They should make a new map. It is more engaging than implementing new mechanics.
Map based on existing mechanic is more safer than inventing a new spell or moveset.
It is disapponting that even their microtansaction service is as buggy as the free content.
Why would the game end? Maybe they would need to close down some of the official GPortal servers if people werenât using them, but itâs not like continued development is needed for a game with this model to continue to exist. Every update â not some, not most, but every update â makes the game worse. So, I think continuing to update might be a better way to achieve what youâre describing as the game metaphorically âending.â 
They could still update their battle pass with minor patches to keep earning money; I donât think anyone would have an issue with that (mostly). However, if they had stopped making changes years ago, the game would have been a lot better off, and Iâm afraid of what comes next given the track record. I think a case could be made that the game was a lot better off before many Age of Sorcery changes, but I think most would agree that it was certainly better off before any Age of War changes. In any case, with whoever they have working there these days, I think the less they touch anything, the more stable the game will be.
Honestly I love Conan exiles⊠I just want my controls back to like they were. I canât stand the new scheme
Dont really matter to me, just quiet the mob! 
Unless youâre in it for only a single player experience (and you enjoy half-assed mods) the game ends with no more updates. Very few people would be interested in playing a mmo-ish game with no future. Itâs not going to attract new players with no future ahead of it. As with all games, people grow tired of games and move on. If they announced an end to the live service tomorrow youâd see the existing community shave down to about half within 90-180 days. At 7,500 concurrent players over the last 30 days thatâs already a sad number.
I hope we can at least get two more years of updates but Iâm not sure if thatâs in the cards anymore.
Crazy how heavily downvoted and berated I was for asking this question just a few months ago⊠yet now its a popular opinion. Theyâre going to abandon this game for Dune anyway (they basically already have and are using conan as a stress test to see just how far they can go before people actually stop buying things) might as well have let them end it in a good state.
By the time they give up on it thereâs going to be virtually nothing left of the game you enjoyed but donât worry⊠just keep buying those bazaar items. I donât blame you as thatâs where all the development effort is going anyway.
What do you base this on? This present phase of Conan started before Dune was anymore then a proposition on paper. Itâs on a new game engine so devs working on Conan wont be familiar with the newer game engine. With out names we donât know who if anyone from the Conan team went to the Dune team; I know a few have but I doubt that has anything to do with this present load of prime fertilizer.
As in Conan is stepping in the 
interdependent of Dune.
I will point out it has been a very long time since I have seen a community manager this involved with the forum as I have seen lately.
Agreed. There is no motive to abandon ship as I see players with recent digital goods all over officials so the revenue is coming in. As long as revenue still comes in, there is motive to continue. For marketing concerns, a game designated as maintenance is a dead game walking.
Dune Awakening was announced at Gamescom 2022. Age of Sorcery released about a week later. Now if we assume that zero progress had been made on the game or its engine AT ALL before the announcement (Which honestly wouldnât surprise me but is highly unlikely) then yes you might be correct there is no correlation.
The most obvious point is the introduction of the bazaar and battle pass. Something the game never needed and they arenât even using the money to create anything of value in the game (keep in mind most of AoS was done before the introduction of these systems). Half of it ends up just getting removed anyway⊠itâs obvious they are testing concepts.
Whatâs more likely, they are testing these concepts for future updates to a very old cult game (which based on steam charts has more or less always maintained the ~10k playerbase regardless of the state of the game outside of major updates) or they are testing these concepts for their new project?
What I said months ago is that they need to stop updating the game simply becaues they canât handle 3 month time lines. Itâs painfully obvious⊠each update comes with massive problems. Did you know siptah is crashing again? Something about turtles. But at least my thralls didnt all decay⊠or my nemedian foundations didnât all randomly disappear⊠or I crash everytime i go to the dark island on sip⊠oh wait. Did you know the sated bug I reported all the way back in the public test of age or sorcery is still in the game? Crazy right but this is the company that took nearly 3 months to change the recipe of the advanced fishtrap.
And this is the company you think should be pumping out updates every 3 months?
I donât. They should let conan die with a little dignity and itâs identity intact.
You should go read up your history on Age of Conan and Secret World.
How can you fix something without an update?
So i voted to keep updated just by wishing that it will be fixed.
Not updating a game means one thing onlyâŠ
Dead!
So itâs funny that people wish to see this game dead (jokeâ:rofl:
).
YES PLEASE!!!
And i can suggest items for selling in bazaar, why not.
Emote bath in Aquilonian bath tab
Emote poop, in Aquilonian toilet
Emote pet my (freaking) pets
New skin of many rare items people ask all these years.
Tier 2 new building set.
Transmog my crafting stations
Dye saddles
EtcâŠ
They can simply revamp the already existed mechanisms, without much effort, people will buy anyway, but they will have time to focus more on bug fixing than creating new seasons.
Bring back the loot allâŠ
Bring back the decent thralls, not the divine, just the decent âŠ
Bring back the gaming quality of life we use to have.
My problem with those that say take a chapter off to fix problems is that itâs not realistic.
Look every single place of business has problems. Can any of your employers just take a fiscal quarter to fix the problems in their business and not have revenue coming in for that quarter? Iâm guessing no so itâs a balance game between new content/revenue and fixes.
With what is going on with the event, them mentioning cycling through things, and the use of using events to give recipes and followers to the players, I can see activation of new events that would give people alternatives that are already built in but not accessible through game play. Thralls that havenât been seen since 2019, pets that are no longer available. Twitch drops made accessible from gameplay now. Maybe even portions of transfer that you can drink to move your toon to another server. I mean you can have a wide range of things come back that were tabled at some point (crossbow?) in these events that would excite both vet and noob and i would imagine that it would be relatively easy to implement. that gives more efforts to really digging into the fixes.
HOWEVER! I see a huge disconnect between what dev is wanting to do to fix and the community that is established in their ways of doing things. These updates are not just Den and crew sitting around going âwhat can we F with now?â. They come up because there is a request to fix X or Y or Z that triggers the deep dive into the game. This means yes, sometimes the fix for XY or Z means you donât get ABC. that is design decisions of give and take and while I may not agree with the sacrificing ABC to fix XYZ, I do appreciate they did the deep dive into it and actually developed vs slap on extra code to fix the symptom.
Iâd agree except Iâve had a fair amount of experience with tencent. season pass, chapters, events, in game store, those are SOP for tencent. I mean they are common enough to the industry, but tencent is known for it. They know how to squeeze every dime out of a game they can.
They need to spend this chapter doing hotfixes. Maybe call it chapter 4 prolog, a themed battle pass and reruns on the bazaar as a regular thing
Exactly.
Iâm not a fan of completely abandoning the game, but OP does have a pointâŠ
The state of Conan Exiles is becoming worse by each bigger update, it doesnât feel like fleshing out existing content or adding new.
To me it feels more like changing things to keep players playing because what was good suddenly isnât anymore, to me it feels like a lazy attempt to make us believe that the game is actively being developed and expanded⊠it⊠just⊠isnât⊠well at least that is how I feel and have felt for a long time.
Yes they do add a few things here and there, but they also take away a lot of things that felt good instead of making them better like the original purge, character transfer etc.
I voted for âStop Updating the Game Altogetherâ because the other option feels worse.
I would have loved if the state of the game would have been better by fixing a lot of the problems(bugs, performance etc.) and then they could keep their Bazaar and battlepass in the game to get some funds from it
I have finally begun the process of deleting all characters on official servers, which I should have done long ago.
I havenât played the game a lot since the introduction of ages, battlepass and Bazaar⊠I think I am burned out and probably have been for longer than I remember.
And while I have been playing a little bit during the past year or so, I havenât really been doing much other than just checking out bits and pieces from the chapters and refreshing in the hope of at some point see some expansive mechanics and perhaps a new map with linking between them.
I have seen friends come and go, old friends aswell as new friends, but the past year it has been more leaving than coming back, especially this year, so it may be the best time for me to leave before I become too bitter 
Will I ever return?
It is hard to answer, Conan Exiles will always have a special place in my heart, maybe I will play a bit again once in a while, but likely not at the same level as I have been doing since early 2017 with thousands of hours.
So to sum it up, no I donât want them to completely stop updating the game, at least not until it is in a better state, but the current updates seems to introduce more and worse problems and the changes just feels like⊠For the sake of changing things to make the game appear alive and actively developed⊠so yeah I completely understand OP
I donât think anyone truly wants them to abandon the game. We just want more emphasis on solving existing issues than changes that introduce more problems.
The idea of a mythical age of bug fixes only works on paper. It will appease a lot of veteran players, but rolling out an update without some form of a content headline doesnât bring in new people nor back old ones.
Theyâve backed themselves into a corner with the 3 month update cycles. They have deadlines to ship by and a quota of features to show off.
In my personal opinion, the right play isnât to stop updating the game, nor is it to keep doing what theyâre doing now. They need to slim down to 1-2 major changes in a chapter, instead of biting off more than they can chew by doing five things at once. Even still, people will complain the update was lacklustre but at least itâll appease the veteran players.
The issue here is what state is the game going to be in when it finally enters maintenance mode⊠but again I pointed out why this was a bad idea all the way back at the beginning of AoS and loads of people lined up to tell me just how wrong I was.
Yet here we are⊠I wonder if any of those people even still play.
only for small fixes, at this point the game shouldnât see any fundamental changes for the next 2 years at least.
it is over-saturated with changes.
Chill the hell out, Arcanist
Why create new content when you can just rework old systems and call it a day. They only have 3 months⊠and the bazaar/BP is a lot of that work. Its crazy to me just how many people werenât woken up by the fact they INTENTIONALLY release a patch that was KNOWN to break the game and then wait a month to fix it because âmuh deadlines interfered with muh holidaysâ.
I did hear they finally added some of this new content to siptah⊠but even if i wanted to try it i couldnât⊠damn turtles (apparently)!
I dunno - I think if the headline was âAge of Bug Fixesâ that might bring back a fair number of old players (itâd certainly make me more enthusiastic to play, lol). But youâre right, it probably doesnât add new ones (and, perhaps more importantly, itâs just not really something a company is likely to doâŠ).
Yeah, the 3 month deadlines just feel like an over-reach (possibly imposed from above, of course), perhaps exacerbated by some fairly ambitious plans for the future. Maybe if they could slim that down a little and just focus on delivering one or two polished changes, then things might go better. As you say, people will still complain - but thereâs some people that will complain no matter what 
Focusing too much on catering to the types that insist the game is dead/in maintenance mode the moment a week passes without drastic change, doesnât seem to be heading them in a good direction - hopefully theyâll learn a lesson from the past couple of updates and try something more like your suggestion.