In an attempt, possibly last ditch effort, at regaining Age of Conan’s hundreds-of-thousands of lost subscribers Funcom has announced some brand new incentives. For starters, there’s double experience gain through the end of the month. Should you continue to subscribe for two months after November’s demise, you’ll be granted access to the upcoming The Secret World beta test.
But that’s not all! Continue further and you’ll unlike these fabulous gifts. The higher tiers include the bonuses from the lower ones – ie. a one-year subscription gets everything.
- Subscribing for 1 month gives 7 days extra game time for no additional cos.
- Subscribing for 3 months adds a guaranteed spot in the open beta for The Secret World.
- Subscribing for 6 months also gives a level 40 helmet with a 10% XP modifier.
- Subscribing for 12 months gives a free copy of the Rise of the Godslayer expansion.
mmorpgs are almost, in a social sense (which is probably where the money is) kind of like hang outs. Some people hang out at an old style pub, some at a trendy drinks place, some at a cafe, etc.
I’d think they should focus on who hangs out at their place and why, then give them even more stuff in line with that. And giving out a beta to another game doesn’t make sense if that’s the case. The free expansion makes sense. The helmet seems completely neutral in terms of why anyone hangs out, so it seems pointless.
Funcom has really improved this game since launch. Not just bug fixes, the memory leak was fixed less than a month after lauch. Signficant content and class changes have been made that overall, make AoC better now that it was a year ago.
I haven’t regretted leaving WoW for AoC then and still don’t today.