Week in Review: The age of hybrid free-to-play

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This week, Funcom stunned gamers by announcing that Age of Conan will be headed to free-to-play land this summer... kinda. As Craig "Silirrion" Morrison told us in an exclusive interview, Age of Conan: Unrated will follow the now-familiar pattern of Western F2P conversions, offering a limited number of features for free players and the real deal for full subscribers. Is the F2P transition a concession to the entitlement generation or a timely move in conjunction with the Conan movie that will hit theaters in August? More likely, it's a hybrid of both.

Take a look at this week's other top MMO stories just past the break.

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