I have been a long time fan of the Conan franchise since I first saw the movies back in the 1980's. Since then, I discovered Age of Conan about 5 years ago and fell in love with the non-auto-attack combat system.

Conan Exiles in Early Access has been a wonderful experience as a gamer and as a fan of the Conan syndicate. Below is a brief explanation of why I feel this game will be a huge success when it launches and why early access has been in my opinion greatly successful in achieving its goals.

1. Competitive price. I have been on Steam for almost 3 years and as far as I can see the price of this software is not only competitive but offers far more than other MMO's do with no monthly subscription. That is a huge plus, recurring fees to play games are very unattractive for many of us.

2. No paywalls or cash shop purchases for content. The content for this game is largely driven by the Steam workshop and the developers at Funcom. There is no cash shop or special coins, crowns or other virtual currency needed to purchase access to content.

3.Outstanding communication between end users and community leaders/devs. I have had a great pleasure taking part in the development of this game by submitting suggestions on Steam as wells as bug reports on the official Funcom managed forums for the game. It is really exciting when a developer sends you a personal message and asks for your help with something. It has been a pleasure to work with the mod builders and devs at Funcom for Conan Exiles.

4.Amazing living biospheres. The exiled lands you spend your game time in are in an ever evolving, non-static world. You can watch as clouds form in the sky and a thunderstorm rolls in. See the rage of the deadly sandstorms taking shape and find shelter before you are devoured in the abrasive torent. No matter where you are the climate and weather have a huge impact on your gameplay and survival skills.

5.Visually appealing. In every aspect of the game, the visual content, whether its the character model or the armor and weapon skins or the landscape of the world around you, the visual appeal will keep you interested in the game and giver you a desire to explore.

6. Rich crafting and building system. The craft and build systems in Conan Exiles is so full feature I could write a review based only on this aspect. Let me just say that if you enjoy collecting and building without many limitations, this game will indulge your imagination.

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I have over 2000 hours of game-play. Yes, there have been bugs and crashes. Yes, I got frustrated with game-play issues. But I have beta-tested a few games in my years of gaming and always feel it's a privilege to have access to a game before it's released. I salute the Steam Workshop Mod developers and the whole team of Community Support and Developers at Funcom for making this game, in my opinion, a huge success.

A fantastic game with a wealth of content to keep you interested. The game draws upon the rich story content of the timeless Lord of the Rings trilogy by JRR Tolkien. The epic story is engaging. Long before I was a Steam user I went to a store like Best Buy and bought my game software off the shelf. 11 Years ago I bought my copy of Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, I still have it and still display the map poster that came with it in my gaming room.

This game has wealth of role-playing opportunities due to the rich story that guides the developers. The quests themselves are engaging and dramatic, although at times you feel more like a delivery person or messenger than a hero or adventurer.

The game still looks good despite the fact that the graphics engine is almost 18 years old that drives the game. They have done a wonderful job at improving the quality of the textures and meshes, including a complete revamping of the player character models.

This game has much to do if you are in a kinship that does things because the party matching and instance matching is rarely used, if ever. It is easy to make friends though and find players like your self and that match your needs as a gamer in Middle Earth.

The developers do a good amount of creating new content due to the foundation of the game, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which has a wealth of information to draw upon.

I recommend this game to anyone who loves the Middle Earth Legacy created by JRR Tolkien and wish to feel like they are shaping the events that unfold as you move through the epic story content. It is not really designed for hardcore players and power gamers but is more likely to attract casual gamers, roleplayers and event goers. Every month a new event or festival takes place and gives the participant an opportunity to earn some fabulous rewards.

One thing I do not like about the game, in recent years the cash shop items have become sellable to other players, tilting the economy towards a pay to win style that makes an unfair advantage to either player with real life money or players who do nothing but farm LOTRO Points, the cash shop currency.

It is not really very difficult to obtain gold (game money) in LOTRO if you have a group of friends or kin mates that can farm some of the more lucrative instances. In the past, MOST content is unachievable or out of reach without a fellowship. Now, most of the landscape (open world) content is solo-able. Many years ago Turbine introduced an instance finder that may as well be removed because it never gets used, Instead, the new World Chat model takes the place of any party matching system. This I feel is a bad substitute because many players filter this channel due to a large number of trolls and inappropriate chat topics.

I still play this game although not as often as I did in years past, in fact, the 200 + hours I have while it was available to me on Steam in the last 3 years is maybe 1/10th of the time I have played LOTRO when Turbine and Warner Brothers were producing the game.

In essence, the story-driven content of Lord of the Rings Online is well worth checking out. If you do like the game I suggest spending the 14.95$ for a month of VIP access, it enables many features of the game that if you had to buy with LOTRO points would be well over that 1-month price tag as well as allowing you to receive yearly anniversary gifts.

It's a well put together game as far as gameplay mechanics and has a rich customizable user interface. Developers do a good job at fixing glitches and bugs as well. I think you will be surprised at how much fun you can have playing the MMORPG version of such a timeless group of stories.