Age of Conan's "Kinda" Launch and Massive Pre-Orders

While some are already enjoying the joys of Age of Conan via the early launch, many more will soon be enjoying the fruits of Funcom's labor. An amazing 700,000 copies of the game are being shipped to retailers for day one sales and in some locations pre-orders will not be filled due to server limitations. Between this and the new Warhammer game on the way, should Blizzard be worried, or will Wrath of the Lich King continue to hold their competitive edge?

Conan will...

[Mr. Beatdown]

Conan will crush it's enemies, see WoW driven before it, and to hear the lamentations of its (very few) women.

Re:REMEMBER BNETD!

[loafula]

I bet your WoW toon is a Troll, too.

Greetings!

[Anonymous Coward]

I for one welcome our new Barbarian Overlords!

Re:Conan will...

[Capt James McCarthy]

Conan will crush it's enemies, see WoW driven before it, and to hear the lamentations of both its women.

Fixed.

Re:Fancy MMO's MEH...

[oodaloop]

You and your fancy colored text. Back in my day we had Pong!

Re:What's the appeal?

[Endo13]

Congrats, you played an Orc hunter to level 6. That's like reading the title on the cover of a music CD and deciding you know all about their music and that it sucks.

Re:What's the appeal?

[Endo13]

Whoops, sorry for mistakenly assuming your hunter was an Orc. Clearly it was a Troll.

Re:My take...

[XanC]

Everyone should have some basic idea about how not to be seen.

All I know is not to stand up. Is that the trick is this game?

Re:Conan will...

[everphilski]

That's not the Conan I know and love.

Conan the Librarian: Don't you know the Dewey Decimal System?

Re:WoW's peaked.

[Daimanta]

I'm sociophobic you insensitive clod!

Re:WoW's peaked.

[Anonymous Coward]

What about the real world?

Nah. Too much grind.

Re:WoW's peaked.

[cHiphead]

I agree, once I started playing Real Life (TM), suddenly I was getting paid real money to work and do repetitive actions for hours at a time, and with that money I could afford women and drink, and I went forth and drank and hath women.

But watch out how fast you level, now I'm married with a kid + 1 on the way, and I suddenly find myself needing to work exponentially more hours to have any of the glorious monies, and have started thinking about paying money to play games again cuz its cheaper than drinking. ;)

Cheers.

Age of Conan

[initialE]

It says here [wikipedia.org] that Conan is 61. But then again it says here [wikipedia.org] that Conan is 45. So I guess I have to shell out a few bucks and play the game to find out what is the age of Conan.

Re:WoW's peaked.

[t0qer]

Less still when my first kid came along.

Heh it was the exact opposite for me. My wife isn't exactly a night owl, so the first few months when the baby had to be fed every two hours I'd stay up till dawn playing WoW with my daughter parked by my side.

Only problem with this playstyle is it limited what I could do in WoW. No more 4 hour grinds, let alone trying to find players to raid with at the later hours. Eventually I just gave up on WoW and went back to FPS gaming. I got so bored with FPS gaming that I went back and started cleaning some of the CSS on some of my old websites.

Re:WoW's peaked.

[Anonymous Coward]

upper limit of what entertainment can be worth

Have you people never met a girl before? You could easily spend several hundred dollars on dinner and light shopping with most of them.

Oh wait, this is /.

Re:WoW's peaked.

[Qetu]

[..] another quest sequence in Nagrand has you running around picking up monster droppings.[..]

That quest is shit.

Re:What's the appeal?

[EQ]

Does it actually get more fun when you get to the really high levels? It's very slow walking around, and there isn't much of interest to look at. There are a couple of small villages, some dirt tracks, and not much else. Are all MMOs like this? If so I really don't see why they carry so much interest.

Its like sex.

Yeah, you can do it by yourself like you did. But its repetitive and boring, as you found out.

Its a lot more fun with someone else. Especially if they really know how to play well.

And you saw only the beginner area. You missed all the exciting advanced content, plus as you get better at it, its a lot more enjoyable. ;-)