Today is the day for the official launch of Funcom's long awaited (and over four years in the making) fantasy MMO Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. The game got an early start this weekend with a number of pre-order players joining into the game's early access program and according to fan site AOCSource.com they have declared the program a success. They claim the game is the best looking MMO released so far and that server performance was "fantastic".

After being reduced to a bare-bones web site due to traffic, the official community web site for the game is now fully operational as well. Fumcom has already boasted that it has sold out of its collector's edition and that it is shipping 700,000 copies of the regular edition to stores around the world. Even with the dissapointing news that the game won't have DirectX10 support out of the box it appears at the moment that Age of Conan is going to have a very successful launch today. It should also help the game's publisher Eidos who after dealing with a lot of difficult financial issues needs a big hit.