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Funcom: Xbox 360 Age of Conan won't release for another year, isn't our key priority right now

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Strategy Informer recently had the chance to ask Jorgen Tharaldsen, Product Director for Funcom, a few questions relating to the recently released MMO Age of Conan, which has been released on the PC, but is also expected for the Xbox 360.

Funcom has been quiet about the Xbox 360 version of Age of Conan, so we asked Jorgen Tharaldsen how development for this version is coming along, and he told us that the Xbox 360 version is not the companies key priority as there are a massive amount of PC gamers already playing the game.
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Forbidden_Darkness - 444 days 20 hours ago
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by than who will honestly care?
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1.1 360 man | 444 days 18 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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Fishy Fingers - 444 days 18 hours ago
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Darkness.

Age of Conan I believe is the fasting selling and currently growing MMO on the market (none free) so I imagine this news might be disappointing to some as there is obviously a lot of demand for it.

Maybe not me, maybe not you. But to some, it will be a shame.
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ericnellie - 444 days 18 hours ago
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1.3 - I picked this up on release day and....
I think that there are a lot of bugs that need to be ironed out. It's good that fixing the current PC version before anything else is a good idea. I've gone back to Lord of the Rings Online;)
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Perjoss - 444 days 18 hours ago
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@ Fishy

I think you may be wrong, I read somewhere they are merging servers that are very low in population, its not a good sign at all when they do this so early in the life of an mmo. Good mmos have queues to join servers (like is currently happening in warhammer) and they even have to open new servers to meet demand, not the other way around.
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Fishy Fingers - 444 days 18 hours ago
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1.5 - ^ericnellie
True, but MMOs always require a lot of investment from the developer once released. I'm not surprised they want to get one version stable before they move onto another platform.

"I've gone back to Lord of the Rings Online;)" Lost a good friend to that ;)

@Perjoss, that maybe the case, I'm not an MMO player so I dont follow them religiously, I'm just basing my information on news submitted here little after the games release. I guess things may have changed between now and then.
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Scar 360WA - 444 days 18 hours ago
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It has nothing to with the 360 losing steam. Funcom released an unfinished game for the PC and they need to fix it before they can start on the 360 version.
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bumnut - 444 days 18 hours ago
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will it be free to play?

obviously i would have to buy the game, but would the monthly subscription cost be included in my xbox live membership?
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m-s-8-2 - 444 days 18 hours ago
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Icewake - 444 days 17 hours ago
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If you're a gold member then it may be free. If you're silver they would charge you the monthly fee, that is how it works for the one ff or whatever it is on the 360.
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Lumbo - 444 days 17 hours ago
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The game is 25+ GB on PC ... And i canceled my subscription after 2 month cause of the missing end game and the broken stuff and bugs.

Age of Conan WAS the most preordered MMO in recent times with 1 million preorders, that resulted in 900000 subscriptions, that dwindled to less than 400000 in 2 month.
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Jdoki - 444 days 17 hours ago
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I predict AoC will be canned for 360.

Do the math. If it launches in late 2009 or more likely early 2010, that'll be getting uncomfortably close to the end of the 360's life.

MMO's thrive on sucking players for the long term, to wring every last penny out of them! We're talking getting players to pay monthly for years - if the 360 is going to be old news around 12-18months after AoC's 360 launch it just won't be appealing to most people interested in MMO's.

If MS cut support to the 360 in a similar fashion to how they cut the original Xbox then what chance does AoC have to survive? There's no way I'd subscribe knowing that the 360 was just about to be discontinued.

It would be a much better idea to switch development to the Next Xbox - that way they could also incorporate the DX10 features coming for AoC. Plus, how much buzz could MS generate launching a new console with a solid MMO as a launch title!!
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Delive - 444 days 16 hours ago
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6 - I smell technical difficulties.
or getting around Xbox live's guidelines for an MMO.
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Reibooi - 444 days 16 hours ago
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I don't think it will get released on 360. The PC version wasn't as big as everyone said it would be in fact it more or less was a failure. They are gonna delay the game over and over and then just cancel it. There honestly is no reason to come out on 360.
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Mr402 - 444 days 15 hours ago
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8 - This game will not be released on Xbox360.
The PC version is on life support as we speak. No way they are going to pump anymore dev dollars into a 360 version. No way I am going to pay for live and then also pay a 15 dollar fee for a mmo that couldn't make it on the pc it's main format. Plus with the annoucement from Lucasarts/bioware which I think will usher in the new xbox. Just let age of conan die already. They failed.
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blindfromthesun - 444 days 15 hours ago
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I was really looking forward to this game on Xbox. However, after 6 months of AoC being out on the PC...and no announcement, I gave up hope. This "announcement" pretty much signals the death of the game. Too bad its failing on the PC. For what it is worth, I think that AoC does a lot of things right but suffers from extreme lack of polish. Personally, I don't think MMO's on consoles is a good market in general. Getting around the whole, "I have to pay monthly" idea is too much for many people. No doubt people will be peeved if they have to pay for Xbox Live and MMO monthly subscription on top of it. Perhaps PS3 is more poised for success in the MMO market? PSN for the most part is much more flexible. Unreal Tournament 4 is a good example of this with mod support. Something the Xbox version lacks. This isn't to say that MMO's on 360 will fail, on the contrary, I hope that "A" console can get it right period.
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