On the heels of one of Age of Conan's biggest patches since release, Ten Ton Hammer had a chance to speak with Game Director and Producer, Craig Morrison. The interview sheds much light on patch 1.04, forthcoming features, and Funcom's plans for the future. It appears that while Funcom's CFO may have recently resigned, the company has no plans to give up on the game just yet.

One of the more interesting things to note is that they designed their new group dungeon, Xibaluku, based on player feedback. Funcom aims to make the bosses of Xibaluku much more dynamic and interesting than the bosses AoC originally launched with. Not to leave PvPers behind, they have also overhauled the mini-game queue system to improve its frequency as well as improved the guild/siege declaration system. DirectX 10 support is coming soon but wasn't stable enough for release in 1.04. Future patches in this cycle will focus on itemization, tweaking character statistics, and a totally new gemcrafting system.

With patch 1.04 and additional patches over the next couple months, Craig feels that most of AoC's major problems will comprehensively dealt with. They are interested in seeing how players will react.

Ten Ton Hammer interview with AoC's Craig Morrison originally appeared on Massively on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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