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April 23, 2024, 02:52:19 AM

we're back, baby

In what I consider the dumbest move ever, Funcom launched today the Free Trial. It struck me as they REALLY need new people, cause everything pointed to a june re-launch with the new item system and content. Bah.

http://www.ageofconan.com/trial

The client is 17 gigabytes.

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Free 'Age of Conan' trial now Live
Funcom is proud to announce that ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’ is now available as a free trial.

Funcom, Fileplanet and Ausgamers have teamed up to provide gamers everywhere with the opportunity to download and play ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’ for free for a period of seven to fourteen days. This is the chance to experience the brutal, savage and sexy world of Conan where you can live, fight and explore in the world of Hyboria together with thousands of people from across the globe.

“The time has finally come for us to open the flood gates,” says Morten Larssen, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Funcom. “There is a world of gamers out there who have never played ‘Age of Conan’ and we want them to experience what hundreds of thousands of gamers have before them. The game has matured tremendously since launch, and we feel confident that this is the time to launch a trial. ‘Age of Conan’ is simply bigger and better than it ever was, and we want both new and previous players alike to experience that!”

All you have to do to start playing ‘Age of Conan’ today is visit the www.ageofconan.com/trial website, download the game and off you go. Funcom has also teamed up with Fileplanet and Ausgamers, and depending on which source you download from you will receive between seven to fourteen days free play time and a host of special rewards. Various websites across the world will also be doing exclusive give-aways where gamers can receive a special key that will unlock rare virtual items in addition to the free trial play time.
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I gotta agree with you on both counts. Its too early but they apparently need the revenue. I'm still waiting for the big patch before trying it again, though.

Yeah, I'm hoping the 7 days doesn't start till I log in, but I doubt it... I have shitty internet service, so it will probably take me a day total to dl the client, and I can't do it all at once.

There's mention of 14 day trials,but I haven't been able to find them. Still, the initial impression the game caused on me was nothing short of terrific for an mmo.

I loaded a trial up because I've been on the fence. Something's off with the graphics I need to fix. Bloom is off but everything is bleached out, and textures look EQ1ish. Gah!

Anyways, once I get that squared away, I should just sub.

Will be playing on Tyranny after some other chaps finish downloading the client.

Figures they release a fully patched digital download version right after I buy an unpatched version. But good move on their part, hopefully this will mean more newbies for me to be lost with.

I downloaded the patcher from TPB and then used that to get the entire client. It was "only" 13GB to download. I don't what I'm missing now, but I can play.

Some friends and I have downloaded this as a potential LAN weekend game. I've never played it but I seem to remember the first section is single player? How long does that take to complete?

Going to have to remove it from the list if it would take the entire weekend before we could actually group.

Thankfully my ISP had the files mirrored so the download was fast and free. Otherwise, ouch.

The obligatory SP part takes 30 minutes to complete, tops. You can group as soon as you zone into tortage.

Thanks, looking forward to trying it this weekend.

One thing to note for new players trying to make a group is that there will almost certainly be more than one instance of Tortage once you get there. You'll have to be in the same one before you can see each other.

Unless things have changed since I last had to do this then it's possible to change instance by standing on a res pad and clicking the small arrow near the mini-map. There's a res pad just outside Tortage to the left of the main gate.

I think it's also possible for the group leader to right click members and click something like "summon to instance".

Holy christ, I had forgotten how long it takes to install this........ Ohhhhh, I see.

It is worth it though. Don't believe the hype. And get in a guild. And pew pew.