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AGDC 07: Age of Conan Interview with Jørgen Tharaldsen

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AGDC 07: Age of Conan Interview with Jørgen Tharaldsen

Age of Conan Product Manager Jørgen Tharaldsen met with WarCry at AGDC to discuss the PvP aspects of Funcom's upcoming MMO. Due to launch in March 2008, Tharaldsen talked about siege warfare, duels, drunken brawls, arena combat and the game's mature slant.

"[If it was not mature] it wouldn't be a Conan game," Tharaldsen said.

To them, this is an advantage. He pointed out that while some assume that only kids play video games the evidence doesn't support it. The average age of an Anarchy Online player (their other product) is 27 years old and - using pre-WoW numbers - the general MMO gamer was well into their 20s. This stands to a certain level of logic since to play these games players usually need a credit card.

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