Why did Funcom Decide to Split up the player base? And a Conan Battlepass

[CodeMage]

I hope you don’t take this badly, but here goes anyway.

@Zakf782

I’m an entrepreneur and own a very succesful software company I play Conan as a hobby. So I would like to think with all my business experience I know what I’m talking about but people start saying I have no clue.

Any entrepreneur who owns a successful software company has either learned to understand and adapt to what his tech people tell him, or the company won’t stay successful for long. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying the tech people have the last word, but the business guys have to take the tech into account in order to make informed decisions.

@Zakf782

I think they need to somehow incorporate this new map into the old one yes it’s a big overhaul but it’s a doable one.

This is why I mentioned listening to the tech side of the things and making informed decisions. Here’s the tech side of things, as explained by a successful and widely recognized Conan Exiles modder:

@Multigun

The engine literally cannot support any further direction in map size. I don’t know how many more times this needs to be stated (because its nearing a thousand at this point). Physics engine literally breaks down. You can test this yourself using the dev kit.

It’s not a single player game, it’s a multiplayer game. If it was a single player game, you could move the map origin (0,0,0) with the character and have as big of a map as you want. There is no tech in UE4 that allows this in a multiplayer game. Not in 4.15 especially.

“Big overhaul” is a severe understatement when talking about extending the old map to include the new one. It’s an overhaul that’s in the realm of the theoretically possible, but not practically feasible.

EDIT: Fixed a typo.