Am I the only one who sees it as odd that in order to upgrade your account for an mmorpg game, who already have your credit card details, and you already have to download files/updates from, you have to wait for your local game shop to get their delivery for the game, and they go pay for it there...
Why can't there be an option in the Account section to enable TOA/whatever expansion, they would charge you for it, then your account would be enabled for the expansion, so all you would need to do is download the ToA.exe and patch.ini, connect to patch server, and be done with it. I know its a lot of stuff to download, but it has been available to download for the last 2 weeks atleast (volanteers testing it, im sure there arent too many other files to DL after you get that version), and its preferable to waiting until... march the 1st (amazon.co.uk's (goa's officail partner (!!!) estimated delivery date) or whenever the game stores get it in.
Or
Just have the CD's on the shelf the friday before you release the expansion. Its not as if installing it early harms anything, its created in a new directory, isnt it? and it would also help stop the Account section zerg-out, as people would be able to register between the friday and the wednesday its patched to servers.
I just find it odd the way they currently do it... its asif they want to make it as hard as possible for everyone...
Why can't there be an option in the Account section to enable TOA/whatever expansion, they would charge you for it, then your account would be enabled for the expansion, so all you would need to do is download the ToA.exe and patch.ini, connect to patch server, and be done with it. I know its a lot of stuff to download, but it has been available to download for the last 2 weeks atleast (volanteers testing it, im sure there arent too many other files to DL after you get that version), and its preferable to waiting until... march the 1st (amazon.co.uk's (goa's officail partner (!!!) estimated delivery date) or whenever the game stores get it in.
Or
Just have the CD's on the shelf the friday before you release the expansion. Its not as if installing it early harms anything, its created in a new directory, isnt it? and it would also help stop the Account section zerg-out, as people would be able to register between the friday and the wednesday its patched to servers.
I just find it odd the way they currently do it... its asif they want to make it as hard as possible for everyone...