Eurogamer has the word from Leipzig's Games Convention that Funcom is spooling out new information about their newly-released title
Age of Conan. Among the most interesting tidbits:
concept art for the first AoC expansion should be released later this week. Word is that it has a "strongly oriental look", perhaps hinting at an Eastern-themed context. They're
also talking about a film tie-in, hinting at connections between the Lionsgate movie production and the MMO. Details on that promotion were as sparse as the expansion hints, other than Ellingson saying they have "a very close relationship with the guys making the movie."
The site also put forward
information about upcoming updates to the gameworld. Hints at the "Black Castle", the Commons district of the capital city Tarantia, and the much-anticipated Ymir's Pass are all in the article. The Pass was mentioned by Erling Ellingson as one of his favorite upcoming content pieces in
our recent interview with the project lead. Head on over to the site for all the gory details.
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vprken said on 3:59PM 8-20-2008
Uh how about fixing that mess of a game first or do they just plan on selling the fixes as an xpac?
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Nadril said on 4:04PM 8-20-2008
As posted on MMORPG.COM:
"When in trouble, add ninjas".
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Pseudo said on 7:48PM 8-20-2008
lol, Damn that was funny.
Steve_S said on 4:20PM 8-20-2008
Think they will have the memory leaks fixed by the expansion?
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luchifer said on 4:27PM 8-20-2008
thinking of an expansion when the game is still a mess?? This only proofs that they just dont care.
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recursive said on 6:38PM 8-20-2008
Well, the expansion talk I can understand, though it's maybe a bit early. They need to keep some interest up to get the time to fix things and lord knows they haven't made getting positive attention easier for themselves. Bragging about a movie tie-in at this point is just a bit over the top though >
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GenBanks said on 7:27PM 8-20-2008
I think they owe loyal subscribers a lot more free content (well, it wouldn't free since there's been a subscription fee) before they start talking about payed expansion packs. Why can't they be like Eve Online and generate the hype for expansion packs but not charge people for them?
Still, I appreciate that they expand on the lore, since I think that's one of AoC's greatest assets. I wish they would make something in the homeland of the Vanir though, some kind of thrust into their territory by Conan or something like that :p The Cimmeria/northern content is among the best in the game imo
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Merkur said on 8:24PM 8-20-2008
What is an expansion of a buggy game? Even more bugs!
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crsh said on 9:55PM 8-20-2008
Given the way AoC has been going since launch (downhill), the company's stocks (downhill) and general faith in Funcom as a game developer (gone), what are the odds they will actually be able to sell an AoC expansion pack, let alone even finish it properly?
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Ged said on 11:50AM 8-21-2008
An expansion? They've probably only just paid off their debts.
A movie? The Failcom staff won't be eating for a while.
Oriental? Barely mentioned in the real Conan stories.
Updates? You mean new beta builds?
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sajt said on 5:30PM 8-22-2008
I think this is hilarious, from the day that beta came around I saw the utter fail in this game, yet all those bloody hyping fanboys kept saying "Oh it's only beta it'll get better". Then the game was released but did the fanboys give up? Oh no, they kept bitching about WoW being bad at launch (which it wasn't aside from some server stability issues) and that their glorious conan soon would be the greatest game ever (despite huge game design issues).
- But it seems like finally even the complete muppets have understood what a steaming pile of shit this game is and what a joke the people at funcom are. They sold copies only because of the hyping desperate people who badly wanted a new MMO after WoW.
This is your punishment, embrace it for you deserve it.
- Lets hope that at least WAR will keep us entertained until Blizz or CCP can come up with a new one. That KOTR mmo could be interesting aswell.
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