Early Access Sold Out!

Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 1:19 pm

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Hello everyone. We here at Funcom are extremely happy with the demand that has been for our Early Access program. That demand has been so immense, that we are now sold out! We know that several people will be unhappy to not receive their Early Access time, but please bear with us in the remaining days. So:

* All English Early Access has sold out
* Some Early Access still available in Germany and France
* All Virtual items work will work on valid pre-order keys
* Pre-orders on accounts that was later cancelled will have their keys/account disabled

Thank you and look forward to seeing you all in Hyboria very shortly!

I think this means that anyone who is still waiting for an early access key or who has not signed up since receiving one is screwed until the 23rd ;/

Joined: Oct 11, 2006 Posts: 688

Yup, the predictable forum shitstorm has kicked off. Hope everyone here that intended to is in. Smile

Joined: Jun 19, 2007 Posts: 420 Location: London

My Client is downloaded, but had to wait for my external harddrive to arrive to make some room for this HUUUUGE game.
Hope to get it all updated and patched tonight in readiness for some weekend Hack n Slashery.

Joined: Oct 11, 2006 Posts: 688

Did you sort out your sub and add on the early access code? Even if you have a pre-order, if you haven't already registered and paid for the early access you aint getting in.

Joined: Jun 19, 2007 Posts: 420 Location: London

Yeah, with some help i got it sorted, and paid for straight away. So shouldn't be an issue
*fingers crossed *

Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 1:46 pm

Statement released.

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Funcom has been working very hard towards setting up gaming server capacity to launch this game comfortably for all the people who want to play Age of Conan. We are estimating that on Day One, a very high number of gamers will want to enter Hyboria.

The Open Beta finished on Sunday and we have been prepping those servers to be used as Live game servers, with the first ones to be used for the Early Access Program. Once those are set up and ready, we’re doing final adjustments to the other servers to prepare for full launch.

We measured how much capacity we thought we would need for this program and registrations have been on pace for this capacity – until two days ago. On Monday the registrations spiked and on Tuesday they increased even more. Early on Wednesday the capacity limit was reached and automatically shut off. The entire program is now mostly sold out globally, with some local variation. We had no way of anticipating the spike we saw at the end.

Our goal for Early Access was always to provide the best possible gaming experience for the ones who would get into the program. We scoped servers and download capacity for the 15gb client for a set number, based on our best projections. Those have been soundly surpassed. We are of course extremely humbled by the fact that so many players can’t wait to play the game.

We understand that there’s been some unfortunate confusion about the pre-order keys in some markets. Early Access has been a special limited offer that was exclusively available through the Age of Conan billing pages once you registered your pre-order key. Just to clarify there are no ‘Early Access keys’, and all pre-order keys do of course give the exclusive mounts and item benefits to your account as intended.

Now we have few choices. We could shut down the Closed Beta and reformat those servers to set them up for Early Access instead, but the fact is that the Closed Beta is supplying extremely valuable information that we would not want to miss. Quality is always our first goal and we would not want to compromise that but rather focus on the experience for all of you at launch.

Our best course of action is to move as quickly as we can to finalize the adjustments of the full range of launch servers, and to concentrate on being completely prepared for launch. It is only a matter of days even for those who are not in the Early Access program to set foot in Hyboria.

We are looking forward to greet you there!

Yours sincerely,

Funcom Development Team

Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:29 pm

so glan I did not sign up for this as my gam is still processing!!!! I am still waiting to get the killing started, Dam play.com. (If I find it on the floor tomorrow, will take back everything I have said). On night until friday morning....Then a concert to goto on Saturday night. Will I ever get started on this game... Confused

Joined: Jul 01, 2005 Posts: 486 Location: Watching You

Obviously something has changed cause now 3 days i into early access play decided to give me my early access code lols.

Joined: Jun 19, 2007 Posts: 420 Location: London

Liked this Laughing

http://www.cad-comic.com/comic.php?d=20080519

Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 7:56 am

Very funny indeed!