Age of Conan

See the below quote in the recently sent email:

"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"

I have gotten that mail too. Awesome news!

I need some kleenex, if only I could download this thing quicker. I think it's time to bitch at my ISP and maybe make some threats to change over!

At last we can see what the real game is like.

Everyone is supposed to be back to loincloths..wonder if the armor/weapon NPCs will sell out, close up and head for home after the first 15 minutes of the game.

Oh man. I have yet to play age of conan but have always been very interested in playing it. Was worried when I first heard people saying it's extremely buggy, runs poorly and will have an awful launch. After hearing comments like this I chose not to pre-order but I still knew I would eventually buy it and try it for myself. Dont know exactly when  but hearing news like this makes me want to get it soon. Sounds like you guys are having a blast in beta and Funcom are clearly set on bringing their players an epic experience. Great to see their serious about the story of conan as well. Looking very forward to this. Last thing to worry about is how it runs on my comp.

yeah, mate. I can't speak for everyone and there's the ongoing debate of yes versus no to buy for launch but I'm having a heck of a good time!