Funcom will be holding an Age of Conan launch event in Oslo on May 13th, and they have mentioned that there may be a few seats left at the event for Conan fans in Oslo that day.

As some of you might have heard, we’re kicking off the launch for Age of Conan with a barbaric gathering here in Oslo. We’re doing this in two stages on Tuesday May 13th.

During the day, at 12:00 CET, we’re doing a presentation of the game at Latter Aker Brygge where we will show the game’s exclusive features and content. Seating is limited and is reserved for journalists, but we will have quite a few extra seats for some of Oslo’s Age of Conan fans. We can’t guarantee a seat, but if you meet up outside Latter on Aker Brygge at 12:00 CET, there might be a chance for you to get in!

In the evening we’re hosting a huge party in Holmenkollen – one of Norway’s key national wonders – where we’re building an entire Cimmerian war camp to honor the release of our game (and possibly wage war on the evil wizard inhabiting the tower!). And guess what? Those of you who actually get into the presentation during the day will have a chance of also being invited to the party in Holmenkollen!

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That's nice.  You can also pay File Planet 15 dollars to get in, or you can register for one of 50 contests where the winners aren't announced in a timely fashion, in order to drive more traffic to the site for as long as possible, or you can just keep your tech tester account until you've paid every other site that's out there for a chance to get in to the party, only to find out that they haven't sent your invitation until the last minute, even thought they've probably known for weeks that you would have a reserved seat at the party. 

Seriously though, MMORPG was on top of their game for their giveaways, and were WAAAAY more on point than any other giveaway, thanks to them, I'm in closed beta now, but at least I knew what I was subscribing for, as opposed to being led around with a carrot for all those other chumps.  Really, this criticism is directed at FC for playing their tech testers like suckers, because they knew we wanted upgraded to CB, and would do anything to get in there.  Even if it meant overwhelming their partner sites with refresh spams and screwing some otherwise loyal fans out of slots.  I know I ended up with 3 CB keys before it was all said and done...overkill much?  Would've been more fair to just tell the TT's that we'd get upgraded from the beginning, that way more people could've participated in the various betas.