Age of Conan - Preview @ Kikizo

Kikizo has done a preview of Age of Conan through the guidance of Funcom's Erling Ellingsen. He talks a lot about the combat system but he also mentions the post-release plans for Age of Conan:

If Conan is to succeed, though, what the team needs is to demonstrate its dedication to the game, keeping new content coming over the months and years after release. Funcom is fully prepared.

"On the day we launch we're dividing the team into two parts," Ellingsen says. The first of these will be responsible for the small stuff - squashing bugs and polishing what's already there. The second team will have a different role. It will be tasked with growing the game world through expansions and other regular updates.

"We're going to focus on pushing out huge expansions, pulling more of the lore into the game, creating more areas you can explore, more monsters, more classes, more races more loot - constantly expanding," says Ellingsen.

"That's one of the success recipes of MMOs, that you constantly renew yourself and you update the game and you create new content. That's how we're going to keep the game living in the long run."