Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Interview

[GameBanshee News]

The MMO Gamer is next in line to publish the results of an interview they did with Age of Conan game director Craig Morrison.

The MMO Gamer: Has the reaction to the item stats changes been as positive as you hoped it would be? Or has a new vocal minority sprung up already, to pine about how things were better in the old days?

Craig Morrison: I think the item changes themselves have been pretty well received across the board. The majority of the issues people have are with the balance concerns, like those we have already discussed, that people have now they are getting used to the new system.

Of course there are a few players who preferred the ‘old way’ completely, but if you set aside the balance issues (only for the sake of this question, they are off course very important and being worked on…just to be clear before someone quotes that previous sentence out of context!), then I think those who don’t like the new items at all, are a very small minority, and by and large players understand and appreciate the benefits of the revamped RPG stats.

It would be great to be able to please everyone, all of the time, but alas in an MMO setting that is rarely possible. I think most though do see that these changes are very beneficial to the games continued success.