The Secret World early access starts today
The Secret World early access has opened today for those who pre-ordered the game, and it's still available if you pre-order before July 3.
Early access to the MMO The Secret World has opened today, letting those who pre-ordered jump in sooner than later. If you aren't a member of that exclusive club, you can still pre-order before the proper July 3 launch date and get in early.
A brief beta test just ended, but if you didn't make it into that and want to pay your way into the game you can now. The MMO market is a bit overstuffed lately, but developer Funcom is hoping that a modern world with a clever mythical hook will attract players where various others have fallen short.
"With 'The Secret World' we are showing gamers as well as the gaming industry that MMOs can be taken into new, exciting directions and that innovation in this genre is definitely not dead," said Funcom SVP of marketing Morten Larssen. "Judging from the fantastic feedback we have already received from hundreds of thousands of beta testers, innovation is clearly the way forward and Funcom is excited to be breaking new ground."
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The Secret World early access has opened today for those who pre-ordered the game, and it's still available if you pre-order before July 3.-
Played it in the last beta before release. It's not worth the money or the subscription. I'll have some interest when it inevitably goes free to play.
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from the videos i've seen of gameplay that's the vibe i got from it.
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I'll admit, they got an interest story in it. Some of the puzzles and what not were cool. And I like the idea of their skill wheel system. But it still didn't seem to present it self as buy worthy.
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Tis not very polished. Puzzles were cool though, hope more games pick up on that.
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Never heard of this game so I googled it. Their website is a good lesson in bad web design.
A massive banner asking me to buy it in the middle, a funcom header and THEN a header for stuff relevant to the actual game, some programmer's face taking up the bottom half, another box asking me to preorder, I scroll down and I see email updates, some picture of a seal, which I gather is a screenshot but may well not be, and two posing guys, so I pan up to the top.
I click the tab "The Game" and there's not even screenshots. I was looking to find a trailer for some gameplay footage. I'm two pages in and I don't know whether this is a top down MMO, a shooter like Global Agenda, something that only has a shared hub world or what. The real shame is that the actual website looks pretty slick, it's just put together horrendously. Like.. if you're paying enough for your website to look so nice graphically it's a shame that it's so user unfriendly.-
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I just visited the website... you should have clicked on "media" at the top - perhaps you thought those were press releases or something?
I did a quick exercise and visited the BF3 and D3 official websites and their layout is pretty much similar albiet slightly better looking. Both websites don't give you much of an idea of the what the game might look like from the homepage.
You know... user experience consulting is becoming a big thing these days...
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