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Age Of Conan Beta Proves Popular

News by John Walker Contributor

Published on May 13, 2008

Age of Conan's open beta should certainly provide a decent stress test of the servers. Eidos announced this morning that the game's had one million people sign up so far. Biggest ever? Funcom and Eidos (cautiously) think so. Funcom's VP of Sales and Marketing, Morten Larssen, says,

"Funcom has not been able to find any higher beta numbers for MMOs in the western world. We believe it represents the largest ever beta sign-up figure in the history of the genre."

While throwing figures around they report 800,000 people signed up to their newsletter, and 115,000 posts on their forums. We'll have more about Conan soon, when we report our findings in the beta. Meanwhile, Rock, Paper, Shotun is proud to announce over 8 million typos have now appeared, and the posting of the 400 billionth comment about piracy. Handshakes for everyone.