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If they wanted so much to release 4 Chapters per year, they would just do Chapter 1. The content would be weak for players preparing for the new era. Chapter 2 a Good Content new mechanics. Chapter 3 is weak in transition. and Chapter 4 and End, another extraordinary content to close the era with a flourish. In a team of 20 people focused on Conan, you can work well and do decent work. Maintain new mechanics in the game, even after the end of age
We need a thrall barbershop or orb of negral type station for thralls specifically to change hair styles and give them beards now that the thralls can be kept forever. (Speaking from console POV since we dont have mods like PC)
Definitely a little disappointed by the removal of the battle pass. It felt like an affordable way to have a slow trickle of new content, compared to the overpriced bazaar. Just made sure my 1200 coins were always there for the next buy-in.
Yeah I rather enjoyed the Battle Pass content so I'm sad to see it go, though judging by the tone of what was said in the blog, at least part of the time spent on those rewards will manifest in new cosmetic rewards in the free content, like the new decorations & armor from Headhunter. I'm just hoping the scale of those new rewards, and the update contents themselves, will be bigger for the next Age launch, as I think they should be given the time save
They most likely didnt like that ppl basically just bought enough crom coins for the BP and nothing else. And having the coins returned upon completion of BP there was no new money being spent.
@@scejntjynahl I think that was always a predictable outcome tbh, I definitely thought that at least a fair portion of people would only buy into the battle pass. It's more about engagement, and if the pass wasn't keeping people engaged, developing it is time that could be better spent by making the actual in-game content engaging, alongside just more time on fixing and preventing bugs, improving quality will make everything more enjoyable
Glad you enjoyed! Yeah Bazaar prices are wild for the most part, but I think the persistent game breaking bugs are the biggest issue. Wrangle them, get some more content with longevity into the game, and I imagine the game will be in a much better place
@@mausolus8466 🤣 that's fair too! Depends on the item/set since theres no consistency. Versatile building set for $10 or so? that's not all that bad, for a builder. But one piece of small decor for $5-8? Nope not even close 👀
@@LorisLaboratory Especially if said decoration is more expensive than entire Isle of Siptah DLC (looking at Stygian Tomb placebles set). I don't know who their "prices specialists" for Bazaar are, but they are truly delusional if they think current price tags are ok.
@beauhawkes3221 Hey bro, you're being ridiculous. I recommend not taking everything to heart so much. Makes you appear like a rude person, and no one likes those.
I just hope that that -is- what is done, more effort into the free content, and not "we found an even shittier way to monetize the bazaar, and it involves taking away the ability to earn it for $10 each season" - but time will tell. Thank you as always for your invaluable reviews on all of this, sir. Really count on you for good intel in their shenanigans.
Removing the Battle Pass from the game is an interesting move. I wonder if they didn't have enough players doing the BP each season to make it worthwhile? I cannot imagine that they would get rid of the BP if it was profitable. That's pure speculation if course.
It certainly wasn't profitable. It costed 1200 Crom Coins and you would get those same Crom Coins back as part of the progress rewards. So unless you bought something in the Bazaar, the Battle Pass was a one-time 10$ purchase. Now, it is common for games with Battle Passes to give back some of the paid currency you spend to buy them along the progress (usually half of what you spent), but Conan is one of the very few that give it back fully.
I think the battle pass was probably never profitable, it might have broken even but it was never gonna be a big seller, it was more about player retention, such is the case with all battle passes from what I understand. I'm hoping they're gonna try to drive engagement with the free content updates instead, I think that's a much more sustainable route to a better game overall than relying on a Battle Pass to carry part of the work
The DBNO feature kicked in last night in me. I had no idea and never seen it before. The battle cry in my soul for my thrall not to die!!! 😭😭😭😭😭 I felt so happy!!!!! So thankful full of gratitude for life. Man what a moment deff was a surprise seeing my thrall get up to full health from battle cry!!!!! 🦾⚔️ together forever!!
Cheers for the update. Very informative as always. Nice build too. I did not know pillars could be placed on corners of of pre built pieces like. Outstanding!! Thanks.
I really enjoyed the BP, such a shame they made the progression more fun and challenging and then throw it right in the trash bin. With all that time spent on making the Battle Passes, can’t they just release one of the old ones again each update so players who never got their chance to buy them can? I mean come on guys, you spent quite some time remastering some of the old BP items for the Age of sorcery and added them in the Bazaar, that is waste of time instead of just sell the old ones.
Yeah I really liked the progression changes last time. I think the team is probably quiet married to the idea of keeping those items exclusive, as that's kinda how they were sold, but I imagine they'll still reskin old BP content for the Bazaar as they started doing this chapter
@@Eradicati0nnI get that, it’s fine. From my POV, I don’t mind if players can buy the old passes or the items from them again. I bought the Passes to support the devs, have something more to do and to get stuff I can’t find in the world at a fair price. And in return for getting my coins back I spent on the pass, of course I bought some more coins and bought items from the Bazaar as well. I hope the Bazaar will be enough for them to grow with the BP out of the picture. I will help the boat float because I love this game and believe in its big potential.
@@blabarssmurfen3282 I don't mind it either personally, but I also do kinda get the point about exclusivity, so I don't mind seeing how the approach of reskinning the more popular rewards from previous passes go I think the game will be fine without the BP to be honest. It was never a big money mechanic, more player retention, and if it wasn't doing great in that regard then little has really been lost, especially if they now focus on developing actual gameplay content that has longevity
The Battle Pass absolutely sucks lol. Not to mention it was Zingaria which is based on a more modern Spain instead of prehistoric Iberia which would have been much much better.
I assume they have development manpower that is now dedicated to the Dune game. I guess the battlepass was a problem because it was effectively a one time buy. It probably didnt generate enough revenue.
Dune and Conan aren't sharing any devs, only community managers, but that's nothing new as they've also been shared with Metal Hellsinger etc. Content creators have been told the teams are completely separate and dedicated to their respective games, and I've since seen screenshots of the Conan account confirming so on Facebook As for the Battle Pass, I doubt it was ever profitable to any significant degree, it was always more of an engagement driver. I'd be surprised if much money will actually be lost by removing it, my hope is that the time saved on the pass development will translate to engaging content for the game itself tho, that would be ideal
The most intensive development for Dune would have happened during the last few years. It's unlikely they'll increase resources for Dune, aside from maybe a short burst while they fix any initial problems. If Dune were going to take resources away from Conan, that would have happened years ago.
Battlepass was good value, it will be missed. I worry that we are easing into maintenance mode for CE. Slowing down content creation and recycling and repurposing old content is not a horrible way to go, but it will be an adjustment
Conan's nowhere near maintenance mode IMO. The reason for slower updates has been communicated as nothing but a way to make sure the quality and quantity is better, had it been to move towards maintenance then it would have been fairly obvious. With the mid-season updates, it's still kinda the same content cadence, just a smaller mid-season update focused on small additions, events, QoL etc and hopefully much bigger Chapter releases with content that actually lasts & keeps people playing
I'm not sure if I'd mind it if they were winding the game down, as that would likely imply that resources were being reassigned to Conan Exiles 2. The current game engine seems a little bit creaky at the seams.
@@IcyTorment UE4 is most definitely creaky. I know the team has joked about CE2 at some point, IMO I don't think it'll be a thing for a long time, but I wouldn't be opposed to it in the future
Excellent and informative video as always. Any chance of a more detailed video of the build you're making in the background, it looks really interesting, cheers :)
Thanks Arkus! It's definitely possible, tbh I would have wanted to give it a little more detail and flair, so if I made a dedicated build video I'd probably expand on it just a touch to make it perfect, or as close as can be 😂
@@Eradicati0nn They were kind of right, since you could very easily end up with tons of gold, silver, alchemical resin, steelfire and such very early on. Don't get me wrong, I loved getting Dalinsia helping me out from the beginning. Now it's just a way of mitigating the RNG. Either you hunt down that T4 warrior or just farm the sorcerers for skulls or slaves and eventually get these 200 oboli (and it's time consuming enough to not be considered too easy).
If the goal with the changes is player retention i don't see how this is going to do it. Most likely the game is just winding down to life support at this point, like Secret World, like Age of Conan. I hate to be cynical about it, but I've been through this with all the heir games as service so far, it's hard not to be a bit jaded when the whale shop rolls out and the next IP comes in
Assuming the Battle Pass has proven internally to not be a success in player retention, and the dev time is costing them time that could be spent on actual game content, moving those resources to the latter seems like a more healthy way to approach retention. It's pretty much confirmed that the game isn't anywhere near life support/maintenance mode. The devs have already confirmed the Conan and Dune teams are completely separate and don't siphon resources from each other, and CMs have been pretty clear that the update cadence and BP changes are to make Conan into a better product by giving it more dev time
Too bad. I liked how they reworked the progression on the battle-pass and made it natural and less of a chore, and now they're scraping it. Wouldn't mind if they kept it going, but recycled some of the older rewards, but I get the feeling they'll end up in the bazar if anything. I think I bought in during Sorcery chapter 3.
Yeah I liked the progression rework, though if the battle pass wasn't really successful in driving engagement, that time would be better spent in other areas. The team have been fairly adamant on exclusivity for the Battle Pass stuff, at least in their original form. Some of the stuff from AoS: C1 has started to come into the Bazaar with a reskin or redesign, so players that missed out can get at least some form of those items
When I read Funcom's update what I heard boiled down to 'less'. No more Battle Pass, significantly less frequent updates and the same over priced Bazaar (with all it's BS; Crom Coins and Fomo). I'm sure I'll keep playing the game but I can't see myself making any purchases. Maybe has time goes on and if Funcom starts delivering quality updates my impressions of the game will change. To date I still have not made a single purchase in the Bazaar. I love so many of the cosmetics but I just can't justify it.
Honestly I think that's the problem, they're just trying to do too much in too short a time frame Updates will probably even out to roughly the same cadence with mid-season updates included, but those updates will be fairly small. I'd rather have slower updates that actually work tho, idk how long the game can survive with every update launching with game-breaking bugs. Stability & consistency is far more important
I'm really looking forward to seeing what the devs can do with a 6 month time frame for each major update. While I liked the battle past system I think bringing in general free General rewards for playing the game definitely appeals to me.
Yeah, I agree with you. I think the battle pass is too overwhelming. I need to try and finish it and trying to spend money. I can understand them putting the battle. Passo, but it just doesn't really seem to be really worth it. I'm not really pulling anything from it anymore, like I don't see any good. Think in the battle pass for me to spend the money, so I think if it comes out in the small update I won't miss the battle pass at all. So yeah, I think this is a good thing for funcom And believe me, I love Conan exiles. I play it a lot.
Another thing I want it add. And I'm not being a jerk, but I think too many video games these days have too much microtransa. I think we need to kind of step back and say not half so many. I know game developers and studios like that. Because it keeps their game going for years, but it can get overwhelming. Can get it over now
Though I really enjoyed the easily obtainable free content in the battle pass, I'm kind of happy it's going away. I'm not a gamer, and I have no pre-conceived notions about battle passes, because Conan is the only game I play, or have played regularly since the original Call of Duty. So I was never one of the "haters". But the battle pass always felt like it was "outside" the actual game. The challenges felt like things that took me out of the story I was playing out in my head and it was "hoops I had to jump through" to get free stuff. I maintained a separate game.db file just for doing battlepass shenanigans, and another for my actual game play. I would MUCH RATHER see the same level of content, spread out over a period of time, and earned through game mechanics like the witch hunt or the sacred hunt, or whatever they want to do. Heck, give some of those traders in Sepermaru some good loot in exchange for treasure! I like this mechanic better because it doesn't take me 'out of the game' that I'm playing in my head.
I gave up on CE a while ago. It honestly felt like the issues were never going to get resolved. After seeing an unexpected update drop, and watching this video, I started thinking, "Well..... maybe. " I downloaded the game again and will probably give it another shot sometime soon. That being said, this will probably be Funcom's last chance for me. I absolutely love this game, but it's starting to feel like an abusive relationship. I really hope things are finally going to get better, but I'm not holding my breath. We will see.
What I want they won't give, I want either content packs to make a come back and or prices on the bazaar HALVED at least, they occasionally have some neat stuff like the Turian stuff but it's just too expensive for what you get. I feel they're doing this change so when people are less active they can use it as an excuse to cease development which is a shame. Still I guess with the removal of the battle pass I can wipe my world and go try Siptah again.
I have a couple of simple mods on, and the game keeps freezing my laptop up. Have to hard restart. Maybe an update will fix this update induced action... still liking the game enough to stick with it.
They really needed the thrall rez ability. Weapons completely cut through them and I stopped placing points in authority. It was a feat point black hole
I personally really didn't like the battle passes. I'm happy they are removing them. Conan Exiles still remains my most played game despite me leaving when a battle pass was added. I think i definitely will be returning.
Ideally, they should offer more affordable bazaar prices. The new Yamatai set is nice and has quite a few pieces, but it probably costs 20-30 euros, something disproportionate to the content assuming what the DLC cost.
Ironically, building sets are the only bundles that have had a consistent pricing standard thus far, at least for single-shot sets that aren't expanded further. Assuming they stay consistent, the Yamatai expansion should be $10/1200CC Most other bundles are wildly high though, then they'll occasionally drop something like Arcane which is $5 and worth the cost. The Bazaar is a wild ride 😂 though I think the constant game-breaking bugs is probably a more important issue in the here and now
Why can’t I find anything about the celestial scholar bundle. I’m trying to build an observatory and there is literally ZERO info on it and ZERO pictures or anything. No release date. No trace of it in game. But the update says that it’s in?
It's "in the game" but hasn't yet been through the Bazaar so nobody has got it yet. They led with the Yamatai bundle, which I can understand, you wanna put your best seller forward and building sets always do well. I'm quite interested by the description of Celestial Scholar myself, I've got high hopes
I fear they’ll just mainly focus on the new Dune game cause it’s way more popular and trending right now letting Conan in the corner… Saying we wish to take 6months instead of 3 to make more content and better stuff but we all know how it ends.
I doubt it myself, all the information released on Dune so far makes it seem like it's gonna be even more different from Conan than most expected, so the two can co-exist and be successful. Dune's definitely got a bigger development team and probably more budget to work with, it's much higher profile than Conan, but it's also likely been in development for a few years already, likely predating the switch to Conan's ages. At the moment, the team have confirmed no resource siphoning, nor is Conan going towards maintenance mode. I've got faith that the 3 -> 6 month change will likely result in better updates, but given the atrocious state of almost every update in the Age of War, myself and others will wanna see those changes before deeming it a success. I'm optimistic though, the cadence change is a very good move IMO
I think they should up the level cap to 99 when you hit lv60 you need lv59-60 exp for each level with a multiplier add in lv61 to 70 a x1.5 lv71 to 80 x2.0 81 to 90 x2.5 and lv90+ a x3 every level after 60 gives 1 knowledge point and lv 63 and every 3 levels after you get a attribute point Another idea is bounty hunters you can pay them to go get a thrall for a price based on faction and tier example a t1 exile would cost 500 gold and 30min "crafting" time but a t4 forgotten tribe would be like 8k gold and take 4hrs to get
I’m quite happy the battlepass is gone. Yes it was nice kinda free stuff, but leveling it up was very boring. I rather do the events (if they are not as grindy as the jhebbal event..) to unlock some new rewards, thats something different to do. Had some fun yesterday playing for a few hours and grinding out the event until i dropped something and it dropped the event legendary hammer instead coz the inventory is still bugged.
I wouldn't mind 4 months per chapter, 1 year per age either. As long as they fix all inventory issues and other small but annoying bugs I don't really care how often we get a new age/chapter. This game deserves more love , I came on Conan after 6k hours on ark and after about one year I can say for sure it's way better in so many ways!
I'm also happy to see those events coming back and if the down feature for slaves works that will be very nice as i hate losing thralls. I always end up having a friendship relation with them!! The only down side is the fact that with the end of gamepass we won't get those little objects we got and we will be forced to go to the bazaar. I think it was the main reason for the gamepass end, too many people just bought the battlepass once and got those little gifts and never buy anything else, just like me. They had to find a way to force you to the bazaar, if they want your money. But the battlepass itself was not interesting anyway, especially the last version of it.
While I don't doubt many of the devs' dedication to quality patches for Conan Exiles, I would love to see if moving to a 6 month update cycle and removing the Battle Pass has less to do with "ensuring quality" and more to do with moving resources away from Conan and towards Dune. This is something that happened to Age of Conan when they started really focussing on Secret World, so hopefully, they make a lot of legacy collectables and items available to earn, in case they start winding down support and content for the live service (not anytime soon), but probably as Dune comes out and if it's successful, Funcom will probably lean into that quite a bit and we all know development resources are finite.
This rumor's been going around for ages but I don't think it's ever really made much sense, it's very possible to have two successful games at once, even with some degree of overlap, though it's increasingly seeming that Dune will be quite different from Conan The Conan team have already confirmed there's no resource sharing or siphoning. The only thing I know of that's shared is community managers, but they're also shared with Metal Hellsinger etc so that's nothing new. Source: i.imgur.com/ltbGL35.png I have no doubt Dune will do pretty well tbh. I wasn't initially that interested, sci-fi isn't really my thing, but Dune's got a good level of grit that sets it aside from the more sterile offerings of the genre, so I'm interested to see how it performs. I think both Conan and Dune can thrive, I don't believe for a moment either's success is mutually exclusive to the other, Conan just needs more time spent on not having game breaking bugs every update 😂
Great vid as always. It would be interesting to see them give out some battle pass rewards in the headhunters event. It would certantly make me spend more time participating in it.
I agree that the 3 months between updates was a good mark but bugs were a problem. What should have been done ? Lower the amount of content in each chapters and keep it to a single thing and not divert to plenty of others small features along the way. Liking the bar mechanics and all, but like, this isn't something that should have been part of age of war ... ? Same goes for the last chapter we got an event where we hunt creatures and QoL changes... Again, what's the thing with age of war ? I would've been fine if we got "only" the purge changes, the lore and QoL without all the bullshit bugs we got along the way. I'm fine playing other games with a week or two of content from Conan exiles every few months. Then the loss of battle pass ? Well, i don't trust at all funcom to make up for what we could get through it with "free" stuff. And if that's through events like for the wild hunt ? Well, i won't even bother with the grind honestly to simply get a pet or two. But i'll give them the benefit of the doubts, and we'll see. The new feature for thralls "death" has been well handled. At least if it works properly, more tests needed. All in all, i'm mixed about thoses news. I guess the ball is on funcom's part. They can truly steer the bar in the right direction or simply fumble it even more. But what i get from it is that the bazaar is giving the big money and they more or less want to focus on it a bit more.
i LOVE the devs on Conan.. they listen, they respond, they update and upgrade.. hate the pay for stuff system but whatcha gonna do, at least they arent Rockstar.. bought GTA for the cars and the races, they took away the cars but gave a 50 space garage for missing cars..
My only disappointment about the removal of the battle pass is that I now have 1200 coins I'm most likely never going to use because overall I haven't been remotely enamored by anything in the bazaar and the very few things that I've ever had any interest in were always way overpriced... usually costing as much or even twice as much as the DLCs did but with far less content given.
Damage has been done at this point I feel. The game wasnt exactly super popular... but over the last year, the forced content changes and pushes have definitely lowered the quality of the game overall (from a gameplay pov). Spending months "fixing" what they themselves screwed up has cost 50% of the player base over the last 6 months; with steady decline over the last 12 months. Single player role players and builders are probably in their best life; but at the cost of the rest of the playerbase seems like it was always a poor choice to make. Is what it is now though.
For me, this game is a scam. The amount of contents locked behind expensive DLC and MTX are absurdly high. I really wish Soulmask could overtake this game in term of popularity
Yes yes ! nice update They nerfed the bearers again again. Again twice is not a typing mistake. So kind of funcom. Added more bugs cause the game was pefectly playable and smooth so new bugs is just a breath of fresh air. Who need strong pets ? From now on they only serve as decorations for your awesome base. Just like taxidermy. Perfect ! Exactly what i wanted.
You guys are delusional if you think 6 months between updates means more time to fix the bugs. The game is getting old and a lot of bugs are there since the release of the game and never got fixed. 6 months between updates mean less people working on conan cause new game in development. 1+ 1 do I need to tell you the answer. Same as Rockstar games. Less people work on Gta 5 cause Gta 6 is on the way. And Rockstar was honest about why less updates. Not like scamcom. Oh sorry I mean funscam, uh scamfun, uh uh Damm funcom.
Wtf is this? Battlepass was the last way to get new items in the game without bazar, the bazar is already overpriced as hell. Removing that force you to spend even more money on that shop if you want new stuff, that is exactly what they want. Why spending time is something that bring value to the players when they can milk us even more. And i already think 3 months is too much for a update in this game, but 6 months?? Fk that and this game..
sooo no Battlepass anymore and the ''Armor/other stuff that' you can get from events ,like the Bountyhunter one at the moment, does not unlock accountwide (ancestral knowledge)..so no reason to even grind the stuff from the events because you cant keep it if you start new with friends.... so like "no nice free stuff for you anymore (the Battlepass was a onetime buy) ..if you want something.. buy it from the bazaar" ..yeah a reason less to start the game up anymore
They should have warned players that the sacred hunt was going to end. Now, I'm sitting on close to 7K fangs (between multiple servers) with no opportunity to acquire the recipes I was grinding for. Just like at the end of the Age of Sorcery, they should bring back the vendor for a week or two just so players can use the fangs. Totally sucks
Truly sounds like Conan Exiles is on life support. With the removal of major monetization aspect and with content being spread even further is bad signs I am willing to bet support will stop after the next Age, maybe not even finish.
I disagree highly, sounds more like they're serious about not having broken releases, and I don't really imagine the Battle Pass was making much if any money, it's an engagement mechanic as opposed to a profit-turning one. If it wasn't boosting engagement that much, it's wasted time that could be spent on bettering the actual free content The team was just trying to do too much, too fast, I think that was obvious after the Age of Sorcery concluded. If they can't keep that pace without breaking the game with every release, slowing down updates is 1000% the right choice imo
@@Eradicati0nn idk man. Sounds like they're just gonna take BP content and put into the bazaar and just mark it up. If they're serious about continuing this game then there needs to be some major content cause it looks like its in its death throes and they wanna make as much money outta the bazaar before it.
with only a handful of players that have been on a decline, itd be nice if the devs would stop trying to find content gold mines, and instead focus on setting the game into a stable and reliable place to let it die gracefully. Give modders a stable platform to work on longer term and allow servers to remain stable and allow them to decide content. All these silly gameplay additions have been nothing but tumultuous for server owners and the only people having a good time have been solo role play builders. They are genuinely living their best lives lol. I dont want a "chapter 4"; I dont think many people want it beyond some cursory "oh neat". I think the player base as a whole would benefit greatly from stability, not a stupid 20$ sarcophagus.
@@JgHaverty exactly, player base is decline and with content spread out 6 months, its gonna just decline faster. Overpriced Bazaar, removal of the BP that IMO was wonderfully priced.
@@rentherengend1306 "milking dry" instead of "gracefully pass on". We've seen this song and dance too many times. Theres just not enough players to justify major content updates any more. We are sitting at what, 5k concurrent? With these unannounced updates taking down servers more and more often, bugs showing their heads because they keep wanting to add stupid things like "night hunts" that dont even make lore sense... They are wringing every cent while there is still money to be made. Giving out altruistic notions like "oh our energy is better spent elsewhere..." is kind of clearly a crap take. "you mean it wasnt making as much money as you expected" is the real answer. Becoming real dubious how seriously this channel should be taken with the constant shilling of content hes receiving for free being the singular motivator lately. Its always money and not content for the better part of a year now.
Gotta be honest, the removal of the Battle Pass makes me hopeful I can play this again sometime. I refuse to give them anything, not a cent, not my playtime until they remove this shit.
It absolutely does not affect your gameplay in the slightest though LOL. You also DO NOT have to buy shit from them. Just enjoy the game for what it is.
Idk what's happening with transfers, a map expansion is possible and I think likely for the future, but they'll never push the game to UE5. From what the devs have said, it'd create an immediate backlog of over a year of engine work. I don't think Conan is that bad graphically, in fact quite nice looking in some areas. A little blurry with anti-aliasing, but far from ugly
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If they wanted so much to release 4 Chapters per year, they would just do Chapter 1. The content would be weak for players preparing for the new era. Chapter 2 a Good Content new mechanics. Chapter 3 is weak in transition. and Chapter 4 and End, another extraordinary content to close the era with a flourish. In a team of 20 people focused on Conan, you can work well and do decent work. Maintain new mechanics in the game, even after the end of age
what base build video is that?
We need a thrall barbershop or orb of negral type station for thralls specifically to change hair styles and give them beards now that the thralls can be kept forever. (Speaking from console POV since we dont have mods like PC)
Beardless thralls are cringe
Yes! I want to make a Valeria companion. oe Red Sonja
Same. I've been wanting to add beards to my thralls for a while, especially considering my base if viking themed.
Definitely a little disappointed by the removal of the battle pass. It felt like an affordable way to have a slow trickle of new content, compared to the overpriced bazaar. Just made sure my 1200 coins were always there for the next buy-in.
Yeah I rather enjoyed the Battle Pass content so I'm sad to see it go, though judging by the tone of what was said in the blog, at least part of the time spent on those rewards will manifest in new cosmetic rewards in the free content, like the new decorations & armor from Headhunter. I'm just hoping the scale of those new rewards, and the update contents themselves, will be bigger for the next Age launch, as I think they should be given the time save
They most likely didnt like that ppl basically just bought enough crom coins for the BP and nothing else. And having the coins returned upon completion of BP there was no new money being spent.
💯 agree
@@scejntjynahl I think that was always a predictable outcome tbh, I definitely thought that at least a fair portion of people would only buy into the battle pass. It's more about engagement, and if the pass wasn't keeping people engaged, developing it is time that could be better spent by making the actual in-game content engaging, alongside just more time on fixing and preventing bugs, improving quality will make everything more enjoyable
I'm gutted to see it go too 😅 kinda gutted I missed the previous ones, only did the most recent one 😔
Thanks for the update! Disappointed in the battle pass removal. They will need to halve most bazaar prices for me to spend money there instead. 😑
Glad you enjoyed! Yeah Bazaar prices are wild for the most part, but I think the persistent game breaking bugs are the biggest issue. Wrangle them, get some more content with longevity into the game, and I imagine the game will be in a much better place
You are very generous to want only half of the prices in Bazaar - I'd say one tenth of current prices and I'd buy stuff from it
@@mausolus8466 🤣 that's fair too! Depends on the item/set since theres no consistency. Versatile building set for $10 or so? that's not all that bad, for a builder. But one piece of small decor for $5-8? Nope not even close 👀
@@LorisLaboratory Especially if said decoration is more expensive than entire Isle of Siptah DLC (looking at Stygian Tomb placebles set). I don't know who their "prices specialists" for Bazaar are, but they are truly delusional if they think current price tags are ok.
@beauhawkes3221 Hey bro, you're being ridiculous. I recommend not taking everything to heart so much. Makes you appear like a rude person, and no one likes those.
I just hope that that -is- what is done, more effort into the free content, and not "we found an even shittier way to monetize the bazaar, and it involves taking away the ability to earn it for $10 each season" - but time will tell. Thank you as always for your invaluable reviews on all of this, sir. Really count on you for good intel in their shenanigans.
Removing the Battle Pass from the game is an interesting move. I wonder if they didn't have enough players doing the BP each season to make it worthwhile? I cannot imagine that they would get rid of the BP if it was profitable. That's pure speculation if course.
It certainly wasn't profitable. It costed 1200 Crom Coins and you would get those same Crom Coins back as part of the progress rewards. So unless you bought something in the Bazaar, the Battle Pass was a one-time 10$ purchase. Now, it is common for games with Battle Passes to give back some of the paid currency you spend to buy them along the progress (usually half of what you spent), but Conan is one of the very few that give it back fully.
I think the battle pass was probably never profitable, it might have broken even but it was never gonna be a big seller, it was more about player retention, such is the case with all battle passes from what I understand. I'm hoping they're gonna try to drive engagement with the free content updates instead, I think that's a much more sustainable route to a better game overall than relying on a Battle Pass to carry part of the work
The DBNO feature kicked in last night in me. I had no idea and never seen it before. The battle cry in my soul for my thrall not to die!!! 😭😭😭😭😭
I felt so happy!!!!! So thankful full of gratitude for life. Man what a moment deff was a surprise seeing my thrall get up to full health from battle cry!!!!! 🦾⚔️ together forever!!
Yeah DBNO seems pretty good thus far, I tested it out last night for my guide and it seemed surprisingly simple yet well made
let us buy old battel passes. what could it hurt?
Cheers for the update. Very informative as always. Nice build too. I did not know pillars could be placed on corners of of pre built pieces like. Outstanding!! Thanks.
I really enjoyed the BP, such a shame they made the progression more fun and challenging and then throw it right in the trash bin. With all that time spent on making the Battle Passes, can’t they just release one of the old ones again each update so players who never got their chance to buy them can? I mean come on guys, you spent quite some time remastering some of the old BP items for the Age of sorcery and added them in the Bazaar, that is waste of time instead of just sell the old ones.
Yeah I really liked the progression changes last time. I think the team is probably quiet married to the idea of keeping those items exclusive, as that's kinda how they were sold, but I imagine they'll still reskin old BP content for the Bazaar as they started doing this chapter
@@Eradicati0nnI get that, it’s fine. From my POV, I don’t mind if players can buy the old passes or the items from them again. I bought the Passes to support the devs, have something more to do and to get stuff I can’t find in the world at a fair price. And in return for getting my coins back I spent on the pass, of course I bought some more coins and bought items from the Bazaar as well. I hope the Bazaar will be enough for them to grow with the BP out of the picture. I will help the boat float because I love this game and believe in its big potential.
@@blabarssmurfen3282 I don't mind it either personally, but I also do kinda get the point about exclusivity, so I don't mind seeing how the approach of reskinning the more popular rewards from previous passes go
I think the game will be fine without the BP to be honest. It was never a big money mechanic, more player retention, and if it wasn't doing great in that regard then little has really been lost, especially if they now focus on developing actual gameplay content that has longevity
The Battle Pass absolutely sucks lol. Not to mention it was Zingaria which is based on a more modern Spain instead of prehistoric Iberia which would have been much much better.
I assume they have development manpower that is now dedicated to the Dune game. I guess the battlepass was a problem because it was effectively a one time buy. It probably didnt generate enough revenue.
Dune and Conan aren't sharing any devs, only community managers, but that's nothing new as they've also been shared with Metal Hellsinger etc. Content creators have been told the teams are completely separate and dedicated to their respective games, and I've since seen screenshots of the Conan account confirming so on Facebook
As for the Battle Pass, I doubt it was ever profitable to any significant degree, it was always more of an engagement driver. I'd be surprised if much money will actually be lost by removing it, my hope is that the time saved on the pass development will translate to engaging content for the game itself tho, that would be ideal
The most intensive development for Dune would have happened during the last few years. It's unlikely they'll increase resources for Dune, aside from maybe a short burst while they fix any initial problems. If Dune were going to take resources away from Conan, that would have happened years ago.
By Derketo teats tis cheery news!
Battlepass was good value, it will be missed. I worry that we are easing into maintenance mode for CE. Slowing down content creation and recycling and repurposing old content is not a horrible way to go, but it will be an adjustment
Conan's nowhere near maintenance mode IMO. The reason for slower updates has been communicated as nothing but a way to make sure the quality and quantity is better, had it been to move towards maintenance then it would have been fairly obvious.
With the mid-season updates, it's still kinda the same content cadence, just a smaller mid-season update focused on small additions, events, QoL etc and hopefully much bigger Chapter releases with content that actually lasts & keeps people playing
I'm not sure if I'd mind it if they were winding the game down, as that would likely imply that resources were being reassigned to Conan Exiles 2. The current game engine seems a little bit creaky at the seams.
@@IcyTorment UE4 is most definitely creaky. I know the team has joked about CE2 at some point, IMO I don't think it'll be a thing for a long time, but I wouldn't be opposed to it in the future
removing BP cos it doesn't do the turn over the bazaar does
Excellent and informative video as always.
Any chance of a more detailed video of the build you're making in the background, it looks really interesting, cheers :)
Thanks Arkus! It's definitely possible, tbh I would have wanted to give it a little more detail and flair, so if I made a dedicated build video I'd probably expand on it just a touch to make it perfect, or as close as can be 😂
@@Eradicati0nn Cool, I'm all in for that :)
They increased the cost of a T4 thrall from 50 to 200 obols. That's good, I guess.
Doesn't sound too bad, I know a fair few people complained last time about how easy it was to get valuable resources
@@Eradicati0nn They were kind of right, since you could very easily end up with tons of gold, silver, alchemical resin, steelfire and such very early on. Don't get me wrong, I loved getting Dalinsia helping me out from the beginning.
Now it's just a way of mitigating the RNG. Either you hunt down that T4 warrior or just farm the sorcerers for skulls or slaves and eventually get these 200 oboli (and it's time consuming enough to not be considered too easy).
Thx for video Mate.
Thanks Piotr!
If the goal with the changes is player retention i don't see how this is going to do it.
Most likely the game is just winding down to life support at this point, like Secret World, like Age of Conan.
I hate to be cynical about it, but I've been through this with all the heir games as service so far, it's hard not to be a bit jaded when the whale shop rolls out and the next IP comes in
Assuming the Battle Pass has proven internally to not be a success in player retention, and the dev time is costing them time that could be spent on actual game content, moving those resources to the latter seems like a more healthy way to approach retention.
It's pretty much confirmed that the game isn't anywhere near life support/maintenance mode. The devs have already confirmed the Conan and Dune teams are completely separate and don't siphon resources from each other, and CMs have been pretty clear that the update cadence and BP changes are to make Conan into a better product by giving it more dev time
Too bad. I liked how they reworked the progression on the battle-pass and made it natural and less of a chore, and now they're scraping it. Wouldn't mind if they kept it going, but recycled some of the older rewards, but I get the feeling they'll end up in the bazar if anything. I think I bought in during Sorcery chapter 3.
Yeah I liked the progression rework, though if the battle pass wasn't really successful in driving engagement, that time would be better spent in other areas.
The team have been fairly adamant on exclusivity for the Battle Pass stuff, at least in their original form. Some of the stuff from AoS: C1 has started to come into the Bazaar with a reskin or redesign, so players that missed out can get at least some form of those items
When I read Funcom's update what I heard boiled down to 'less'. No more Battle Pass, significantly less frequent updates and the same over priced Bazaar (with all it's BS; Crom Coins and Fomo).
I'm sure I'll keep playing the game but I can't see myself making any purchases. Maybe has time goes on and if Funcom starts delivering quality updates my impressions of the game will change. To date I still have not made a single purchase in the Bazaar. I love so many of the cosmetics but I just can't justify it.
Honestly I think that's the problem, they're just trying to do too much in too short a time frame
Updates will probably even out to roughly the same cadence with mid-season updates included, but those updates will be fairly small. I'd rather have slower updates that actually work tho, idk how long the game can survive with every update launching with game-breaking bugs. Stability & consistency is far more important
At least they didn't break the game this quarter.
I spoke too early, several mods were broken and servers crashed :(
omg lol, they used to just die permanently? with the AI routinely having 3 entire IQ points how did anyone get thralls to level 20 😳
I'm really looking forward to seeing what the devs can do with a 6 month time frame for each major update. While I liked the battle past system I think bringing in general free General rewards for playing the game definitely appeals to me.
The battle pass was fun and rewarding content BUT if thisnpeads to bigger and better updates then that will be positive I think
I just spent the last 3 chapters building a huge Yamatai fortress, with that new expansion set I'm gonna have go back and make a ton of revisions lol
I'm glad to have more time to play each chapter
Yeah, I agree with you. I think the battle pass is too overwhelming. I need to try and finish it and trying to spend money. I can understand them putting the battle. Passo, but it just doesn't really seem to be really worth it. I'm not really pulling anything from it anymore, like I don't see any good. Think in the battle pass for me to spend the money, so I think if it comes out in the small update I won't miss the battle pass at all. So yeah, I think this is a good thing for funcom And believe me, I love Conan exiles. I play it a lot.
Another thing I want it add. And I'm not being a jerk, but I think too many video games these days have too much microtransa. I think we need to kind of step back and say not half so many. I know game developers and studios like that. Because it keeps their game going for years, but it can get overwhelming. Can get it over now
Though I really enjoyed the easily obtainable free content in the battle pass, I'm kind of happy it's going away. I'm not a gamer, and I have no pre-conceived notions about battle passes, because Conan is the only game I play, or have played regularly since the original Call of Duty. So I was never one of the "haters".
But the battle pass always felt like it was "outside" the actual game. The challenges felt like things that took me out of the story I was playing out in my head and it was "hoops I had to jump through" to get free stuff. I maintained a separate game.db file just for doing battlepass shenanigans, and another for my actual game play. I would MUCH RATHER see the same level of content, spread out over a period of time, and earned through game mechanics like the witch hunt or the sacred hunt, or whatever they want to do. Heck, give some of those traders in Sepermaru some good loot in exchange for treasure!
I like this mechanic better because it doesn't take me 'out of the game' that I'm playing in my head.
I gave up on CE a while ago. It honestly felt like the issues were never going to get resolved. After seeing an unexpected update drop, and watching this video, I started thinking, "Well..... maybe. " I downloaded the game again and will probably give it another shot sometime soon. That being said, this will probably be Funcom's last chance for me. I absolutely love this game, but it's starting to feel like an abusive relationship. I really hope things are finally going to get better, but I'm not holding my breath. We will see.
What I want they won't give, I want either content packs to make a come back and or prices on the bazaar HALVED at least, they occasionally have some neat stuff like the Turian stuff but it's just too expensive for what you get. I feel they're doing this change so when people are less active they can use it as an excuse to cease development which is a shame. Still I guess with the removal of the battle pass I can wipe my world and go try Siptah again.
I have a couple of simple mods on, and the game keeps freezing my laptop up. Have to hard restart. Maybe an update will fix this update induced action... still liking the game enough to stick with it.
They really needed the thrall rez ability. Weapons completely cut through them and I stopped placing points in authority. It was a feat point black hole
WELP, THE BUILDING HAMMER FUNCTION KINDA SUCKS!!!
ambushing the modders with the update was a pretty poor move. that's my only criticism
I personally really didn't like the battle passes. I'm happy they are removing them. Conan Exiles still remains my most played game despite me leaving when a battle pass was added.
I think i definitely will be returning.
Battle pass was the only reason I log back in anymore ... What a disappointment😕
Bro, you gotta stop with these crazy builds… they’re so good! Very talented sir :)
In other words, the devs are choosing a slow death for the game to replace it with Dune. In one day I had everything I wanted from the bounty traders.
I need to get out of this newb iron armor and get that black viking looking stuff worn in the DBNO segment
Very nice castle you got there! Sorry, you was saying something?
Training camp! Training camps! Training camps for thrallsssss.
thank you for allowing me to avoid reading the entire dev post and update stuff 😅
Could you do a showcase of all the items in the merchant in this update
I can, it'll be the next video I work on after the Down But Not Out guide!
funcom should sell the stuff as a dlc as that is how I would prefer to buy new content.
Ideally, they should offer more affordable bazaar prices. The new Yamatai set is nice and has quite a few pieces, but it probably costs 20-30 euros, something disproportionate to the content assuming what the DLC cost.
Ironically, building sets are the only bundles that have had a consistent pricing standard thus far, at least for single-shot sets that aren't expanded further. Assuming they stay consistent, the Yamatai expansion should be $10/1200CC
Most other bundles are wildly high though, then they'll occasionally drop something like Arcane which is $5 and worth the cost. The Bazaar is a wild ride 😂 though I think the constant game-breaking bugs is probably a more important issue in the here and now
If they remove the battlepass, i install the game again.
Thank God. The fomo was bad. Made it hard to wana play
Have they fixed the inventory bug?
Why can’t I find anything about the celestial scholar bundle. I’m trying to build an observatory and there is literally ZERO info on it and ZERO pictures or anything. No release date. No trace of it in game. But the update says that it’s in?
It's "in the game" but hasn't yet been through the Bazaar so nobody has got it yet. They led with the Yamatai bundle, which I can understand, you wanna put your best seller forward and building sets always do well. I'm quite interested by the description of Celestial Scholar myself, I've got high hopes
I want to see the giant Gods more
The battlepass was the main driver for me playing past the first week or so. I probably wont even play until they inevitably bring the battlepass back
then why do you play the game?
I fear they’ll just mainly focus on the new Dune game cause it’s way more popular and trending right now letting Conan in the corner… Saying we wish to take 6months instead of 3 to make more content and better stuff but we all know how it ends.
I doubt it myself, all the information released on Dune so far makes it seem like it's gonna be even more different from Conan than most expected, so the two can co-exist and be successful.
Dune's definitely got a bigger development team and probably more budget to work with, it's much higher profile than Conan, but it's also likely been in development for a few years already, likely predating the switch to Conan's ages.
At the moment, the team have confirmed no resource siphoning, nor is Conan going towards maintenance mode. I've got faith that the 3 -> 6 month change will likely result in better updates, but given the atrocious state of almost every update in the Age of War, myself and others will wanna see those changes before deeming it a success. I'm optimistic though, the cadence change is a very good move IMO
Bring back witch doctor recipe
I think they should up the level cap to 99 when you hit lv60 you need lv59-60 exp for each level with a multiplier add in lv61 to 70 a x1.5 lv71 to 80 x2.0 81 to 90 x2.5 and lv90+ a x3 every level after 60 gives 1 knowledge point and lv 63 and every 3 levels after you get a attribute point
Another idea is bounty hunters you can pay them to go get a thrall for a price based on faction and tier example a t1 exile would cost 500 gold and 30min "crafting" time but a t4 forgotten tribe would be like 8k gold and take 4hrs to get
I’m quite happy the battlepass is gone. Yes it was nice kinda free stuff, but leveling it up was very boring. I rather do the events (if they are not as grindy as the jhebbal event..) to unlock some new rewards, thats something different to do.
Had some fun yesterday playing for a few hours and grinding out the event until i dropped something and it dropped the event legendary hammer instead coz the inventory is still bugged.
Thanks Eradication!
Always believed Quality over Quantity.. this sounds solid
I wouldn't mind 4 months per chapter, 1 year per age either. As long as they fix all inventory issues and other small but annoying bugs I don't really care how often we get a new age/chapter. This game deserves more love , I came on Conan after 6k hours on ark and after about one year I can say for sure it's way better in so many ways!
I'm also happy to see those events coming back and if the down feature for slaves works that will be very nice as i hate losing thralls. I always end up having a friendship relation with them!!
The only down side is the fact that with the end of gamepass we won't get those little objects we got and we will be forced to go to the bazaar. I think it was the main reason for the gamepass end, too many people just bought the battlepass once and got those little gifts and never buy anything else, just like me. They had to find a way to force you to the bazaar, if they want your money.
But the battlepass itself was not interesting anyway, especially the last version of it.
While I don't doubt many of the devs' dedication to quality patches for Conan Exiles, I would love to see if moving to a 6 month update cycle and removing the Battle Pass has less to do with "ensuring quality" and more to do with moving resources away from Conan and towards Dune. This is something that happened to Age of Conan when they started really focussing on Secret World, so hopefully, they make a lot of legacy collectables and items available to earn, in case they start winding down support and content for the live service (not anytime soon), but probably as Dune comes out and if it's successful, Funcom will probably lean into that quite a bit and we all know development resources are finite.
This rumor's been going around for ages but I don't think it's ever really made much sense, it's very possible to have two successful games at once, even with some degree of overlap, though it's increasingly seeming that Dune will be quite different from Conan
The Conan team have already confirmed there's no resource sharing or siphoning. The only thing I know of that's shared is community managers, but they're also shared with Metal Hellsinger etc so that's nothing new. Source: i.imgur.com/ltbGL35.png
I have no doubt Dune will do pretty well tbh. I wasn't initially that interested, sci-fi isn't really my thing, but Dune's got a good level of grit that sets it aside from the more sterile offerings of the genre, so I'm interested to see how it performs. I think both Conan and Dune can thrive, I don't believe for a moment either's success is mutually exclusive to the other, Conan just needs more time spent on not having game breaking bugs every update 😂
@@Eradicati0nn Thanks for that link to Metal Hellsinger. This is good news indeed.
Funcom annonce la fin des passe de combat
Great vid as always. It would be interesting to see them give out some battle pass rewards in the headhunters event. It would certantly make me spend more time participating in it.
such a beutifull fortress! your skills with building is just out of this world in my opinion
I love your videos dude, very informative. Lots of love from Newfield N.J. USA
6 months will give us more time to explore each chapter thoroughly
I agree that the 3 months between updates was a good mark but bugs were a problem.
What should have been done ? Lower the amount of content in each chapters and keep it to a single thing and not divert to plenty of others small features along the way. Liking the bar mechanics and all, but like, this isn't something that should have been part of age of war ... ? Same goes for the last chapter we got an event where we hunt creatures and QoL changes... Again, what's the thing with age of war ? I would've been fine if we got "only" the purge changes, the lore and QoL without all the bullshit bugs we got along the way. I'm fine playing other games with a week or two of content from Conan exiles every few months.
Then the loss of battle pass ? Well, i don't trust at all funcom to make up for what we could get through it with "free" stuff. And if that's through events like for the wild hunt ? Well, i won't even bother with the grind honestly to simply get a pet or two. But i'll give them the benefit of the doubts, and we'll see.
The new feature for thralls "death" has been well handled. At least if it works properly, more tests needed.
All in all, i'm mixed about thoses news. I guess the ball is on funcom's part. They can truly steer the bar in the right direction or simply fumble it even more. But what i get from it is that the bazaar is giving the big money and they more or less want to focus on it a bit more.
I been referring people to your channel
damn this is great news holy
i LOVE the devs on Conan..
they listen, they respond, they update and upgrade..
hate the pay for stuff system but whatcha gonna do, at least they arent Rockstar..
bought GTA for the cars and the races, they took away the cars but gave a 50 space garage for missing cars..
My only disappointment about the removal of the battle pass is that I now have 1200 coins I'm most likely never going to use because overall I haven't been remotely enamored by anything in the bazaar and the very few things that I've ever had any interest in were always way overpriced... usually costing as much or even twice as much as the DLCs did but with far less content given.
Damage has been done at this point I feel. The game wasnt exactly super popular... but over the last year, the forced content changes and pushes have definitely lowered the quality of the game overall (from a gameplay pov). Spending months "fixing" what they themselves screwed up has cost 50% of the player base over the last 6 months; with steady decline over the last 12 months. Single player role players and builders are probably in their best life; but at the cost of the rest of the playerbase seems like it was always a poor choice to make. Is what it is now though.
Yeah, and most of that is pretty much due to mod support. I cannot imagine playing base game, even for pve/pvp.
@@ZenobiaofPalmyra haha yea, I think if AoC didnt exist, a huge amount of the players that *are* left wouldnt touch the game any more.
For me, this game is a scam. The amount of contents locked behind expensive DLC and MTX are absurdly high. I really wish Soulmask could overtake this game in term of popularity
Yes yes ! nice update They nerfed the bearers again again. Again twice is not a typing mistake. So kind of funcom. Added more bugs cause the game was pefectly playable and smooth so new bugs is just a breath of fresh air. Who need strong pets ? From now on they only serve as decorations for your awesome base. Just like taxidermy. Perfect ! Exactly what i wanted.
You guys are delusional if you think 6 months between updates means more time to fix the bugs. The game is getting old and a lot of bugs are there since the release of the game and never got fixed. 6 months between updates mean less people working on conan cause new game in development. 1+ 1 do I need to tell you the answer. Same as Rockstar games. Less people work on Gta 5 cause Gta 6 is on the way. And Rockstar was honest about why less updates. Not like scamcom. Oh sorry I mean funscam, uh scamfun, uh uh Damm funcom.
Wtf is this?
Battlepass was the last way to get new items in the game without bazar, the bazar is already overpriced as hell.
Removing that force you to spend even more money on that shop if you want new stuff, that is exactly what they want.
Why spending time is something that bring value to the players when they can milk us even more.
And i already think 3 months is too much for a update in this game, but 6 months??
Fk that and this game..
sooo no Battlepass anymore and the ''Armor/other stuff that' you can get from events ,like the Bountyhunter one at the moment, does not unlock accountwide (ancestral knowledge)..so no reason to even grind the stuff from the events because you cant keep it if you start new with friends.... so like "no nice free stuff for you anymore (the Battlepass was a onetime buy) ..if you want something.. buy it from the bazaar" ..yeah a reason less to start the game up anymore
Funcom please fix AI bugs i actually like my enemies to fight..
i really wish that soulmask become a good competitor to funcon to make them work harde.
They should have warned players that the sacred hunt was going to end. Now, I'm sitting on close to 7K fangs (between multiple servers) with no opportunity to acquire the recipes I was grinding for. Just like at the end of the Age of Sorcery, they should bring back the vendor for a week or two just so players can use the fangs. Totally sucks
They just brought back some events, and are planning to eventually have event rotation. I’m sure the hunt is planned to return.
Truly sounds like Conan Exiles is on life support. With the removal of major monetization aspect and with content being spread even further is bad signs
I am willing to bet support will stop after the next Age, maybe not even finish.
I disagree highly, sounds more like they're serious about not having broken releases, and I don't really imagine the Battle Pass was making much if any money, it's an engagement mechanic as opposed to a profit-turning one. If it wasn't boosting engagement that much, it's wasted time that could be spent on bettering the actual free content
The team was just trying to do too much, too fast, I think that was obvious after the Age of Sorcery concluded. If they can't keep that pace without breaking the game with every release, slowing down updates is 1000% the right choice imo
@@Eradicati0nn idk man. Sounds like they're just gonna take BP content and put into the bazaar and just mark it up. If they're serious about continuing this game then there needs to be some major content cause it looks like its in its death throes and they wanna make as much money outta the bazaar before it.
with only a handful of players that have been on a decline, itd be nice if the devs would stop trying to find content gold mines, and instead focus on setting the game into a stable and reliable place to let it die gracefully. Give modders a stable platform to work on longer term and allow servers to remain stable and allow them to decide content. All these silly gameplay additions have been nothing but tumultuous for server owners and the only people having a good time have been solo role play builders. They are genuinely living their best lives lol. I dont want a "chapter 4"; I dont think many people want it beyond some cursory "oh neat". I think the player base as a whole would benefit greatly from stability, not a stupid 20$ sarcophagus.
@@JgHaverty exactly, player base is decline and with content spread out 6 months, its gonna just decline faster. Overpriced Bazaar, removal of the BP that IMO was wonderfully priced.
@@rentherengend1306 "milking dry" instead of "gracefully pass on". We've seen this song and dance too many times.
Theres just not enough players to justify major content updates any more. We are sitting at what, 5k concurrent? With these unannounced updates taking down servers more and more often, bugs showing their heads because they keep wanting to add stupid things like "night hunts" that dont even make lore sense... They are wringing every cent while there is still money to be made. Giving out altruistic notions like "oh our energy is better spent elsewhere..." is kind of clearly a crap take. "you mean it wasnt making as much money as you expected" is the real answer. Becoming real dubious how seriously this channel should be taken with the constant shilling of content hes receiving for free being the singular motivator lately. Its always money and not content for the better part of a year now.
Gotta be honest, the removal of the Battle Pass makes me hopeful I can play this again sometime. I refuse to give them anything, not a cent, not my playtime until they remove this shit.
It absolutely does not affect your gameplay in the slightest though LOL. You also DO NOT have to buy shit from them. Just enjoy the game for what it is.
Stop crying drama queen
Yeah this is a garbage take. The battle pass existing doesnt effect you in any way. Youre just trying to be a proletariat
Conan graphics are outdated, it needs a UE5 graphic update. New map are area and open transfers back and forth to Siptah
Idk what's happening with transfers, a map expansion is possible and I think likely for the future, but they'll never push the game to UE5.
From what the devs have said, it'd create an immediate backlog of over a year of engine work. I don't think Conan is that bad graphically, in fact quite nice looking in some areas. A little blurry with anti-aliasing, but far from ugly