The Secret World release date announced

By Fred Dutton Published 21 February, 2012

Funcom pushes ambitious MMO from April to June.

The Secret World, the ambitious new MMO from Age of Conan developer Funcom, launches on 19th June.

The game had been scheduled to arrive in April, but the studio has held it back to add a little further polish.

"Allowing for even more time to polish the game really shows just how much faith Funcom as a company has in The Secret World and how committed we are to making it the best it can be," commented creative director Ragnar Tørnquist.

"The additional time will also allow us to carry out even more quality beta testing, and soon we will also be announcing several public beta events where hundreds of thousands of gamers will get to test the game prior to launch."

That beta is currently well underway, with over 750,000 gamers registered so far - a "significantly higher" number than Age of Conan boasted at an equivalent time in development.

Eurogamer's Oli Welsh went hands-on with the EA-published modern world MMO late last year and came away relatively impressed.

"Even if The Secret World approaches the climax of its long development slightly more conventional than it first sounded, it's managed to retain its most important asset: its identity. That's more than many of its contemporaries can claim, and more than enough to set it apart - for now," read his The Secret World preview.

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  • ucankurbaga #1 3 months ago

    everything gets pushed to june damn it.

  • Eraysor #2 3 months ago

    I'd love beta access...I've been following this game eagerly since the moment the ARG was launched on this site about 5 years ago!

  • brider #3 3 months ago

    was realy interested in this game till i found out you had a monthly sub and they putting in an item shop too so you have to pay for the sub and buy things from an item shop FU funcom

  • metallicorphan #4 3 months ago

    This was originally coming to the 360 as well,but i guess Microsoft's stance on MMO's have put them off :-(

  • levitate #5 3 months ago

    Seing as Funcom seems to have all but ditched Anarchy Online and couldn't care less about Conan maybe this game has a future. Then again, I'm not sure I want to find out.

  • blays #6 3 months ago

    @brider I wasn't too bothered with the sub, frankly. But the item shop really pushed me over the edge. I'm sick of MMOs including this.

  • brider #7 3 months ago

    @blays yea i was more than happy to pay a monthly sub but theres no chance if they holding back content for a charged item shop too and people might say but its only cosmetic changes and stuff but thats not the point.
    why should people pay a sub and then have to fork out for item shop items too? its sickening and its going to kill what looks like a fresh and interesting MMO

  • scoop #8 3 months ago

    2 years of annual AOC subs, last year's came with the promise of a Secret World beta pass... I've completely lost interest now.

    It's not as if I'm just holding out for GW2 - I'd love a good Lovecraftian horror MMO. I just don't think it's going to be made by Funcom.

  • FortysixterUK #9 3 months ago

    It's not F2P?
    Not much chance really then.

  • djkav #10 3 months ago

    I'm not interested in another monthly sub mmo.

  • GavinUK86 #11 3 months ago

    I'm sick of mmo's full stop.