In one of those twists, I pre-ordered a copy of Age of Conan Collectors Edition when it was first made available here in New Zealand. That makes me one of the only 111,000 people world wide to have a copy of this edition. How do I know how many people have it? Because Funcom originally announced only 100,000 copies world wide, and then ran off an extra 11,000 copies due to demand. In fact, they couldn’t even meet demand.

Funcom is proud to announce that the Collector’s Edition of Age of Conan is now completely sold out in all markets. The exclusive edition was announced in January, and has since topped retail charts at numerous retailers. In some markets, the Collector’s Edition has been sold out for weeks, and as a result additional boxes were made. These are also sold out, and the total print run stands at 111.000 units. Lucky customers may still find some copies on retail shelves, but no re-orders are available.

Additional retail figures for the standard edition of Age of Conan are also highly impressive. In total, Funcom is shipping around 700.000 copies of Age of Conan on day one. This impressive figure for a PC game is powered by equally impressive pre-order numbers. As a result of the tremendous interest and recent order increase, Funcom has not been able to fulfill all orders of Age of Conan in several markets due to current server capacity limitations. Extra orders of servers are now in place to facilitate for handling of more customers.

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures – Community Site

I’ve been looking forward to this game for sooooo long now. I’ve been on the mailing list since it was first available for subscription and I used to talk about it all the time back in the days I used to participate in the WoWzers mailing list. Its iconic. I’m very much a fan of Conan in general. I got the taste for it from the movies (which I have on DVD) and followed up with the books and got hooked.

There is only one major down side. :-( I can’t play it. :-(

This is the second game I own that I cannot play. Not because the disks are faulty, but because my computer is not powerful enough to play it. I deliberately avoided Crysis for that reason, and Assassin’s Creed I got just because I had to. But now, this game, which I have lusted after for so long… To be denied…. Ouch.

Theres no way I can afford to put together the machine to play it before the end of the year either. I’m trying to save money, not buy a computer. So to those of you that are lucky enough to be playing this game already, keep your laughter to yourself :-)