Conan in the future

[MTBear]

I suppose with Dune coming out, Conan will get very little to no support id imagine. this is a sad thing if so as I have really enjoyed the game. Hopefully it isn't the case but I just have a feeling that it will. Idk why I posted this, guess in hopes someone of a higher power would make a comment, wishful thinking I suppose.

[Insanitor]

Honestly, I love to see them start working on Conan Exiles 2, with all the same features as the original, but with less yanky NPCs, improved combat and more adventures :D

[Wotannatow]

A remake in UE5 might be a possibility - IF there's significant promise of profit in such a venture. Only time will tell if we will se this or not.

[MTBear]

Originally posted by Insanitor:

Honestly, I love to see them start working on Conan Exiles 2, with all the same features as the original, but with less yanky NPCs, improved combat and more adventures :D

Very much same, ive enjoyed this game very much and would love to see a remake or new game like conan exiles 2.

[MTBear]

Originally posted by Wotannatow:

A remake in UE5 might be a possibility - IF there's significant promise of profit in such a venture. Only time will tell if we will se this or not.

This would be a legit thing, UE5 is still kinda janky but what I have seen has been amazing so a conan exiles game in UE5 would be sick.

[Deacon the destroyer]

Originally posted by Insanitor:

Honestly, I love to see them start working on Conan Exiles 2, with all the same features as the original, but with less yanky NPCs, improved combat and more adventures :D

ARK still has more players then ARK 1.5 the retread. I've talked to players and it just as buggy; if not more so, but prettier.

[MTBear]

Originally posted by Deacon the destroyer:

Originally posted by Insanitor:

Honestly, I love to see them start working on Conan Exiles 2, with all the same features as the original, but with less yanky NPCs, improved combat and more adventures :D

ARK still has more players then ARK 1.5 the retread. I've talked to players and it just as buggy; if not more so, but prettier.

I will admit, id rather play OG Ark than Ark 2.0 electric boogaloo.

[Greyhawk The Angry]

A different game (though hopefully the same genre), made by a different studio and publisher, once the Conan The Barbarian IP goes into the Public Domain in 2027.

[☦️Nekbeth]

Originally posted by MTBear:

Originally posted by Deacon the destroyer:

ARK still has more players then ARK 1.5 the retread. I've talked to players and it just as buggy; if not more so, but prettier.

I will admit, id rather play OG Ark than Ark 2.0 electric boogaloo.

I think the biggest problem with ARK Survival Ascended, is that theres no mods on PC, its not complete because they didnt rework all stuff, and is expensive. I think is better making new game than reworking the game, i dont know about game making, but in most situations on life is easier making something new than repairing the old stuff.

[Boonedale]

Originally posted by Greyhawk The Angry:

A different game (though hopefully the same genre), made by a different studio and publisher, once the Conan The Barbarian IP goes into the Public Domain in 2027.

Funcom acquired the Conan IP last year so thats not going to happen.

[Jaq]

Games need to come to a natural end. The era of live service games has created a real problem by extending the lives of games too far into their decrepit old ages and making it difficult to replace them with younger, healthier versions that carry more potential. Conan Exiles is struggling to stand up from its wheel chair at this point, and people still want to weigh it down with more features it wasn't originally designed for. Let the devs do one more debug pass to try to ease the game's suffering and then send it to the retirement home in a hopefully more comfortable state. There needs to be a gap between the new game and the old game to build an appetite in the market for it, and the sooner we let this one retire the sooner that clock starts ticking. Keep the drip-feed tube attached and that day never comes.

[dragonflyer]

The thing is, old games can still be fun to play. I guess with Conan, community could keep the servers going just fine, but many other live service games don't have that option.

Recall the KSP2 debacle. They tried to do exactly as you said, particularly since KSP1 was saddled with loads of technical debt due to, quite frankly, some rather lousy coding and bad design decisions taken early on. Good idea in principle... in practice, things didn't quite turn out that way, so to speak. And that's just one example that I'm particularly familiar with.

[Ģ◊иℤ◊⚡ℤ∀муpΛй]

live service prevents modding its a twin bladed sword for many.

[Blinky Dorf]

Exiles is officially on Maintenance Mode from here on out. "Focus on bug fixes" means their investor overlords no longer want them putting resources into Conan Exiles, and have moved the staff over to their new Dune title.
They'll keep the FOMO store of rotating cosmetics operational for that cash trickle, though.

[Forrestern]

Originally posted by MTBear:

I suppose with Dune coming out, Conan will get very little to no support id imagine. this is a sad thing if so as I have really enjoyed the game. Hopefully it isn't the case but I just have a feeling that it will. Idk why I posted this, guess in hopes someone of a higher power would make a comment, wishful thinking I suppose.

I doubt Dune will last long. If Dune fails the company has a high likelihood of shutting down. They don't have a positive track record of games. They rebooted TSW for no good reason, effectively killing both the classic version and the reboot since the reboot ostracized almost the entire original fanbase. Conan comes, was really good, and now 7 years later it's facing the same fate. Dune being entirely PVP centric likely isn't gonna last very long. Most players don't want to play those type of games.

In a perfect world, someone else takes the Conan mantle, and turns it into a large scale open world project. Ideally a single-player title mirroring The Witcher 3s open world system of fast traveling to different maps which in Conan's case would be various parts of Hyboria. That would be the idealistic project. Basically Age of Conan, but bigger, more modernized in terms of mechanics and gameplay. I think it could do pretty well. This might be a bit of a big leap, but involving Arnold as Conan could be a dope touch.

[Hammer Of Evil]

calm yourself, the mod tools ensure that this community will drive the outer dark before it, and hear the lamentations of its stellar remains.