Yes, World of Warcraft still dances a jig on the corpses of all other MMO’s in the universe. I’ll grant you that. But Funcom has announced that Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures has ensnared 700,000 people into its masculine arms and bouncing boobies of wonderment.

The game has had a million copies shipped to retail and now Funcom is free to do what it takes to stay for the long haul. One major factor in the death of an MMO is a lack of funds. Not everyone has a cash machine operating day and night like Blizzard, so if a developer gets a game out it will likely die an agonizing death due to little or no support.

Funcom has announced that they should have the development resources (aka cash money, yo) to keep the game evolving over time.