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In their third quarter finances, Funcom predicted a lower revenue for quarter four on account of the initial fervor over Age of Conan’s free to play ending. In the presentation, released today, Funcom reaffirmed this by posting a revenue loss of 11% quarter over quarter. While Age of Conan remains Funcom’s primary source of income, [...]
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Yes, There Are Boobs In Age of Conan
January 15th, 2012 
Omali Play Age of Conan now my lord, free forever. Instead of going into my usual rant about boobs and promoting negative stereotypes about the demographic, I’ll let the search results speak for themselves: Age of Conan Naked: 79 Age of Coman Women: 75 Conan Nude: 50 Age of Conan Nude: 20
Age of Conan 3.1 Brings Headaches, Patches, Server Downtime
November 30th, 2011 Omali Earlier this week Funcom updated Age of Conan to version 3.1, adding some arguably much needed back end maintenance and optimizations to the game as well as the Dreamworld engine that Age of Conan runs on. You can read the patch notes here, as the list of changes are truly massive, but despite how many [...]
Funcom Q3 2011 Finances
November 12th, 2011 Omali Because most of you probably don’t care to read up on it yourself, MMO Fallout is committed to bringing you the important information from each quarter’s financial reports. Yesterday, Funcom revealed its third quarter finances to investors, and there is plenty to boast about. Revenues increased 55% in the third quarter compared to the second, [...]
Funcom Q2 2011 Finances
August 26th, 2011 Omali It’s August, and that can only mean plenty of Q2 financial reports to read. Funcom has released its financial reports for the second quarter of 2011, with just enough time to factor in Age of Conan: Unchained. Here are some points of interest: Age of Conan: Unchained has more than doubled revenue for the title, [...]
Nominations For Golden Joystick Awards/GDCO
August 25th, 2011 Omali The Golden Joystick Awards have been running for 29 years, making the ceremony older than a good amount of the people reading this website. Every year, games compete in a number of categories from shooter to adventure and everything in between, with the voting determined by viewers like you. This year marks the first year [...]
Unsurprisingly: F2P Raises Population, Revenue In Age of Conan
August 11th, 2011 Omali In case you haven’t been following the pattern, when subscription games add free to play aspects the population tends to increase, as well as revenue. Following this trend, Age of Conan opened up its servers to free players over a month ago, and has since seen the related spike in population. How many? 300,000 according [...]
Age of Conan: Free To Play Comes Today
June 30th, 2011 Omali Age of Conan’s anticipated romp into the free to play world goes live today with the release of Age of Conan: Unchained. Heading over to the Age of Conan website will greet you with the above splash page. The game servers came down approximately two hours ago, and will be offline for another six (estimated). [...]
Age of Conan Going Free To Play This Summer!
May 25th, 2011 Omali Crom, I don’t normally pray to you. I don’t have the time, what with writing all those forum posts making jokes like “Funcom? More like… not… so… funcom!” If you will grant me one thing, make it Age of Conan free to play. I’m playing in the welcome back week, and I’m very much enjoying [...]
Age of Conan Film/Game Tie-In
May 24th, 2011 Omali Craig Morrison strikes me as the kind of guy who would immerse himself deeply enough in his work that he’d require the Funcom employees to pray to Crom every morning before work begins: Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if [...]
