A Scathing Year In Review

Conan Exiles General Discussion
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Making the combat changes even though your community told you not to was foolish. Everyone HATES the combat changes you’ve made, and you knew that they hated it. You chose to implement the changes anyway. You ignored your community.

The community told you they didn’t want you to make the stack split changes: You said you were listening, you didn’t listen. You made the changes anyway. Now players can’t take just 10 healing potions from storage, you have to sit there splitting a stack of 500 fifty times, and then put all of the little stacks back together when you’re done.

The modding community, and those who buy into your battlepass are the only reason why this game and your COMPANY aren’t dead in the water; yet you feel it necessary to spit in our faces when we speak (And speak VERY loudly) about the changes you’re trying to implement. You are DOWNGRADING the game rather than improving it.

This battlepass is insanely underwhelming and for the first time, not even worth my time let alone my money. The prices in the store for items is ridiculous. (1200 crom coins for a bookshelf, a lectern, and a ladder? Why would we bother when we can just download a mod and get 800 new decoration items that look better. For free.)

And why would we bother buying those things to support a company who obviously doesn’t care what its own community thinks?

So I’m not buying the battlepass. I’m not buying Bazaar items. I’m withdrawing the funding I’ve helped pour into the game until I see that you actually listen to your community again. I hope everyone else does the same.

Don’t be the next Blizzard.

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Here here.

I really really really want the extra dungeon pieces. But I won’t give them another single dollar after how they’ve handled Chapter 4 release. I may just have to move on and find something else to play.

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In before they finally ban, restrict or plain break mods that add armor/weapons/buildings/furnishings.

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What angers me the most is that I absolutely love the world they created. I love Conan, I love Cthulhu Mythos, the entire Exiled Lands and Isle of Siptah lore, world building, the graphics are just my style. I would LOVE nothing more than stay here and play for hundreds and thousands of hours.

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Same, girl. Same.

They have 100%, completely, and comprehensively coitus’d the canine here.

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Late to the party here but yes, absolutely this! I’ve been a fan of Robert E. Howard’s Conan since I was a little girl. I remember well my excitement when I found out Age of Conan was in development. Haunted its forums for over a year writing silly stories about the character I intended to play. Had a blast playing that game and met my husband there. Then FC ruined it for roleplayers and I left and never bought another FC product until they lured me back with Conan Exiles. Private servers and mods have kept this game alive and active for an awful lot of people. I play (and co-own) a server that sticks to Howard’s lore and reimagines the wonderful Savage Wilds map as actual locations in Hyboria. With mods I can have characters that look vastly better than FC’s.

But now here we are with FC killing its own game again. And I can see, however sadly, that there will come a day when I have to walk away from this one as well. Literally the best thing FC could do for CE would be what eventually happened to Star Wars Galaxies. Simply shut it down and release it into the wild for private servers to completely take over.

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Or give/sell the Conan License to a proper developer who has a clue.

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Oh if only. I can’t even guess who that might be though. I’d vote for the Robert E. Howard Foundation but I don’t know what they could or would do with it. LOL

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Couldn’t agree more. It’s tragic what a shamefully terrible team is running this game and what they’ve done to it. I’ve had to take long breaks from Conan over the years, because this past year isn’t the first time they’ve done very bad things to the game… but they’ve really taken it to the next level. Like they’ve been honing their skills at destroying the game over the years and this year they’ve really hit perfection. I honestly don’t think I’ll ever come back to the game.

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Who would you propose? I mean, look at the entire history of Conan games prior to Age of Conan and you will find games that have absolutely nothing to do with Conan or the Hyborian Age but just slapped Conan’s image and name onto it as a “selling point”.

Just one year before Age of Conan there was this lovely gem of a game.
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In Conan, the hero is on a quest to recover his lost armor and defeat an evil wizard.

If that isn’t “generic” enough just wait, it gets WORSE.

By exchanging these points for additional attacks, players improve the hero’s fighting abilities. Magic powers complement Conan’s arsenal, including the abilities to turn enemies into stone and conjure firestorms.

Please, for the love of Crom can anyone tell me WHEN has Conan EVER used magic? In fact, he has always had a deep seeded mistrust for magic. But no, now you can play AS Conan AND use magic instead!!! :woman_facepalming:

Then you have this game here.
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When Conan sees his home village of Grannach burnt to the ground by the mysterious Vulture cult, he begins his quest for revenge against them.

Uh…what now? From what abomination from the outer dark’s orifice did they pull this garbage out of?

Go back a little further and you get this game here.
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The player takes on the role of the titular Conan, a blacksmith living in the village of Irskuld, Cimmeria, who takes revenge on those who raided his home and killed his beloved wife.

So now Conan is just some generic arse village blacksmith with a WIFE up until Thoth-Amon somehow brings and army from Stygia through several Hybroian nations (without being stopped by them?) and slaughters his village and kills his WIFE? Again, more generic garbage that has f-all to actually do with Conan at all.

There are a couple others but I think my point has been made already. Funcom is the only company who has actually made any game (two actually) with any attempt at all to be faithful (as much as possible) to the world of the Hyborian Age. Are they the best when it comes to coding? Hardly. Are they the best when it comes to decisions? Again, hardly. But when it comes to making an absolutely beautiful game that truly makes you feel like you are IN the Hyborian Age, no one else has ever even attempted to do such a thing, and I think it is safe to say that Funcom has nailed it.

So it can be easy to toss around comments like “let some other company have the rights to it”, but the reality is that other companies HAVE had their chances before, and they have been woefully lacking.

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You’re not wrong. FC has definitely been the best of a bad lot. And at least with private servers there is the potential to create a setting more in keeping with the actual lore and the game, especially with mods, does give us the tools to do so. I know because I co-own such a server.

But the criticisms are also just. And when the workmanship is shoddy, as it has been on many a game update and broken cash shop item (most of which are never fixed) people have every reason to be salty about it.

I’m not among those who wants to see the game die though it’s probably no more than its owners deserve. Rather, I’d much prefer to see them reverse course and start treating this game with some actual love and its players with at least a little respect.

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Oh when it comes to the criticisms over their ability to code and some of the decisions they make, they are quite justified. I had no intention to claim otherwise. I was merely pointing out that cries for some mythical “other company” to swoop in and “do right” by Conan is, historically, a bigger fantasy than the Hyborian Age is. :rofl:

And I completely agree with you. I would 100% much rather see Funcom get their heads out of their posteriors and start to treat this game, and it’s community, with a bit more respect and deliver better, less buggy content. That second part is the reason they scaled back the Chapter/Age cadence to every 6 months instead of every 3 months but only time will tell if they are capable of living up to their own expectations, let alone anyone else’s.

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Then we are in accord! LOL

One thing I think people forget (or very few even know in the first place) is that the folks who built this game to begin with had never used UE4 and didn’t know the first thing about it. And rather than hire on a few folks who DID know it they decided to just “learn as they went” and made the whole damn game completely blind. As a result there are many flaws in the game that are literally “baked in” and can never be fixed or undone. We know this because back in its first year they actually said so and man do I wish I had screenshot it.

So what I have often thought as we’ve seen disaster after disaster as they’ve added new content is that the REAL problem may be that they are simply trying to build new and “heavy” things on a shoddy foundation full of cracks.

And this is the main reason I say they should just call it a day and release this game into the wild and the care of modders and private servers entirely. In that setting, the game has endless potential and life. But in the commercial setting of modern games? Not so much. And it’d be great if modders no longer had to endure abuse and heart attacks every time there’s a game update that thoughtlessly breaks all their stuff. If modders no longer had that to worry about I think we’d see a pretty amazing renaissance for this game.

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Yes but also at that point in time Funcom was literally about to shut down their doors permanently and the Early Access sales of Conan Exiles were the only thing that saved them from going under. So in truth they likely could not have afforded to hire anyone at that point in time who did know anything about UE4, let alone more than one.

I also believe that this is the reason behind them signing a long term contract with such a garbage server company (g-portal). No one else was willing to take a risk with a company who was about to shut down. So they signed with who they could, and are stuck with said contract. So although they could certainly get better performance on their official servers simply by migrating them to a better server hosting platform, they are legally bound to stay with g-portal due to the contract they have signed. But at the time, it was better to HAVE servers than not.

And I do agree that this shoddy foundations full of cracks tends to be the root cause of why so many bugs persist and others take so long to isolate and locate in order to be corrected. There have been plenty of bugs that some people experience that I have not, and some that I have and other people I know have not. When they tend to occur at random, affecting one person but not another, it makes it that much harder to even find where the bug is stemming from in the first place, let alone how to correct it. And at the same time, this is a topic that the community has zero patience for what so ever, no matter how many times such information is spelled out for them.

As to the last part of your comment, they would only ever do such a thing if they truly had no intentions of ever updating the game again. When it was truly in “maintenance mode” as people love to spew about, such as Age of Conan is currently in. I do not see that happening any time in the near future.

That being said, people really need to stop abusing modders because it is disgusting.

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Given the recent lack of devkit, this comment has aged like fine wine.

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BlockquoteAs to the last part of your comment, they would only ever do such a thing if they truly had no intentions of ever updating the game again. When it was truly in “maintenance mode” as people love to spew about, such as Age of Conan is currently in. I do not see that happening any time in the near future.

Yeah and more’s the pity. Star Wars Galaxies actually has a pretty busy and vibrant RP community and busy servers. I’d love to see that for Conan.

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heavy sigh Tell me about it. What was their excuse for that again? I’ll be very interested to see what happens when the next update happens on the new 6 month schedule.

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I’ve NEVER purchased any content from the Bazzar or any battlepass. I’ve only gotten 4 DLCs (siptah being one of them). I cant justify paying $20+ USD for 3 pieces of digital furniture. Thats completely assanine.

However, the game plays great without it, at least for me. While I understand griping about the battlepass, or when the devs break 10 things by attemtping to fix/add one thing, but I dont need to see people say “hurumph I’m leaving, the game is dying/dead, devs are killing the game. Leave the game, you should leave with me, im sick of thier incompetence” literally every update, patch, announcment, or change.

I’m not saying you cant complain, or be VERY vocal because that’s what brings about change, but please, dont say you’re leaving the game forever, only to stick around for the next 3 updates. Leave and hate the game or dont and stay. We dont need to keep hearing that BS, its unhelpful, repetitive, and toxic. Nothing gets fixed if we leave the game we love. Also, fruck the battlepass and Bazzar using a dry cactus.

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