Age of Conan Could Be the Next MMO to Close Down

In a sense.. im happy with AOC outcome.. It shows costumers know when they are beeing cheated and explored and maybe the game industry will learn from this and grow into providing better games, with honesty and good costumer support, things that Funcom was on short.

This review has it's numbers backwards.. The Funcom finacials clearly indicate that 1.2 million copies were shipped world wide over 700 , 000 copies were sold and after the first month slightly over 400,000 people subscribed. After the 3 month mark this number declined to under 340,00 . The Six month subcriptions came around and less than 200,000 suscribers were active . Many accounts by this time were dormant even though they were paid up. By January of 2009 Subcriptions fell under 100,000.

As witnessed by many guilds many left the game between the 3 month mark and the six month mark. One example was the Old timers Guild pve side for they had around 947 active members online during the start of Age of conan. By the end of the first month that number fell to under 750 people, by the 3rd month that number fell yet again to around 500 or so people online. At the 6 month mark they dropped even more to around less than 150 or so. By late fall of 2008 Old timers guild had less than 30 people playing the game that were subscribed. Wasn't long after that , raiding was impossible .

The entire PvP side of Age of Conan For OTG never was able to raid as a guild ,outside groups had to be included. By the time everyone hit level to do so their numbers dwindled crippling them to raid without any outsiders. Wasnt long before the PvP chapter shut down completely....

So Ya .. Way to go Funcom..Failcom.

O look morons commenting on an almost year old post they must know what they are talking about. /facepalm

Yes AOC is still alive an well and better than any other mmo out there.

More like alive and sick Aoc still hasnt recovered passed 200 000 subs world wide yet . Funcom screwed themselves by over marketing and delivering garbage. Nearly all their orginal game subs have been replaced by new comers. Still to this day there are more quittingthe game than new people joining. There is a still a small % of people that have been there from the begining but world wide count on those wouldnt even break 80 000 . With that said 80 k is not a healthy game expecially since there is talk of reducing yet more servers.

Within the Aoc forums almost everyone of the orginal denying "Nothins wrong with the game " Have long sice left and given up. Besides the game just being screwed from the start Funcoms policy of deleting post within the forums that pointed out flaws turned many away as well. Game had a huge amount of potential , but it will never recover or ever come near what it could have been. Funcom is it's own worst enemy. Wont be long , maybe a year or 2 before the game hits free to play and slides right off the radar for the magority of gamers.

So ya you people that are paying for the game and still playing you go have fun with the low populations of trying to find a group. Flashy graphics are not worth spit if the game doesnt have the population to play with and doesnt have the game mechanics working smoothly.

Age of Conan will be here a long time and I will be there playing.

This game has fail written all over it.

The current customer base this game has is quite truthfully pathetic, They are actually happy they are getting rewards ect.. OVER and I repeat OVER a year and a half later the PVP arena was suggested at launch lmao a year and a half for that?......

Whats the go with social pets? all they do is dissapear... quite sad really when DA:O has a pet that has feat points and can attach excetra.

This game will fail it will not last I think that's quite obvious. If you think otherwise you are dillusional in my opinion.

At launch this game had a LOAD of potential now what does it have? not much...

Oh look we are getting T3 Gear shortly which looks extremely similar to T1 & T2 gear, so our loyal customer base waits over a year and a half for T3 Raid gear which in all honestly could have been done overnight.

Lol it is really sad the way FC dis-respects there customers, but I have yet to see anything that says otherwise that the CB doesnt deserve there treatment from funcom.

Have you ever noticed that when you click cancel subscription all the reasons they give you to stay? they should have added AFTER a YEAR AND A HALF. excetra.

Anyone who states " Age of conan will be here a long time and I will be there playing" Congrats you're a real funcom tool I bet they'd love you. I would aswell if you were contributing to my employment.

I will NEVER EVER EVER buy another product from Funcom. AoC was the first game I purchased off them and it will be the last. I actually hope this game fails like tabula rosa ect.... perhaps it would teach the dev's something.

The one thing that fucks me off most. Is people whom were exploiting.. FUNCOM DID ABSOUTLEY NOTHING tothese people. I mayaswell have exploited why? because there was no consequence. Now you have players with 4 or 5 level 80's at PvP level 5 from exploiting. Why on EARTH should I Have to re-roll and gain my pvp xp legitimetely?. When others did it through exploiting and recieved no punishment WHERE IS THE INCENTIVE FOR ME TO DO IT HONESTLY?

AoC Buddy you can still use in Age of conan which I'm sure people do. I have used it too on the occasion and did I get punished for it? nope??

All in all Funcom is lackluster in everything they do all it requires to see this is someone who is smart which aint the AoC population.