I played Age of Conan from Closed Beta, until a few months after launch. I'll get to the reason I'm not still playing it as my main MMO in this article, but that's later. First, I'd like to get people who have never played the game up to speed...

Age of Conan, created by Funcom (Anarchy Online), is definitely a “next-gen” MMORPG, in that it not only uses the most up-to-date graphics and sound engines, but it has added some really innovative gameplay aspects to the genre that were missing or weak. It is a level-based game, though there are skill “trees” which let you customize your character to a certain extent. Let's start with the first aspect of the game you encounter, and move forward from there.

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