May 19, 2008
Age of Conan Collector’s Edition
Completely Sold Out
Age of Conan Collector’s Edition
Completely Sold Out – Historical pre-order and ship-in numbers for 2008’s most
anticipated MMO – – Early access offer oversubscribed – First review of game
gives a 9 out of 10 –
Funcom is proud to announce that the
Collector’s Edition of Age of Conan is now completely sold out in all markets.
The exclusive edition was announced in January, and has since topped retail
charts at numerous retailers. In some markets, the Collector’s Edition has been
sold out for weeks, and as a result additional boxes were made. These are also
sold out, and the total print run stands at 111.000 units. Lucky customers may
still find some copies on retail shelves, but no re-orders are available.
Additional retail figures for the
standard edition of Age of Conan are also highly impressive. In total, Funcom is
shipping around 700.000 copies of Age of Conan on day one. This impressive
figure for a PC game is powered by equally impressive pre-order numbers. As a
result of the tremendous interest and recent order increase, Funcom has not been
able to fulfill all orders of Age of Conan in several markets due to current
server capacity limitations. Extra orders of servers are now in place to
facilitate for handling of more customers.
“Everyone in Funcom is delighted and
humbled with the historical pre-order numbers for Age of Conan. If the
information we have is correct, they represent the highest pre-order number for
any global launch of an original PC game, ever, including the original World of
Warcraft launch,” said Morten Larssen, Funcom’s VP of Sales & Marketing.
More than one million unique
visitors visited the Age of Conan websites last week, and as a result of the
great interest in the game, Funcom’s early access offer was swiftly
oversubscribed. The three day early access program was a limited offer reserved
for pre-order customers. While Funcom scaled the servers above anticipation,
player demand surpassed expectations. As the Early Access servers launched last
night, the servers and game held up exceptionally well. As the game launches
properly later this week, Funcom expects additional large numbers of customers
to enter the game.
All the positive signals are
naturally not equal to eventual success, but early indications from the press
points out that the game boasts unique qualities. The very first review for the
game gives it a 9 out of 10 score from Game Reactor, the Nordic regions largest
gaming magazine.
While Funcom is thrilled with the
early success of Age of Conan, and proud of the game launching this week, the
company regrets to inform gamers that the DirectX 10 version of the game will
not ship with the initial launch. As Microsoft’s DirectX 10 is undoubtedly the
future of PC gaming, Funcom has decided to ship only the DirectX 9 version at
launch, giving the team more time to focus on building a DirectX 10 version
worthy of Microsoft’s great vision for the future of PC gaming. This
postponement will let Funcom include even more features in the DirectX 10
version of Age of Conan than originally planned.
The DirectX 10 version will be
premiered at the German Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, August 20 – 24,
2008. A special preview showing off the advanced graphics made possible by
DirectX 10 technology will be unveiled this summer at nVidia’s NVISION event in
San Jose, California, August 25 – 27, 2008.
Age of Conan launches 20th of May in
North America / Oceania and 23rd of May in Europe. More information about the
game can be found on
www.ageofconan.com
