IGN has had a but a few hours to screw around in the Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer beta, but it is clear from the get-go that Funcom has been working extremely diligently. Hopefully the studio has taken the opportunity this expansion affords them to make Age of Conan the game people were hoping it would be when it launched.
Funcom’s freemium sword and sorcery MMORPG Age of Conan has received a large new update, available now automatically for those who have the game installed. The patch introduces the House of Crom, an ancient temple built by the Atlanteans and made up of two large dungeons. The largest indoor dungeons created to date the developers claim. There’s plenty of other good stuff in there including improvements, tweaks and bug fixes as well.
GameShard writes: "Do I need to recount Age of Conan's tumultuous history? There was a time when the action-packed adult MMO was the hottest game on the horizon, before it fell into disgrace after bug fixes and content patches failed to materialize. Ultimately, things improved a little for the beleaguered MMORPG, and now, with a new Conan film due next month, the game has adopted a new 'Freemium' model just after its third birthday, following the trend started by Turbine's Dungeons & Dragons Online and Lord of the Rings Online.
The big question is, of course, whether the game is worth playing after all this time."
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