Hail & good morning, Hyborians… my name is Jay Johnson, but ingame, my main toon is Mad Taurus, a barb that’s been around since the summer of 2009.
I run the largest Age of Conan private group page on Facebook (6.1K members)… maybe you’ve heard of us, maybe not.
It’s been quite some time since I’ve been here at the forums, but I wanted to let our presence be known to Funcom & to let you all know that there is a vast community of loyal players who still love & play AoC.
We don’t like to toot our own horn, but our Facebook page is somewhat responsible for helping to keep Age of Conan afloat & bringing knowledge of the game to players who never even knew the game existed at all… More & more, the game continues to take on newcomers along with returning players alike. We try our best to do our part, & one time, a few years ago, we were actually able to reach out to Funcom with a petition for new updates/expansions/anything, & the response we got back was that the engine was too old for the devs to do anything with it, so now our game is in maintenance mode & it’s been like this for quite some time…
I’m not a business man nor am I tech savvy like many of the warriors here… I’m just like you: a lover of REH’s Conan of Cimmeria since the mid-70s, plus, I’m a gamer. & as far as I’ve seen (& I’ve played 3 other Conan games before), this, by far, is the closest adaptation of Robert Ervin Howard’s vision of the Hyborian Age to the video gaming industry that we have, & it needs to be cared for & treated with the upmost honor & respect that it deserves to the greatest pulp fiction writer of the 20th century, but I don’t think Funcom sees it the way a lot of us do 
Hence, the reason I went to this past Howard Days, hoping to rub elbows or pick the brain of someone associated with Funcom, hoping to get some insight (firsthand) on the future of our game & to see if there’s anything that can be done, but there wasn’t a Funcom representative there this year…
I took a shot in the dark & don’t know what else to do at this point…
By Crom, better luck next year 
Happy Hunting, Unleash Hell, & I’ll see you warriors on the Battlefield!!!
MadTaurus/Cimmerian/Lvl 80 Barbarian 
