Age of Conan Servers To Merge, Funcom Sees Layoffs

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 3, 2008 @10:47PM from the bailing-water dept.

Two ominous signs have come recently for Age of Conan fans; developer Funcom went through a round of layoffs, and they announced plans to merge some of the game's servers in order to maintain a "healthy" population. Despite this, Funcom has maintained that development will continue for both the PC version and the upcoming Xbox 360 version of the game, confident that Age of Conan won't follow Tabula Rasa into oblivion. A writer at Vox ex Machina doesn't share that view, pointing to several of the game's flaws as reasons why it didn't maintain the popularity it enjoyed at launch.

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Re:Is anyone supprised? by ilovegeorgebush · 2008-12-04 00:40 · Score: 0, Troll

The grafics sucked
ur spelling sux.

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$126 Million a Year by MBraynard · 2008-12-04 02:22 · Score: 0, Troll

That's what 700k subscribers gets you, not counting the retail sale price and assuming a $15 a month fee. Consider the buy in (half of $50 at retail minus the first free month) and you are looking at another $7mil. So for around $138 mill, you are saying you can't make and administer a quality game?
Even with 400k left, that's still $72mil plus the $7mil buy in.