Funcom talks AoC: Rise of the Godslayer release date

Funcom won’t announce a release date for Age of Conan expansion Rise of the Godslayer until after internal testing ends.

Rise of the Godslayer, the first expansion for bloody MMORPG Age of Conan, was announced at German trade show gamescom last month without a release date.

While the expansion won’t increase the level cap, it will increase the amount of content for level 20 and above players, and unlocks the eastern empire of Khitai for the first time.

Speaking to VideoGamer.com, Age of Conan game director and Rise of the Godslayer executive producer Craig Morrison said that while Funcom doesn’t currently have a release date in mind, development of the expansion is “fairly far along”.

“It’s a personal thing for me,” he said. “I very much believe in getting some testing done first. We literally haven’t set even an approximate release date yet. We are fairly far along. You can see from the footage. We have it playable on the show floor. This isn’t something that’s just in our minds.

“Since the turn of the year the guys have been working. We’ve split the teams in Oslo. There are still over a hundred people working on Conan. Some of the resources are shared, but we have 30 people working exclusively on the expansion and the design and the implementation of the play fields. So we are relatively far along in the process.

“People are playing. Online people are actually playing Chosain Province play field at the moment, but I very much want to start the testing process first before we start talking about when the release dates might be. And then we’ll make decisions once we’re done.”

For more on the expansion, head over to our Craig Morrison Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer interview.