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The Secret World Preorders Include Beta Access

[Apr 03, 2012, 09:49 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Funcom and EA Partners announce they are now accepting preorders for The Secret World, and that this advance commitment to the conspiratorial MMORPG will include guaranteed access to all the game's beta event, which will run "most" weekends between May 11th and the game's launch on June 19th. Here's the complete list of preorder incentives.

Guaranteed access to all Beta Weekends starting May 11, with the ability to carry over their characters to every subsequent event
Guaranteed Early Access to the game, up to four days prior to the game’s official launch
An exclusive in-game item providing an experience boost to progression
An exclusive in-game t-shirt featuring a unique monster design
A powerful pet (Ferocious Wolf, Egyptian Cat or Loyal Hound) to support the player in combat
A head start on character naming before the game launches

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Re: The Secret World Preorders Include Beta Access

Apr 3, 2012, 19:20

saluk

Hellbinder wrote on Apr 3, 2012, 13:39: actually no your wrong it was talked about as free to play from the time it was first mentioned. if fact this was also talked about by the anarchy online dev crew over a year ago before anyone even knew the games name. they got to see the companys new super secret free to play game. and that it was going to revolutionize mmmos etc. something clearly changed along the way. i see now that there were some articles talking about it. obviously they changed their minds and decided to charge. this game was definitely absolutely supposed to be fully free to play with a cash shop. pretty lame. This game has been known about for far longer than a year. I think it was in design phase before age of conan was even released. Since 2006 at least. It never was going to be free to play. They WERE talking about f2p mmos a few years ago, but those were an entirely different project.

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Comment [quote="saluk"Apr 3, 2012, 19:20][quote="Hellbinder"Apr 3, 2012, 13:39]actually no your wrong it was talked about as free to play from the time it was first mentioned. if fact this was also talked about by the anarchy online dev crew over a year ago before anyone even knew the games name. they got to see the companys new super secret free to play game. and that it was going to revolutionize mmmos etc. something clearly changed along the way. i see now that there were some articles talking about it. obviously they changed their minds and decided to charge. this game was definitely absolutely supposed to be fully free to play with a cash shop. pretty lame. [/quote] This game has been known about for far longer than a year. I think it was in design phase before age of conan was even released. Since 2006 at least. It never was going to be free to play. They WERE talking about f2p mmos a few years ago, but those were an entirely different project. [/quote]

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