The time is near. This game is something wonderful!! Buy.com lists release as 9-16-08, but i think official release is the 18th. The NDA has been lifted for beta testers (which I am)
The Collector's edition sold out a month ago. This MMO is going to rock the world. It's by Mythic, who did DAOC (Dark Age of Camelot- which was awesome till the expansion imho). The pvp is simply incredible, aweosme, adrenaline pumpin super funtime. Makes WoW pvp feel like tic tac toe imho. The classes feel well thought out and complete, with lots of abilities. I think its the best mmo I've played.

standard edition Pre-order info
VERY THOUROUGH REVIEW/preview

Amazon $48.99 free ship!

buy.com $48.99 free ship, no special item?
Amazon $46.99 free ship?
Circuit City $49.99. +ship?
EA STORE
EB Games / Gamestop $49.99. +ship?
Fry's $49.99. +ship?
GoGamer.com $47.90. +ship?
WalMart $49.82. +ship?

link to page that tells you what item you get based on where you preorder from

Pre-order customers will receive:

RITTENBACH'S PORTABLE CAMP
Rest your weary soul and heal your wounds between battles.

Order from GameStop or EB Games and receive:

SENTINEL'S AMBER BAND
Enhance your stats and cast "Touch of Earth," increasing your chance of doing additional corporeal damage with each hit. (Usable in PvE combat only.)

Purchase the pre-release package from Target* and receive:

VINDICATOR'S RUBY BAND
Enhance your stats and cast "Touch of Flame," increasing your chance of doing additional elemental damage with each hit. (Usable in PvE combat only.)

Order from Amazon.com**, Circuit City, Direct2Drive**, EAStore.com**, EB Canada, Fry's, GameCrazy, GoGamer.com, and WalMart.com*** and receive:

GUARDIAN'S IOLITE BAND
Enhance your stats and cast "Touch of Spirit," increasing your chance of doing additional spiritual damage with each hit. (Usable in PvE combat only.)

* Target pre-release boxes will be in stores in early August. Purchase of the pre-release box does not reserve a copy of the game at launch but does provide access to the pre-order bonuses. Offer does not include the UFS Battle Deck.
** Amazon.com, EAStore.com, Direct2Drive and GameStop.com pre-order customers will receive codes via email. Offer does not include the UFS Battle Deck.
I ordered from Amazon a couple days ago and still have no code, in email or in Digital area. just FYI
*** WalMart.com pre-order customers will receive their in-game bonus items with the final product at launch. Pre-order offer does not include access to the Open Beta, Head Start, or the UFS Battle Deck.

GameStop.com has coupon for free overnight shipping: WAR

Bad news, damn tax in CA @$#@$@#$#@

I played beta Conan too. Never considered pre-ordering that game.

How does PvP compare? Is it more Emain-like or Keep siege? Small group or zerg? How easy is it to get into the WH lore? How's PvE like? That wasn't exactly the strong point of DAoC.

Shandril said:How does PvP compare? Is it more Emain-like or Keep siege? Small group or zerg? How easy is it to get into the WH lore? How's PvE like? That wasn't exactly the strong point of DAoC.

The lore is awesome, based on years of tabletop gameplay of the well developed Warhammer tabletop game by Games Workshop. PVE that I played was fun - by that I mean questing and PQ'ing. Public Quests- aka PQ's (ya, just be in the area, and you are a part and may get loot) are awesome, the loot system they use for PQ's is innovative.
There is keeps/siege, , pvp areas on world map, main cities, and what seems like a queue-able scenario for each of the 4 tier, and each starting zone. So 3 queueable tier 1 scenarios, I think 3 tier two scenarios, and NDA still applies to some of the beta testing, so I'll stop there.

There is lots more to read REVIEW so far

ProppaT said:
There's really no reason to buy an MMO until it's been out for about 3 months. I give credit to Mythic, though. DAoC was a solid launch.

DAoC was from the era prior to Mythic being acquired by EA. From first hand knowledge of some of the changes in staff and operation, it's not quite the same company so I don't think that's much of an indication on whether WAR will have an equally successful one. It could still have been rushed to market by financial pressure from EA.

And even then, back at launch, DAoC had very little content for 40+. Testing in that end game part had also been very limited especially in larger scale battles. So still the usual caution sounds like good advice. Especially in PvP-based game were balance between classes is so important to gameplay.

As far as in-game pre-order items, they'll be irrelevant for where it counts (PvP) or high-end PvE so they can throw a lot of goodies for pre-orders. And they kinda have to considering the more cautious attitude of people towards new MMOs.

Anyway, thanks for the review.

I was thinkin' about this. Thanks for posting the deal.

I regret getting Age of Conan. the graphic sucks and the gameplay is only interesting for the first 10 minutes...

Anyone else did the Amazon preorder?

I did a few hours ago, and still have not received codes yet in email....

Also GameStop.com has it for 49.99 but with free overnight shipping when you use the code WAR. The only things quicker would be direct2drive and instore pickup.