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

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the david-and-goliath dept.

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?

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  1. Re:What's the appeal? by nuzak · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > The graphics are pretty uninspiring, the world is a bland orange with no real features or vegetation:

    The quests are indeed boring, but, ah, the rest of the world doesn't look like Durotar. But you did play EverQuest "Study On The Color Brown" 2, so I guess you can be forgiven for thinking other MMOs do all look the same throughout.

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  2. Re:REMEMBER BNETD! by nuzak · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I suppose there's some ironic justice in textually flipping off the community of mods when the first copy eventually got modded up again, making me look like an idiot. C'mon guys, justify my nerd-rage! ;)

    Blah. I need to take another extended slashdot break.

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  3. great by unity100 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    so you got to level 9, was killing enemies with one mage spell, and it was boring.

    whopping amount of the game, you have seen while you were leveling to level 9. thats about it - entire game, and enemies die by just a mage spell in further levels. youre missing nothing.

    you should immediately cancel your subscription to aoc, because it will be a waste of time (since all content and the game actually matures up to level 9, and there arent 80 levels) because you seen all of it, and you learned and mastered the combat system. it will also be good for the other subscribers, you not being a member of the community.

    i also would thank the loons who used mod points informative on this.

    thank you, loons. a person comes up and says that 'enemies die with a single spell at f@ckin level 9 therefore combat system is boring', and you mod it INFORMATIVE.

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