Epic ending to the Age of Conan Open Beta

[Brock Sherwood]

On the 10th of May Funcom is transforming the entire Open Beta into PvP MAYHEM, while at the same time giving testers access to all which Hyboria has to offer!

Here's the whole information going out to Open Beta testers:

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Dear Age of Conan beta tester

We hope you are merrily chopping off Pict heads in the Age of Conan Open Beta, and that your journey in Hyboria has been a memorable one so far. You have only seen the beginning though, as we prepare an EPIC ending to your Open Beta experience.

On the 10th of May we are transforming the entire Open Beta into PvP MAYHEM, while at the same time giving you access to all which Hyboria has to offer! That is right, as we take down our servers for a short period we are at the same time changing the entire server rule-set to Free For All PvP carnage! Your servers will ALL become PvP! Participate if you dare, or make a new character and stay in the safety of Tortage!

Details:

• All servers become PvP servers. You can kill each other ? no level restrictions on killing or getting killed, but you cannot PvP in the major cities.
• All level 13 characters becomes level 20. Their inventory is wiped, but they have ?tons? of money and really nice equipment suitable for level 20?s. Shopping bonanza!
• You have access to ALL zones and ALL levels after level 20!
• You will be zoned to your Race?s Hub. (Cimmerians ? Conarch Village, Aquillonians ? Old Tarantia and Stygians ? Khemi!

This means bye bye Tortage! Welcome Hyboria at large, and what a blast you will have. It all starts at level 20, and then it?s up to you, but you can be sure your fellow players will do their best to stop you!

We will get back with detailed information on the exact time it starts on the official Open Beta forums at IGN, as well as on the Age of Conan forums and community site.

You may ask, why skip levels 14-20? The reason is simple ? the story. We take it seriously, and we would like for you to experience it at launch.

We urge you to join us for some epic PvP mayhem on the 10th of May, and we hope you will leave Hyboria with a bloodied smile on your face.

Heads will roll!

Sincerely
The Age of Conan development team

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[Brock Sherwood]

Re: Epic ending to the Age of Conan Open Beta

hhmmm interesting - good thing my reformat is done and vista and the game have been updated and im ready for the fun...lol

[Brock Sherwood]

Re: Epic ending to the Age of Conan Open Beta

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Originally Posted by ammir
sad to see the spawncampers making all the pvpers look bad.
no true skillt pvper would enjoy such a thing, sinds there is no skill or honer to be found in that.


agree 100% - a TRUE pvp player would not go to such a low lvl of gameplay respect to load gank other players - say it all you want - this is true pvp, if you dont like it go somewhere else, im taking the advantage the game gives me - please grow some balls and get some self respect and head out into the wilderness and get your game on (i will be out and about for the pvp but will not lower my statndards for pvp play)



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Originally Posted by AstroCat
The pvp server with no rules is just terrible. Why in the world would I pay to play a game that is impossible to play because of people making it impossible to do anything.

That is NOT the main target market, I can guarantee it.

agree 100% again - a Free For All pvp will never work in an MMO

reason is it promotes load ganking

good luck on leveling (lvl 20 gankers forver)

loss of main customer base due to limited gameplay

its not fun res'ing constantly

its not fun when trying to get to an area and the enterance is camped


this pvp weekend is a complete failure other than 1 thing - finding out that FFA isnt going to work in an MMO (we could have told you that before forcing pvp on everyone)

i really enjoy pvp play so long as it does not affect someone elses gameplay - this is in the EULA which the devs totally ignore by doing FFA - you cant affect someone elses gameplay to the point its gamebreaking for them - the way pvp FFA is now...its game breaking for many players



i was looking forward to some pvp play but theres no faction, no race restrictions - its just plain 1 vs everyone - camps are set up at instance entrances, exits, and res areas

even the "safe" cities where pvp isnt allowed players have found out a way to force a TEF on others

there are tons of players pissed at what happen today and im one of them...i enjoy pvp but this is like DF but no teams...spawn killing and camping gallore