Originally posted by Nadia

Originally posted by courtsdad

Yes they did. In the interview they mention things that they wanted to be in the game but couldnt get them done in time so they will more than likely  be in the expansion.

 

"There's definitely a lot, there's a lot that we really wanted to get into the game, but because of time we just weren't able to put it in"

you are quoting out of context - what you quoted is not about the expansion

 

in most of the interview he is discussing summer and Fall plans from this newsletter

community.ageofconan.com/wsp/conan/frontend.cgi

 

this is the only thing he said about the expansion - last question asked in in the interview

www.massively.com/2008/07/15/e308-erling-ellingsen-talks-patch-timeframes-for-age-of-conan/

We know you folks were thinking of expansion content before the game came out. When do you expect you'll be able to put the launch behind you and step up to the new content, enjoy the live game?

I don't think that's ever going to happen. We're gonna keep on going really strongly. Updating the game, patching it, making it better. The road map we have internally is long into the future. We're definitely going to be patching and improving. We're of course working on an expansion, though we're not really ready to talk about that now. We do think it will launch early next year, though. We'll start leaking more information about that soon, though.

 

I was adding 2+2 and my math has been shown to be far better than anyones at FC :)

GG goodbye funcom.

Expansion was talked about quite a while ago. It has a seperate team, polls were put up what races you would like to see etc etc.

We know that there will be plenty of RP / morality quests, 2 new starting area's and a host of other idea's.

All this 6 months before the game got released. These are added idea's, most planned on their roadmap as a fully fledged expansion.

The main thing is they said the 360 version will release as one version, encompassing the expac. At the same time the PC version will have the expansion released. Look for it a year from now.

bravo all the doom theories and mis-information.

you have got to be kiddin me!!! an expansion??   they cant even handle the traffic with low populations and petitions...   all i wanted was a bank that worked correctly.. and to fix the memory leaks...   and every patch gave me less FPS   to quote pork pig  "bdya bdya bdya bdya thats alllll folks!!!!

Originally posted by Nodaed

Expansion coming out early 2009.  Will contain much of the content that is lacking in game atm.   And probably second time ppl pay for the DX10.  Lets hope its in this time.

http://www.aocupdates.com/2008/07/16/age-of-conan-expansion-confirmed/

Hope you all have fun giving more Money to FC.

HAHAHA how some people seem to read is beyond me.

Now lets see what is really was said/written:Age of Conan

by Michael Zenke Jul 15th 2008 at 4:45PM

Hope you enjoyed what REALLY was said. Though it probebly wil lbe ripped apart anyhow, some wil find something....I bet...

 I hope no one pays for an expansion until the company delivers on at least the majority of their initial promises and fixes the game.

If they have the gall to release an expansion to a game that is not yet version 1.0, but more like version 0.85, then people should vote with their wallets and let them know, and all game companies know, that is a load of crap.

Or maybe they just want to milk the game as quickly as possible before it fades to obscurity? If they can sell that expansion to even 100,000 players it would be profitable, I bet.

With three fairly large fantasy MMORPG releases/expansions within the next year (WotLK, WAR, Aion), plus huge online games like Starcraft II and Spore, AoC will be a footnote in MMORPG history if it cannot make its core audience stay loyal and then expand that audience further.

I heard this before same scams different game. Pay out the ass for them bugfixes.

http://hgc.forumup.info/viewtopic.php?t=43&mforum=hgc

http://hgc.forumup.info/viewtopic.php?t=27&mforum=hgc

Usually I just read most of the posts on here and dont comment but this topic really struck a nerve.  I admit I was into AoC alot cause of the features and new ideas that they stated were in the game.  As you can prob tell, I gave up on that after finding out most of it wasnt in the game.  Also, nothing pisses me off more then reading the shyt that guy spews in his interview.  Saying it was a great launch and crap.  The servers might of been stable but I do recall huge huge bugs, expecially the black screen and others they he failed to mention.  As you guys said if they state they are putting in dx10 and seige stuff in this expansion( that we have to pay for again) ,im going lose my size 11 shoe up one of their arses.  I agree with most of the posts.  Fix what is promised, then worry about expansions period.

Originally posted by Reklaw

HAHAHA how some people seem to read is beyond me.

Now lets see what is really was said/written:Age of Conan

 

Hope you enjoyed what REALLY was said. Though it probebly wil lbe ripped apart anyhow, some wil find something....I bet...

Nothing has been ripped apart. They still planning to launch a PAID expansion pack early next year! While every reasonable and intelligent person here KNOWS they CANNOT even fix the CURRENT game before the end of the year and implement all the missing and broken content that was promissed at launch!

What you think what mess is going to bring when they add the DX10 update?

What you think what mess is going to bring when they update and launch for the XBOX360 in autumn?

So how you say and how this interview is saying, doesn't matter! They are out of their mind if they THINK they can convince people to PAY for a PAID expansion already early next year!

Enough said.

Originally posted by Reklaw

Originally posted by Nodaed

Expansion coming out early 2009.  Will contain much of the content that is lacking in game atm.   And probably second time ppl pay for the DX10.  Lets hope its in this time.

http://www.aocupdates.com/2008/07/16/age-of-conan-expansion-confirmed/

Hope you all have fun giving more Money to FC.

HAHAHA how some people seem to read is beyond me.

Now lets see what is really was said/written:Age of Conan

 

 

by Michael Zenke Jul 15th 2008 at 4:45PM

Earlier today we sat with Age of Conan product manager Erling Ellingsen. Due to the development cycle Conan is in right now, Ellingsen didn't really have anything in particular to show us - but he did have some things to tell us. Primarily we were there to find out about some lessons learned from the first months of Conan's launch-life. The man himself offered up:

• Timeframes for the addition of new high end content like Imir's Pass.
• The welcome news that the female avatar DPS bug will be squished much sooner that the 'few months' we'd previously heard.
• Confirmation that the DX10 version of the game should be viewable at next month's Leipzig event.
• The news that fan (especially male fan) favorite Keira will be an important quest NPC in the Imir's pass zone. The dealy assassin will offer important quests to all heroes of the appropriate level.

And a good deal more. Read on below the cut for our full interview with Mr. Ellingsen.

How do you feel about Age of Conan's launch, now that it's a few months down the line?

Erling Ellingsen: It was a fantastic launch. Technically it was perfect, servers stayed up whole time, billing, logging was great. There were of course a few bugs when we launched, but I think that's true with all MMOs. The game was perfectly playable, polished. It was just the launch that we wanted. Especially considering Anarchy Online, we were biting our fingernails.

Do you have any recollections from launch day, any memories that stand out?

We had a huge screen set up in the office that tracked the number of people logging in across the servers. We sat there, all dressed up and watching the numbers rise will drinking champagne. "Oh, the US just woke up." It was a magical experience.

How do you feel about the transition from the Beta to Live experience? It seemed as though those final patches changed a number of things and smoothed things out.

A lot of people were saying that we put in "miracle patches", and it really feels that way. Even for us at Funcom, the last couple of weeks was a real turnaround. We knew we were on track, but the last few weeks before launch everything just came together. That's the thing about MMOs, though, they can look unfinished for so long and suddenly all the pieces of the puzzle fit together. Thank god!

You mentioned earlier some bugs, which we know the community has found frustrating. Were there any that you've fixed that you were particularly frustrated with?

Ooo, you're asking me to point out bugs? [he chuckles] There were a few bugs with sieging where the framerate wasn't as good as it should have been. After the first one we fixed that immediately, and performance has improved something like 300%. That's the thing with MMOs, right? You see what works and doesn't work and you fix things right away.

Wh