Age of Conan Film/Game Tie-In


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 we were good men or bad. Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that two stood against many. That’s what’s important! Valor pleases you, Crom… so grant me one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to HELL with you!

A good few people are asking: Will the upcoming Conan movie save Age of Conan? According to Craig Morrison, the game doesn’t need saving.

First of all I’m not sure we need saving! We wouldn’t still be running the game with the size of team and the operation that we have if the game wasn’t perfectly viable, profitable and doing well. We still have a sizeable team working on the game, we are still adding new content – we’ve added as much new content this year already as any of our other competitors and we’re only going to do more for the rest of the year.

If Funcom is as happy with the current state of Age of Conan as Morrison wants us to believe, Age of Conan has a healthy future ahead of it. According to the Eurogamer interview, not only did last year’s Rise of the Godslayer maintain the population, it actually brought players back.

You can read the entire interview at the link above, which goes into detail on the new content that is appearing in Age of Conan to tie in with the film.