This Might Take a Long Time

Posted by Stropp on May 23, 2008

That’s what the Age of Conan installer is telling me about the installation of resources.

Yep. The disks did come in today. The store did not call me, even though a claim was made, I called them around 5pm and picked up the pack on the way to my Mums birthday dinner. I’m home now, installing from the first of two disks — it might take a long time.

I’m not sure if I mentioned this previously, but I preordered the collectors edition.

I’ve never really been one for collectors editions. They used to be just tins and a cloth map, but lately the MMORPG CEs have been more substantial. The Age of Conan Collectors Edition comes in a box designed as an ancient tome. It has a leather map — nice and smelly… mmmm — a bonus disk, a soundtrack disk, and an art book. The manual left a bit to be desired. You’d think the CE would have a colour manual, but since the manuals in a continually updated online game aren’t all that useful it’s not much of an issue.

The art book is what I like in the CEs. I’ve always been an art admirer, I love art galleries even if I don’t get to go as often as I’d like, so the books appeal to me. That’s one of the main reasons I bought The Burning Crusade Collectors Edition. I’m hoping for the same in the WotLK CE and Warhammer Online CE.

There are a couple of game items too. The mount, a mammoth for me — though I’d have preferred the rhino — a drinking cape, and a ring.

So. It is taking a long time. With a second disk and a patch to download once the game is installed I think I might go and put on some coffee.

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