After playing the game for a week I've come to loathe this controversy noise. Funcom has done an amazing job to illustrate how dark, brutal, and jawdroppingly mercilous Hyboria is that I've completely forgotten about the "mature" components that were hyped before the game released. To be frank, all of the people who were complaining about nipples, ass, wenches, prostitution, decapitations, Satanism, or any other offensive tidbit probably played an hour or two and then pissed themselves crying in the corner huddled in the fetal position.

Age of Conan is that offensive?

No. The people who were complaining just happened to miss the mark. They were focused on curse words and nipples while a legion of poor sons'a'bitches were being impaled on skewers and raised in the air to add ambiance. THE ENTIRE GAME IS OFFENSIVE...if, as one mother pointed out in the forum, her pre-teens are hanging around her PC as she plays. There is no slider or check box that will change the overwhelming amount of brutality that is readily apparent no matter how you try to cover you eyes.

The Stygians are "dark"? Bravo. One of the skin tone options is not pasty white. Alert the media. Hey, while your wringing your hands over that I'm going to take this vial of whores blood to this altar and burn countless practitioners of the dark arts to death. Do you want a slider to tone that down asshole?

Again, the **entire** game challenges the sensitivities of people who want their gaming experience to edgy and exciting...just as long as it's not too edgy and not too exciting. Oh, and it needs to adhere to the Judeo-Christian value system also...and no nipples...and no blood...and no dismemberments...and no gods...and no mention of ritual sacrifice.

You people need to find a different game. It's that simple. To change Age of Conan into what you want would mean throwing the entire game out the window and starting over again. How about I just pay my $15 a month and play it as is, okay?