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Commence drooling now!
Guaranteed access to Open Beta
Two Bonus Items
Earlier access to retail servers
It’s not the U.S. version but it’s safe to assume that it will be identical. /afk drooling.
Credit goes to War-Welten, a German site.
March 19th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
I want a pre-order for the CE!
March 19th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Bah, access denied by my work’s web filter. Sometimes that thing makes no sense. Actually, frequently it makes no sense. I can’t access some blogs on your list because the web filter has them marked as porn. 0.o
Anyway, the announcement is nice and all, but where can I plunk my money down? Once I have it pre-ordered I can hopefully forget about the game until open beta.
Speaking of which . . . guaranteed access to OPEN beta? Umm. If it’s limited invitation, is it really open? Or is this open in the ‘no NDA’ sense?
March 19th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Mythic’s open beta’s have always been somewhat different from the “let everyone in” open beta’s that some games have. Open beta for WAR will be invite only, and I assume the NDA would be down at that point.
March 19th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Sweet… would love to know what those in-game items are! Nice find Keen!
March 19th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
I think someone translated that they are a Ring and a Camp that lets you rest any time with your friends. The accuracy of that information is unknown.
March 19th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Turns out that this was a pretty big leak of information that was intended to be announced next week in a convention in Paris. Mark Jacobs had this to say:
March 20th, 2008 at 3:26 am
i preordered my copy at gamestop months ago, securing my copy of the CE.
March 20th, 2008 at 4:40 am
I am usually a slave to reviews as well as a die-hard “buy something after its released to make sure it sells well” person BUT with this game, I am seriously thinking about making an exception.
I also never buy CE things as well but then again, with this game, I think I might just have to break the trend. This is to good or a box set and the game looks to be to fricken sweet for me to resist.
Also: I love our games last night. You and your brother are really good. I felt like I was on top of my game. I managed to sqeeze out some wins with game and watch!
March 20th, 2008 at 6:19 am
[...] preorder box have surfaced on a site that challenges my monolinguistic nature — but happily Keen was there to translate. It looks as though preorders will be guaranteed a place in the open beta [...]
March 20th, 2008 at 8:42 am
mmmm so close now. Nice find guys!
March 20th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
More information on the items:
Knight’s Portable Camp: “receives your tired soul and heals your wounds between battles.”
Guards of the Amber Ring: “improves your attributes” and casts “Touch of Earth”
March 20th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Maybe if we quit blogging, they’ll let us into beta now. =/
I’ll probably pre-order it if it comes with open beta access.
By the way, my friend Paul (Genda) did an interview with Mythic’s Community Coordinator, James Nichols. If his site gets about the same traffic as mine, then that interview probably slipped under the radar of a lot of WO fans.
March 20th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
I would have asked James why Mark has assumed the role of Community Manager lately.
March 23rd, 2008 at 3:37 pm
I might have too, although he’s been really busy and actually has had the questions for a while. He had a chance to answer last week, so that’s when I posted it but the questions were a little older than that.
@Aaron – Thanks for the pimpage.
March 31st, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Its £60 at play.com … thats ridiculous imo
http://warhammeronline.tv
July 7th, 2008 at 5:56 am
hey, i just got my english preorder box.
the items are as followed:
Rittenbach’s portable camp – Rest your weary soul and heal your wounds between battles.
Sentinels Amber Band – Enhanceyour stats and cast “Touch of Earth,” increasing your chance of doing additional corporeal damage with each hit.