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Limited Edition Orc Mini.

Seeing as I play orcs on the tabletop that mini is the biggest draw for me.

As for the poster whining about the "pre order advantage" the only in game advantage I see is the xp boost which is +10% for 60 minutes 3 times.  I really don't think that letting 60,000 people earn xp at a 1.1 modifier for 180 minutes will offset a game that will have at least 500,000 players and take (estimate) 75~100 hours to hit the level cap.

Just received this month's newsletter seconds ago with this in it:

On the day we signed the agreement to license Warhammer from Games Workshop, I promised them that we would create a great and glorious game, a truly next-generation MMORPG. Today, I have news to report; we are going to delay the release of WAR until Fall 2008.  While we do not expect this announcement to be met with fanfare and cheering crowds; the additional time will be spent hammering WAR into an even better game that it is today.

 Hammerer-ing

That's a pretty great collectors addition...the minitature and exclusive heads alone would be worth it for me to buy it.

For UK people, I've found the CE online for pre-order today at Game, and placed a preorder of course!

Im in limbo as of where to order a copy online for a eu player !

the places they listed dont apear to have it

and i dont know if the us version differs from the eu version of the game

like WoW's hmmm im not bothered about beta i just want the extra 12 heads ! lol

The 12 additional quests might be nice but the only real draw is the OB slot. And when will OB happen?

At this point I'm seriously disenchanted with the Beta selections and how the occurred with both WAR and AoC.

I guess I'll play when the 'other 500,000'  play and save myself 2 months of game play fees (assuming a $50 price tag for standard version and $15.00 a month for fees.)

As of right now these are North America CE's being pre-sold (US / Canada).  I bought mine soon as word hit the beta forums.  Sites taking pre-orders are listed here.

When they start giving in game items to people who buy the CE it's when I say "nah I'm not going to bother playing this game" because I just don't believe in doing this to a mmorpg. Everything you see in game should be because of what you got rewarded and not what you bought outside the game. Sure I could buy a CE but I have better things to waste my money on.... CE bonus stuff should be all extra items giving to you outside of the game like 1 more month added sub or models or artwork etc etc.

According to ebgames.com, WAR's release date is 10/14/08. 

Hah for most ingame specialization or little trinkets are the only worth of buying a CE, Im sure the vast majority dont care about those special leather keychains they jus wanna woop ass an look cool doing it

Something about this really confuses me.  They say there will be 12 heads with the collector's edition, and they say  you will not look like anyone else.  Mmmmm......won't the other people with collector's editions have the same heads?

This kind of marketing sets a dangerous precedent.  I can imagine some developer coming along and saying, hey....lets release crappy looking armor with the game, but with the collector's edition we could release a few complete sets that totally look awesome.  This is a marketing concept that I am not a big fan of.

Sorry for my skepticism.  I'm a jaded gamer these days.  A really great game could turn it all around though and restore my optimism.

  One of the best collectors editions I have seen to date., well worth it .

Originally posted by vickypollard

When they start giving in game items to people who buy the CE it's when I say "nah I'm not going to bother playing this game" because I just don't believe in doing this to a mmorpg. Everything you see in game should be because of what you got rewarded and not what you bought outside the game. Sure I could buy a CE but I have better things to waste my money on.... CE bonus stuff should be all extra items giving to you outside of the game like 1 more month added sub or models or artwork etc etc.

Feel free do to so but you are the odd man out.  And welcome to the real world.

Originally posted by Sovrath

 

Originally posted by Fenris522

Hrmmmm.  That xp bonus, the extra quests with rewards, and the 12 new models were a terrible idea to add into the collectors edition.  Adding things that give substantial in-game help to people who pay more for the collectors edition excites those who are buying it (marketing boost), but discourages those who are not.  The majority of players are not going to buy the collectors edition, so the enormous amount of ingame bonuses added by the collectors edition are going to do some damage to the starting playerbase.

I think wow did well with their collectors edition.  They gave cool stuff like an ingame pet, and then your art books and map and all of that, but they didnt add anything that gave a direct gameplay advantage to those who spend more on the box.

-Lance

 

I disagree. Extra Quests and extra heads were a great idea. Now, if the extra quests give "uber" items that one cannot match in other parts of the game then "yes" that is a bad idea. But if it looks different from anything else, then that is worth it. The heads idea is brilliant. This is the first time i've seen a collector's editon that offered "me" anything that I wanted.

In game pets? I don't care. A large map of the world? I'm tool old to put large fictional game maps on my walls. That's not going to impress many women who come over your place "oh, nice fireplace and I like the furniture... what the hell is that?"

the xp thing is a bit odd. Of course, people want to get more xp. So it's hard to turn that down. But that does seem to say "hey, buy your way to a higher lvl character".

I am very open about being a gamer.  I have several guy friends at work that also are gamers.  Women laugh and roll their eyes.  Most of them think it's a waste of time and we could be doing something better, like yard work, cleaning the house, doing something with the kids, or putting in overtime to make a little extra cash.

Just bought mine from Amazon and the Beta site is now taking the beta code. The other two are still not working, but I assume this will be closer to the release date.

Just ordered mine from amazon aswell.  The CE looks like one of the best i have heard of.  Cant wait.

Europeans got hit again, because it is €79.99 for us which equals about $120 . No CE is worth $120 with preorder still another $15 to add. Wake up dudes! The day the dollar equaled the euro is long gone

Comes with free CD key for your friend to join Wow with.

They dont charge the extra money for ingame stuff. They charge it for all of the things you get in the box besides the cdkey and game disks. Yes, thats a reason that some people buy it but in actuallity, it costs far less to provide special ingame content than to print/ship/build everything in the CE.