It was my (33rd) birthday on the 12th and my wonderful sister preordered me the War of the Ring. I have heard too many glowing reports from Andy Daglish to resist. His play testing has even made him enough of a zealot to (rather harshly) flame Chris Farrell about it.

Unfortunately my copy is sitting in a warehouse until the official international release date. I hate this sort of nonsense. Do Nexus really think they will sell more games by using this approach?

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