Test live patch notes are cute and all but like I said still no Official news or announcement about the topic at handā¦I guess my statement still stands.
Oh, the new map? Yeah, I havenāt heard a peep about it either 
Honestly, I was just caught up in the euphoria of having the general āradio silenceā broken.
Yeah its pretty weird that there hasnāt been any announcementās about anything for 3 months or so.
Agreed. Weāre all just waiting to hear more. Threads like this are mostly just a place for people to be angry about what could be, not what will be. None of us know for sure, so itās really hard to pick a stance
Iād say that the Tencent stock acquisition bid has had an impact on releasing information. Once that does or does not go through, I imagine we will get a lot more info. Right now the Thrall QOL update is a way to say, hey we are still working on the game. Hereās a bone.
Well do not forget they added in their own new shinny site to play from, another launcher strange I think myself, why now a new one when steam works great for Conan.
So someone on the Internet said that Funcom made a promise, so it must be true? They even use the phrase āoft-repeated promiseā with no citations for sources or anything from Funcomās mouth.
MJ Guthrie is not an omniscient entity; theyāre just as fallible as the rest of us, and dependent on the same sources of information as the rest of us. And as the community feeds on its own perception that Funcom āmade a promiseā, they start believing it because theyāre providing the āevidenceā for themselves. Thatās really basic psychology, and a highly effective way to control the opinions of large crowds: the more something is discussed, the more people believe in it.
What I remember Funcom developers actually say about new maps before a new map was announced was āitās not currently possibleā and āif we ever make one, it wonāt be freeā. I donāt put much weight in generic blanket statements such as āall DLC will be cosmetic onlyā or āall content will be freeā. All of that is subject to change.
But thereās one thing they did say about DLCs, and thatās āwe wonāt be selling powerā. Pay-to-win is a policy I wonāt be supporting. But Iām willing to let Funcom show us what they intend to do before declaring it a failure, or betraying their promise, and walking out the door.
Personally for me this whole: āFuncom never promised ā¦ā argument is just a lame excuse to justify to make a lot of additional money out of Conan Exiles.
Funcom does this streams to advertise Conan. The goal is to reach as many people as possible to sell the game. The same goes for the DLCĀ“s. Thats fine by me. I love the game. But: if a company is advertising something, then they need to deliver it or they will loose their reputation. Because that is what people are expecting. They see it as a promise the minute it gets advertised, because they belief in whats said in the video. And why should they not?
If I do a video short before gamescom and telling people: āwe have great news: soccery is on our roadmap, we are working on it, yeah babyā you can bet your asā¦ that people will get hyped. They believe soccery is coming for real. Mission accomplished. Thats the whole point in doing that video. Hype for a game = attention at gamescom = more buyers = money. Goal reached. But then Funcom is not delivering because of what reasons ever and people are pis.ed. And why should they not? They believe in the company. Its Funcoms responsibility to check first that a feature can be done before they are making videos about it.
And its not, that this was a one time failure you can easily forgive. The last 2,3 years where like that. And even things that made it properly in to the game get changed 10 times after. And every time it gets announced that is is for the better of the game. That it is necessary, until it gets changed again. I canĀ“t count how often more for the worse then the better. And so I do not wonder that a lot of people have no faith in what Funcom announces. What they say today and do tomorrow is different and that inconsistancy is hurtfull for both, the playerbase and Funcom.
The game is great and all. And I donĀ“t have problems buying a cosmetic DLC ones in a while to support it further. But I have a problem buying extensions at this stage. The basegame after 2 years is still buggy as hell. I have to ask myself where Funcom sets its priorities here. I donĀ“t want this game to become a pure cashgrab.
You are on point about the internet āgrapevineā somehow always becoming fact.
Soooooooo
I remember thinking i read somewhere that one of the social forums had words that insinuated about Funcom charging for maps. Now we can say we heard they were always going to charge. Phewww,problem fixed. We can all now know the last thing posted was they were always charging for maps. If someone disagrees, point to this thread as the fact.
Whatās the correct amount if you donāt mind me asking?
Pretty much it is an excuse for getting more money out of this game. I stopped playing this game, but I can say this looks a bit fishy. Also if this game moves to subscription only does that mean that people will have to pay the subscription fee to be able to play the in game content they paid for?
Does this mean that Tencent will take away the ability for people to play single player. Also does this mean that people will not be able to play on the old map which would kill most of the mod support for this game?
There are alot of unanswered questions, but right now it seems that Funcom is trying to pull a bethesda with a game with not even a small sliver of the players that play bethesda games.
Maybe if they would actually tell the truth about what they are doing then people would not be so mad about it. Although I doubt they will do that. Personally they screwed over everyone is how I see it. They will be discontinuing mod support which its funny how modders on this forum are for this move cough cough (multigun) anyways it seems like they are going to try to move to more of an ESO/secret world legends type subscription service for a game that was promised to the people who bought it that it would not have these types of things. So personally yes this game is dying, and the developers only care about how much money they can get from you. That is what āgames as a service meansā so say goodbye to āsingleplayerā āprivate serversā āmodsā. If I am wrong prove me wrong dont just delete my comment because you know I am right (multigun)
This will be much worse than you think it is. Trust me any company that partners with Tencent, and starts pushing paid content will then start to push subscriptions. I would really laugh if they get rid of the private server idea, and try to push everyone into the same live map. Which would be a bit crazy since pve players dont get along with pvp players. Rp players dont get along with anyone, and some people just want to play singleplayer which is a majority of the games users. Although once again funcom seems to not have done research on who is actually playing this game, and made a leap selling the company for a quick cash grab.
Prove me wrong, or ban me from the forums finally instead of just silencing my content since it seems everyone who is still playing is worried about this. I personally just summed up everyones issue into a single couple of paragraphs, but like always I will be silenced and my questions (which is the questions of those concerned that they paid for nothing) will be screwed by this decision.
This is a 0-100 leap to conclusions if Iāve ever seen one. This much fear mongering needs to be contained, Iād suggest in tinfoil. I can guarantee with a 99% certainty this is absurd and wonāt happen. If it does, Iāll be right behind you out the door; but Iām not preemptively jumping ship just because itās a worst case scenario that most likely wonāt come to pass
Oooh, I know this one! Is the answer āthere are no indications whatsoever that Conan Exiles will be introducing subscription-only model, so itās really pointless and counterproductive to speculate about itā?
There are a lot of legitimate unanswered questions about the new map and I would like to see answers to them. Bringing up conspiracy theories and spreading FUD will not answer those questions.
They are? Could you point us to your sources? Or is it a seeeecret? Or maybe Funcom used their illuminati connections to suppress the truth? 
Nuh uh, thatās not how that works. The burden on proof is on you, buddy.
Repeating the same claims over three consecutive posts doesnāt make them stronger, it just turns them into deja moo. Thereās no reason for the mods to ban you, either, since conspiracy theories and FUD arenāt against the rules. And letās face it, banning you would be like early Christmas, since you could then come back with a different user and post about how you must have been right, since they banned you to silence you
Hey if its tinfoil then Ill put on my tinfoil hat, but I would like to hear personally from either the mods, or the company as to what they are doing when it comes to this deal. Not exactly, but 3 things that should be said.
1.Will conan exiles still be able to be played on private servers that were purchased, or will it be going to a live subscription service pushing everyone onto the same map?
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Will conan exiles still have a single player mode, and will the promises that this company made be honored by keeping both singleplayer/multiplayer private servers running.
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Will conan exiles still have mod support after this move is made, and will the maps within the game still be able to be modded, or is tencent coming out with packs that will replace mods.
You can say my accusations are crazy, but in truth many other companies who have partnered with tencent have done worse. So just wait when you have to pay a subscription. They try to push everyone onto the same map, and they may even make you pay for loot boxes to get certain items i.e ESO crown crates coming to a conan game near you.
It might sound like tinfoil hat craziness, but in my opinion no one should ever trust āgames as a serviceā. If they would like to clarify this instead of keeping everyone in the dark then we can see if I am right or wrong. Although with all the cloak and dagger until release (you know since we are all just playing a glorified beta at the moment) would be nice since we can actually know what is happening to the game, and where content is going from here. I dont mind paid dlcās as they are, but if they move out of cosmetic dlcs, and map dlcs while charging players a subscription fee for a game that is already dying I will be removing it from my steam list.
Then prove me wrong? "Games as a service usually means that a subscription will be added " have played hundreds of games who moved the same model, so its not really to far fetched. I mean most of us are being kept in the dark about the direction this game is going anyways so it would be nice to have some information on what they mean by āGAMES AS A SERVICE?ā
Well I only go 0-100 when āGames as a service is mentionedā
Funcom is a business, so excuse may be the wrong word. Being in a business is about making money, and trying to pull in more from a resource (CE) is not nefarious.