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 … Continue reading “Unsurprisingly: F2P Raises Population, Revenue In Age of Conan”
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). … Continue reading “Age of Conan: Free To Play Comes Today”
Now that I’ve run the Crom praying joke into the ground, I’m going to have to come up with a new introduction for Age of Conan articles. Starting today and continuing tomorrow, Funcom plans to merge the Age of Conan servers for American and European players. On the United States side, Tyranny and Cimmeria will … Continue reading “Age of Conan Servers Merging”
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 … Continue reading “Age of Conan Going Free To Play This Summer!”
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 … Continue reading “Age of Conan Film/Game Tie-In”
I’ve said this before, but I believe Neverwinter to be the root cause behind Cryptic losing money, compounding the loss that Star Trek Online put on the revenue from Champions Online, alongside a less than stellar launch by both titles. I don’t believe that either of the two titles performed as well as Cryptic had … Continue reading “Why Buy Cryptic Studios?”
Before the discussion begins, let me just put something out in the open: I would love to see an MMO on the Xbox 360. Final Fantasy XI has somewhat of a monopoly, and Phantasy Star isn’t an MMO in the traditional open world sense, so that leaves Final Fantasy with the reigns. I don’t own … Continue reading “This Is The First Part: Secret World 360 Delayed Forever”
Former player of Age of Conan? Promised yourself you’d never go back to Funcom after they [insert reason here]? Well, even if you don’t hold a grudge against the company, they are willing to have you back. In fact, starting today Funcom has taken the liberty of reactivating your account for you, until the end … Continue reading “Age Of Conan Wants You Back: Almost Two Weeks Free”
In the past, Everquest has been one of the few MMOs to dabble in, shall we say, unconventional alternate rule servers. Sure, most games you come across nowadays have some combination of PvE, PvP, and RP, and you can’t get much better than a PvP-RP server, when striking someone with your sword as you scream … Continue reading “Age of Conan: Loot PvP Server Coming!”
Anarchy Online is one of the oldest MMOs on the market, and for the fact that it never appeared much (read: at all) here on MMO Fallout, the game has brought a number of innovations to the MMO genre, foremost instancing, dynamic questing, and in-game advertising. Funcom also touched upon what we now think of … Continue reading “Cash Shop Coming To Anarchy Online”
MMO Fallout 