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 - Amazon preorder worthlessI will not be pre-ordering from Amazon again. I don't usually purchase games through Amazon, (they're great for lots of other things), but I decided to grab Conan CE since I do a lot of other business with them. The whole point of pre-ordering this sort of game is to insure you get to be one of the first people playing. Instead all my friends who ran out to Best Buy, Gamestop, whatever are playing and I'm not. Current delay has been bumped up to 6/6 -6/13. The game came out 5/20. I'll stick with the people that know how to sell games next time. Rating:  - The Age of Conan has not yet Arrived!Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Collector's Edition Don't waste your time or money! I expected somes bugs and glitches but this is downright UNPLAYABLE! The bugs - nonfunctional trading posts make an economy impossible. The glitches - constant gray outs on the minimaps and incredible lags on every server I tried (4 - both PVE and PVP)make gameplay difficult! What really finished it for me was the crashes! Everytime I changed from night to day/ day to night - CRASH! Almost everytime I sold items to a vendor - CRASH! And even sitting there waiting for the lag to catch up so I could continue - CRASH! Not just a simple crash either - 50% of the time I had to reboot my computer! Rating: - Fool me once shame on me.....I guess it is a bit unfair to give the actual game 1 star but there is no where to review Amazons total blundering of thier handling of the AoC CE pre orders so Funcoms AoC review here reflects my reaction to Amazons lame attempt at being in the PC game market. I did recommend in an email to FunCom that they may want to take a closer look at who they partner with on pre order deals. Rating:  - SCAMAZON - BewareThis is a great game, but very unprofessional service from Amazon. They have promised to deliver the game in time for the early access registration period. Now they can't even give me a date when will my CE would ship. Since I wont have a retail key, there is a chance that my level 40 character will be deleted or frozen, ruining my gaming experience. And for all this toruble, a freaking 10 dollar gift card? I'm a prime member, and I think Amazon lost 1 good customer today.Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Collector's Edition Rating: - Entertaining game, unprofessional service from Amazon.Allow me to preface this by saying that I have been a loyal and steadfast Amazon customer for over 10 years now. Despite a few bumps in the road, they have remained as paragons of exceptional service in virtually all of my dealings. Until now. For those who are not aware, Amazon accepted pre-orders of the Collector's Edition for months. And yet, after the projected ship date of the game, I have now received an e-mail stating that they overestimated demand for the game and my order is going to be held indefinitely while they get their act together. Meanwhile, I'm unable to claim my special items from my Age of Conan account, because I don't have access to the code on the manual. FunCom is e-mailing me to let me know that my account will be suspended for not entering a retail code in short order. The odds that I will receive what I ordered (the CE) diminish by the day, with no follow-up other than a meekly-presented $10 gift certificate and reassurances that this does not happen very often. The game itself is rather fun. It lacks flavor and is overly instanced for the first 20 levels. It runs clunkily and needs more optimization for anyone not running it on a late 2007-2008 computer. But the atmosphere is great and some of the features are truly innovative. That, however, is not the point of this review. The point of this review is to warn anyone and everyone who is considering using Amazon as a pre-order service on any item that is either (a) time-sensitive, (b) in limited supply or (c) reliant on physical hardcopy for access to online features. As of now I will be moving all of my future business from Amazon to several of their competitors. Why? Because Amazon messed up, and they had so much information prior to this that they could have easily avoided this entire fiasco with a little more careful planning and a little less greed. Sadly the old Amazon where I received personalized service is dead. I'm left with a series of form-emails offering me ten bucks to shut my mouth and suck up their mistake as my own. It's beyond disappointing, it's an irrevocable and final severance between myself and a once-great company. Caveat emptor.
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