AoC: An Interview with Funcom About Recent Play

Some members of the community found a weakness in the game; an exploit that they decided to abuse to gain extra money in the game． It wasn't directly a money exploit, but by using the exploit itself they got access to more money．

Age of Conan Tops the Charts

Funcom is proud to announce that Age of Conan rises to number 1 on the PC charts, and the game even competes very well on the all-format lists． The normal edition is now sold out in many outlets due to the initial success of the game, and Funcom aims to resupply new boxes as fast as possible．

AoC: Guide to Grouping in Hyboria

Positioning is Everything - This is not a new concept in the MMORPG genre, but it does take a little spin in Age of Conan (AoC)． When engaging enemies the tank should be face to face with your foe and everyone else should be at his back． The reason for this is that in AoC when an enemy swings a weapon, everyone (not just the tank) in the path of that weapon is hit．

Age of Conan - Best selling PC game of May

As all countries report sales differently, it is not possible to get a complete overview of the exact box sales at the time of writing, but Age of Conan remains the top selling PC game in the majority of all released markets．

Age of Conan Continues to Dominate Retail Charts

In the second month after release it is also clear that Age of Conan has taken the position as the undisputed #2 subscription MMO in the western world．

AoC: Border Kingdom Cryer

Funcom lays the smackdown on exploiters, clarification on the emotes bugs, Tuk's Weekly Funny, Lost in Hyboria names the damsel, and AoC Ten Ton Hammer releases a ton of new content, all this and more in this week's Border Kingdom Cryer．

Massively explores Age of Conan's guild cities

The construction of guild cities has been one of Age of Conan's main features since release. One such city on the Fury PvP server is Goonrushalem, home to the Thulsa Goons guild. Nestled in the foothills of Stygia's Purple Lotus Swamp, the city of Goonrushalem was once one of the largest player-built cities on the server.

More adjustments to Age of Conan's new PvP system

Last night a new patch went to Age of Conan's Testlive server. As well as making the usual slew of fixes and changes, including addressing memory leak and crash problems, and introducing a revamped version of the Catacombs in Old Tarantia, there were some tweaks to the PvP consequence system.

Hotfix quashes ludicrous purple loot drops in Age of Conan

Something strange has happened over the last few days in Hyboria. The first we knew of it was when a forum post suggested Funcom take a look at their loot tables, because certain mobs were dropping a heck of a lot more purple loot than they were (presumably) supposed to. The poster backed this up by providing a screenful of blue and purple items garnered in a very short space of time.

Age of Conan video interview focuses on player concerns

Erling Ellingson, Funcom's Product Manager for Age of Conan, recently gave a video interview with Jon Wood from MMORPG. Wood brought some tough questions to the interview regarding the problems many players are having with the game, questions that may not have simple, clear cut answers as the footage implies.