Massively Speaking Podcast Episode 45

by Shawn Schuster Mar 4th 2009 at 10:00AM

Filed under: Podcasts, Culture, Massively meta, Massively Speaking

Massively Speaking Episode 45 returns this week as a one-on-one interview with Glen "Famine" Swan, Funcom's Community Manager for Anarchy Online and Age of Conan. Shawn and Glen chat about the newest content patch introduced recently for AoC, as well as community management in general.

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Show Notes For Massively Speaking Episode 45

Hosts:

Topics:

Community Management for Funcom and beyond
Age of Conan's current community
How's the expansion coming along?
More on the latest content patch
Will we see AoC porting to consoles any time soon?
How is Funcom working to get new players into the game?
The eternal question: Official or unofficial forums?

Theme Music:

The Dreaming: "Ere the World Crumbles..." by Knut Avenstroup Haugen, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Soundtrack

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Waldgeist said on 9:37AM 3-04-2009

*runs into the room and slaps Glen and runs out again and yells* "Greetings from Wayne!"

Cheers,
Johannes 'Waldgeist' Rebhan
German Community Manager Funcom

Tahitoa said on 2:39PM 3-04-2009

Dude: "Any advice for any aspiring MMO Community Manager?"

Famine: "Don't do it!" :p

Dear god Glen...never heard you talking for so long...cool :p

Tahitoa "The First Warrior" Sunae
AoC EU - Head Moderator

THAC0 said on 4:20PM 3-04-2009

AoC is a great game, I have just resubscribed after playing for the first three months after launch. I find that its a solid well performing game that is immersive and fun. i cant wait to see the next patch and hear information on the expansion. Thanks to Funcom for making a great game.

Calvin said on 4:34PM 3-04-2009

/agree, I played for 2 months then unsubscribed because I found the content in the mid-levels and the end game to be lacking, and glitched. Recently resubbed to play in the off-hours of Warhammer and I'm having a blast! Framerate has doubled on max settings and not a crash in site yet. Other people just need to swallow there experiences with the game at launch. It's under new direction and Craig is doing a great job with the game. Can't wait to see what future patches bring to the table.

Gar said on 8:28PM 3-04-2009

Hi guys,

I just recently stumbled upon this site (God knows how, think it was after a few beers the other night) and I just wanted to firstly say that you have a great atmosphere going here, I've spent my MMO allotment of time (5 hours) this evening browsing and sifting through this site instead of smashing Badgers in *insert MMO of choice*.

Anyway, I was real interested in the new AoC info, I do hope that Funcom manage to get some free-trial promotions organized as I would like to have another go to see how things have developed since I left more than a year ago. It's nice to see developers listening to players (Itemization and what not) and is a good sign if nothing else that the MMO community is a strong one, and probably unique (in some regards) in that both the players and developers work together to make said games better.

Extremely enjoyable Podcast, thanks again.