Unsure if AoC is a quality game or not? Don't be!

While I was home, I read up on some old and some new articles about 3 things.

1: How much does it cost to make one quality game (AAA Game)

2: How much would a game theoretically cost to be compete with Blizzard's games (WoW, Starcraft II, and the upcoming Diablo III)

3: Is Age of Conan worthy of the AAA quality brand at all.

Let me answer all these questions with the simple: quality has nothing to do with $$$. Not when it's all you (the company) care about. Look at minecraft, look at Vanilla WoW. Their production cost was not through the roof, yet they're fantastic games (disclaimer: personal opinion bla di bla).

If you (the concerned gamer) wants to be sure that the Funcom has put the necessary resources into Age of Conan, and will continue to do so, let me put your mind at ease. A 20-40 million dollar initial production cost is normal for an MMO (or any AAA game). Funcom has, believe it or not, put abooooout the same amount of money into Age of Conan as Blizzard did with WoW when it was 3 years old.

So you will still see regular content patches being pushed at about the same rate as WoW's content patches. With the same backing and with the same (if not more) dedication.

Try Age of Conan. You will notice it's not a low-budget crap game the minute you step foot into the game when it's fully MAXED out in DX10.

But really, it won't be more than a AA+ game if you don't find your place amongst the community.

Same with any MMO.