Reviews
The Windows version received an average score of 83% based on 13 reviews on the review aggregator Game Rankings and an average score of 80 out of 100 based on 17 reviews on Metacritic.
Dutch online gaming magazine Gamersnet and Norwegian online gaming magazine Gamereactor have both given the game a 9 out of 10 rating according to the official Age of Conan community site. Many publications would not give the game a rating until it had come out of Beta such as Thirteen1 online gaming zine who said it 'wasn't fair' to do so. G4TV gave Age of Conan a 4 out of 5 rating.
Seth Schiesel, writing for the New York Times, felt that the development of the game would have benefited from a few extra months of production. Age of Conan did not receive the widespread mass-appeal of other games that are offered on home consoles, although Funcom has promised a version for Xbox 360 in 2009.
Sales
The game had sold over 500,000 copies worldwide as of June,1, 2008. Six days later one million copies had been shipped in total.
Release delays
Funcom delayed Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures on January 21, 2008 and again on March 24, 2008. The delays were widely reported by online game magazines such as IGN and led to significant drops in Funcom's stock value.
Pre-Launch acclaim
During the past several years, Funcom has twice previewed Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, more commonly known as E3, and the product has received various critic awards for these demonstrations. The following information is a partial listing of those awards.