General Discussion

Today, the team at EA Mythic has released details on the collector's edition for their upcoming MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. The collector's edition, with all of its bells and whistles will retail for $79.99 (suggest retail price).

Fairfax, Virginia, March 26, 2008 – EA Mythic, a division of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS), today unveiled the first details of the Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning™ (WAR) Collector’s Edition. This premium, limited edition of EA Mythic’s massively-multiplayer online role-playing game will be packed with bonus in-game content and unique collectibles unavailable elsewhere, including an exclusive Games Workshop miniature. Only 60,000 copies of the Collector’s Edition will be available in North America, and those who pre-order the product will receive additional exclusives. The WAR Collector’s Edition carries an MSRP of $79.99, and is available for pre-order in North America at Best Buy, GameStop, EB and GameCrazy retail stores, and online at GameStop.com, EBGames.com, BestBuy.com, Amazon.com, GoGamer.com and EAStore.com.

“Collecting has been a part of the Warhammer hobby experience for 25 years, and this special Collector’s Edition continues the tradition with exclusive offerings, including an official Games Workshop miniature,” said Mark Jacobs, VP and General Manager, EA Mythic. “We are bringing the quintessential elements of Warhammer – tabletop miniatures, incredible fantasy art, and delightfully grim fiction – along with exciting in-game bonus content, together in what is sure to be one of the premier Collector’s Editions of all time.”

Find out what's inside here.

Looks like the left hand doesn't have a clue what the right hands doing.

Wonder when the online sites will have them available for sale?

Awesome stuff! The 12 extra heads is reason enough for me to buy the game. That and the graphic novel...

I am all over this as soon as its available.

http://warhammeronline.com/ce_preorder/

I ordered mine from EA. But so far Amazon and GoGamer also work. The others it looks like aren't up yet.

Hey,i was wondering when will we have it for PRE-order in Europe?

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 agree with the above poster. But I have wanted the CE edition since the game was announced I normally buy the CE version of games just because you never know what they may be worth. I still have my WOW and BC CE's as well as others. I did like my in-game pets though. But other games do add special items for players to have fun with.  But you have to take the good with the bad I guess but I think they could have replaced the XP bonus and the 12 quests with something else. Maybe even some extra items or heck maybe a pet from them also that follows ya lol. But glad I got it ordered but now I don't know how long it will take for EA to get me my beta code.  Not that worried but as it was promised so I hope they send them out.

Take note Funcom, this is how you make a Collectors Edition and it's ten bucks cheaper as well.

I tried getting it from Gamestop by the phone, they dont have it as of yet (3/26)

I think any half serious gamer will want the Collectors edition, so if you are in a position where you cant order it asap... i feel sorry because i have a strong feeling it will be sold out.

There is over 500,000 beta applications

and only 60,000 collector editions...

you do the math