Funcom has a structural change in progress for years already.
That includes the Funcom accountsystem, the ingameshop, the f2p of Conan as well as the new TSW.
AO, Conan and TSW should share the same engine, Funcom's own engine for Funcom's own games.
AoC is the plattform of their choice, to give this very own engine 1. compatibility to their other games, 2. develop it even to the peak of the awesomeness and 3. get it on their games to reduce maintainance.
AO is on their shedule, i have no doubt on that.
The task itself is still crazy, but whoever works with such things like nerf tables from the ancient and bugs after some billions of IDs, well ... crazy.
Over that, development changed the last 20 years dramatical.
We went from spaghetti over functions to nowadays actual classes.
That includes the servertechnics aswell ^^
Its just patience, what we need.
It will come.
Soon™