Preordering Factions in the UK

I have searched this but i only found fidcussions about US items and nothing on European Preorders

I am enquiring into where i will be able to preorder factions from (I'm guessing the same shops that had Guild Wars for pre-order with items).

I did not get the chance to preorder Guild Wars and i don't want to miss out on Factions.

I have no idea which UK shops will have pre-order items, do any of you?
If so does this mean different shops=different items?
Is it only online preorders that give special items or is it in shop preorders too?

Thanks

temp

Stay tuned . Preorders will be available, and we'll announce places to get hold of it when we have everything confirmed. European players interested in preordering won't miss out!

Woot.

This might sound stupid, but is a pre-order just a regular "retail pack" at the usual price with an extra goodie of some sort? Or is it more expensive?

you can pre-order from play.com...
http://www.play.com/play247.asp?pa=s...C&title=677220

I think the OP was referring to which shops will have a "pre-order package", which would offer stuff like exclusive in game items, etc. Play's web site doesn't explicitly state that they will have such things for Factions (although they do for alterntive games).

Follow Alex's advice, and give it a couple of weeks.

oh right, I see, but all you would get will be a plushee or something lol

thanks for clearing that up play have it n game have it for pre order but nothing about special items we should just wait n see =D

i know you can pre-order from amazon.uk but i'm not sure if you can pre-order the collecters addition or not.

Thanks Temp for asking the question I wanted the answer to

You could pre order Guild Wars Factions about 4 months ago on www.play.com

Yeah please confirm that the play.com pre-order will have all cool stuff (assuming there is some)

Typically a preorder is a special package that you pay a small amount for, say $10. When the full version comes in you take your preorder (or receipt) to where you paid for it and get the full version at a discount of the amount you paid for the preorder. Preorders are intended to give a store a number of guarenteed sales. Lets say an EB gets 100 preorder packages but only sells 10 of them, it's unlikely they will want to bring in 100 copies of the game when it's released. They'll instead bring in 10 copies, plus a few extras.

Yeah, I remember a friend of mine getting a pre-order - it had "cool stuff" but nothing of much worth. So it's pretty much what I guessed - thanks anyway.

The pre-order items of Faction will with all probability be a lot better than the ones for original GW.

Most of the items Korea and Taiwan have received lately have been useful, I even saw the "Coke" shield being used by one of the Korean teams in the GWWC regionals.

Play.com as always the best prices.

If you want a shop I am sure GAME, Virgin or HMV will have pre-orders.

But just a word of warning if its like last year you will be lucky to get GW in any UK by release date. Unless u get online.

It’s not a big deal from what I have seen, just a have look at the UK magazines coverage you get a nice FAT 0 about GW fair enough factions is too new to talk about still.

I hope Chapter1 gets more coverage than GW maybe will be able to see european servers as full like it is in the US servers.

If you want websites I would say Play.com, Amazon.co.uk, gameplay.co.uk and I am sure u will get them pre-orders.

Do a trial go to a store and ask about GW and you will see the response. "GUILD what" its so funny it hurts

I am sure its not going to be a sell out plus there is not even a confirmation date yet for the game release.

I don’t think shops give anything away unless A.net provided them. i may be wrong on that.

If the reason you want to find a store is coz u dont have a credit/debit card, i know that gameplay has an option to pay you game at the post office just go online and make a request for gameplay card.
here is the link.

http://shop.gameplay.co.uk/webstore/gamepayinfo.asp

Check this site for UK Retails.

http://www.guildwars.com/products/chapter1.html

I got my preorder (and the game itself) from Fry's. On the day of release, anyone with a preorder got the game (whichever version for the appropriate cost less the cost of the preorder), a t-shirt, a poster and a mousepad. ANet may have provided the items almost certainly, but I didn't notice any other businesses giving away extras.

May I ask you were is Fry's? Never hear of it. Is that based in the UK?

No Fry's is an American eletronic's store...as far as I know...they have them in Oregon.

Thanks that’s what I was thinking; getting so much stuff in a bundle could only been in the states.

He probably missed the bit that the question was UK (Europe) related

Was that a pre-order? i hear it was a promo that Coke was doing in Korea only.
Maybe something like collect tokens or bottle tops etc..

But correct me if i am wrong.