![]() ![]() ![]() Image credit Age of Conan Unchained - Published and developed by Funcom.Īge of Conan Unchained seemingly dried up shortly after its steam re-release, and content updates became a thing of the past as years would go by without any substantial content updates.įuncom kept the lights on and a small community formed around the non-steam client. ![]() The MMORPG genre in the mid-2000s was in a very similar state to today, the big players had already arrived on the scene, and the genre was an almost universally T-rated affair Funcom set out to change that by releasing the nudity and gore-filled adventures of Conan the Barbarian into the hands of Conan fans and hormone-driven gamers worldwide.Īge of Conan: Hyborian Adventures sold over 1 million copies at launch, and while it was still clearly not ready for release despite having been delayed twice, 2008 was a radically different time, and the Reddit hivemind had not yet been formed, while gamers pushed for and wanted improvements, they were not howling in rage and demanding death for the title and its developers.Īdapting to the changes in the genre, Funcom relaunched Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures in 2011 as Age of Conan Unchained, opting for a new freemium business model and riding high on the success of its recent expansion pack and upcoming adventure pack content releases, Age of Conan Unchained seemed to find a niche to flourish in, or so it would seem. Age of Conan Unchained is a decent, but aging MMORPG that relies too heavily on now outdated mature content, at the exspense of appealing to a wider demogrpahic. ![]()
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