2:40AM Mark Wilson | In a Funcom investor briefing, the company has spilled the pricing strategy for their MMO Age of Conan. United States gamers will pay $US59.99 for the game and $US14.99/month for the subscription. (Meanwhile, European gamers will pay 49.99 Euro and 12.99 Euro/month.) A quick skim through the briefing reveals some other interesting factoids, like that the game has already gone gold, Funcom expects 500,000-600,000 active subscribers at launch and internal surveys show that a “large proportion” of beta testers would like to buy it. Anyone out there considering cheating on their WoW account?
AoC Briefing [TenTonHammer via
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9:40AM Seamus Byrne | Official word has hit the Funcom forums from new Game Director Craig Morrison that Age of Conan is currently “working on approaches to merge servers, both in Europe and North America.” Speculation has been running wild in the AoC community for a while, so while the news isn’t good (merge equals not enough players to fill the demand Funcom hoped for) some straight talk will do a lot to get the community on side. And low populations rarely make for good times in an MMO.
Also mentioned in the post was Direct X 10 status, which will soon hit the full test server, a step closer to patching into the live version. You know, for those who love Vista gaming.
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