The 5th Anniversary Event that recently began did not cooperate as it should have, so we have decided to extend the event! The letters that dropped from monsters in Aden and Gracia will begin dropping again by 2:00 PM Central Time Friday, May 8th and will continue until maintenance begins on Tuesday, May 12th. The Event NPC‘s will still be removed from the game during maintenance on Tuesday.The update has now been developing nicely on the test servers and we are getting close to when we will start to make the decision as to when it‘s ready for the live dimensions. The feedback from the public testing has been invaluable and things are shaping up nicely. Lots has been changed, tweaked, added and improved over the last few weeks as the update has been put through its paces. There are still a few more builds to go on the test servers at least, but we are now in the home stretch and we are aiming to try and have things ready within the next few weeks. There is still of course time for something to crop up, but right now we are working through the remaining tasks full steam. This update has involved a lot of work for the entire team and we are really looking forward to seeing it make its debut on the live servers.

Sometimes it‘s the little things... Large new outdoor playfield...check!Dozens of new quests in said playfield with a cool, engaging new storyline...check!New RPG System...check!Ability, spell and feat updates for all classes...check! There is much more to read so head to the link above and read the rest. It sounds like big things are in the works. And while we‘re on the subject of AoC‘s first year, here‘s the official press release to celebrate: ‘Age of Conan‘ Celebrates One Year Anniversary, Sees Significant Increase in Players More and more players join Conan‘s online world, customer loyalty continues to improve Durham, USA - May 18th, 2009 - This week Funcom and a worldwide community of gamers celebrate the one year anniversary of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures‘. One year after the mighty barbarian burst onto the online gaming market, shipping over 1.2 million copies around the world, Funcom is seeing a significant increase in players and new customers per month.

Activity levels have risen significantly, and the communities are thriving with more and more players finding their way into the game. "We are very pleased to see that more players are experiencing ‘Age of Conan‘," says Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Funcom, Morten Larssen. "The team has been working diligently on improving the game since launch, with several major updates that in addition to improving technology and client stability, also have added hours of more content, new gameplay features, and more. The fact that we are now also seeing longer average subscription periods is a testament to the fact that ‘Age of Conan‘ is just getting better and better, and with the launch of the recent trial campaign there has never been a better time to check out the game than now!" Since launching in May 2008, several major updates have been released for ‘Age of Conan‘. These updates have added hours upon hours of additional content such as new lands to explore, new quests to undertake, new equipment for characters, and Alchemy several new gameplay features.

Of course, some people doubted why 5.0 is the new professional monks? This is not just another masterpiece Blizzard's "Diablo 3" of the same name for the new job yet? Whether there was this cross-sectoral cooperation or exchange of views? or stems of Warcraft development team did not just borrow it to get the new D3 career?

J. Allen said this, in fact, Panda monks and the monks Diablo completely unrelated. Although they call monks, but the operating system is completely different (one is the use of gas and the power of yin and yang, one is attached Light energy). J. Allen also reiterated that Blizzard does not have the so-called "old Council" to arbitrarily decide the game's new career should be a unified name.

Brack said: do not like that, each team will be under their own decisions for their game. We have been hit several times the name, we will say that we need some new stuff is not the same, but this situation is really rare it is.

To a God? Downhill?

After reading the WIRED.com interview, we clearly can see, J. Allen, or cleverly avoided on "Panda Blizzard did not mean the emergence of stem" of the topic. BlizzCon this year announced the 5.0 data sheet, though the scene most of the players said he was looking excited, but enthusiasm subsided, many loyal to the "World of Warcraft" that had long been "the book to eat rotten food," said history : 5.0 Panda's emergence is too earth-shattering!

First, although the development team such as ghost crabs, card dry, Christ, and even the design director of the Tate's World of Warcraft J. Allen have been repeatedly stressed in the past Blizzard wanted to make Panda debut, including cards with particular reference to early dry "burning Crusade" version had carefully considered so that Panda possibilities. However, according to Panda one of the few people in Azeroth historical display, it is obvious that the period of the TBC is not suitable for the emergence of Panda. Although memory and played "Warcraft 3" players will be mentioned, Ms. Xu had Kael'thas and tile in order to rescue Illidan from the film when the singer, who is indeed an unknown panda fire in hell Peninsula to assist players. However, cheapest aion gold this Pandaren hero role, but the original design team used it as a hidden bonus points are not in fact exist in the Panda people outside the domain of evidence.