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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. Conan will... by Mr.+Beatdown · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    1. Re:Conan will... by Capt+James+McCarthy · · Score: 4, Funny

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

      Fixed.

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    2. Re:Conan will... by everphilski · · Score: 3, Funny

      That's not the Conan I know and love.

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

  2. Re:REMEMBER BNETD! by loafula · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet your WoW toon is a Troll, too.

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  3. Re:My take... by XanC · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?
  4. Re:WoW's peaked. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    What about the real world? Nah. Too much grind.
  5. Re:WoW's peaked. by cHiphead · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  6. Re:WoW's peaked. by Qetu · · Score: 3, Funny

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