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Stradden  7/21/08 7:58:35 AM

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MMORPG.com's Carolyn koh was at E3. While there, Carolyn caught up with Erling Ellingson of Funcom and Rick Reyonlds of Eidos to talk about the future of the game.

Although Eidos was not showing Age of Conan at E3 this year, Product Manager, Erling Ellingson of Funcom and Rick Reynolds, Sr. Marketing Manager of Eidos were on hand to talk about it.

“We've got our roadmap of patches already out,” said Erling.  “And we are working on a holiday version of the game box,”  added Rick.  The holiday version is just a box which will be  fun to give as a gift.  We looked at the various versions of Age of Conan boxes that was being shown behind glass as we walked into the Eidos meeting room.  Nothing has been decided as to what the holiday premium will be, if it will be a fun piece of equipment or bling, but “If you have any ideas,” said Rick, “I'd love to hear them!”

Read the whole thing here.

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falc0n  7/21/08 8:41:05 AM

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SOE you broke my game!

wtf a holiday edition?!? how lame

 
Elikal  7/21/08 8:45:51 AM

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Originally posted by falc0n

wtf a holiday edition?!? how lame


 

Lol yeah, what I thought too.

 
gom276  7/21/08 9:18:47 AM

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some pretty interesting info in there I must say it has excited me a bit.  The holiday edition may be cool depending on what it comes with.  (in game bonuses or cool swag.)

 

anyways great story and very informative looking forward to this kingship thing.

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Arawon  7/21/08 9:18:49 AM

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They throw that poorly designed bug ridden broken  game out there and then have the nerve to say we have some more for you.

 
eric1000  7/21/08 9:32:25 AM

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There was a lot of 'It will have' & 'They will get' in there which of course directly translated means 'it doesn't have' & 'they aint got it yet'.  But hey, that don't matter the people who haven't bought it yet can look forward to christmas conan and his fluffy santa suit, these guys really need to get a clue.

 

 

 
tinywulf  7/21/08 9:38:06 AM

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Would love to see how many subscribers fell off after the 1st month.

I know I was one of them, lack of communication and game stability.

How about fixing all the bugs for a Holiday Edition.

 
urbanmonkey  7/21/08 9:48:19 AM

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Originally posted by eric1000

There was a lot of 'It will have' & 'They will get' in there which of course directly translated means 'it doesn't have' & 'they aint got it yet'.  But hey, that don't matter the people who haven't bought it yet can look forward to christmas conan and his fluffy santa suit, these guys really need to get a clue.


 

Exactly my thoughts. But you can't deny the effectiveness of the overhype system. They ignore everything that is happening, they make up their own "facts" and keep the hype going!

One poster is already hyped and dying to preorder whatever they want to sell lol.

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qbangy32  7/21/08 9:48:58 AM

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If hitting it with a hammer did''nt fix it then get a bigger hammer

I had to laugh when I read that you could enter a guilds city if they had no walls or gates, well if you tried to enter any other guilds city you will find yourself at the end of the city guards sword and running back to reclaim your gravestone. Not too sure they really intended the guards to be aggro to non guildies.

 

 

 
Jammaslam  7/21/08 10:16:24 AM

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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

Originally posted by urbanmonkey
Originally posted by eric1000

There was a lot of 'It will have' & 'They will get' in there which of course directly translated means 'it doesn't have' & 'they aint got it yet'.  But hey, that don't matter the people who haven't bought it yet can look forward to christmas conan and his fluffy santa suit, these guys really need to get a clue.


 

Exactly my thoughts. But you can't deny the effectiveness of the overhype system. They ignore everything that is happening, they make up their own "facts" and keep the hype going!

One poster is already hyped and dying to preorder whatever they want to sell lol.


 

Looks like they got their lessons from the US government.

View all problems as challenges. Look upon negativities that arise as opportunities to learn and to grow. Don't run from them, condemn yourself, or bury your burden in saintly silence. You have a problem? Great. More grist for the mill. Rejoice, dive in, and investigate.

-Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, "Mindfulness in Plain English"

aurick  7/21/08 10:20:56 AM

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From the game developers:  “'The speed of levelling is conforming to our expectations,' said Erling.   'The game design is targeted at getting players to the level 80 end game of siege warfare, city capture and city building.  The objective during the journey to the end game is for the player to understand their character, to relate to it and to learn it.  Funcom doesn't believe in making a player grind in the lower levels or make levelling hard and slow.'"

In point of fact, AoC has the fastest leveling pace of any major MMO on the market.  It takes about 120 hours played to reach maximum level.  The previous king of fast leveling, World of Warcraft, requires about 360 hours.  Now Funcom is telling us that this speed is by design.  So what is there to do when you get there?&nb