[AC] A Big Announcement!

[Ziv]

[turbine]

Hello there everyone. As some of you may have noticed there was not a weekly update thread this week. The reason for that was that I was waiting until I could make these announcements to you. So without further delay…

We are very excited to be able to bring you some big news regarding Asheron’s Call. The first announcement is that as of the January event, all players who have purchased and upgraded to Throne of Destiny, will be able to activate and use the High Res Textures. The Team has been working very hard the past few months to get these ready for you and we are all very excited about this. Keep in mind these textures are not a major upgrade. When first creating these textures it was necessary to make sure the game still ran under the recommended specs. In some cases you may not notice a big difference in the textures.

The other big announcement that we have concerns Darktide. Many months ago it was mentioned that Darktide was due for a hardware upgrade due to the different play style on that world. We are pleased to say that sometime before mid-February, Darktide will receive that hardware upgrade. We will announce the actual date for this as we get closer to the time that it will happen.

I would also like to take this time to remind everyone that as of January 10th, 2006 along with account migration no longer being available, the ability to enter pre- order keys will also be turned off. So please make sure that if you still have any of these keys that you have not entered into our billing system, that you do so before the 10th of January.

In the coming weeks I will have more information for you on the exciting things happening for AC right now. These are just some of the things to come for Asheron’s Call and the team is very excited about the future.
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Andy "Frelorn" Cataldo
AC Community Relations
Turbine, Inc