Is Funcom trying to kill Conan so they can focus on Dune?

I can’t actually criticize a game I don’t own. How can I tell funcom what’s wrong with Dune if I haven’t played it?

The problem is:
Hard release dates for ages/chapters.
Trying to homogenize the control system.
Adding content for contents sake.
Not backtracking to fix bugs.
Not making good use of the forum, or having their own discord.
Not using testlive fully? Properly? For more then content previews. Or better yet actually listen to them.

Oh ya, I could go on.

Seriously there are a few active Dune community managers that are in the discord practically daily, and the game isn’t even out yet. The Dune community managers have a better idea of what the projected Dune player base wants, then the Conan community managers do, for a game that actually has a PAYING player base.

Funcom is a brand, we as consumers choose brands all the time…vehicles, clothes, food, electronics…ect. Bad experiences with a particular brand can leave a bad taste in your mouth and you may refrain from using that brand in the future. Conan Exiles is a great game…when its not breaking (at this moment I can not even log in), its what ever quality control system they have in place that is or could be the problem. Funcom as a brand needs to gain player trust, at least mine. I currently am not will to invest in another of their games. I continue to try to play CE because I have already invested not only money but time as well, I play on one official server and one modded.

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i will never play dune. i dont like the setting.
i will play conan until it dies, and i will pray to yog that by the time it does, someone else has taken on the mantle of creating an open world sandbox game set in a low fantasy sword & sorcery setting with mod support.

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:joy: :joy: :joy:

Adapt like i do.

Maybe i am to primitive to understand current business models in game industries but i always tought like they teach on economic classes that happy customer stay on years and bring new one, but angry customers scare off dozen potential customers.

My point is if “things” like proper updates, connection with community, better support then conan ip should have many more happy customers that will not mind buying different stuffs from bazar na BP to make enjoyment from thei favorite game even greater, and for company it means more income from this title.

But now is quite opposite, mostly conan fans and veterans stay. Ocasionaly seasoned player arrive then they gone leaving decayed bases. From sides it may look like slowly sinking ship and bazar/bp purpose is loot passangers of that “ship”.

And about snatching CE players to dune, same basic economic business rules still work. If studio neglect few older games it make bad PR not for this games but for company and i can again show example of happy customers - Conan enjoyed players more willingly can go play other games of company who is know from good take care of their tittles.

PS. If dune will be in same crap gportal servers then i wish it good luck.

Conan Exiles Age Of War 4

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:brazil: feedback
Não tenho interesse nem na história de Duna não vou comprar se o conan exiles morrer basta enterrar e voltar para o GTA novamente breve irá lançar GTAVI então não faz diferença se Duna for lançado GTA será melhor que DUNE por que eles não ficam sabotando os controles do jogo igual acontece em Conan Exiles que venha GTA 6 :stuck_out_tongue: as plataformas xbox e ps4 deveria remover Conan Exiles da loja igual aconteceu com CyberBUG

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Why would we expect Dune to be any different?

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Know how bad it really is? They were TOLD not to remove precise splitting by players on the test server and on these very forums, and they even admitted that they knew people would be upset about it being removed, but they went ahead and did it anyway.

I agree that the new UI is horrid. I want the old one back and I want all the functions they changed to be reverted to what they were before the most recent update.

Would be easier if they would simply admit the last update is a complete disaster and just roll it back.

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I cant wait to see people reacting to an “erect” sand worm flying over the sky like a hacker on a 600ms server

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Have you heard of the cable TV industry?

Because it’s not even close to a bad day let alone a disaster.

Deacon is a funcom bootlicker

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Why do you insist on clinging to this rhetoric? You are 100% wrong. Just read the forums, read the comments from hundreds of people who hate this update. The 3 or 4 of you that like it can like it all you want because you’re allowed to like things that are bad or broken but even if you LIKE it that doesn’t change the fact that you’re still 100% wrong about the update - it’s a disaster. Period.

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:rofl: In your opinion :smile:

So you can’t count either. Give it a go, not a quarter of that. The majority of those posts are form the same dozen people.

We are allowed to like a thing? Really? oh thank you so much for that boon.
But we aren’t allowed to have the opinion they aren’t so bad, got ya. So everyone that doesn’t share your opinion is wrong?

You still have no clue what an opinion and a fact are do you? Don’t even try, you prove it every time you post and just don’t see it.

What I find interesting is not only do you see the same complaints from the same people. But also the ‘new’ forum posters are nearly copy and pasting the same stuff.

Its pretty well known that there is a handful of people who have run afoul of FC before (gotten actioned in game and in the forums) to make multiple accounts. And the major game breaking stuff that will ‘chase away new players’ are issues only veteran players would notice.

UI changes a new player wouldn’t even be bothered by. That would be their normal. Thrall nerfs, they wouldn’t know what a strong thrall is and would adjust their play around that (kinda like how we did in 2017). Splitting stacks, they may notice this one, but only because Enshrouded fixed theirs. To my knowledge, that’s normal in Valheim (or it was last I played it). So that isn’t a given.

If Funcom wanted to focus on Dune instead of Conan Exiles… well they do, but not to the point of killing CE. But let’s just say they wanted to stop supporting CE. Then they would sunset development. They wouldn’t play these games updating and making features. That costs money and manpower to do. Businesses don’t play stupid ego games. They don’t have egos. They are objects. About the closest thing they have to a person and a consciousness is they pay taxes. So if they had no intention of supporting CE you would see two things happen:

  1. Nothing.

And I do mean nothing. No more announcements, no updates, no content in the shops, and FLS wouldn’t work either. Whatever the state of the game is without that is what it would be from that point onward. Their servers would still be up, for a bit. They wouldn’t be restarted, Zendesk wouldn’t be useable, and they would go until they are unplayable (about 2-3 days). Then they would shutdown as G-portal uses that hardware for something else.

  1. Something

You’d get an announcement thanking you for playing, but the game won’t be supported anymore. They might push an update so we can play without all the extra frills and whistles. But that’s it, similar to ‘nothing’ above.

That’s what dead Conan Exiles looks like. I don’t see that happening anytime soon.

What I do see happening is they may cease active development, but still offer seasonal Battlepasses. They would come at their normal schedule, but no major update to promote them. As well as some bazaar items. That would be a Conan Exiles that has ‘completed’ development, but they still wish to keep it going for sales and such. This is far more likely to be where CE goes. Probably not any time soon though.

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It’s a fact that you’re wrong. It isn’t an opinion, but you go ahead and keep thinking it is if that’ll make you happy, bud.

Wrong. Go through them. You’ll see that’s not true.

You really must love being wrong, 95% of what you post is wrong, and you think facts are opinions. You must be fun at parties.

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No, I don’t have a clue, I know EXACTLY what each of those things are. You, however… dont’ even know that MS DOS wasn’t a programming language yet you claim to know how to code.

FYI: being able to “code” this:

10 print “Hello, world.”
20 goto 10
Run

…which is likely the extent of your knowledge based on the FACT that you said that MS Dos is a programming language, is NOT the equivalent of actually knowing how to code.

Have a nice day.

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This… is hilarious. How to show you don’t pay attention without even trying.

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When you do two replies back to back (with a half a dozen edits in the span of 2 minutes) and they are nothing but personal attacks, you must not have very good confidence in yourself or your argument.

Why should we take you seriously if you don’t even take yourself seriously @Macdallan ?

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Really? That’s all you can come up with? Do you have any idea how absolutely ridiculous that sounds?

I decide to move a few thing around, add a bit, change a couple things and to you that means I don’t have “confidence” in myself or my argument and to you that means I don’t “take myself seriously?” How in the heck did you come up with that one, bud?

Ever make a mistake, or read something and realize you could have worded it a different way so it’s clearer? Is it better to just leave it the way it was, or edit it? That’s a rhetorical question, by the way. The answer is obvious.

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