Age of Conan

ehhh i dont see anywhere on the register.ageofconan.com where it says early access program...i received my key from GoGamer on april 25th but i was going to the wrong website to register it at. i was going to betaregister.ageofconan.com ...so anyways today i make my account with the key i got (btw, i have at least 3 accounts with funcom, i wish they would just combine them because they are basically duplicate accounts with different usernames) and under my subscription details it says:

Your Products:

Pre-order: The Killer Rhino

but i dont see anything about early access anywhere...

Originally posted by Punk999

Meh most of the people that cry about SoE were SWG lovers.

like myself :P played it for 5 years

Originally posted by miagisan

you know what's ironic, if this game had anything to do with SOE or CCP, people would be screaming bloody murder. Why are the same people now so lax and forgiving for a company which has had one horrid launch for a game? Curiousity will kill this cat someday lol......

No one is complaining because it wasn't Funcoms fault, they even reopened the site to register for people who got screwed over. How exactly is funcom in the wrong?

There have been so many reports of bad information and no call backs from gamestop from just this forum. They have a bad service when it comes to call backs and giving out codes for special events. That is not funcom's fault. What is funcom's fault is that they should of been more forceful with their suppliers when it came to ensuring they did not screw up.

Im really pleased that Funcom have opened this back up for you guys, I unfortunately didn't get my key from the Funcom store so will miss the early access. I don't know why but I get an uneasy feeling about the way Funcom has handled this, I hope I'm wrong as I still intend to buy the game but with past experience with MMO developers *cough*  $OE *cough* I always tend to become a bit suspicious of game devs. I hope I'm wrong and gratz to those that manage to get in.

i won't deny that gamestop has a horrible service, that i do agree with you there. I tried ordering 1 preorder from them. Just 1. It was probably the worst experience i have ever had (POTBS). Eventually i went to Best Buy and just did it there.

Originally posted by Tierce

Maybe an idea on part of the reasoning for this.  I talked to a manager at the local gamestop last night about the Age of Conan release and early start, and he said that they hadn't even received their keys from corporate for the pre-orders had taken.  Said they were still waiting for them.  There are 3 gamestops in the suburb area where I live so I asked about the other stores.  He said it was the same deal there.  He said that they don't send the pre-orderer's information or anything to corporate, just a number for the number of pre-orders they have taken.  So all the customers who had pre-ordered at the gamestops near me with the promise that they would get keys for early access, have yet to get them and could not have registered. 

In my memory, this is the first time a company has offered something like this with a pre-order.  I thnk there was just a lack of communication from Funcom to their distribution chain about how "limited" these early access keys were.  They should have either A) allotted a certain number of keys to each retailer or B) set a cutoff date for when the early access keys would be given with pre-orders.  Either of those solutions would have made this situation more transparent for all involved. 

This is not the first company to do the early access though pre order..... Please do post without knowing the correct information.

Originally posted by miagisan

i won't deny that gamestop has a horrible service, that i do agree with you there. I tried ordering 1 preorder from them. Just 1. It was probably the worst experience i have ever had (POTBS). Eventually i went to Best Buy and just did it there.

That is something we can agree on, atleast. And I would watch out for best buy also.. They can sometimes "forget" about preorders. The best thing anyone can do is make sure you go into the actual store. And for gods sake, don't preorder 10 months before a game releases and expect a crappy store like gamestop to remember to mail or call you about your early access code.

Originally posted by Gajari

I don't know, went pretty smooth for me. I pre-ordered from EBGames near me on May 9th or so , got the card with the serial for the war mammoth, set up my account and clicked to pay for early access. Got the email on May 12th, finished downloading May 13th. Installed and patched earlier today.

Glad they're giving you guys another chance to get in early.

 

Interesting...I pre-ordered from EBGames 2 years ago(Apr 06) and still havent received a pre order key. The person that ordered it at the local computer store checked on the order...it is still listed in his "pending delivery" :/

I just got my key today. So, is early access closed or not?

what u guys get that the store(gamestop/bestbuy) is the pre-order key not the early access stuff.....with the preorder key u make an account with funcom and after using ur preorder key to make the account u have the opition to buy the early access for 5 dollars(for the US).

Go go go buy the game to get to play few days before just to realise how unfinished the game is. 

How about ppl get real and actually understand that Pre- order and other carrot on a stick offers are there for a reason.  If Funcom had a good game they would not need such crap offers.