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Age of Conan not dead on Xbox 360

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Funcom admits it may have missed the boat.

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MMO specialist Funcom has revealed it hasn't given up on bringing its Age of Conan MMO to Xbox 360, although admits the ship may have already sailed.

"We obviously had many more challenges than we envisioned getting our technology to adapt to the console platform," Funcom Game Director Craig Morrison told CVG.

"We are still working on it for the future, and we see it as a potentially valuable platform for our games. Whether we have missed a window for Age of Conan itself remains to be seen."

Morrison added that he believes MMOs on consoles are a currently "untapped market" and is confident that continued efforts in the space will see "more cross-platform MMO titles".

Funcom is currently readying its first Age of Conan expansion, Rise of the Godslayer.

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Clockpunk@ renegade

Most of the PC-luddites were moaning about lack of shortcut keys on console controllers... although Dragon Age's use of shortcuts seemed to shhot that theory to hell.
Posted 22:32 on 24 February 2010
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renegade

Age of Conan is not that bad to be honest, not sure why people hate on it so much. Thought these are the people who thinks WoW is gay and eve is teh rubbish lulz, cos its all aboot the Mwz 2.

Console gamers, they never change
Posted 21:06 on 24 February 2010
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Deago007

Age of Conan sucks ass!
Posted 20:50 on 24 February 2010
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Clockpunk@ guyderman

Lightsabers are the one thing I really felt was missing when Mass Effect 1 came out...
Posted 17:14 on 24 February 2010
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guyderman

I'd love to have a crack on The Old Republic when it comes out - but I'm not rich enough to get myself a decent PC to run it on.

I'd love Bioware to do another KOTOR using Mass Efects gameplay style! I can but dream!
Posted 17:10 on 24 February 2010
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Clockpunk

Such a shame about the long-rumoured Star Wars The Old Republic not actually making the leap to the consoles. You think the forum flame-fests are bad on here, you should have seen the PC vs. Consoles vs. 360-only vs. PS3-only threads. They were just plain embarrassing to think other gamers can be that stupid.
Posted 16:21 on 24 February 2010
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FantasyMeister@ fps_d0minat0r

Or we'd be ex-PC gamers that moved to consoles when consoles started showing hope of doing MMOs like EverQuest Online, FFXI etc. (Oddly, these remain to this day the only two true MMORPGs on consoles, PSU is only really 'pseudo-mmo' - mmo lobbies + 6-player missions).

I can't see Age of Conan coming to consoles, like most PC+Console MMOs they seem to start out with 'simultaneous launch!' then move to 'console version will come later' then 'what console version?' as developers come to grips with how hard it is to keep an MMO running on one platform let alone several.

Speaking of which, Huxley has gone very quiet.
Posted 15:56 on 24 February 2010
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fps_d0minat0r

if console gamers wanted mmo's we wouldnt be console gamers, we would be pc gamers grinding away day in day out.
Posted 15:31 on 24 February 2010
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dudester

By all accounts dead on pc isn't it so can't see bringing it to 360 making much difference.
Posted 14:33 on 24 February 2010