MMO Gamers

Age of Conan has some good deals on subscription prices at the moment. I took advantage of the discounts and subscribed for three months for $36. That’s practically a “buy 2 months get 1 free” deal. There’s even better deals for longer subscriptions, and you can get a years worth for the price of six months. I’ve been missing AoC and was a little disappointed that I didn’t quite make it to 80 on my Priest of Mitra; managing to get to 76 before deciding to move on. The discounted subscription prices pretty much sold me and now I need to get my PoM to the level cap. I also have a 61 Tempest of Set, 50 Ranger, and 45 Guardian (one of my favourite classes) to work on. If I can get my PoM to the cap I’ll start working on the Guardian next; AoC combat mechanics are more rewarding for the melee class in my opinion, and fatalities rock.

There will also be some server merges, reducing the number of US servers from 8 to 4. There’s no denying that AoC has taken a big hit in population, and I noticed it even when I was still playing back in July of last year. Even when we started with three or four members in a group we often found it difficult filling the last two spots for a dungeon run. But I applaud the actions Funcom is taking. The merges will give the illusion of a larger population and the subscription deals should keep the population steady for a while; not to mention we have the soon to be released Rise of the Godslayer expansion to look forward to.

There’s still life in the old barbarian yet.