Electronic Arts and 38 Studios are
giving gamers an incentive to pick up a first-run copy of the fantasy
role-playing game Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. An online pass included
with new copies of the game unlocks seven House of Valor faction quests
inside the gameworld.
A
new copy of the game for the Xbox 360 provided to GameSpot includes the
online pass, and a statement to Joystiq confirms that first-run
PlayStation 3 copies will also sport the pass. Downloaded versions of
the game for the PC will include the content by default.
It
was not made clear if the House of Valor questline will become
available as downloadable content for those with a secondhand copy of
the game. As of press time, EA had not responded to GameSpot's request
for comment.
Writing
on the game's official forums, 38 Studios community manager "Muse"
noted that the House of Valor quests were not included on disc and then
taken out.
"The
House of Valor content was not in the finished game/disc at one point,
then removed. It isn't there and we're locking you out of it. The House
of Valor was created as stand-alone content, and was always intended to
be the first DLC. Instead of holding onto it and charging for it later,
we opted to give it to everyone who purchases the game new, for free, on
launch day."
Kingdoms
of Amalur: Reckoning is not the first EA-published title to sport an
online pass. New copies of Battlefield 3, Dead Space 2, Need for Speed:
Hot Pursuit, and several EA Sports titles all included onetime-use codes
to download additional content.
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