I’m playing Age of Conan!

I’m finally in Hyboria and playing the real game. No more waiting! No more beta!
I created a bunch of characters, primarily on Wiccana. That’s the unofficial roleplaying PvE server, which suits me very well. Now I’m playing my Priest of Mitra through the beginning storyline. Sigh, I did the exact [...]

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Early Access pushed to 8pm GMT (4pm EST)

UPDATE 5:00pm EST. I’M IN!! I’m in the game and playing. I haven’t had a chance to do anything except create a character and get to the beach. But it looks great, runs great and even loaded much faster.
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UPDATE 4:35pm EST. The message in the patcher has changed to a [...]

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10 minutes til Early Access launch and Funcom is down!

This is pretty funny….and worrisome.
The official forums are down.
The community website is down.
The official Age of Conan website is down.
The Funcom website is down.
It’s only the early access launch, not the general launch.  If all those services are down now, then what is going to happen in a few days?
On a good note, patch server [...]

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Early access starts tomorrow! (May 17th)

Less than 24 hours, and I’m already feeling impatient and fidgety.  Funcom really did a great job marketing their project.  The buzz is enormous.  I ordered GTA4 a while ago, it arrived and I haven’t even bothered to unwrap it yet.  I don’t want anything to take my mind away from this early access weekend.
For [...]

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Eagerly awaiting early access to Age of Conan

I finally finished downloading the early access client (13.4 gigabytes!).  The patcher downloaded another 450 megabytes.  I’m glad I’m not with Comcast anymore because I don’t have to worry about my internet access being turned off.  In total, I’ve probably used up almost 40 gigabytes of bandwidth on Age of Conan already.
Official statement from Funcom [...]

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