The new Veterans Rewards program is due in the near future, as we’ve mentioned before. In the July 2009 Letter from the Game Director, Craig Morrison tells a little bit more about what we can expect:
As part of the next major update cycle, a new veteran reward system will be introduced that gives veteran players access to special vendors who will offer them a host of veteran benefits ranging from social status items to special items that will provide extra convenience items to veteran players. As an example of the latter, exp potions and similar bonuses, while not increasing the power of your characters, will provide veteran players with great time-saving rewards and options not available to new players.
So in-game perks when we keep playing, that might actually be a good idea, especially if it is combined with extra character slots (which they gave previously) and things like that. Just don’t send me gold bonuses or nonsense like that, make it cool, maybe Veterans Only quests?
Or at least that is what Craig Morrison and fellow Funcom peeps are hoping, because that is the next main feature being rolled out in Age of Conan. Basically, the idea is that everything you do as a player will be counted against your guild, hence you’re leveling the guild when playing the game. The system is called Guild Renown and it focuses on getting Renown points in three different areas:
- Valor, which is PvE stuff.
- Glory, which is PvP mini-games and similar.
- Artisan, which is garnered from crafting.
I wonder if this means we’ll have artisan focused guilds? That would be cool, make armor not war… Read more
When Age of Conan launched there was talk about the PowerPoints program, which would reward veteran (ie long term) players of the game. This has not been rolled out yet, but it seems as if it is still on the table. Game director Craig Morrison commented on the matter in the official forums, telling us that there will be a “veterans reward system” in the near future. Now, that could mean anything of course, but it is promising.
Morrison also said:
The veterans rewards when they arrive will be based on the number of months you have subscribed for in total. It will be retroactive as well so it will already know about those months you have already earned.
It is very much going to be about rewarding those who have been loyal to the game.
Age of Conan executive producer Craig Morrison has told IGN, in an article about the 1.05 relaunch of the game (see the trailer), that the Xbox 360 version is still in the works.
We did ask him about the Xbox 360 version of Age of Conan, which has been in the works for years now. He said that Funcom still has a small team working on it, but technical issues remain. “We most definitely underestimated the challenges of getting the engine to run on the 360,” he said.
A “small team” eh? That doesn’t sound promising. Also, do we really care? Isn’t it a bit late now anyway?
In this video diary, executive producer Craig Morrison speaks on where Age of Conan is today, and what they did with the 1.05 update. Also lots of cool footage from the new areas.
One of the upcoming news is PvP gaming where smaller guilds can battle it out. And he also hints on the upcoming expansion.
