I wanna get the rhino but i will get the mammuth.. I'm all about the world pvp so the rhino would suit me better then a slow ass mount used for siegewar. But i don't have a choice so i guess it will have to do, seems like most preorders get the mammuth?

Guess no AoC for u but u can atleast play barbarians, ah what a kickass game. I'm actually gonna get disapointed if there isn't a little green dude picking up all the heads u chop off in AoC.

Originally posted by Stellos

A lot of it is just hype.  Like when the PS3 was released they didn't release enough just so people would want what they can't get.  Don't get too caught up in the FilePlanet beta ticket unless you are a die hard AoC fanboi.  You'll have you're oppurtunity to play the game.  My hope is that it is all it's cracked up to be, but I don't jump the gun anymore with MMOs, so I'll be damned if I'm going to waste my money with FilePlanet membership just so I can get a beta ticket.  If AoC wants to stress test to the max they'll let everyone in for free without tactics like the FilePlant BS. 

Of course if you are just chomping at the bits to play then you are going to do whatever it takes to get a key and I don't fault you for that, I just want to warn you to be careful when you set you're expectations too high.  VSoH and TB have really made me realize that recent MMOs are going down hill.  Give it sometime to settle and see what floats to the top:P

Just my advice.  G'luck on your efforts

that's my problem, I already preordered the game and shit like this makes my stomach  turn. If they really wanted to stresstest the game wouldn't they do it for free(it gets very limited this way), feels like thay are trying to find that last dollar allitle to hard.. I'm already in the shit for atleast 1month but aslong as they beat WoW pvp i'm sticking to it... How hard can it be... lol  let's see...

Originally posted by Douhk

It is not difficult to get a key as long as you use the programs they suggest to you so you can get what you need quickly. Comrade gives you notification about a minute after the beta keys are being handed out at the site. It is a little bit exaggerated when people say they're gone within 2 minutes, but not by much. The keys run out about 10 - 15 minutes after, which really doesn't give you much time to get a key.

I got mine because I checked the page every hour, since that's basically how the site (and most sites in general) usually works and the comrade client wasn't working properly for me. All that's left for me at this point is downloading the actual file... which is kind of not exactly working for me either... the fileplanet downloading page has been up for a half an hour for me now and I haven't gotten any locations yet for download... I'm guessing the file is REALLY busy or that the site isn't working properly... any help for this? 

The first two times the page didn't even load for me, third time it loaded but with no dl mirrors, refreshed a couple of times and baam 4 sites appeared. Now i just gotta find 13GB of space to dl it too..

Thanks to all for your answers, guess i was really lucky.

[Edit] Found the space and can't say i'm really that happy with dl'ing 13GB@80KB/s when my conx supports around 3MB/s.. But on the other hand i'm gonna get to stress test AOC so wtf, stfup with your complaining i guess.. !!

Well i'm just wondering how hard is it really to get a key to the open beta?

I been reading alot and ppl are claiming things like that the key handouts last for 2mins each time etc. So I was like; wtf lets give it a try it's just 8$/month(turned out to be 10$/month with "tax"? false advertising??), anyway it's cost as much as a hamburger here in sweden so i guess i gotta skip eating out this week. :O Yeah i'm a poor student that eat noodles 6days/week and then spoil myself with fatty goodies for 1 day/week bla bla.. ^^

Anyway after paying I logged in and got the message saying: heres your key.. bla bla dl the client here..

So is it all a hoax or did I get really really lucky, I'm really confused but happy at this point.. But at the same time i feeling kinda stupid, when something thats suppose to be hard to achieve turns out to be this simple I get very suspicious that I been fooled.(dont really know of what but the feeling is stil there..)

/cheers

I got sick of the casual player base from WoW getting the same items, rewards should be based upon skill and not time. Haven't played any online game since about 1 year but w8ing for my AoC CE box to break this "bad" behavior.. :P 

This is such great news, i'm so glad that they made the pvp this "hardcore"(I wouldn't even call it HC since it should be standard..).

Btw, i might be wrong but as i understood it; you can't loose pvp lvl by death just pvp exp.