A lot of excitement and complaints have been going around Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning forums across the internet. I am going to focus on those related to BETA and release.
First, there were the eight hundred thousand (plus) BETA applications for CLOSED BETA. Many of us were excited to get in to the CLOSED BETA. Many of us, including me, did not.
Second, there were the Collectors Edition (CE) pre-orders. The CE pre-order promised OPEN BETA access, Live Game Head Start, bonus in-game items, and a slew of aesthetics for both characters, and the consumer?s desk area (including but not limited to an unpainted miniature for the Table Top game, and some books). You get all this for a grand eighty dollars.
Then Mythic brings us the regular pre-orders. The regular pre-orders promised OPEN BETA access, live game head start, bonus in-game items?wait, stop. That is the same as the CE pre-orders! This raised a lot of anger, particularly in me, because I spent the money to pay for the CE, and being a freelance writer, I really do not make a lot of money at all. If I had known I was going to get all the same stuff for the regular pre-order I definitely would not have gotten the CE. Many felt the same, and so Mythic decided to give all of us CE pre-orders access to the last branch of CLOSED BETA, something they call ?Preview Weekend,? and an extra day of Live Game Head Start. Ok, that is a little better.
So as the last branch of CLOSED BETA approaches, Mythic decides ?Oh yeah, not ALL of the CE pre-orders are going to make it. Sorry!? I did not make it. The reasoning was due to computer system requirements for the CLOSED BETA. As previously stated, I do not make very much money, and thus do not have a very up-to-date computer. I will admit I am running on a computer that is not very adequate to modern gaming.
Through all these let downs, I still feel that WAR will be what I have been waiting for, at least until Darkfall comes out (which is?never?).
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I hope you at least meet the minimum specs for live launch?
http://gamezig.com/mmorpg/warhammer-online-minimum-specs
Are you sure that the regular version pre-orders get into the head start in the live game? I know the CE’s got that, but I thought the regular guys just got into OPEN BETA and not the head start? It is entirely possible I was wrong.
August 14th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Actually, I only have half the RAM as the minimum requirements. But I’m sure once I turn off all the sound and drop the graphics to it’s absolute lowest setting, I can still play. Otherwise I’ll be taking out a credit card I can’t afford to pay and buying myself a new computer.
As for the Standard Pre-Order head start info, that’s what gamestop says: http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?sku=646910
Also there’s information here in an open letter FROM Mark Jacobs:
http://vnboards.ign.com/warhammer_online_age_of_reckoning_general_board/b22997/108139367/p1/?6
August 14th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
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