Age of Conan

I remember when you preordered LOTRO, you got a preorder disc that allowed you to access the beta until your game was in the store to pick up.

Anyone following AoC more closely than I know if they're doing this with AoC?

No beta access though, I'm pretty sure WAR does that.

The only benefit of pre-ordering is that you get to log-in 3 days earlier than everyone else.

As far as I know (preordered the CE), you also get acces to the more or less "open" beta starting on May 1st.

Additionally you can play the launch-version 3 days before all non-preorders.

Am I totaly wrong, but also by Pre-ordering CE you get the exclusive mount?

Originally posted by Fistljoe

As far as I know (preordered the CE), you also get acces to the more or less "open" beta starting on May 1st.

Additionally you can play the launch-version 3 days before all non-preorders.

Haven't heard that anywhere.  You pre-order the game and you get to log-in 3 days early, I don't think you get to play the beta another 17 days earlier, I could be wrong though.

And yes, pre-order gets you a mount.  If from Gamestop you get a mammoth and if from BestBuy you get a rhino.

Originally posted by soad_nathan

 

Originally posted by Fistljoe

As far as I know (preordered the CE), you also get acces to the more or less "open" beta starting on May 1st.

Additionally you can play the launch-version 3 days before all non-preorders.

 

Haven't heard that anywhere.  You pre-order the game and you get to log-in 3 days early, I don't think you get to play the beta another 17 days earlier, I could be wrong though.

 

And yes, pre-order gets you a mount.  If from Gamestop you get a mammoth and if from BestBuy you get a rhino.

If anyone can prove the May 1st access to beta I'll be going to Pre Order right away hehe... the mounts are nice though I love the horses mostly.

There is no proof because there is no promise.

I am going to use a Horse myself, but have pre-ordered anyways. can be good with one of those special mounts. they can destroy player-made-buildings. which I think will be gold when attacking a guild city.  ^^ and you can have as many mounts as u can afford. so nice to have the siege-mount when needed. ^^

Horse is faster, but those special ones got more HP and damage more, which also can be good in PvE when raiding a camp. =P

That "open" beta for AoC is smelling like a bogus promise. :( Considering they haven't even announced how they plan on doing it, I think they're going to say that these "preview" early start deals with pre-orders is going to be their "open" beta, thus, in their minds, fulfilling their "not so closed beta" promise while not jeapordizing the preorders if the game's beta turned people off due to bugs, stinky gameplay, incomplete content, or performance issues, or whatever.

I hope AoC does the right thing and drops their NDA soon and DOES do a real beta where people can speak out about what the game is like, both good and bad.

I must say its quite lame not to allow pre-order people get into beta. Quite stingy.