Age of Conan - Interview @ Gamespot

The Gamespot staff discuss AoC with Gaute Godager as part of their PVP Beta weekend.

GS: Otherwise, how well has the game been received so far in the closed beta? What do testers seem to be really enjoying and gravitating toward?

GG: So far the beta testers have loved the world. They have loved the core gameplay, the hands-on action, and the feedback level of the combat. They have loved the innovation and the freshness. They have loved the maturity of the setting, they love our nipples and our fatalities. They have felt our patches are massive and take forever to download (we have patched six gigabytes' worth of data, three times now! Funcom makes deployment of Vista SP1 seem small). I can promise our testers that this will not happen once the product goes live. The product is on two double-layer DVDs and the install [is] roughly 15GB--which is most likely among the biggest games in history.

I've seen players gravitate more towards group play towards the end of the beta than what we saw in the beginning. It is fun to see players finally managing to take down their first high-end raid target. Basically, it is fun seeing the change, the ebb and tide of what the players enjoy.

Which class has been the most popular has changed several times, and it is a very good indication of an exploit. Wink, wink.