Age of Conan Letter to the Community

Funcom's official Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures website has been updated with another letter from game director Craig Morrison, and this time he gives us a general overview of the Rise of the Godslayer expansion pack. An excerpt:
The most important news this month is of course that we revealed the first expansion pack for Age of Conan Rise of the Godslayer. I am very excited to have been able to see people's reactions to the expansions plans and what we were able to show. The team has done a wonderful job in being able to bring the land of Khitai to life. I think that the adventures people will be able to have in the expansion will be interesting and fun, and we have strived to make sure that our approach to this new continent reflects some of the key feedback from players when it came to the layout of the original game playfields.

This is a great example of where your feedback and input truly helps shape the development process. With the expansion areas we wanted to address a couple of areas that people raised regularly about the existing playfields that they often felt too linear and that there are great distances between them that sometimes breaks with the immersion of the setting.

Going to Khitai does give us much more freedom with the map. Whereas Howard had fairly carefully mapped out the layout of the kingdoms in Conan's world, that isn't the case with Khitai and that has allowed us to address the second of those issues by ensuring that all of the playfields lead on from each other. You will be able to see where you are going and moving from region to region in the expansion should feel much more like a coherent journey.