A few weeks ago, we pointed the Massively readers to an article entitled Age of Conan: A post mortem analysis, written by the Daedren over at r1ftgaming. In that lengthy article, Daedren gave his top reasons for AoC's demise, and even offered it as a lesson learned for future developers. Comments on his site, and here at Massively were quite heated concerning players' malcontent with Age of Conan. Since then, Daedren was able to grab the attention of Funcom, and hence an interview with Product Manager Erling Ellingsen. In true Daedren style, he doesn't beat around the bush and asks the questions plaguing the minds of most former and current AoC subscribers. Where is this PvP system we've heard so much about? Why announce a new expansion when the current game still needs so much work?
In addition, Daedren offers his readers the opportunity to submit their own questions for Funcom, and their responses to the answers given by Erlingsen in this interview. As he says himself, if Funcom hasn't filed a restraining order on him after this last interview, he'll try for another Q&A session in a few weeks.
Even if you don't agree with Daedren's opinion or stance on AoC, it's still good to see that developers aren't afraid to own up to the community and face the more opinionated interviews. Even if the answers they give are a bit on the cookie-cutter side.
