Age of Conan

I purchased AOC weeks ago on a preorder from gamer.com. Today I find that funcom is not going to honor my early access key. And I will not be able to get early access. They cite there was limited availabily but they continued to give keys to retailers.

Below is my purchase of a Early Access Key ( Not a pre order key ) and the official statement from gogamer. Buyer beware funcom is not an ethical company.

Dear GoGamer.com Customer,

Thank you for pre-ordering the Age of Conan™ from GoGamer.com.

As a pre-order customer, you will have the chance to experience the glory of Age of Conan™ combat before the rest world. All you need to do is redeem your Early Access code found in this email and pay FunCom $5 to begin playing. See official comments from Eidos below.

From Eidos: Go to http://register.ageofconan.com and enter your key. You may begin downloading the game client software and installing as early as May 14. Then you may create a character and begin playing on May 17, 3 days before commercial release on May 20, 2008. Your character and all his/her progress will be preserved into commercial release. Note: There is a nominal fee of $5 that covers the cost of the download and includes 10 days of additional game time. Some restrictions apply, see registration page for details.

EARLY ACCESS CODE: xxxxxxxxxx

If you have any questions regarding activation or how to sign up for the Age of Conan Pre-Order Early Access Program I highly recommend visiting the official Age of Conan internet forum http://forums.ageofconan.com/ or official website www.ageofconan.com for more information.

Thank you very much for shopping with GoGamer.com and we appreciate your sticking by GoGamer during this most interesting MMO launch. We hope you enjoy Age of Conan!

Sincerely,

Jason Williams

Marketing Director

GoGamer.com

Hello Everyone,

Just a quick official word from GoGamer.com.

First, we had ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA that FunCom had a limited number of Early Access spaces available. Please believe me when I say this comes as a COMPLETE SURPRISE to us and we apologize to every one of our customers that has not yet registered for the Early Access program simply because they were waiting for the 14th or the 17th to arrive. Had we known that space was limited we would have notified our customers and posted it on our website immediately. Matter of fact, when we asked for more keys Eidos gladly sent us more keys. Had space been limited my guess is they would not have given us more keys nor would I have asked for more! My hope is they will turn the early access back on so all of our Pre-Order customers will have the opportunity to play early.

I personally just found out about this this morning when customers began emailing me. So, I apologize for any confusion on our end and again this is a complete surprise to me and my guess is all the retailers.

As a courtesy, regardless of what Eidos does now, we will continue to send out what Early Access keys we have left to our pre-order cusotmers with the hope they will open EA back up. Also, it appears that at least some of our keys will give the Rhino when entered. I cannot say this for sure, but I will continue to send out the keys just in case it will give you the Rhino.

Again, we apologize for any confusion and dissappointment this new development causes out customer, but please be aware this is news to us and it is a dissappointment to GoGamer.com. We wish would have been properly informed.

Jason Williams
Marketing Director
GoGamer.com 

What everyone neglects to read is: $5 is for 10 days play time, AND Early Access, and Early Access Download. 30/3 = 10. 15/3 = 5. People are morons and gave the Early Access download link to everyone, even the non early access and griefers that wants to spit on AoC. This is not Funcoms fault... It is the communities.

Stop making threads about it now.

Oh and if anyone bothered to read AoC Announcements they said that the Early Access was LIMITED.

That key is for your in game item, it also gives you the CHANCE to get early access. It isn't promised and never was,

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Originally posted by Agricola1
That key is for your in game item, it also gives you the CHANCE to get early access. It isn't promised and never was,
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If you bothered to actually read the post you would see I purchased an early access Key. Not a preorder key. Gogamer requested Early access Keys. Eidos/funcom sent them Early access keys.

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Originally posted by Reanim

 

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Originally posted by Agricola1
That key is for your in game item, it also gives you the CHANCE to get early access. It isn't promised and never was,
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/3968/aoccardob5.jpg
 

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If you bothered to actually read the post you would see I purchased an early access Key. Not a preorder key. Gogamer requested Early access Keys. Eidos/funcom sent them Early access keys.

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Then you got shafted by gogamer.com not Funcom, those keys are all pre-order keys, there is no such thing as an early access key. The pre-order key gives you your in game items and the chance to enter the early access, if you feel that you've been scammed it was by gogamer.com. I suggest you send them an email and request a full refund if they described the key as an "early access key", because there is no such thing.

The fans can nitpick the wording all they want and it does not even matter whether you are right or the OP is. Funcom is still the ones with egg all over their faces and the bad publicity. I wonder how many pre orders got canceled today over this situation?

Originally posted by Jackdog

The fans can nitpick the wording all they want and it does not even matter whether you are right or the OP is. Funcom is still the ones with egg all over their faces and the bad publicity. I wonder how many pre orders got canceled today over this situation?

I just can't abide people whining when it's stated everywhere that EA is limited, just because you didn't read the email properly or some other company screwed up everyone starts crying like a whining little punk. You'd think that the FC DEVs had got in a car and just killed their families in a drive by or something! You didn't make it into EA, suck it up!