General Discussion

Age of Conan Game Director Gaute Godager has written a Letter from the Game Director where he details Funcom's current efforts to improve Age of Conan, specifically focusing on bugs, stability, and performance.

Greetings fellow players.

While it has been some time since I last gave you an update, I wanted to touch base and let you know what we are working on at the moment and where we are going in the times to come. I want this update to focus on what is actually happening to the game now, what we have done, and also some of the reasoning behind our choices going forward.

As you all know we have been live for some seven weeks by now, and what a period it has been! While Conan has sold more and performed better than even we could have hoped for, we also know that there have been things we had to work on. I will not try to hide from this fact, but I hope you have seen our steady stream of improvements and additions, in fact, even more than I would have thought possible! I am definitively proud of the team and what they have done after launch, and I think everyone agrees that we are making Conan better, all the time. We are also keeping almost the entire development team ON the Age of Conan live team for the foreseeable future, meaning we can make exciting new content updates on an ongoing basis. Still, let me underline that our main – main – focus at the moment are bugs, stability and performance! I might not talk very much about the details here, but the frequency of the patches and their contents speak for itself.

Read more here.

I'll play it again, someday.

Is that letter meant to be some sort of joke or something?  Or is he being seriuos?  cant tell with Failcom and Aoc anymore, the whole game just seems to be one big joke.

I still play.

But they have a loooooooooooooooooooooooong way. Its a faster car, or a end game.

let me sum it up for people who dont like reading marketing jumbo...

"fluff, lie, fluff, lie, fluff, and one more lie"

He's trying to do some damage control here, and following the example of Mark Jacobs in trying to be honest. Sad that he didnt mention about what they are going to do with the classes....

By the time they are really ready in fall, it will all be too late....

He sure talks about a lot topics that he "won't go into details about".

Feels like a knee-jerk respsonse to Jacobs' release about going with 2 maincities instead of 6 and being honest with the gaming public/fans.     Perhaps a better move on FunCom's part would be to quit running their official AoC forums like a police state, instead of these weak press releases.

Playing the game, and having fun so far. I'll admit though, I haven't leveled very high yet, so I'm sure I'll run into less content, the higher I go. I'm not much of a power-grinder though, trying to enjoy the content as it arrives, so I look forward to the additions being implemented over this summer season.

It's also gonna be interesting to see the DirectX10 stuff being showcased in August. :) 

If ever devs read forums they will learn one sharp sweet lesson...Dont ever try to be honest! learn your lesson well. you will only get slated for trying!

No amount of bug fixes will make that game an MMO. It's an xbox online game.