Age of Conan: File Planet's Open Beta

MMORPG.com has an interview with Funcom Product Director Jorgen Tharaldsen about the imminent open beta. Some potential players have expressed concern about a "cost" for the beta and the necessity of signing up for a File Planet account.

Here's a teaser:

"First of all," Tharaldsen began in response to a question about Funcom charging for their beta, "I think it's very important to point out that Funcom has not charged anything throughout our beta process, including the 20.000 keys on Gamespot last weekend, the many, many thousands of keys given to Eidos or the tens of thousands of people we have selected through the ongoing closed beta."

The Product Director went on to say that "running the Age of Conan beta is and will remain an expense, as it should be for us as developers. The focus for us when running a beta is to get invaluable feedback from as many testers as needed, helping us to get ready for launch, not to make money on it". He also outlined more on this "It is correct that Fileplanet requires you to be a paying member to get hold of the Conan beta, as well as many other things, but as far as I know they have far more members than the 50.000 keys we make available. For them, I would think that things like the Conan beta is an important stimulation for their members.

Check out the rest at the link above.