Age of Conan early access sold out Comments by Oli Welsh

Although it will leave many disappointed, the early-access sell-out is an indication of the strength of anticipation for Age of Conan.

Actually, it's not, as we don't know how many early accesses were available. The joys of Marketing.

@Erinan

well if it's more than they anticipated, and interest in this MMO has been building for a while, then it must be a sizable number.

Or maybe it's all a big conspiracy, yeah right!

The start of the train wreck or just a bump in the road? Time will tell...

The amount of anticipation is a double-edge sword with an MMO launch, they'll get lots of cash up front but if the servers choke people will trudge back to WoW.

I think they have a good idea (better than most mmos) how many people will be logging in at launch

so hopefully they have the hardware to do the business

Funcom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we preordered, or why we registered. All that matters is that a forum full of angry people stood against many. That's what's important! Valor pleases you, Funcom... so grant me one request. Grant me early access! And if you do not listen, then to HELL with you!

would be good if they had sent out information about that it was actually OPEN already instead all I got was a lazy play.com email saying i could register for an account, nothing about time limited nature and the fact early access was already open as I was expecting another announcement.. nice start.. lack of communication and pissing off people even before launch.

oh my godzor...funcom are losezors!!!!!!

I can imagine the forums full of angry fans...and I bet it ain't pretty...

"Actually, it's not, as we don't know how many early accesses were available. The joys of Marketing."

600,000 last i heard. Make up your own mind if that's good or not. All i know is i have my early access.

Care to post a link? Not that I don't trust you, but I don't see why they wouldn't be bragging about it. Or maybe they're waiting until the actual early access starts.

There's been no official statement of numbers just rumours really. I guess i should have mentioned that in my post.

Anyway post #11 http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.... is where i got my info.

Gamereactor gave it 9/10.

"Funcom apologised for the "misunderstanding", but stressed that it had always said that there would be a limit to the scope of the early access scheme"

Well, not on the preorder boxes they didn't. Which would have been a quite logical place to actually put the info, you'd think.

600k would be a very impressive figure. I'm surprised it's that high actually, given the state of the game (which has only improved in the last few days, really). I guess it's down to the hype in the end, or it could be that the WoW players are starting to migrate to other games.

600k would be a very impressive figure. I'm surprised it's that high actually, given the state of the game (which has only improved in the last few days, really).

For an MMORPG, it seems to be in a pretty good state, actually. Compared to betas I've tried near launch in post-WoW years, anyway.

It wasn't before this week. What they have apparently done is downgrading the engine to make it run better on average/low-end machines, and it apparently helped. But it wasn't a pretty beta, that's for sure, and the NDA is still running - which makes me terribly suspicious as the game will be launched tomorrow.

I have my early access too...

Hakuna Matata, Bitches!!

\o/

you cocks who managaed to register for early access, make sure you check the forums to see which server the EG massive are going to be playing

it will be all nice if we are on one server as a collective

I'm unenthused about this.

Roll on WotlK. Which I also hardly care for, but will be buying anyway....

No idea why.

Server list is up btw.

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread....

Rolling on Aquilonia myself.

Let's try not to get sand in Oliver Kunz.

Surely if they didn't expect that many people to sign up, they'll also lack a similar proportion of server capacity and bandwidth relative to demand once the game's generally released, suggesting bumpy connections ahead...

lol @ dudefather, unless he actually remembered that whole thing without looking it up, in which case I worry.

Well I got my pre-order email, registered on the site (how confusing is their registration process?????) and then downloaded the 13GB client. A day later I tried to install, kept getting crc errors. So I downloaded again, and again when I tried to install, crc errors. I tried twice more and after 2 more lots of errors (and the fact I have almost used up my 50GB monthly broadband usage limit) and have heard nothing back from the tickets I raised with FunCom I cancelled the lot and think I have made a lucky escape. This is most certainly going to be a train wreck, no doubt about it!

im in.

No probems what-so-ever. I created an account as soon as i got a code from my retailer (because FUNCOM informed everyone like a million times on the forums that early access places were limited). I entered a valid CC (coz im not a pennyless bum). I clicked on the link they sent me (not one of the millions posted on the forums). I ran the patcher as instructed from the 14th (not before). And now i'm ready to roll (come saturday). Easy.

/smug mode off

I do feel sorry for the millions (optimistic here ;P) of ppl that got screwed over by their retailers sending codes late though. That does kinda suck. But AFIAK the three that had the pre-order bonus items (play=rhino, amazon=bow and game=mammoth) were all sent out on time so people shouldn't have been caught short.

I do blame those unscrupulous ppl that screwed this system over (or at least tried to, well done Funcom) who pre-ordered from all three retailers to get all the pre-order keys, only to cancel 2 of them after applying the keys to their accounts. Bad form there ppl (you know who you are!)

I do think that has a large part to play in alot of the animosity on the forums atm, especially with the people that didnt get in or got their codes late for whatever reason (more codes means more ppl getting mailed and more prone to errors and/or delays, or something)

It might be me but I just can't figure out why ppl even want to pay an extra 5 euro just so they can start playing earlier. I just think it's a waste of money. It might be only 5 euro and ppl say it's not that much but even than. And if ppl say that they don't want to run around when all the other millions of ppl are running around you still face the ppl who are also in the early access which are quiet a few. And I read that because there are a lot scream for more keys they even made it available for an extra period which means your running around with even more. In the end your might be even better of just starting on release date :D.

well bleh, aside from the benifit from getting slightly ahead of the unwashed come launch day? ;)

There's the chance to reserve your names, get a head start and get to grips with the game. Also the extra TEN DAYS of gametime which are added to your account help alot! Basically for the measly £3.90 it was here in good old Britain, you essentially get 15 days of playtime - which, when considering the monthly sub, works out as a pretty good deal :)

Its a wierd stratagy for FUNCOM to make ppl pay, but then again this is an unconventional MMO, but as you can see it has paid off!

hehe, seriously, what is the number. tell us the number.