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Vanguard: Saga of Heroes: Pre-Order, Collectors and Guild
Stradden
Managing EditorMember CommonPosts: 6,696
Sigil and Sony Online Entertainment have released details on the pre-order as well as the special features that will be included in the Collector's Edition and the Guild Edition of their game, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes.
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SAN DIEGO, CA - October 13, 2006 - Sony Online Entertainment and Sigil Games Online announced today the special features included in the Collector's & Guild Edition, as well as pre-order details for the highly anticipated massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. In the vast world of Telon, players are free to choose their destiny by exploring three spheres of advancement, adventuring, diplomacy, and crafting. With intricately detailed environments inspired by oil paintings, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes is scheduled to make the journey to retail stores in Q1 2007.
The pre-order box at retail includes:
- Early access to the game! Log on and get a jump start up to three days prior to the official launch!
- Special account key that will grant you a unique exclusive in-game scroll that will allow your character to sprint for longer periods of time due to an endurance buff (one per account).
- Invitation to the Vanguard: Saga of Heroes open beta (for eligible participants).
- Guild Mail recruitment tool to help you build your guild before launch!
- A king's ransom of assets, including videos, wallpapers and screenshots.
AVAILABLE EARLY DECEMBER
Regular Edition - $49.99 MSRP
Packaged in a DVD box, the Regular Edition will include:
- A one month subscription to Vanguard: Saga of Heroes Station Players(tm) - an array of premium features that give incredible access to characters and guilds by merging the game world with the World Wide Web.
- Your choice of an in-game magical wand to create fireworks or an in-game set of horseshoes with +speed to use once you get your first horse (one per account).
Collector's & Guild Edition Details - $89.99 MSRP
Packaged in a custom leatherette chipboard box, the Collector's & Guild Edition will include:
- An art book featuring many original pieces by seminal fantasy artist, Keith Parkinson.
- A cloth map with an overview and points of interest for each continent.
- A CD featuring the full Vanguard: Saga of Heroes soundtrack.
- A three month subscription to Vanguard: Saga of Heroes Station Players(tm) - an array of premium features that give incredible access to characters and guilds by merging the game world with the World Wide Web.
- One of three Hero Cards each granting a unique in-game item (one per account).
- The Jeric card grants a cloak that increases adventuring stats.
- The Eila card grants a cloak that increases crafting stats.
- The Idara card grants a cloak that increases diplomacy stats.
- The Jeric card grants a cloak that increases adventuring stats.
- Your choice of an in-game magical wand to create fireworks or an in-game set of horseshoes with +speed to use once you get your first horse (one per account).
- A Guild Kit which includes:
- An in-game guild trophy that buffs stats for the entire guild*
- Ten 10-day buddy keys
- An in-game guild trophy that buffs stats for the entire guild*
* = Need to earn / create guild house to learn
For more on Vanguard click here.
Cheers,
Jon Wood
Managing Editor
MMORPG.com
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wand that shoots fireworks looks pish. I'm a sucker, so I'll probably
pre-order.
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"Anyone posting on this forum is not an average user, and there for any opinions about the game are going to be overly critical compared to an average users opinions." - Me
"No, your wrong.." - Random user #123
"Hello person posting on a site specifically for MMO's in a thread on a sub forum specifically for a particular game talking about meta features and making comparisons to other titles in the genre, and their meta features.
How are you?" -Me
I like Vanguard, but I don't think it is that good to pay money up front.
That being said, no matter how much I may like Vanguard, there is no way in hell I'm going to jump in once it launches, given that the game engine is pretty much stacked against the subsequent, post-launch player in such an extreme fashion.
Brad McQuaid came to this very site, and posted a whole treatise about how he and Sigil are all about the game. I almost believed him too.
Only to discover that they are all about the pre-order money, and willing to throw the integrity of gaming out the window just to get it.
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"It's like they took a gun, put it to their nugget sack and pulled the trigger over and over again, each time telling us how great it was that they were shooting themselves in the balls."
--Exar_Kun on SWG's NGE
I have a genuine interest in Vanguard, but no way will i be bitten again by pre-order hype, even after launch i wont be picking this up until its been out 3 months and Ive read reviews from real players.
Good luck to those that do pre-order though, you are my lab monkeys
Indeed.
Everquest 2 was total crap for about 6 months before it really took a turn for the better. There is no doubt that SOE is pushing this one out in the same fashion. Your all going to buy the game wether it's finsihed or not so why would they wait untill it's polished?
They won't. Enjoy the beta
I'll give it a try in spring.
"We feel gold selling and websites that promote it damage games like Vanguard and will do everything possible to combat it."
Brad McQuaid
Chairman & CEO, Sigil Games Online, Inc.
Executive Producer, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
www.vanguardsoh
You need to play before you buy? Wait for open beta... You will be truly impressed, with what I have seen, I can say that GAME is going to change the way we see mmorpgs.
Dimitrio Darkblade
Founder Leader of Vitae Essentia
http://www.veguild.org
I heard there's no in game maps for the starter cities and most of the game for that matter. When you say change the way we see things, do you mean that we'll be looking at a sheet of graph paper or note cards instead of the computer screen?
The pre-order box at retail includes:
One of three Hero Cards each granting a unique in-game item (one per account).
So, for this "challenging" game where you "earn" rewards, pay extra money and you get not one, but four in game advantages over other players.
Can you feel the hand of SOE? Next stop - a gold for cash exchange. It's just a matter of time.
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
I'm interested in MMORPG's.
I'm not interested in cash for game items.
Call it a LE, CE or
special LE/CE, I'm not buying, and the fact they will give extra perks
in game to others with cash to burn gives me more to consider before
purchasing this game.
Just giving my opinion ace, I'm not a lobbiest.
"Many nights, my friend... Many nights I've put a blade to your throat while you were sleeping. Glad I never killed you, Steve. You're alright..."
Chavez y Chavez
I agree with you Jorev! Totally. Althought I would admit, if I was planning on playing a game and pre-order would benefit me, I would do it...just like I did for CoV. Yet, it is completely unfair, evil and a bad idea. But as a player, you have to decide, do you want to be a victim or benefit from this unfairness?
Anyway, this is not the main point for Vanguard success, it is like a drop of water in the ocean.
NON-RAIDING server would be the thing that COULD save this game. It is heading for a wall and it is taking speed as it aim for it. The peoples at Vanguard, supported by blind fanbois, are totally incapable of understanding their mistakes. See, Brad says, he understand for the books and the boat, so he won't do it again. He didn't do the boat and the book PRECISELY, yet he fails to understand the general idea behind it and just do very similar mistakes all the times.
NON-RAIDING servers wouldn't make Vanguard a top seller, but it would save them from current destination. There are too many basics design issues that Brad & Friends fail to understand...yet...at least, if it was a non-raiding server...I understand they work hard and change a LOT of stuff to "casualised" the game...but they fail, the game isn't intuitive at all. This is like putting a tuttu on Godzilla and attending a Miss USA event...yet...non-raiding servers would be a near-miracle on their owns, and they would save this game.
- "If I understand you well, you are telling me until next time. " - Ren
You have been the 945840284 victim of a rabid vanboi today.
See, such peoples trashing you or anyone that even question that Brad's pooh is gold lead Brad & friends to do many mistake. They hurt far more Vanguard than your feelings, since they blind their designers.
You have a valid issue and point. It is clear that the players who don't get the pre-order will think a LOT longer before buying a game where they start with a disadvantage; luckily for Brad, most peoples will not know that at the moment they will see the box in stores. Yet, most will learn in game. IMO it is a bad move from their side, yet, it is a minor mistake, nothing major...yet all mistakes adds-on.
Peoples who will pre-order are peoples that are already buying the game...if Brad can use this information to see and understand he is going to miss the mark and get the non-raiding servers UP and running at release, then such a tiny mistake will be a slight price compared to the consequences of not having a non-raiding server at release...but am I daydreaming here? Can they adapt and understand? With all the praises coming to their hears from their rabid vanbois and blinding them to the market, I dunno...
- "If I understand you well, you are telling me until next time. " - Ren