Age of Conan fever is peaking, and it seems that the interest has caught Funcom off guard. according to the official forums, the May 17th "Early Access" program for those with special pre-order keys is now sold out. That means anyone who has a pre-order key, but hasn't actually registered it to create his account on Funcom servers is out of luck and has to wait until the real launch - May 20th for the US, May 23rd for the Europe.
Quoting the official "Statement regarding sold out Early Access Program":
"We measured how much capacity we thought we would need for this program and registrations have been on pace for this capacity – until two days ago. On Monday the registrations spiked and on Tuesday they increased even more. Early on Wednesday the capacity limit was reached and automatically shut off. The entire program is now mostly sold out globally, with some local variation. We had no way of anticipating the spike we saw at the end.
Our goal for Early Access was always to provide the best possible gaming experience for the ones who would get into the program. We scoped servers and download capacity for the 15gb client for a set number, based on our best projections. Those have been soundly surpassed. We are of course extremely humbled by the fact that so many players can’t wait to play the game.
We understand that there’s been some unfortunate confusion about the pre-order keys in some markets. Early Access has been a special limited offer that was exclusively available through the Age of Conan billing pages once you registered your pre-order key. Just to clarify there are no ‘Early Access keys’, and all pre-order keys do of course give the exclusive mounts and item benefits to your account as intended."
The players, understandably, are not amused... Forums are brewing with thousands of complaints about the whole scheme. Read on for my personal take on the situation.
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Age of Conan Early Access Sells Out
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