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MMO PC News by Oli Welsh
As covered in our launch event report, Funcom has revealed that it will take around 250 hours of play to reach the level cap of 80 in Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures.
Speaking at last week's launch event game director Gaute Godager said, "We have budgeted - because that's what you do, you budget people's time when you make these types of games - a levelling curve which is on average 250 hours of gameplay."
Godager pointed out that for the first three quarters of that curve, levelling will be a lot faster than is common in MMOs - partly so he himself can get some progress in.
"I'm not really a hardcore player, I pretend to be," said Godager. "I said that I want to make a game that I can enjoy. When I sit down for a gaming session, I use two to three hours, and in that time I would like to gain a level."
Age of Conan is out on Friday, and Eurogamer MMO is marking the event with a dedicated Age of Conan week. Stay tuned to find out more about how you'll be spending those 250 hours in Hyboria.
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So as usual with MMORPGs all the hardcore players will reach the level cap within a couple of weeks :p.
I was never one of those, but I gotta admit that after making the switch to console gaming only, I do miss spending some time in assorted MMOs - but hopefully they will be coming soon enough (including Age of Conan, though as usual I would certainly prefer to to use my PS3 rather than my old, noisy 360). |
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Fast levelling doesn't necessarily mean better. If players, especially casual players, are hitting the max level so quickly then they'll find themselves growing bored.
Of course, if Funcom can actually make max level content that doesn't get repetitive and lasts until the next patch then fair enough. But if Blizzard even struggle to keep max level players playing, then I don't have huge hope in Funcom. |
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@ mingster
I think the game looks graphically impressive, however, I can see lots and lots of errors occuring. If the 360/PS3 struggle to run offline games like Conan, then imagine what it'll be like with hundreds-thousands of players playing the game at the same time. I sense... texture issues... pop-up... As for gameplay. Well, real-time combat as the potential to be both more engaging and skill-based than the usual turn-based affair, but I really wouldn't know if it can work spot-on in an MMORPG. |
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@ Turambar
Only going by what Eurogamer themselves tell me :) Fair enough they refer to the open beta client, but surely they couldn't have taken away 7gb of data as I imagine by the time open beta had arrived DVD's would have been off at the printers.
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If I reached from lvl 60 ( with full rest bonus though ) to lvl 70 with my warrior in less than a week then it scares me for preordering the collector's.... omfg If i reach lvl 80 within a few weeks I'll so post every kinds of shit against them... I was hoping this will make the next step after WoW but wtf is wrong with them? They NOW tell me no DX10 ingame yet and that its a matter of a few weeks to reach cap lvl? Are they stupid? Don't they ever learn? I think this will go down just like my Lotro preorder...
@Madlax Who cares if it's a 32, 25 or 50 gigs? It's coming out on the xbox 360 and not PS3. You can look that up and when am i going to stop hearing about damn BRs? |
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So, for how much of this 250hr+ of gameplay am I going to be enjoying myself?
If it's anything like most current MMOs I'll spend the first few hours learning lots of new things, and having fun, then resign myself to many hours of tedious grind just so that I can stay at a level where there are actually other human players about. Someone really needs to design an MMO where I don't actually need to spend 250hours playing the sodding thing! |
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I'm in Early Access and so far I'd say the leveling IS somewhat fast compared to WoW. I like to run around and explore, read all the quest dialog etc, i.e. not exactly powerleveling. With that I've invested around 22 hours so far, and I'm conveniently also a bit into level 22. I'f I'd been more effective I'd be 25-30 as most others on my server seem to have become in roughly the same time.
There is, however, one exception... one player has already hit lvl 53 last I looked. 24/7 playing can't possibly be enough for that though, he's gotta have figure out some inbalance or exploit. The most hardcore players after him are around 30-35... It does feel strange however, this faster leveling. At least when you're so used to WoW... but if the plan is to make it quicker to level at first then maybe slow it down alot more at later levels it should balance out anyways. Either way, fast or slow, I'm having tons of fun =) |
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Darkjinxter
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Friday?
I thought the release date was the 20th of May and has been for the last six months. When did Funcom push it back for us Euronumpties? |
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hula hoops
20/05/08 @ 09:21
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I can't be bothered with leveling up in old school rpgs so why should I bother with MMO's? Are they going to make one which involve more than statistical skills?
Why should you be bothered about MMO if this is not your cup of tea .. so move along now, nothing to see here. What the hell is "statistical skill" anyway? Ability to calculate standard deviation and variance? |
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