Age of Conan Delayed
Posted by ze Kranky Kraut on August 17, 2007.
It’s old news by now: Funcom announced that the release date for Age of Conan was pushed back to March 25th 2008, citing "recent beta feedback" and a "need to polish some aspects of the game even further, especially when it comes to the entry barriers" as reasons for the delay. Huge shocker, I know. Somehow, I suspect that a lack of accessability is not all that might be amiss.
As I’ve mentioned in my previous entry, Funcom haven’t shown jack shit so far. No content, no advanced mechanics - it is astounding how little has been revealed about a game that is so far into developement. Instead, we get treated to retarded little details like the blood being modeled to look like in the movie 300, Zack Snyder’s homo-erotic orgy of violence.
A March 25th release date means that AoC will have to go up against Warhammer. That’s not as bad as Vanguard’s release a mere days away from WoW’s first expansion but it certainly won’t help sales. Unless, of course, I’ve been reading the tea leaves entirely wrong and WAR, not AoC, will turn out to be the unpolished, half-finished turd.
On a related note: check out this AoC screenshot. It’s hideous. Kind of looks like Vanguard, doesn’t it? That reminds me… I’ve been planning to write a blurb on why Vanguard’s graphics suck but I have lost all my screenshots when I temporarily turned into a moron and decided to install Windows Vista. I can probably make due without screenshots but it’s a bummer nevertheless.