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Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: Blog – Behind the Scenes: Content Team
Nov 10th
The Funcom team has updated their official AoC Blog here at MMORPG.com. This time, Glen "Famine" Swan takes a behind-the-scenes look at the game’s content team.
There is always a lot of speculation on what goes on behind the scenes during the development of a game. Some people imagine lots of sweaty developers packed into one room trying desperately to get the latest patch or build out for whatever deadline they are on. Other people believe they are all sitting at their desks with their super quad-monitor machines pwning n00bs in the latest FPS while drinking lots of Redbull. Then a slim few actually picture a great group of people who work hard doing the things they love to do; making games!
Whatever you believe the guys over here are a great bunch of people who make the impossible and unimaginable happen every day. They work day-in and day-out trying to stay ahead of the game while trying to keep up with the player. It’s not an easy task by any means and a lot seem to forget how hard the journey really becomes.
Read Behind the Scenes: Content Team.
¡Ofertas especiales de suscripción y doble PX en noviembre! – Hyborian Adventures
Nov 10th
¡Ofertas especiales de suscripción y doble PX en noviembre!
Hoy iniciamos una nueva campaña en la que ofrecemos grandes recompensas al adquirir una suscripción por un largo periodo de tiempo. Si a lo largo de noviembre amplías tu suscripción a Age of Conan, recibirás unas recompensas increíbles:
- Si amplías por 3 meses, recibirás acceso garantizado a las pruebas beta de The Secret World. *
- Si amplías por 6 meses, recibirás un casco épico para Age of Conan con un aumento del 10% de PX, más la recompensa anterior.
- Si amplías por 6 meses, recibirás totalmente gratis la expansión Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer, más las dos recompensas anteriores. **
Si has ampliado tu suscripción hace poco, no te preocupes. Todas las suscripciones por un periodo de 6 ó 12 meses realizadas después del 6 de octubre de 2009 también recibirán automáticamente la recompensa correspondiente. Con el tiempo de juego adquirido ahora se obtendrán inmediatamente puntos de veterano.
Oferta disponible hasta el 1 de diciembre de 2009. ¡No te la pierdas!
¡Para celebrar esta campaña, durante el mes de noviembre todo el mundo recibirá doble PX en Age of Conan! ¡Usa el comando "/claim" para conseguir las pociones de doble PX!
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Interview mit Waldgeist auf MMOSzene – Hyborian Adventures
Nov 10th
Interview mit Waldgeist auf MMOSzene
MMOSzene hat sich unseren Community Manager Johannes ’Waldgeist’ Rebhan für ein kurzes Interview ausgeliehen, um ihn ein wenig über seine Arbeit auszufragen.
Im MMOSzene Interview beantwortet Waldgeist Fragen zu seiner Arbeit, den Herausforderungen als Community Manager.
Letzte Beiträge
- [19.11.2009] – CROMCAST #15 – Der November hat ein neues Gesicht!
- [12.11.2009] – Computerbildspiele interviewt Craig ’Silirrion’ Morrison
- [11.11.2009] – Besondere Abonnement-Angebote und doppelte Erfahrungspunkte im November!
- [10.11.2009] – Interview mit Waldgeist auf MMOSzene
- [05.11.2009] – CROMCAST #14 – The Lenny is back
Craig Morrison on balance between sword and sorcery
Nov 10th
In his very in-depth and quite sincere overview, Sillirion presents the basics (and hardships) behind what we now as ’rock, paper, scissors’ combat and balancing on the battlefield.
Most players are actually well aware of how hard (or, indeed, impossible) it would be to implement a fair and completely unbiased approach in a system with a dozen of classes, thousand possible spec’cings or even a myriad of items equipped. Thus, it boils down to three strategies – methods, as devs call it – of maintaining and shaping balancing in MMOs. Craig calls them ’maximum values’ (caps), ’availability’ (phat loot) and ’mechanics’ (I can CC u 4eva). In Craig’s own words it’s almost impossible to maintain good balance and still stay true to the initial premises of the game. With regard to AOC, the primary goal when creating classes was to make sorcery easier to play, harder to master, and melee harder to play, even harder to master (but, presumably, very rewarding). You can also read that ideal balancing would not be, as one’d expect, 50/50 split between chance to win and lose against any other opponent, but rather a 75/25 split… Apparently (duh!) ALL players would love nothing more than More >
Craig Morrison On Melee vs. Ranged Balance – Hyborian Adventures
Nov 9th
Craig Morrison On Melee vs. Ranged Balance
MMORPG asks Craig Morrison about his philosophies on attempting to balance ranged and melee combat styles in an MMO.
Today, we kick off a new series of articles where we ask a number of different developers from a number of different companies to answer a question about MMORPG design. Today, we ask Age of Conan Game Director and Executive Producer Craig Morrison about balancing casting and ranged classes against melee classes.
Check out the full article at MMORPG
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: Morrison On Melee vs. Ranged Balance
Nov 9th
Today, we ask Funcom’s Craig Morrison about his philosophies on attempting to balance ranged and melee combat styles in an MMO.
I think before you look at the challenges specific to MMO combat in terms of balance between any two sets of character types you have to define what we are usually trying to achieve in terms of balance.
You might think it was easiest to define it very straightforwardly as ’every time I fight I have a 50/50 chance of winning or losing based my skill and approach’ but when you actually push players about what many feel about gameplay the reality is that they would feel balance was better when they have a chance of losing, but that they should win more than lose. Most seem to tend towards wanting something like a 75/25 mix of winning to losing…so they recognize the need for, and want, a chance of losing, but they generally feel that its more fun when they win more often than they lose, as long as it isn’t too much.
Read Morrison On Melee vs. Ranged Balance.
MMOs To Be Showcased at Gstar2009
Nov 6th
The Upcoming 5th Korean Gstar will become more and more flourishing for more than 60 exhibitors attending. Every exhibitor is eager to make a good preparation to showcase the best games to visitors. It is believed that visitors will be impacted with countless surprise.
With the success of Aion, more and more exhibitors take their MMORPGs to Gstar this year. Among so many MMORPGs, Tear from NHN, Blade and Soul from NCsoft etc. are most anticipated currently.
The following is the list for main MMORPGs from different exhibitors:
Tera from NHNTera, the leading product brought by NHN’s Blue Hole Studio, win the great attention from players for its charming gameplay, perfect graphic quality and huge world view.
For more Tera videoes
Age of Conan from Neowiz GamesMMORPG Age of Conan firstly presented by Neowiz Game that is famous for publishing sport MMOs all along, will welcome all visitors with wonderful contents.
Secret Title from NexonNexon that unveiled new titles at previously annual Gstar will not make an exception this year. Nexon is planning to debut a secret title. Unfortunately, we have not gotten the name of the secret title so far. We have to meet this game at the stage of Gstar for the first time.
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CROMCAST #14 - The Lenny is back – Hyborian Adventures
Nov 5th
CROMCAST #14 – The Lenny is back
Es schlottern uns die Knie vor Furcht und vor Kälte, aber wir sind kein bisschen leise.
Nach dem etwas holprigen Start von Update 5.6 sind wir zwei Wochen weiter und haben hoffentlich schon einen Großteil der Probleme ausbessern können, die sich für einige Spieler mit Update 5.6 aufgetan haben. Wir haben uns diese Woche also wieder im virtuellen CROMCAST Studio eingefunden und sind wieder soweit vollzählig, da sich unser Lenny Urlaub von seinem Hobby, genannt Arbeit, genommen hat. Zum ersten mal dabei ist außerdem ein Offizier einer Gilde (Düsteres Schicksal), um sich euch der Community nicht nur in Schrift, sondern auch in Ton vorzustellen.
Wir bringen euch also diese Woche einen vollgepackten, kontroversen (Die Düsis sind zu Gast) und äußerst gefüllten CROMCAST!
Der CROMCAST wird euch jede zweite Woche am Donnerstag um ca. 18:00 Uhr zu Verfügung gestellt und ihr könnt ihn auch als Podcast-Feed abonnieren!
Folgende Themen werden wieder dabei sein:- Der Stadtschreier – Neuigkeiten rund um AoC
- Croms Zorn – Probleme mit Update 5.6
- Anhänger des Königs – Gildenoffizier Ahotep von der Gilde Düsteres Schicksal zu Gast
- Mitras Gebet – Wir beantworten eure Fragen der letzten zwei Wochen
Letzte Beiträge
- [19.11.2009] – CROMCAST #15 – Der More >
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures: October’s Letter from the Game Director
Nov 3rd
Age of Conan Game Director Craig Morrison addresses the community once more in this latest Letter from the Game Director. This month’s letter focuses on a number of new initiatives Funcom has taken to cultivate the Age of Conan community, the new Recruit-a-Friend Program, the Volunteer Program, the upcoming 1.06 patch cycle, and more!
One of the more notable changes unveiled in the letter is the new Age of Conan community database. The new database will keep track of all Age of Conan information including developer posts, news, etc with the intention of giving players a centralized location to get their Conan information. The database is currently still in testing, but you can take it for a test drive here.
Carta del Director de Juego - Octubre 2009 – Hyborian Adventures
Oct 30th
Carta del Director de Juego – Octubre 2009
En la carta de este mes me gustaría hablar sobre la comunidad, qué estamos haciendo para promocionar el juego y cómo podéis ayudarnos. En las últimas semanas hemos puesto en marcha muchas iniciativas nuevas y quiero aprovechar esta oportunidad para comentar los nuevos programas y todo lo que os ofrecen.
Reclutar a un amigo…Junto a la actualización de hoy y al lanzamiento de las recompensas para los veteranos, iniciamos también un nuevo programa para reclutar amigos. Con los nuevos y excelentes precios de las tarifas de suscripción, también podrás obtener recompensas, e incluso tiempo de juego gratuito, si consigues que tus amigos te acompañen a Hiboria.
Opiniones, información y tú…Los más observadores también os habréis dado cuenta de que últimamente hemos realizado más encuestas y cuestionarios entre los jugadores, algo que seguiremos haciendo regularmente. Vuestra opinión es muy importante, sobre todo ahora que empezamos a planificar nuevos aspectos del desarrollo.
Para asegurarnos de que la comunidad siempre esté al día en lo referente al desarrollo, otro de los elementos importantes es manteneros informados sobre qué hay en producción y qué estamos haciendo actualmente. Os habréis dado cuenta de que los equipos de la More >