Age of Conan Wanes

Gamespot reports that Age of Conan plans to consolidate its servers, as demand for their game as plummeted in recent weeks. On the periphery, I heard that Funcom installed a patch that somehow nerfed game play, though I'm obviously repeating the shallowest of details. Whatever the problem, AoC never came close to threatening WoW when it peaked with 1.2 million subscribers. I played it for that first introductory month and found it a weaker MMO compared to WoW and LotRO.