How do Pre-Orderers get in 24 hours early?

Well, like many i preordered GW:F and got the preorder kit. Of course, I know people with the preorder we get preorder items/get in 24 hours early. I know how to get my preorder, which i have already checked out(which are pretty nice), but my question is how are the people witht he preorder stuff going to get in early? Are we getting the game early...? or what?

No, the key lets you access Cantha 24 hours early.
You know that the game is mostly downloaded on your PC now.
Its just waiting for April 27th/28th to be unlocked.
Once the game hits the stores you wont be able to play it untill you actaully buy a retail copy and add the key to your account.

And before you ask, if you played 24 hours before, you wont lose your character and do not have to start over.
The retail key lets you play on the 28th and on.

Call me an idiot if you want, but your saying people with preorders can play for the 24 hours before its release, but then tey cannot play after that period until they ourchase the retail version?

Yes, it was mentioned here in the forum before.
They might allow you to play a couple of days but you will need the retail key after that.

get the f*ck outta here! so you mean that i have paid for
ONE day of game and 2 crappy weapons and then there
after need to buy ANOTHER faction game????

(pre-order costed as much as the core edition for me)

big question for me is,if we get our extra slots only from the retail then how do those with 4 chars get in 24 hours early ?

Pre order (as in the pre order disk) is free. Some stores charge $10 for it
Once you pick up the retail copy then they will deduct $10 from the price.

If you have paid full price for the pre order then your retail is free. You just have to go pick it up. (I hope that you saved your recipet)

The pre order key is ONLY for the items and the 24 hours access.

To play the game YOU NEED THE Retail key.
You should pay twice.

Take my case for example:
I have the pre order (paid $5).
Applied the key, which got me the weapons plus the 24 hour early access.
On April 28th, I have to go to the store to get the full copy of the game.
If its $59 then I will pay $54.


The PRE ORDER key gives you access 24 hours, it knows that its a Ch2 key, gives you the 4 slots (or just 2, if you are merging accounts)
You just have to login to the game 24 hours before April 28th and create a character and off you go.

To continue playing you need to get the retail key.

jeff said we don't get our 2 extra char slots untill adding the retail key so if you have 4 chars alrdeay then you can not log in and create a rit or ass.i just hope,because of this,that i can at least take my old chars in 24 hours early.but i got the pre-order so i could create a new char 24 hours early to get a jump on play styles of the new chars and to get a jump on the name of my new chars.

i bought it from the internet and havent gotten the cd or
case or anthing like that, they sent the key to my hotmail
address and the thing is i havent paid for the f*cking thing
yet (even though its full priced)

Oh ok, thats ok though since I will take my Mesmer first into Ch2.
But it kinda defies the purpose of having access 24 hours before and not having to be able to create new characters.
I assume that everyone would want to try the new characters.

Damn internet, I hate buying anything on the iternet since you do not actually have the option to talk to a human being.

Try to contact the site you got it from and find out how are they going to do about getting you the retail key.

If you have not paid anything yet then you are set, just buy the full game when its out.

I think that when you ordered the pre order, they just sent it to you since its free.
My box had a price tag of $0.00 on it. I just paid 5 dollors to reserve a copy when EB gets it since they were getting limited quantities the first couple of days.

im calling them right now

they are not open >

http://www.webhallen.com/prod.php?id=53686
here is the thing btw

it is my understanding that pre-order packs get 24 hour early access and then have up to 24 hours after the day factions opens to the general public to purchase and/or activate their key to continue with uninterrupted access.

If thats the case then that sucks - I only ordered the pre-order pack for the 24 hour earlier access (and as I have 4 characters already and don't want to delete any - all PvE with between 500k and 2m XP each), as I expect better weapons than the pre-order exclusives will be in game, but at least expected to be able to create a new character and start the game. If I'd have known I wouldn't get the extra slots till I applied the retail key I'd have waited and got Factions for the £17.99 I'd already ordered it at, rather than switch to GAME and pay £31 for it.

Yeah, you can play with the preorder key for 48 hours, starting the day before general release. Then you have to add a retail key to continue playing. Unfortunately, you have to use an existing character slot during those 48 hours. That's why I never would have paid for the preorder (the 5 bucks I put down goes toward the price of the retail game).

If you have paid full price for the pre-order then they will obviously ship you the product when it is released, not before, or you will have to pick it up, depending on what you chose on the site. That's how Best Buy works anyways...So you would have to wait until it is released in stores to get the retail key. If you paid the $5 or so for the pre-order key ONLY then it's just as the others said, you will have to buy the full version when it's released.