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One of the longest running MMORPG’s is getting a much needed upgrade. Runescape, which is the successor to DeviousMUD, is a popular persistant online world that has been running since 2001 and has retained a respectable player base, due in large part to it’s free to play option.  For the past 7 years, the game [...]

 
Cursed.com has launched a beta of the Age of Conan Armory.  The beta version of the Armory currently supports a functional feat calculator as well as community driven feat builds for players to show off their PVP feat setup.  The beta site also features a feat commenting and rating system for players to chime in [...]

There are rumors floating around that Bioware is working on two things right now, first they seem to be working on a new MMO project.  Kotaku has an article about some of the MMO rumors and is speculating that the new MMO is not going to be based on KOTOR.  However, if you look at the team [...]

 
The ultimate goal of any MMORPG is to totally immerse you in the game world.  That’s what keeps you coming back, in the game world you can be whoever you want to be.  You are a jedi knight constantly at odds with the Empire or a rich and powerful merchant.  The original SWG didn’t pull [...]

If you’re like me, you probably get bored playing the same game day in and day out.  You don’t necessarily want to abandon your favorite game but you want to break the cycle a bit and find a few others to play when that favorite MMO starts feeling more like work than play!  That’s how [...]

A few patches ago I began getting consistant crashes when exiting AoC asking me to report the error to Funcom. It was annoying but I was pretty much just living with it until I found a fix posted online by Lefty1117 (gotta give props). Basically the problem seems to be caused by right permission on [...]

One thing I’ve always talked about and have thought is missing within most major games since my early days of MMO’s have been the ‘game within a game’ idea, or mini-games.  Star Wars Galaxies had the concept in early development with some mini-games but they quickly were moved to the back burner and never made [...]

My heart just about stopped today when I read my email.  I got my first message from BestBuy stating that they are giving me a coupon for $10 off of my next purchase because my pre-order of Age of Conan Collector’s Edition was delayed leaving the warehouse.  Guess who my next email was from?  FunCom, [...]

One game I’ve been watching lately has been Stargate Worlds, an MMO based on the popular television series, Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.  I’ll admit, I’m not to up-to-date on the story line in Atlantis, I’ve maybe seen 2 episodes but SG-1 was a real favorite of mine.  At least it was until Richard Dean [...]

Trying to build on the popularity of WAR in the Oceanic community, EA announced recently that they’ll be hosting a dedicated Oceanic server on mainland Australia.  The server will be available for play to anyone in the world but is primarily designed to offer gamers in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and other Southeast Asian territories [...]

 
Some cool new features coming along with the next expansion to World of Warcraft “Wrath of the Lich King”, no doubt aimed at fending off serious competition from Age of Conan.  For example, some of the new quest mechanices they are implementing in the new expansion offer mount based combat.  If you remember in the [...]

I’ve heard the cries of many gamers who are unable to login and play Age of Conan due to a authentication failure during login. According to FunCom, this is in large part due to not properly registering your key from the retail box to your account if you were an Early Access player, like me. [...]

AoC is a very polished and bright game. The launch was the best I’ve ever seen in an MMO with smooth gameplay and a fairly small number of major issues. No launch is ever likely to be perfect. That being said, the Early Access was disheartening to say the least. If you are in the [...]

I, like a fool, have been trying the ‘/claim’ command in game to try to get my pre-order items.  I ordered the Collector’s Edition from BestBuy and have yet to receive the actual box of the game.  I finally realized today that I won’t be able to use my in-game pre-order items with the claim [...]

Well, I spent most of Saturday trying to figure out my graphics problem just so I could get into the game.  After I finally got in late Saturday night, I was able to play a bit but even after the shader fix mention in my previous post, the graphics were still funky.  Shadows under objects [...]

Just in case some of you had the same issues as me, here’s the problem and what I did to fix it. Whenever I would click Play on the client menu, the screen would either stutter or just go black. Graphics in the game if I got past the black was just a mountain terrain [...]

Looks like server start time for Early Access has been bumped up to 8 PM GMT. Which is 3 PM Eastern Standard Time. That gives you a little more time to finish your download and patch your client. Get ready!

Based off of the premise that early access will start at 5pm GMT on 05/17, here’s the start time for some world cities (Saturday is 05/17, so adjust accordingly):
UPDATE: START TIME MOVED BACK 3 HOURS
Addis Ababa Sat 8:00 PM
Adelaide Sun 2:30 AM
Aden Sat 8:00 PM
Algiers Sat 6:00 PM
Almaty Sat 11:00 PM
Amman * Sat 8:00 [...]

There is never an end to the constant acquisition of gear! This is one of my posts on the downfalls of what had been one of my favorite games. It really is difficult for me to pick at WoW to much because I do still have a love for it, although that last few months [...]

Seeing as how so many people seem to be onboard with the Early Access in AoC, I thought it would be cool to get a group of people together for some mayhem early on.  The big debate for me was whether to go into a PVE or PVP server.  I read Tim’s post over at CtrlAltDel-Online.com that [...]

As predicted, when I woke up this morning the download client reported download complete and I began installation before heading into work.  Gotta love Funcom, the installation message “This will take a long time” haha.  Anyway, if you haven’t already tried the auto pause/resume method using the AI Robot or some other macro tool, I [...]

While waiting for my early access download to complete for AoC, I was playing around with Star Wars Empires at War single player.  I was having a blast attacking planets one at a time, first conquering the area of space surrounding the planet with my fleet of Star Destroyers, then launching a ground campaign with [...]

I understand that pausing and resuming the early access download is another solution to keep the download speed up at normal levels.  This works for me when I try it this way but slows back down to a snails pace after about 5 minutes or so.  You can just pause and resume again every five [...]

The download has been going painfully slow since it began, sometimes getting up around 40kpbs at it’s peek but hovering in the 30’s. I was wondering why it was so slow, and my internet connection was unbearable while it was running. I have more bandwidth than that!!
 
Today I started messing with the settings and it [...]

It’s been 24 hours since I began the Early Access Download for AoC.   This morning my download was at 17% completion, which if it keeps at this pace means it should be complete early Saturday morning my time.  I’m not planning on waiting up until midnight on the 17th to start anyway, I’m not that [...]

Well I finally got the email I’ve been waiting for. Sometime during the night I got the email from Age of Conan that my Early Access Download payment had been processed and I was cleared to begin the download of the AoC client. I started the download this morning, not feeling like I was in [...]

Last night when I checked my mail box I found a nice bubble wrapped box from BestBuy in there. The pre-order exclusive card with my registration number to get on the early access train had finally gotten here, and just in time too. Early access was supposed to start today. So I got on the [...]

In this newest edition of the Hyborian Insider, a developer discusses the core components of the game.  Crafting and building player cities.  Watch the video for more:
 

This is the official retail trailer video for Age of Conan released last month. This shows a lot of the features coming including the amazing world itself and a good look at mounts.
 
 

While waiting for Age of Conan to arrive, I thought I’d delve more into my thoughts about what I thought Star Wars Galaxies should have done.  At this point, I’d be happy if it were any space MMO that could pull off some of the stuff I’m mentioning, but Star Wars would of course take [...]

From everything I’ve been reading, the Early Access Download to play Age of Conan before the rest of the world starts on May 17th.  But, of course there are going to be plenty of people crowding Funcom’s download servers to get the program to play early, so they are allowing people to start downloading the [...]

I’ve been toying back and forth with the idea of buying the Collector’s Edition of Age of Conan for my pre-order.  I’ve been doing some research and found a great article over at Keen and Graev’s Gaming Blog that talks about the pro’s and con’s of buying the CE.  Keen talks in his article about what he [...]

If you pre-order Age of Conan you will get one of three bonus items depending on where you order from.  From what I’ve been able to tell so far, pre-ordering from Amazon.com awards the Amazon Curved Bow as your pre-order bonus item.  Gamestop awards the War Mammoth and I assume the War Rhino comes from [...]

With a little more digging, I found that there is a special offer you may be interested in if you are planning on buying Age of Conan anyway. If you pre-order the game you will get your choice of two mounts, a Killer Rhino or the War Mammoth which you’ll be able to mount after [...]

Age of Conan, the long anticipated MMO is finally set for release this month! I gave up on this game ever coming out a while back and stumbled across it in my musings. It looks better than ever and looks like all the major features promised will be included in initial release. [...]