Age of Conan 360 "still in production"

By Oli Welsh Published 2 December, 2008

Funcom staff cuts won't affect development.

After announcing staff cuts last week, Age of Conan developer Funcom has said that the redundancies won't affect development on any of its games.

These include the Xbox 360 version of Age of Conan, which, according to spokesman Erling Ellingsen, is still under way.

"Our aim is for this to not affect development of Age of Conan, or any of our other games, at all," he told MTV.

"We are sticking firmly to our plans. The Xbox 360 version of the game is still in production, but as before we are not committing to any specific dates. I wish I could give you more information, but I can’t at the time being," Ellingsen said.

The 360 version of the game was originally slated for 2009, along with the first expansion pack for the PC original.

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Comments (23) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Eraysor #1 3 years ago

    They really should put the money for this game into the PC version to make it decent enough first.

  • ZuluHero #2 3 years ago

    i don't know - it might do better as a console mmo. Lets face it there isn't much choice in that area, and it could effectively corner the market.

    If they see this through they could end up making a lot of money...

  • muscleblade #3 3 years ago

    I believe it when i see it on the shelves, not sooner.

  • iokthemonkey #4 3 years ago

    Careful, you'll all be accused of being my sock-puppet accounts if you make a negative comment about Funcom or AoC, regardless of whether it's actually a valid point or not...

  • M\'z #5 3 years ago

    Still such hate against aoc? It was a crappy game indeed, but give it another try now, and you¨ll see huge improvments

  • Pirotic #6 3 years ago

    It's never going to happen, who are they trying to kid?

  • Bleh #7 3 years ago

    Guess it will be harder to patch so much on a console so they need to make it pretty good from the start. Properly why we have to wait for so long. Seeing that not all xbox have a hard drive will not make it any easier.

    If it's going to be any seller we just have to see. The name is pretty much damaged for those who have played it on the pc and it might influence the console version as well.

  • General_Zod #8 3 years ago

    So XBox users are going to pay for live and then the £10-15 for the Conan subscription?

  • BaggyAnt #9 3 years ago

    So XBox users are going to pay for live and then the £10-15 for the Conan subscription?

    FFXI users only need a silver subscription to play - so this should be no different

  • RedSparrows #10 3 years ago

    You mean Funcom will. Why would MS get any of the subscription fee?

    I fear this is an utterly pointless exercise.

  • Gaol #11 3 years ago

    Mmm, the most overrated, badly designed and excruciatingly repetitive game ever comes to the world's least reliable, noisiest and unattractive console.

    Well they can at least get rid of the death penalty once it's released.

  • makeamazing #12 3 years ago

    The 360 version of the game was originally slated for 2009

    The PC game was slated, so Im pretty sure the Xbox version will be also -jk :D

    Guess if they can get new people to try it they can increase numbers, perhaps they see this and the expansion as the way to go, rather than convince people to try it as it is now on PC.

  • 4thVariety #13 3 years ago

    MMOs get many many updates whenever the developer feels like it. Console games get updates whenever the manufacturer feels like having them 'tested' enough. So unless anybody can get an MMO to work bugfree, console versions are highly unlikely. With bi-weekly updates and 24h hotfixes being the norm, neither Microsoft nor Sony will be happy testing patches all day for whatever they test them down there. No publisher will want to pick up the tab for those costs, they rather not release the game at all.

    On top of that, with MMOs having established the irrational belief that they are somehow worth paying more money than regular games, neither Sony nor Microsoft really want another company to make MMOs for their platform. They both want that profitable segment for their own.

    Microsoft tried to hype Conan in an effort to say the 360 was the only current-gen console with an MMO, Sony quickly countered by announcing NCsoft creating MMOs for PS3. Now it's two years later and no 3rd party MMOs in sight. Some first party MMOs taking shape though.

  • ZuluHero #14 3 years ago

    Mmm, the most overrated, badly designed and excruciatingly repetitive game ever comes to the world's least reliable, noisiest and unattractive console.

    Well they can at least get rid of the death penalty once it's released.

    erm... new to this MMO lark then? :p

  • warlockuk #15 3 years ago

    A 360 version? Aren't they going to finish making the PC version first?

  • levitate #16 3 years ago

    "Along with the expansion pack"?! How about fixing the bloody original before selling expansion packs nobody will bother to buy.

  • iokthemonkey #17 3 years ago

    You know what I'm waiting for?

    The trolls to appear here and accuse ME of being anti-AoC, all the while ignoring the other comments above.

    Oh yeah, I forgot: they're all my other accounts, arent' they...? /rollseyes

  • Darkjinxter #18 3 years ago

    Good luck to them.
    The PC version currently eats up 30GB of HDD space, so even 60GB XBOX owners would balk at this since it would virtually fill their HDD. 20GB users can forget it completely, so FC can only realistically target Elite owners. Whoever has come with the business case for this had better speed away in his Ferrari as soon as it hits the streets.

    I'd like to see FC adding XBOX controller capability into the PC version, which would at the very least provide feedback to FC on how this would play if it really was ported over.
    Edited by 1 at 02/12/08 @ 15:22

  • warlockuk #19 3 years ago

    It probably takes 30Gb on the PC version as nothing got compressed for retail. The whole install feels like a beta including the stuff it puts on the HDD.

  • iokthemonkey #20 3 years ago

    It probably takes 30Gb on the PC version as nothing got compressed for retail. The whole install feels like a beta including the stuff it puts on the HDD.

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    It doesn't uninstall cleanly either and leaves all kinds of crap lying around.

  • iokthemonkey #21 3 years ago

    Funny comment from Massively.com on this:

    "The 360 release stands to reach a new audience, one which will cause Conan's roleplaying-racism to join together with real-life racism through the magic of Xbox Live, and might just make the internets spontaneously combust."

  • warlockuk #22 3 years ago

    Roleplaying Racism? Sounds like the words of a Stygian whore.

  • iokthemonkey #23 3 years ago

    Roleplaying Racism? Sounds like the words of a Stygian whore.
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    Fagetlol