take on the classic property created several decades ago by Robert E. Howard. The world he depicted is gritty, violent and mystical, qualities the team is aiming to capture in order to provide an experience that is true to the underlying franchise.
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Age of conan is going to be a major hit, and are going to be one of the top selling games
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AoC tops charts in Europe, ahead of GTA IV. In Germany, one of the largest games markets in Europe, both the standard and the CE-version makes it on the top 10 list.
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