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Age of Conan to defend Xbox 360 from PS3 MMO-fest

Gamer.Blorge:

"Everyone has been talking about the MMOs coming to the PS3 in 2009. However, the MMOs coming to the Xbox 360 have been getting zero hype. There definitely are a couple games slated to hit the system in 2009. One of them is Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. Despite the rumors of its demise this game is still in development.

Sony has been hyping the company's MMO lineup recently with 2009 in full swing. Some of the titles that have been shown are: The Agency, DC Universe and Free Realms. Personally I am fairly excited about DC Universe because the game is directed by the famed DC Comics artist, Jim Lee."

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Bazookajoe_83 - 317 days 1 hour ago

1 - Will there be a monthly fees?

If not ill might pick it up :-)

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creeping judas - 316 days 22 hours ago

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the only one that can be guaranteed to be free is "free realms", all the other's could very well be P2P. Which is OK, if it's a good game. I pay $14.99/mnth to play Lord of the Rings Online.

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KRUSSIDULL - 316 days 21 hours ago

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It should be free AArrgghh...

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Capt CHAOS - 316 days 21 hours ago

1.3 - MMOs generally cost alot to play.. i.e. Monthly fee etc.

That's why I don't do MMOs.

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akiraburn - 316 days 21 hours ago

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Age of Conan has basically the same $15/month fee as many other MMOs.

As well as Creeping_Judas's mention of Free Realms which will be on PC/PS3, the developers of The Agency made mention a while back that it was going to be free with premium content available if you wanted to pay, though it wouldn't be required. Though that's also a PS3/PC only. As a heads up, Age of Conan right now is not doing too well with subscribers. Currently WoW, Lotr:Online, Guild Wars, and Warhammer are the four main dominating forces.

While AoC had a lot of potential, the devs have made some critical errors, and the drop off rate of players has been massive and drastic. Just looking at the attach rate shows a continuous decrease in player-base month over month. And recently they have had to do server consolidations, moving characters into less and less servers. Meanwhile MMOs like WoW continue to expand their servers.

Right now Conan will survive and the server consolidation will help a lot with costs, but if they want to continue, they need to make some drastic changes. Perhaps in future updates they can put in more desired features and fix some of the problems they have had. But seeing how Tabula Rasa went down and they were in a lot of similar situations, I wouldn't be surprised if this slowly went down that same path as well. It sucks, but it's tough right now with the economy, and so people in general are more choosy with the MMOs.

So for the time, PC is your obvious best choice for MMOs, but if you really want to play on consoles, following up soon will be the PS3. Especially keeping in mind the multi-title deal that Sony signed with NCsoft that we still haven't heard more about. And personally, I'd rather take DC Universe over Champions any day of the week. Check out the episode of Qore where they show off gameplay. Pretty zazzy stuff.

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Bazookajoe_83 - 316 days 20 hours ago

1.5 - I will refuse to pay a monthly fee

Im allready paying my internet provider and for live. MS need to stepup and bring it without the monthly fee´s for those who pay for live.

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Ghoul - 316 days 20 hours ago

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Conan was one of my biggest disapoitment of 08 probably the biggest.
Its unbalanced as nearly NO endgame (even after lvl 20 its boring as hell)

Im anxious to see how they change the game to suit the controller settings, but thats about it the rest is crap. sadly

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Jenzo - 316 days 19 hours ago

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I hope the 360 version doesn't have any monthly fees. The Live fee should cover that.

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JsonHenry - 316 days 17 hours ago

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I'd be happy with MapleStory on a console. Anything other than that is too hardcore for me. I have yet to play a MMO with depth that I actually liked.

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LoVeRSaMa - 316 days 14 hours ago

1.9 - "Age of Conan to defend Xbox 360 from PS3 MMO-fest"

Yet the guy is Hyping DC Universe himself :P

AOC was meant to be good, it was over hyped I heard, its not doing to well in the MMO World, maybe the Xbox 360 can save AOC tbh.

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FarEastOrient - 316 days 14 hours ago

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You will still pay a monthly fee and this is after paying Xbox Live Gold, the precursor example is Final Fantasy XI for the X360. For one thing the game Age of Conan is currently merging servers because of a decrease in player populations.

Will the Xbox 360 change this, probably not much, especially since the game doesn't have the end-game legs like Lord of the Rings or World of Warcraft. Even Final Fantasy XI has more life the current state of The Age of Conan!

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Darkseider - 317 days ago

2 - Not likely

Seeing that AoC for PC is consolidating multiple servers and closing others due to massive drop off. Other new MMOs, particularly Lord of the Rings and Warhammer are beating the tar out of it. Then there is the 800 pound gorilla of MMOs aka WoW which continues to trudge on and steamrolling other fantasy based MMOs.

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rebirthofcaos - 316 days 23 hours ago

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but this mmo was shut down a lot of server becase people didnt play it or im mistaken?

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Johnny Rotten - 316 days 23 hours ago

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whatever happened to Huxley?

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creeping judas - 316 days 22 hours ago

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Huxley is kinda of like Alan Wake and GT5 put together, no one knows when they are coming out??

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KRUSSIDULL - 316 days 21 hours ago

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I miss the rumors when WoW were supposed to come to my 360 :P

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blackpanther25 - 316 days 19 hours ago

4.3 - lol huxley

it failed. It was the main reason why i bought a 360 (beside halo3). The gameplay is totally different from what they promised. The controls are horrible and the bots move so fast that you can't even see them. Huxley has been in beta for like over a year now in korea. I had to make a fake korean ssn and address to get into the beta (im not korean) over a year ago.

I haven't played it in a while so lets hope they fixed alot of the problems. Trust they almost have to do a re haul with all the problems i have seen.

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blindfromthesun - 316 days 21 hours ago

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Not sure I am interested in any MMO if there will be monthly charges. Give me something worth being an Xbox Live Gold membership, thanks. Age of Conan could be an exception depending on if the developers make the game interesting beyond level 20. As for other 360 MMO's the only other one I'm more than a little interested in is All Points Bulletin.

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350ZRunner - 316 days 21 hours ago

6 - Age of Conan?

Age of Conan? You mean the MMO that has already shut down half its servers as people left in droves?

If the 360 is placing its bets on AoC to 'defend' it in an MMO battle then you'll have to pardon me if I fall over laughing.

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dkgshiz - 316 days 21 hours ago

6.1 - yeah

AOC lost majority of its community. It started off fine, but then it all went to hell.

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divideby0 - 316 days 21 hours ago

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$ 50 bucks for Live + monthly fees = fail

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Pennywise - 316 days 21 hours ago

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AoC, a failing PC MMO with bad reviews and no end game is going to save the 360 from PS3 MMO'S?? lmao!!!!! Good stuff.

Granted the PS3 MMO's are not proven yet... they could be bad... but AoC is a flop.

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devilhunterx - 316 days 21 hours ago

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the only which interest me is THE AGENCY

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The Lazy One - 316 days 21 hours ago

10 - APB and Huxley?!

D:

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IDemonstalkerXI - 316 days 20 hours ago

11 - Nothing

Could compete with the next EQ when it comes to PS3/PC.

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Joey Greco RULES - 316 days 20 hours ago

12 - DUDE CONAN SUX BAWLS

MS, do yourselves a favor.....take the money you were gonna use on CONAN, and beg blizzard/activision to allow a 360 port of WoW. then not only will you sell a lot of copies, but you'll sell some more consoles as well. bundle it with a keyboard and mouse, and you can sell it for even more bux. EVERYBODY WINS.

even if you guys dont wanna do that.....just do me one favor....drop conan, and focus those dollars else where(huxley, APB, ect)

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Pennywise - 316 days 20 hours ago

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That would require a mouse. As far as I know, they are not compatible with the 360. Please let me know if I am wrong.

I would love for 360 or PS3 to pickup a MMO soon.

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Joey Greco RULES - 316 days 20 hours ago

12.2 - they could always bundle it

penny, i made an edit, sorry. :)

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Perjoss - 316 days 20 hours ago

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age of conan is a steaming heap of cack, sadly

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Evil Gamer - 316 days 20 hours ago

14 - THIS IS NOT THE PC...

Who cares how bad it's doing on the PC..NOTHING can compare with WOW period..with no real competition any decent MMO can do real numbers on a console..for all those people stil whining about payingwhat equal 4 dollars a month for Xbox Live..sorry don't be suprised when they charge for the MMO..I'm sure they will have a free demo..hook people on it..and give you a choice..but that is purely the gamers choice..people don't have to buy it if the don't want to..I loved the Conan comics back in the day..and honestly look forward to seeing how the game comes out on the console..we all heard the news of the server consolidation..won't matter to them at all if they release it on the 360..

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Reibooi - 316 days 20 hours ago

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Considering how bad Age of Conan is doing on the PC side I would say that it is simply a matter of time until 360 version of the game is canceled. In my opinion you can't really make a MMO work well on console unless you do 1 of 2 things.

1) Design it for the ground up for the console like FFXI was. The game works extremely well with a controller and I would argue better then with a keyboard and it's all because it was designed for PS2 first.

2) You pull a Phantasy Star in which you are in a MMO but you only really enter dungeons and instances with 4-5 people.

Honestly Funcom should be trying to FIX Age of Conan before they try to port it to a console.

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Scar 360WA - 316 days 19 hours ago

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It was built with a controller in mind from the beginning. And the 360 version was pushed further back so they can fix the current problems.

I still have hope for this game.

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Gitaroo - 316 days 20 hours ago

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didnt the PC version has a 30 gigs installation requirement?

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Pennywise - 316 days 19 hours ago

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I have no idea why someone disagreed with you. The box states 30GB HDD space needed.

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mirroredderorrim - 316 days 19 hours ago

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Just bring WoW to PS3 and call it a day.

It will take a lot to convince Blizzard, though, and that could be a major hit to the PC...nah, I guess Blizzard wouldn't go for it, since their whole business model seems to be based on the PC itself.

eh.. what started out as a good idea, ends up nothing more than hot-air.

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blackpanther25 - 316 days 19 hours ago

18 - Wait.....

FF XI is on the 360 anyway. AOC is crap if anything they should have tried to get Guild wars since it is free to play. I mean it reeks console. You can only use 8 or 9 skills at a time(i don't remember).You can solo the game with henchmen or play with other people and be placed inside your own separate server. They also have a pvp aspect which is not as good as wow but can be done easily on consoles.

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Baka-akaB - 316 days 14 hours ago

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Uh ????

Wow's pvp is quite lagging behind Guild Wars pvp . WoW was supposed to go the realm vs realm way , or at least massive battles road , in the end it took them quite some time to add instanced battlefield , and they're lame . 1v1 or small groups pvp is completely imbalanced and have been from the very start .

While guild wars is basically PVP , with a surpringly decent PVE experience , when everyone mostly expected only pvp arenas . Guild wars got loads of balanced pvp modes , and even try , in a small scale , instanced battlefields .

Guild wars constantly tweaked with patches , addons , with far less balance issues than wow , and a gameplay that basically emphasis real time pvp , with more thinking and strategy involved than just using 3 keys , while having two bars of useless skills (as in wow and most EQ model based mmo) .
They always had ladders , many official competitions with prizes , almost every week end they had events pvp or not ...

I agree mind you with yout original point that i could have fit well on console ... but i dont see how you can say that Wow got better pvp , Guild wars is basically pvp with pve as a bonus ...

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blackpanther25 - 316 days 10 hours ago

18.2 - Yeah

i see what you are saying. I just think some things in wow are better than guild wars. Guild wars does do more with all the types of pvp you can have can engage in. The main reason i bought guild wars was for the pvp anyway. If anything i like the pvp system in WAR the best

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The Round Peg - 316 days 18 hours ago

19 - Pointless for MMO on 360 *and* PS3

Nothing competes with WoW on the PC side.

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Leathersoup - 316 days 18 hours ago

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Age of Conan spreads fail where ever it goes...

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Baka-akaB - 316 days 14 hours ago

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Aoc cant even do well among it's intended target ... it sure as hell wont do better on consoles .

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