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As a result, it’s become much harder to separate the professional and the arriviste. It became harder to justify shoots and prints costing hundreds or thousands of dollars when there was an aunt in the family who futzed around a bit with a Nikon and had a pirated version of Photoshop.

Age of Conan isn’t perfect yet, by any means, but the game is finally living up to its early promise. It’s intense, entertaining and rewarding to play - and bringing a third character up to the level cap is looking like a pleasure rather than a chore. If it can sustain this rate of improvement - and that is a big “if” - it won’t be long before Funcom has one of the best MMOs in the world on its hands.