Age of Conan

Dear Age of Conan beta tester

We hope you are merrily chopping off Pict heads in the Age of Conan Open Beta, and that your journey in Hyboria has been a memorable one so far. You have only seen the beginning though, as we prepare an EPIC ending to your Open Beta experience.

On the 10th of May we are transforming the entire Open Beta into PvP MAYHEM, while at the same time giving you access to all which Hyboria as to offer! That is right, as we take down our servers for a short period we are at the same time changing the entire server rule-set to Free For All PvP carnage! Your servers will ALL become PvP! Participate if you dare, or make a new character and stay in the safety of Tortage!

Details:

• All servers become PvP servers. You can kill each other – no level restrictions on killing or getting killed, but you cannot PvP in the major cities.
• All level 13 characters becomes level 20. Their inventory is wiped, but they have “tons” of money and really nice equipment suitable for level 20’s. Shopping bonanza!
• You have access to ALL zones and ALL levels after level 20!
• You will be zoned to your Race’s Hub (Cimmerians – Conarch Village, Aquilonians – Old Tarantia and Stygians – Khemi)

This means bye bye Tortage! Welcome Hyboria at large, and what a blast you will have. It all starts at level 20, and then it’s up to you, but you can be sure your fellow players will do their best to stop you!

We will get back with detailed information on the exact time it starts on the official Open Beta forums at IGN, as well as on the Age of Conan forums and community site.

You may ask, why skip levels 14-20? The reason is simple – the story. We take it seriously, and we would like for you to experience it at launch.

We urge you to join us for some epic PvP mayhem on the 10th of May, and we hope you will leave Hyboria with a bloodied smile on your face.

Heads will roll!

Sincerely
The Age of Conan development team.

Sounds like fun :)

Dude this is going to be awesome!! But, what if you aren't currently lvl 13 yet..I'm like 90% done w/ my client.  Is 13 relatively easy to come by?

What?!?!? The Open Beta is being done in stages!?!?!?!

But...but... that makes sense.....

http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/177736

Someone has already posted this. Though it's awesome news and deserves this second posting!

My spidy sense is tingling that after May 10 ppl may shut up on the forums =) lol.

more info...

"This means bye bye Tortage! Welcome Hyboria at large, and what a blast you will have. It all starts at level 20, and then it’s up to you, but you can be sure your fellow players will do their best to stop you!

We will get back with detailed information on the exact time it starts on the official Open Beta forums at IGN, as well as on the Age of Conan forums and community site.

You may ask, why skip levels 14-20? The reason is simple – the story. We take it seriously, and we would like for you to experience it at launch.

We urge you to join us for some epic PvP mayhem on the 10th of May, and we hope you will leave Hyboria with a bloodied smile on your face.

Heads will roll!

Sincerely
The Age of Conan development team"

Originally posted by xnellakx

My spidy sense is tingling that after May 10 ppl may shut up on the forums =) lol.

Yeah... that's never going to happen. Honestly I'm amazed it's taken them this long to come up with some reason why this is further evidence of how badly Funcom is abusing them. It's coming though.... I promise.

Originally posted by Electriceye

Someone has already posted this. Though it's awesome news and deserves this second posting!

Haha, actually it's the 3rd thread with the same post, and after this one I've seen at least 1 more thread. So we now have 4 or 5 threads on this. Spreading the news can't hurt, can it

Its good news, im happy they went this way.

The only thing that the vocal dissatisfied will make a stance on now is that there will be ganking everywhere!  But this is Hyboria, and its to show people the balancing so far for different levels etc etc.