General Discussion

Funcom has announced that US Conan fans that are currently playing in the Fileplanet beta for Age of Conan can take part in a leveling contest for the chance to win prizes.

Great prizes to be won for U.S. players on Fileplanet. Who levels up the fastest?

The 'Beta Leveling Contest' has started on Fileplanet. Players who level two (2) class types to the maximum level 13 in the LEAST amount of time will be declared potential winner and get a chance to win great prizes like Signed Collector's Editions, In-Game Virtual items and much more.

Read more here.

I'm not entirely sure I understand why FunCom's PR department thinks it's imperative that they widely publicize a contest for an open beta that by their own admission is not actually an open beta, nor do I understand why mmorpg.com felt compelled to email me about this "news" since it really could have been better-handled by funcom's internal email list, but, um, thanks for the hot tip?

You're kidding right?  Level 13 max?  'How fast you can do it' contest promoted by the publisher?  What happens if the results are under 24 hours or something like that?  You think I'm gonna pony up 50 bucks and pay monthly for a game that can be leveled that quickly?  Forget it.  I want my next MMO to have substance and compelling content so (1) I don't feel that the leveling process is a grind , and (2) so there aren't a bunch of maxed out kiddies running around complaining of no end-game content other than PVP.

BTW, I'm not in the beta, so why would I care about a contest that should have been posted on their beta forums only...  The results certainly shouldn't be publicized as widely as the contest.

Originally posted by deguildeving

You're kidding right?  Level 13 max?  'How fast you can do it' contest promoted by the publisher?  What happens if the results are under 24 hours or something like that?  You think I'm gonna pony up 50 bucks and pay monthly for a game that can be leveled that quickly?  Forget it.  I want my next MMO to have substance and compelling content so (1) I don't feel that the leveling process is a grind , and (2) so there aren't a bunch of maxed out kiddies running around complaining of no end-game content other than PVP.

BTW, I'm not in the beta, so why would I care about a contest that should have been posted on their beta forums only...  The results certainly shouldn't be publicized as widely as the contest.

I'll also totally agree that a game that takes longer to level in.. by default has Substance and compelling content.   ONLY a game that takes a long time to level in could have either of those.  In fact I think the best game ever would be something called like "Infinitely Leveling".

I'll also agree that only "kiddies" level up quickly.. no adult would ever be capable of doing such a thing.

Its odd on how much of this we see things the same way...

Originally posted by Antarious

 

Originally posted by deguildeving

You're kidding right?  Level 13 max?  'How fast you can do it' contest promoted by the publisher?  What happens if the results are under 24 hours or something like that?  You think I'm gonna pony up 50 bucks and pay monthly for a game that can be leveled that quickly?  Forget it.  I want my next MMO to have substance and compelling content so (1) I don't feel that the leveling process is a grind , and (2) so there aren't a bunch of maxed out kiddies running around complaining of no end-game content other than PVP.

BTW, I'm not in the beta, so why would I care about a contest that should have been posted on their beta forums only...  The results certainly shouldn't be publicized as widely as the contest.

The contest is run by Fileplanet.. so its on the fileplanet website.   I agree tho that it should have only been mentioned on Funcoms beta forums[...].

Considering the prizes are all coming from Funcom, and the announcement quoted in the OP is from funcom, I'd think it's Funcom's ridiculously bad PR department that's doing this.  But yeah I agree entirely, too.

Originally posted by SammyF

I'm not entirely sure I understand why FunCom's PR department thinks it's imperative that they widely publicize a contest for an open beta that by their own admission is not actually an open beta, nor do I understand why mmorpg.com felt compelled to email me about this "news" since it really could have been better-handled by funcom's internal email list, but, um, thanks for the hot tip?

I guess some people have to bitch about something ...

What a load of sh!t........so basically all the losers who have no life and no real life responsibilties will get these prizes. This is just another reason to really start hating mmorpg's altogether, especially betas.

Welcome to mmorpg's where you are rewarded for being an exploiter, script user, no lifer with no real world responsibilties and can play 24/7, f@ck'em all.

So. why is it that this is only open to those who live in the U.S. .. ARE THEY THE ONLY ONES WHO LIVE ON THIS PLANET? what about the rest of us who want to play this game who live elsewhere..? oh no. it might take 1 day to lvl to 13. if you arent in the beta how the hell do you know. it might take 3 or 4 days.. if you feel the need to complain about something at least make it relevant..

It takes a few hours to reach 13. Levelling is very quick at the start - usually just hitting level 6 by the end of the beach section/entry to Tortage.

It's moderately fast after that - you can pretty much do the destiny questline to 13 but there is a bit of running around and it's solo. It's probably best to team and use the double XP tokens to farm in heroic instances, I think that type gives more XP.

I imagine you can keep trying until you can't beat your best time any more.

Those are fantastic prizes anyway - lifetime + all the pre-order bonuses and some nice hardware.

ummm... this conan beta contest.... is it for computer or PS3?

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Originally posted by killakowalsk