AtomicGamer has put up a short
preview of Age of Conan, mentioning what might end up a problem: steep(er) system requirements/performance issues.
As far as performance goes, I can say right now that if your computer can barely play World of Warcraft, that's not likely to cut it for Conan. The game has some pretty challenging performance issues, and while the graphics are really good, the number of pauses and skips as the game loads this stuff up can get really irritating. From the talk of other players in the chat, feeding Conan super-fast CPUs, gobs of RAM, and dual $500 video card setups helps somewhat, but it won't eliminate the issue. I hope that these issues can be ironed out for release, and in the case of MMO launches, this has happened in the past as debug code has been turned off and final optimizations went into place.
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Preview 
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