So, AoC launch has come and gone. Aside from a few annoyances and a fetish with sharpening weapons, Funcom did a moderate job at not pissing a large portion of their customers off. I wouldn’t …

The Early Access program for Age of Conan launched this weekend. So, how’d Funcom do here?
The Saturday launch was kicked off 3-4 hours after it’s scheduled time. Servers came up between 8-9PM GMT, which gave …

Tarib, a Swiss chap that plays Community Manager for the AoC forums by day, let the bomb drop today in the forums:
The gates to Age of Conan open in just a few days from now …

Designing a game, much less a MMO, is no easy task. Developing a game of such magnitude is not a small endeavor. So, while I continue to mull over the other complications of designing such …

It’s easy to get caught up in our passion for escapism and complex massive virtual worlds. Our denizens whisper things like “dynamic content” and “balanced combat systems” with fervor in an attempt to maximize our …

It’s no news – well, at least to the geek empire that is MMO gaming – that beta testing is now a big part of the marketing of online gaming. That’s all good I suppose, …