Age of Conan

If you were suddenly uprooted and flown in a secret FUNCOM helicopter to a remote and secret location, told that you had 6 months to rehab the game or DIE, what would you do? I think 6 months is about as long as this game can last in current state, so have at it: How would you change the direction the game is headed, as I think we can all agree its not headed in a good one at this point.  What EXACTLY would be the areas you would focus on and why?

Be a specific as you feel you need to be as I am up to reading a WALL of text if it suggests reasonable things or even the wildest hair-brained schemes ever.  I wonder if maybe some of the responses here might fall under the eyes of someone at funcom?  We can only hope.... So what would YOU do, given complete control ? -

I'd open up a pre-cu server :).

I would be putting in applications somewhere else instead of staining my history with this. 

Create an Iron Man suit akin to the first incarnation of the suit in the Iron Man movie, and blast my way the hell out of wherever I was.

Focus on The Secret World.

Quit and find a job with a reputable company.

With Funcoms current reputation Secret World is going to have a tough go at it. There is no way I will ever consider playing another game made by Funcom.

I'd make sure the stuff the box says is in the game, is really in there.

Smart-alec's abound : Seriously, how would you like to the see the game change? What would you make your priorities? Malicke, you are still playing right? Whats going through your head everyday as the glaring issues that remain undressed?

I don't think Funcom as a company can possibly survive even if someone was flown in there and had an 'easy' button from staples and could program everything they wanted instantly.

Putting aside the fact that funcom is going out of business soon,  here is what I would do

Forget dx10.  High end graphics are what caused a lot of your problems to begin with.

1.  Fix seiging, dungeons, skills and stats.  Make everything that is in the game work properly.  Forget new content except for the rest of the pvp patches for a few months.

2.  Once the stabilization is done (probably November).. offer 3 months 'free returns' for any player who bought the game already.  You now have the game the way it should have been at launch, you are going to need word-of-mouth to get new players to try the game.   Just fixing the game isn't enough at this point, you are going to have to let players play it for free to prove to them the game is fixed.  Players, at this point, are not going to resubscribe to AOC unless they see first hand the changes.

Warhammer is a very 'average' game that is going to have a lot of problems in a few weeks because of server imbalance.  Let players become dienchanted with Warhammer, then offer them free time to return to AOC.

If they fix everything currently in AOC, it will be able to hold 200k subscribers which is enough to keep the realms occupied and make seiging fun.