Edge talks Morhaime on Age of Conan
Edge talks Morhaime on Age of Conan The Art of War was corrected to make the Paladin's next Flash of Light instant, merely a fix from last build. Replenishment, the mana regeneration buff from Judgements of the Wise, was nerfed to .25% of total mana per tick as opposed to .5%. I'm not so sure why they nerfed it, but a permanent, constant tick might have been overwhelming in raid situations in Beta. One important change to Retribution is the revision of Judgement of Command to deal a guaranteed crit on stunned targets as opposed to added damage.
This tones down Retribution's burst into something more controllable and also gives a controlled proc for The Art of War. It's a change many Paladins have been asking for and we're unlikely to see ludicrous numbers from Judgements now.
We made mention of Mike Morhaime's surprising words regarding Wrath's launch date during a recent conference call, but there's one thing we didn't really look at that Edge did. Mister Morhaime says Age of Conan's release a couple of months ago did manage to pull some subscribers away from WoW, but unsurprisingly, almost half of them came back pretty fast. Around 40% of them have come back so far.
This does not surprise me, really. That's usually how most MMO releases go, even if Age of Conan was the most heralded release since WoW. I'll admit, I haven't played it myself but I had ten or so guildmates of mine go and try it out. All of them ended up not playing the game after a month, saying that something was 'missing.' How delightfully vague, eh? They all came back.
A thriving, pre-existing community really helps a game's launch, and WoW had (and has) that in spades. You've gotta hand it to Age of Conan, though. For being a game that seems so niche in a market that has only moved out of nichedom in the last few years, they're putting up one hell of a fight. 40% of players have come back so far, sure, but 60% haven't. Yet.
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