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Warhammer Online CE Offers Early Beta Access

Apr. 3 12:14 AM by Mark Burnham

It's becoming common knowledge that unless you're offering some sort of retailer "goody bag" along with a purchase of a game at launch, well then you don't have a cool game launch. The Simpsons Game offered a little Homer/Katamari ball; Burnout Paradise offered exclusive unlockable cars.

And now, the highly anticipated and tragically delayed Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning MMORPG is going ape-sh#$ with preorder mayhem. The official preorder page claims the following:
-Preorder the Collector's Edition ($78.99 on Amazon.com) and get early access to the open beta
-Also be a part of the "Live Game Head Start" thing, which will let you play the full game several days before the full launch.
-And, here's the real treat folks, receive all this magical in-game swag: Rittenbach's Portable Camp, Sentinel's Amber Band, Guardian's Iolite Band, and Champion's Sapphire Band. We have no real clue what all that does, but it sounds expensive. I wonder if on launch day kids wearing this stuff will get beat up; like the kid wearing Air Jordans on the first day of sixth grade.

The only hitch is that Massively reports that the retailers have their heads up their respective hind quarters with actually delivering on the unlock codes for all of this. Your best bet is to head over to Amazon.com, buy the game there, and then go into Your Media Library/Downloads. Your codes are safe and secure there, far away from some Best Buy 'tard who'll shove you out of the store without your bleeping codes. Can't have that.

Comments

For a moment, I was hoping that picture was a design comp of the Collector's Edition packaging. Ah, to dream...

 

No sir, I just found that picture particularly bad ass for some reason. what is that thing? It would be the coolest thing to break out on a camping trip.

 

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