Pre-orders for Mortal Online are scheduled to begin today. Though, the Mortal Online store, at least of this writing, is still not up.

In the meantime, the developers have updated the website with detailed information regarding the pre-order program, the beta, and the game's estimated system requirements.

To start, Mortal Online will only be accepting pre-orders for 10,000 copies of the game at present. Some other restrictions apply, such as the fact you may only purchase one copy per account, though you are able to register multiple accounts. They do warn that if you use the same credit card to make the same payment five times within a week, that your credit card issuer may ban the card for two weeks as a Fraud precaution.

Also, take care when making your order, as the version you select during checkout will be reserved for you for several hours. This means you cannot change your order version once you've selected it (for a few hours), this has been implemented so that if something goes wrong during the order process you don't have to start over and lose your chance at reserving a copy of the game.

The monthly fee for Mortal Online will set you back €14.25 if you're in Europe, or $14.25 in the US. Beta will be split into five blocks consisting of 2,000 players each (for a total of 10,000) and the schedule is as follows:

July 20 Block A (including 999 Limited Editions)
August 3 Block B
August 17 Block C
August 31 Block D
September 14 Block E

The digital distribution of Mortal Online will not go on sale until a week after the retail launch of the game, though customers who purchase the retail version will be able to download and play the beta. They still do not have a specific release date for Mortal Online, but they do expect the game to be rated Mature at this point.

Also in today's announcement was a release of estimated system specifications for the game. You can find them below:

MO System Requirements (an estimation)

Please note that all options and scaling are not yet in the game, meaning the requirements will change over time.

Minimum configuration (1024x768, detail reduced)
OS: Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3Ghz or equivalent
RAM: 1GB
Video card: ATI Radeon 9800/nVidia GeForce 6600
Video memory 256MB
Hard drive space: 5-25GB

Recommended configuration (1680x1050)
OS: Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista Service Pack 1
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz or equivalent
RAM: 2048MB Dual Channel DDR2
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT or equivalent
Video memory: 512MB
Hard drive space: 30GB

For the full announcement, go here.

 Is it me, or is the white guy with the dreads missing an arm? Uh oh...

anybody else getting flashbacks to DnL and Darkfall?

 Hey! I can actually run this well!..if only I had the windows OS though!

after 6 hours and im not even sure anyone was even able to make a pre-order yet. I've been on my comp looking stuff up on youtube just to kill time....

Originally posted by CaesarsGhost

anybody else getting flashbacks to DnL and Darkfall?

Yes, other than the devs talking about it and apoligizing for the delay saying they were promised unlimited bandwith, but the hosting company didn't come through, and thus they can't do anything (other than sue, but that won't make the problem fixed any faster). The DF devs, when they did come out and talk about it, blamed the customers (there were too many).

Also, this is the opening of preorders, not the launch, not the biggest of deals if you mess up opening preorders... launch on the other hand

been waiting for 8 hours and counting now :(

The ironic thing is its not the ammount of people thats the problem, they solved that some hours ago. Its the transactions system...for which they delayed the pre-orders by 2 weeks previously, what they were doing in that time is anyones guess :-/

Well tought I take a little risk here and just get it. ( no idea if i will like it tho :P ) 

good thing about europe is that some of us got IDEAL, direct bank payment system.  order made, payment done.
now to wait for the box or download.

Originally posted by CaesarsGhost

anybody else getting flashbacks to DnL and Darkfall?

but at least they're getting it done faster!

Shop is Open. Beta block one! :)

Collector's edition sold out real fast, that's a good sign.

Even though it was $98, a thousand were sold in less than half an hour I believe.

SA black guy OUT again ¬¬

I tried to find more info on this game but cannot.

Their trailer really blows as far as not showing the real game...the screen shots are mediocre.

I am afraid to purchase another Darkfall.  $54 and $15/month for a game that looks like it may over-promise and under-deliver AGAIN?  I dont think so.

Fool me once...shame on you, fool me twice..shame on me.

Can someone point me in the right direction for real gameplay video and the likes?  Or if this is a game that will actually be released?

Originally posted by Tilran

I tried to find more info on this game but cannot.

 

Their trailer really blows as far as not showing the real game...the screen shots are mediocre.

 

I am afraid to purchase another Darkfall.  $54 and $15/month for a game that looks like it may over-promise and under-deliver AGAIN?  I dont think so.

Fool me once...shame on you, fool me twice..shame on me.

Can someone point me in the right direction for real gameplay video and the likes?  Or if this is a game that will actually be released?

I have been part of the community over there sense day one. From the look of it, they are trying deligently to make good on their promoses. I for one will not be buying, mainly because I have played them all and I just want to stand back and see how this one goes before stepping in...and I feel that sense I have been there from day one that I should still have a chance getting into beta without buying a game.

Have to wait and see, but their system specs are far too high.  Does not bode well for the game at all.

I managed to get a Limited Edition copy ....... $119 Cdn.

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Have to wait and see, but their system specs are far too high.  Does not bode well for the game at all.

What too high?? You can run it on a 4 year old rig. You just have to scale down graphic settings.

Seriously people. snap out of it!

Do you really expect that today you can still run a new game on highest settings with more then 4 year old hardware?

They use the latest Unreal Technology (Unreal Engine 3.5). What you expect??

It's really easy to check to see if you can run this game.

Just download the Unreal Tournament 3 demo from somewhere or any other game running on UE3 and see how it runs.

Cheers

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Have to wait and see, but their system specs are far too high.  Does not bode well for the game at all.

if your comp cant match the recommended specs, i'm afraid to tell you, you wont be playing any future games at all

Sigh euro same as dollar -_- Euro is only 40 % higher in value -_-

Originally posted by Haradeas

Sigh euro same as dollar -_- Euro is only 40 % higher in value -_-

And on top of that they are based an Europe... trying to rip off their fellow Continent-Men.

Originally posted by kishe

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Have to wait and see, but their system specs are far too high.  Does not bode well for the game at all.

 

if your comp cant match the recommended specs, i'm afraid to tell you, you wont be playing any future games at all

Seems we have some illinformed posters here.  Do you know what is hot these days?  Laptops.  How many laptops have a decent graphics card?  Less than 5% have a 8800 or equivalent.  Most people playing games use the laptop these days, they don't buy a gaming computer!  Minimum specs mean barely able to run the game.  If you have not figured that out by now I feel sorry for you.

It is obvious to anyone who understands sales figures that this will impact this game.

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Originally posted by kishe

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Have to wait and see, but their system specs are far too high.  Does not bode well for the game at all.

 

if your comp cant match the recommended specs, i'm afraid to tell you, you wont be playing any future games at all

 

Seems we have some illinformed posters here.  Do you know what is hot these days?  Laptops.  How many laptops have a decent graphics card?  Less than 5% have a 8800 or equivalent.  Most people playing games use the laptop these days, they don't buy a gaming computer!  Minimum specs mean barely able to run the game.  If you have not figured that out by now I feel sorry for you.

It is obvious to anyone who understands sales figures that this will impact this game.

People who don't have the required hardware are not the target market.
At this point they only plan on having 1 server of 10,000 people... they would like to have more but *shrug* they will leave that up to the customer.

It is probably a heavy statistics problem but:

There are at least 10,000 people with the recommended hardware who want to play this game.

Originally posted by LiquidWolf

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Originally posted by kishe

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Have to wait and see, but their system specs are far too high.  Does not bode well for the game at all.

 

if your comp cant match the recommended specs, i'm afraid to tell you, you wont be playing any future games at all

 

Seems we have some illinformed posters here.  Do you know what is hot these days?  Laptops.  How many laptops have a decent graphics card?  Less than 5% have a 8800 or equivalent.  Most people playing games use the laptop these days, they don't buy a gaming computer!  Minimum specs mean barely able to run the game.  If you have not figured that out by now I feel sorry for you.

It is obvious to anyone who understands sales figures that this will impact this game.

 

People who don't have the required hardware are not the target market.
At this point they only plan on having 1 server of 10,000 people... they would like to have more but *shrug* they will leave that up to the customer.

It is probably a heavy statistics problem but:

There are at least 10,000 people with the recommended hardware who want to play this game.

you mean 5 servers with 2000 people per server, the pre-order beta (lol) will start off with 10000 copys, not 1 server with 10000 people.
 

Just placed my order for regular box and got A block beta.

So happy there are no in-game rewards for preordering or buying collecters edition. Even the one they sold on Ebay for $5100 didn't offer any in-game rewards. These developers understand the importance of earning everything in-game thru expended effort.

So do people still pre-order MMORPG's?, I can understand if someone has been in a alpha/beta state of the game, so actualy played the game.

But do people really pre-order who have not played the game at all?