But overall, I like to think that the attendance demonstrates that developers are interested in what academics might be able to tell them (again I will point out: no fruit was thrown). And all week, I talked with developers who were interested in what was going on with research, from the smallest to the largest companies. Maybe the issue is the "larger" community. It's always easy to abstract and oversimplify at that level. But I know that on an individual level, there are real conversations and collaborations going on.

Adina then thrusts the question of the experience of multiplayer games and MMOGs into the social software scene: There’s a generation of innovation and experimentation that is new, that’s going on around us, and that’s worthy of a name. The language would be poorer if we didn’t have a way to group Flickr, LiveJournal, del.icio.us, Technorati, and Audioscrobbler, or to tell these things apart from earlier generation mainframe and LAN-based hothouse systems.

If this is one of your concerns, you will be happy to know that I am personally feeding our stock of proud hyborian steeds some extra vitamins this week; which should result in an overall speed increase for all types of Horses. The increase won't, by any means, be massive; but it should go a long way towards making these mounts more useful and desired.

Yes, they are both very slow creatures in-Age of Conan Gold game. I know that this has been, and most likely will continue to be, a topic that is being discussed to great length; but a decision was made shortly after new year that, for the sake of balancing things out, we needed them both to have the same movement-speed.

If, by useless, you mean ineffective in PvE combat scenarios or as traveling mounts, then yes; you are indeed correct.

I need to purchase Basic Riding in order to get my Mammoths/Rhinos special abilities ...

Funcom has released word that the Age of Conan Gold game soundtrack is now available for purchase or digital download. The music length is the equivalent of 2 CDs and features full orchestral numbers and several special tunes by Turbonegro.

Horses move faster

Sound sliders in Audio Options changed from 0-100%, to 10-step sliders.

Quest Journal possibly increased in size. Need help confirming...