Comments on: Age Of Conan Beta Proves Popular

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:40:43 +0000

Looking forward to this game. A co-worker is on the beta and says it is great!

By: Quaker

Quaker — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:37:21 +0000

So who has been playing the early access? I can tell you now, it’s a different game from the Beta. Haven’t had so much fun in a looong time..

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:11:29 +0000

MMOs tend to have a lot of female players as well. Not just men pretending to be women/having a female avatar either.

By: The Dread Pirate Roberts

The Dread Pirate Roberts — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:58:04 +0000

Rook, you will be surprised if a male-centric game takes off in a male-centric hobby? hmm.

Anyway. I stopped playing the WAR beta and started playing the AOC beta instead. I was super hyped for WAR, but AOC feels like a more polished product in almost every respect. Read that how you will.

By: Rook

Rook — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:49:36 +0000

@araczynski – You seem to be missing my fundamental point. “Mature” as written on the box as a game descripter, is not the same “mature” that people would use in everday life.

By: Wildbluesun

Wildbluesun — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:40:52 +0000

I LOVE THE AGE OF CONAN FORUMS. They had about three threads mocking The Endless Forest…they were so amusing.

Because, y’know. If you want to relax in a pretty forest while casting spells on deer, The Endless Forest is amazing.

By: Razerious

Razerious — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:32:49 +0000

Funcom released a patch last week that improved the performance and stability considerably. The latest client has yet to crash on me (which it did quite a lot only a month ago). And you have to remember that the beta debuggers, etc are going to be removed from the client before release, so that may help as well.

Most of the issues I had with the game a month ago have been fixed. Well, I like it, anyway. I have a feeling I’ll be playing this and FM Live quite a lot this summer…

By: John Walker

John Walker — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:31:40 +0000

I chatted with Ragnar Tørnquist recently about Dreamfall Chapters, and there didn’t seem any doubt in his mind that he’d be making it.

Don’t forget that Ragnar isn’t working on Conan. He’s working on the other, shhh, whisper, MMO.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:16:27 +0000

“Whats this – People thinking beta is representative of the fully released game shocker”

Uh, usually it’s a fairly good indication in an MMO to what will launch. Especially this close.

By: araczynski

araczynski — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:44:53 +0000

@Rook: actually in this day and age and religious zealotry, breasts on display is sufficient to making a game “mature” in the eyes of the ESRB I believe. breasts aside, there’s plenty of blood, gore, crude talk, decapitations/etc to round out the rating.

as for the beta, i was in it for only 3 days, but everything was as slick as could be, no issues, no lag, nothing, just great graphics and a very enjoyable experience. i’m sure there’s problems with the beta client, but when aren’t there. heck, i’d be shocked (although impressed) if something didn’t creep up during the first month or two while they ramp up the infrastructure to accommodate hundreds of thousands of players at once.

my early access client downloaded in about 18 hours, about what i expected.

By: Larington

Larington — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:56:41 +0000

Whats this – People thinking beta is representative of the fully released game shocker?

With regards to a Dreamfall sequel – They already are, not much info available at the moment, other than the phrase “Dreamfall Chapters” (Chapters being representative of an episodic format for the game), which reminds me, I should check and see if any more info on it has escaped the presses…. EDIT: Unfortunately there hasn’t been any mention of it since march 07, so I’m beginning to wonder if Funcom are too busy dealing with the AoC release to talk about it or if somethings happened to it…

By: Fat

Fat — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:18:50 +0000

I don’t see the reason for all this bad press from people, specially those in beta. I’d like to know what they expect from a beta. Sure it’s releasing this week, but it’s no worse than any other beta i’ve played in recent years (L2, WoW, D&L, DDO, LOTRO, prolly some other crap ones i forget).

I can’t really understand why the hate that endgame isn’t in place properly. You won’t be 80 in a single week, they will implement the stuff in time, if not at launch.

The beta has come on leaps and bounds in the past few weeks especially (i’ve been in for quite a few months) and the client runs super smooth compared to a month ago.

For those complaining about the size, it only applies to people who are downloading for 6 days early access. You can buy a boxed copy on the 23rd… same time as our own retail copies will arrive. And the comments about how badly the game runs… as i already said, i’ve personally noticed a HUGE improvement in how fast the client runs the past few weeks. Those who were in the open beta weekend got a bad slot really, if they’d of let you test it this week, i think you’d of had a slightly higher opinion. No huge resource loading lag spikes anymore, beta is practically over after all.

Anyone looking for a change of scenery should consider checking it out. You might like it, you might not… same as any other game… but imo, it’s the best MMO to release in the past few years by far.