Funcom speaks out openly about Age of Conan criticisms

by Kyle Horner Oct 8th 2008 at 1:00PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, News items

In an interview with MTV Multiplayer, Funcom's Jørgen Tharaldsen speaks surprisingly frank about the many criticisms Age of Conan has been dealt. Topics cover everything from the current state of the game to what Funcom is doing to bring back players with a "come back and play for free" invite sometime in 2009, according to Jørgen. The whole read is just generally very interesting and well worth your time if you've any interest in Age of Conan and where it's headed in the coming months.

At the end of the interview, the question of Warhammer Online and Wrath of the Lich King come up in relation to any possibly concerns for Funcom. Jørgen delivers one of his most lucid comments about AoC when he says, "I don't think anything is easy in the world of MMO's, and fighting to get new subscribers is a constant challenge. Now it's 'WAR' and 'Lich King' - going forward there will be many others." The list of other contenders is indeed longer than a Dream Theater solo and in a couple of weeks we may have to add yet another large contender to that laundry list.

Tags: activision-blizzard, age-of-conan, aoc, bioware, blizzard, ea, eidos, electronic-arts, funcom, jorgen-tharaldsen, lucast-arts, mtv-multiplayer, mythic, mythic-entertainment, war, warhammer-online, wrath, wrath-of-the-lich-king

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

kingjames said on 2:36PM 10-08-2008

Too little too late. This should have been done 1 month after launch and they would have retained half their playerbase. Now after all the lies and he said she said you have a game that can support 3 or 4 servers. Good job!

Jack said on 7:30PM 10-08-2008

They release a game like all the others that was not complete but lucky for Warhammer it was more completed them AoC! AoC try to poop there game out with a hell of a price tag of 60 bucks! and there was the 15 bucks a month feed!

Playing it was a fight against bucks and people say we not paying for betas what they also did try to do btw.

Anyway now 4 months later they try fixing there game and try is the right word its still far from the game it had to be and the 10 pages patch notes are still not even on final and only one part of the pvp content is on final.