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Latest Blog Entry - So Funcom
From my blog Playing from my Room [alakram]

So Funcom is using their brains. It shouldn't be any type of news but it is. Someone managing a big game company takes a look at the market and find a good moment to reach a really good position in the mmorpg business. I'm talking about Age of Conan and Anarchy Online. Don't you see it?. Age of Conan appears to be a good game. It's not a native sandbox game but it have some features, good character customization and player cities. The game will launch this year, or at least we hope so. There is no Modern "Adult" Fantasy game on the market in this times. I mean, fantasy game suited for adult players. Sure you can play EQ2, it's a good game, but it doesn't have an Adult Art direction. Sure you can play Lotro but it doesn't too, and its a good game too. The same goes for some more AAA titles, good games but not aimed natively for adult players. I'm sure a good amount of people will leave their actual games to try AoC only because this one have a Mature art design. Like Oblivion, or Gothic 3.

And, someone on Funcom took a look at the sci-fi mmorpg's market and thought, hell, there is no modern sci-fi games out there:

Eve online: I know it's a good game, but it's too hardcore for most of us.

SWG: I played it in November and December of 2007... Most of us know what a Joke of game it is.

Anarchy Online: It's an old game with outdated graphics... Doh!, well... Funcom will give AO a brand new graphics engine.

IMO, Funcom is trying to earn a good share of the mmorpg market by launching a good fantasy game and relaunching a good sci-fi game. Good for Funcom!

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- AO, a failure?
- It's an old good game. looking at it from a newbie perspective usually produces this opinion. It happened the same to me. I found a good game, but old for me.
- Posted: 5/11/08 4:48 AM
  Anarchy Online
- good game with one HUGE problem.....
- Well I dont see this as a problem. A lot of games create copies of areas when they are crowed. This way you dont find 200 people in a place bloking you to reach some other place behind them. And the rest of the gameis Awesome in my opinion. At least what I tried in open Beta. Too bad shaders are still half working on mu computer
- Posted: 5/10/08 4:41 PM
  Age of Conan
- Soo Funcom told the truth
- I got faster loading screens, and performance is better but shaders dont work at all. Shaders in the game make your character to have scars, tatoos, detail in general and make stuff look bumped and armors look shinny like metallic stuff sooo a weird pacht for me. I hoped to have a nice pacht and finally make my preorder but no preorder for me in this states of things.
  
  What a pity, such a great game.
- Posted: 5/10/08 7:23 AM
  Age of Conan
- Figured it out - AoC is the Evolution of GW
- Originally posted by openedge1
  
  What do you think...
  
  I basically do not believe AoC is a "MMO" in the sense of most MMO's today. This is true.
  
  It requires more skill than most games today, it is heavily instanced, but allows more players in a field than GW does.. Yeah it requires more skill. But the game is not as instanced as people think. The game is zoned, like EQ2, and it creates instances when needed. The start, for example, is an instance. But yeah, the game do a good use of instances.
  
  The city hub is similar to GW, but now has quests... Well in mmorpgs the cities are more or less the same. You go there to grab quest. Mybe Im loosing something.
  
  You get mission zones...like GW (you enter an area for specific tasks...) and can stay there as well... Never played GW, but what i experinced in AoC Open Beta in that field has been really good. You need to go find someone, you find him alone, not with 10 more people hangin around.
  
  You can get farther and play better in a group setting...than solo (ala GW) A lot of mmorpgs are better experienced in groups, what anyway, I think as a good point.
  
  Has an underlying story...like GW I love what I experienced so far in the AoC Open Beta. An underlaying story is a good thing.
  
  So, I think they took all the MMO boredom out, and turned it into a really good "Coop Online RPG"
  
  Thoughts? Maybe ;)
- Posted: 5/09/08 6:15 AM
  Age of Conan
- funcom just redeemed themseves.
- Woot! Now I only wish they implement it in open Beta. If they do and it runs nice in my comp. and I dont loose the shaders like now I'll buy it.
- Posted: 5/08/08 1:20 PM
  Age of Conan