Age of Conan

Welcome to the Age of Conan Beta!

We are happy to invite you to the savage world of Hyboria, and we hope you will have great fun in the next few days. Our servers will open tonight at 2200 GMT / 1700 EST, and from this point on you are free to play as much as you like!

Prior to starting your journey we want to give you some important information about what to expect, and where you can get help should you need it.

First of all, remember that you are playing a beta version of Age of Conan, where we on purpose are stressing our servers to simulate a hectic launch environment. This means that you may experience technical issues as you start playing.

Simulating launch is what final stress testing is all about, but we will monitor all of this closely to make your experience as good as possible.

Since there is no NDA on the Open Beta you are completely free to speak about your experiences in public, and you can also take screenshots and videos should you wish to. Together with IGN we have established forums which will be staffed by Funcom Customer Service and Community representatives. There you can discuss any topic you like.

Note: this only applies to the Fileplanet open beta, NOT the general closed or technical closed betas.

Good stuff Zorvan!

A hot topic on the AoC forums is 'Free to play as much as you like'...people are wondering if that means a lift of the lvl 13 cap. I would doubt it.

Man, all the people bitching and moaning saying Funcom won't drop NDA because they have something to hide, and now when Funcom drops it, they're nowhere to be seen. Amazing.

I didn't have an opinion either way as to whether the NDA would drop or not but there's a lot of content that wouldn't can't be accessed with a lvl 13 cap.

On the other hand *shrug* who cares. I'll be happy just to get in and test.

Originally posted by Digna

I didn't have an opinion either way as to whether the NDA would drop or not but there's a lot of content that wouldn't can't be accessed with a lvl 13 cap.

 

On the other hand *shrug* who cares. I'll be happy just to get in and test.

I didn't mean you Digna.

I think they have something to hide because of the level 13 cap.  Didn't they mention before levels 1~20 are solo content? 

1-5 are solo, 6-20 are multiplayer during the day, single player during the night.

Originally posted by gamedever

1-5 are solo, 6-20 are multiplayer during the day, single player during the night.

Correct. Also, you switch between day and night when you want. So you can do multiplayer most of the time. the singleplayer is for the Destiny quest, which is your characters beginning storyline. After that, it's pure mmo.

All closed beta testers got a E-mail today with the following.

We will hold the Closed Beta NDA for everyone but journalists until launch, but you are allowed to openly communicate about your experiences up to level 13,

NDA has been lifted up to lvl 13.  That was known to be happening.  What most of us are critisising is that lvl 13 isn't really open ended and will not reviel much.  To most of experienced players its a sign of that the game is far from finished - and Funcom is trying to polish the starting lvl to hide whats going on at higher lvls.