Ah-HA! PA Pre-Orders!

Just got an Email detailing PA Pre Orders;

Each edition comes with:

Retail key
Pre-order exclusive Theta Commander*
Soundtrack Download
Desktop Wallpaper

Warfare Edition gives you access to our Beta release.
Galactic Edition gives you access to our Alpha and Beta release, and you'll receive a Digital Artbook for PA.



Prophet time! Always said the chances of there being more Commanders, now the question is, do use KickStarters get Theta too?

Mike

Yeah i was wondering if i was being scammed.... But then they did say pre-orders were starting soon...

Thanks for telling us.
The only thing we still dont know the price for it but I think its something like 70-95$ for Warfare Edition and 130-160 for Galactic Editon.

Combat edition: $40
Warfare Edition: $60
Galactic Edition: $90

Makes me wonder if we get all 3 special commanders if we did the kickstarter :3

The email clearly states that all Kickstarter and Paypal backers get the commander. That's what the asterisk next to "Theta" is for.

The notation is at the bottom of the email in fine print.

alpha and theta commander looking real good
I'm really glad that i choose the 100€ tier and get all this awesome stuff XD

With all these commanders, it will be hard to decide which to choose XD

I am confused.

I backed the game on kickstarter and it said that in return I would get a free copy of the game once it is finished. Why then was I sent an email asking me to pre-order the game?

It's more to do with having registered for other Uber products, like if you've played MNC or SMNC chances are you gave them your email at some point, basically you just ended up on thier mailing list.

Mike

What Mike said. I backed PA with a different email address (I'm hardly using the old one anymore) and the pre-order mail went to the old address which is bound to SMNC. I didn't get an email on the address I used to back PA.

Wait, you are the guy who wrote the great AIs for FA and SC2, aren't you? PA just got a lot more interesting...

I wasn't so keen on the project before due to the over-confident attitude of the studio('best game ever', 'never seen before', all the typical drivel you get from a game that usually turns out to be mediocre at best) and the fake gameplay trailer feeling rather scammy.

Now I might even think about pre-ordering it later on (once there is at least some evidence that it's going to be what is promised).

In addition to what Mike said, think of it this way; tell your friends!

Gotta say, the Theta Commander looks awesome. Any clues as to how it'll be different from the default ones?

hopefully nothing except visuals

Seems like they want the special commanders to have something more then just visual differences (not set in stone yet, but they have implied it).

But dont worry to much:

I think I would be fine with different commanders if anyone can chose them. If the uber-imba-acu is only available to pre-orders it would kinda be a problem.
In the end I trust Uber wont do anything stupid.

I actually thought "hey yeah, another good reason to buy another PA account", until I saw that I will get the theta-commander anyway xD

The email I got said if you got the $20 ( or $15 while it lasted) edition and up, you get the theta commander