Gaming Addict

Age Of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is flopping completely, with subscribers dropping off to the point that Funcom has announced their intent to take half of Age Of Conan’s active servers offline.  And I honestly can’t believe Funcom screwed up such a great MMORPG opportunity.  Considering Age Of Conan sold out of their 100,000 copies of the games special edition version, and also sold 400,000 presale copies, making Age Of Conan one of the biggest MMO launches ever, rivaled by only World Of Warcraft, how did things go wrong? 

Well, for starters, probably the game’s incredibly buggy online play, which is especially frustrating with content that requires a monthly fee, like an MMO.  I know when the performance of my machine isn’t the problem, and I’m supposed to be paying 14.99 for the privilege of playing an MMO, I better get a good frame-rate, or I’m gone. 

Not to mention disappointing PvP play, and PvE design.  Age Of Conan upon further consideration actually seems like a game that was always due to fail. 

And Fail it has.  Funcom is also only leaving one PvP realm online, which really speaks for their failure as Conan’s PvP was one of the biggest selling points, except for the all the gratuitous boobies of course. 

But all that adult content, if not overly gratuitous, was something refreshing in an MMO, something that really hasn’t been done in such a way before.  Even inspiring a few petitions for Funcom to make available some sort of censorship option for the game’s abundance of boobage.  Which I don’t understand because, no one has a problem with the massive amount of violence, but a few nipples and suddenly the game is unacceptable?

Not everything is meant for children, and I for one was excited to see a visceral, bloodtastic, slaughterfest with some nudity mixed in, everything that Age Of Conan was supposed to be.  I’m just disappointed with Age of Conan’s execution, and so I’m not that disappointed to see the beginning of Age of Conan’s downfall. 

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