{"id":1088,"date":"2008-10-29T12:52:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/29\/a-dubious-pre-order-gift-and-more\/"},"modified":"2008-10-29T12:52:10","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T16:52:10","slug":"a-dubious-pre-order-gift-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/29\/a-dubious-pre-order-gift-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dubious Pre-Order Gift and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/newsStory?cId=3170990\">If you pre-order <em>Empire: Total War<\/em>, you will get <em>Rome: Total War<\/em> for free.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, <em>Rome<\/em> is half a decade old. But I would think that most of the people who would consider pre-ordering <em>Empire<\/em> already have <em>Rome<\/em>. You can get it very cheaply now, after all. No word on whether or not Barbarian Invasion is included.<\/p>\n<p>If you opt for the Special Forces Edition, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sega.com\/empire\/gameinfo\/news.php?n=2440\">you will get elite units<\/a>. This decision really bothers me, since it moves PC games even further down the road of more ingame goodies for people who pay more. Especially since you know that these special units will be unlocked for all users in a patch or expansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you pre-order Empire: Total War, you will get Rome: Total War for free. Yeah, Rome is half a decade old. But I would think that most of the people who would consider pre-ordering Empire already have Rome. You can get it very cheaply now, after all. No word on whether or not Barbarian Invasion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[28,78,77],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-hy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}