I thought I would post that my copy of Guild Wars: Factions arrived today.

I personally find this topic interesting because I really have no use for the CD - NC Soft shipped me the game over the Internet a few weeks back. Yes, I was just a Guild Wars: Prophecies player and NC Soft streamed 460 meg of Factions content to me even though they had no knowledge I had pre-ordered their new Factions game (separate games, you can own Prophecies or Factions or both). Earlier this week NC Soft streamed another 80 meg to me. That is 540 meg of game delivered via cable modem. That is a LOT of people receiving a LOT of non-requested data over the Internet.

So here is a 'new' game in the mail from EB Games, I open the box in order to ignore the CD and to get at one piece of paper - the Access Key. I enter that in the Account Panel under my existing account and now I am playing Factions. I don't know what management at our cable company thinks of delivering 100,000 games over the internet for software companies but they are providing that service! =^_^=

Do you play FFXI on a PC with nice hardware? (Guild Wars is graphics intensive) Do you have a cable modem? Well here is the Guild Wars Client for PC's (a few years back I used to help out at a Help Desk, so I know about clients and servers)
http://www.guildwars.com/support/downloadclient/

I am sure that just like for me NC Soft will then try to stream about 600 meg onto your PC's hard drive. Here is the recommended hardware (don't ask me questions about hardware! LOL!):
http://www.guildwars.com/support/faq/

So do you know a Clan member who pre-ordered Factions? I did, and so I am posting here. If you have a nice PC (per the FAQ) and want to try out Prophecies then the pre-order box of the Factions Campaign shipped with a ten hour Trial Key for Prophecies. Yes, you can try out the Prophecies Campaign for ten hours if you want. I have one ten-hour key. It is a 25 character Trial key. Here are the first ten codes: 1DDGQ-61NL9-

Look me up in the game if you are a Clan Member and you want the next fifteen codes. This is for the original game and not for the new Factions Campaign. I only have the one Trial Key for Prophecies.

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* Windows XP/2000/ME/98
* Intel Pentium III 1GHz or equivalent
* 512 MB RAM
* CD-ROM Drive
* 2 GB Available HDD Space
* ATI Radeon 9000 or GeForce 4 Ti Series Video Card with 64MB of VRAM
* 16-bit Sound Card
* Internet connection
* Keyboard and mouse