Massively goes to Dragon*Con: Funcom Q&A

September 5, 2008 by admin · Comment
Filed under: Age of Conan 

Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, Events, real-world, Game mechanics, MMO industry, Massively Event Coverage

a5373_massgoestodcon Massively goes to Dragon*Con: Funcom Q&A

Funcom was on-hand at this year’s Dragon*Con, where they held a Q&A session regarding all things Age of Conan. What follows is as much of the event as could be transcribed from the audio we brought back with us. This writeup was completed based on audio with some garbled sections. Some details may be glossed over as a result. Without further ado:

Q: Any plans to merge the servers?
A: No. What we have looked at is ways of letting people play across servers, but we haven’t made any plans to merge servers.

Working with the tradeskill guys a lot lately and the resource team and we’re designing new quests and areas for resource gathering and building and things like that. Tower objectives and so forth, they’re the next step with the battlekeep system, so I work with the action dynamic team, who are the guys who do the massive PvP and Siegeing. Our first priority at the moment is to get 48v48 sieges running perfectly for everybody. Second priority is to get the next step out, which is Towers, so the guys are working on it.

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Funcom announces its Dragon*Con plans

August 27, 2008 by admin · Comment
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Filed under: Age of Conan, Anarchy Online, Events, real-world, New titles, News items, The Secret World

20c1e_secretworld1 Funcom announces its Dragon*Con plans

American readers: are you going to Dragon*Con this Labor Day weekend? Funcom (developer of Anarchy Online, Age of Conan, and The Secret World) is! Its specific plans have been laid out at the Age of Conan website.

The company will have its own booth, of course, which will be open from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM Friday through Sunday, and from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Monday. More interestingly, though, Funcom will be hosting what it calls the “FunCon Event” in the Sheraton Capital Ballroom on Friday at 10:00 PM. The party will feature music by DJ Tarryk and visitors from the teams of all three Funcom projects.

The following day, Funcom will present its two currently-released games — Anarchy Online at 10:00 AM and Age of Conan at 7:00 PM. Somewhere amidst all these proceedings, fans will have the opportunity to win posters, inflatable swords, t-shirts, lanyards, custom PC cases, and “one special customized Anarchy Online PC.” That’s cool. It’s probably not cool enough to go out of your way to go to Dragon*Con for, but if you’re already gonna be there you might as well stop by. Check out Massively’s complete Dragon*Con schedule for other events and booths to hit up, too.

 

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