Free to play an option for Age of Conan

I would totally go play AO if they updated it with AoC's Graphics and be super happy about F2P

Their problem was never the game in itself but its lack of completion and polish. That coupled with horrible management has led to the demise of this game. I was a subscriber for the first 6 months and owned a Collectors Edition of the game. However, the severe lack of direction when it comes to gameplay screwed this game. That with a bug riddled game screwed their launch and with it the goodwill. Unfortunately, people dont realize that very few people come back to a MMO if they leave it in the beginning. They say WoW was messed up at launch and to that I say they are not competing with WoW of the past but WoW of the present which is a juggernaut and releases highly polished stuff. Although I dont play WoW I know enough people play it and enjoy it whereas the majority of folk on my server did not like AoC at launch.
If they launch Secret World in a similar fashion then they are screwed even more. I dont know why do they concentrate so much on MMOs. FunComm has a great track record with adventure game & I dont understand why they do not release something for the console in that genre which really has a dearth of high quality adventure titles.

F2P stands for Fail-to-Play IMO. If it's going to follow the GW model, maybe. If it's going to follow the RoM model, forget it. MMOs going F2P are continuing to cheapen the market.

To the devs -- it is possible to develop a game worth paying for. Stop releasing crap!

I doubt this will happen any time soon, many people have been re-subscribing, entire guilds on both servers I have played on are subscribing back to this game during the re-evaluation, and plan on sticking to it for a while, there is alot of new content and the bugs and performance issues are gone, all in just a year. New patch came out today with new adjustments and polish, and they will be revealing their expansion soon. This game has a good chance at making a huge come back, and I would love to see that happen. I strongly encourage everyone to take advantage of this re-evaluation offer.

This article was commented on by one of the developers, on the official forums. He said there are absolutely no plans for this any time soon, but it would be silly to say it absolutely will never happen. And I agree with him.

They'd have to pay me to play this car wreck, and even then, I probably wouldn't.

The game is little improved over what it was a year ago, just bad bad bad sadly.....

I think they should lower the subscription price, to around 7 to 8 bucks, on all MMOs, it will keeps them up and running for a long while...my 2 cents

This game got such a bad rep on launch that I don't see it's subscriptions going up unless it turns f2p. Funcom should be watching ddo very closely, to see how successful it will be.

They don't need to go F2P. People are coming back in droves. The naysayers who were forced from the game last year (me being one of them) are holding a bitter grudge against the game and either wont give it another shot or BS that they have had another go and it's exactly the same as when they left.

I took the step a couple of months back and have been a sub ever since. This is not the same game that was on release and IMO, now, the best MMO on the current market.

I own this game and think its one of the better mmos out there for the moment!

Hell I'd try it if they made it F2P. And I know I could get some friends to come with me. Though I can't say I'd probably stick around for long. Be neat to try something different out for a little while.

My biggest issues with AOC on release were lack of content, bugs and no clear PVP direction.

Stability - Since my return I've yet to crash out of the game. I haven't fallen through the world, gotten stuck in a wall and am still yet to find a bugged quest.

PVE - I've been absolutely amazed with the dungeons, I mean before I left they looked stunning, whereas now they not only look amazing they are fully itemized, populated and pose quite a challenge. Nothing out there compares graphically to DX10 in this game. Quests, there's hundreds of them. Variations of the 'kill 10 rats' but enough variety not to become a grind. If they were to add anything to the game in this area some group public quest type ideas from Warhammer would be a good addition.

PVP-. The pvp level system has given 'some' substance to PVP in AOC . Sieges (I've only participated in 2 since coming back) are working and are quite epic when you get into the fray of the fight. This area though is something Funcom need to focus on, and from what Ive been reading they are. It's the one area of the game that needs the attention now. It's not that there isnt any PVP, they just need flesh out the PVP content. Funcom has the tools to become the greatest PVP MMO on the market.

I had a lvl 80 to come back to but decided to start over and am glad I did. I've experienced this game as it should have been on release. It's been a long time (10+ years in MMOs) where I have actually read / listened to quest storylines. I challenge anyone to get to Ymirs Pass, play all the content there, finnish the story arc and tell me it's not one of, or the, best MMO experiences of all time.

I'm really starting to wonder what people see in Age of Conan now. Aside from putting things that should have been there at launch it's still a poor game and certainly not good enough to remove the foul taste the game left in my mouth after launch.

And yes, I tried it again with the 2 week thing.. ended up uninstalling within the hour.

if Funcom is going to make Age of Conan a F2P i'll stick with it for sure.
I like the way the game was when i have tried it (never gone that far btw... i just got a lvl 33 Priest of Mitra) and i like the "cut" of the quests, the combat system and so on.

Maybe they could look at DDO to get some inspiration.. :)