Age of Conan - Game Director's Letter #1 @ Official Site

Gaute Godager kicks off a new series of letters from the game director with an epistle titled "Savage and Sexy ".

The first thing we did was to tear down the norm of the combat system in MMOs. Out with the watch-the-hotkey-bar combat. Nothing wrong with it, except we wanted more location, direction, distance and hands on player skill to matter! In a Conan game combat must be more than a means to an end (to kill, gain exp) – it must be super-fun in itself. I am happy to say – we are finally close to this.