Unlocking Walmart Free Bonus Content

Hello, I picked up a copy of the game at Walmart, and inside was an insert saying to go to www.elementalgame.com/walmart to enter the serial number to access the free content. Only, when I go to that address, it says log in to link the content with my Impulse account. When I log in, I get dropped back to the Elemental website's homepage, with no notification of whether it did anything or not, and at no point was I asked to enter my serial key. I've launched the game, if it did work, what "bonus" content am I suppposed to be looking for? My game is registered and updated via Impulse.

Thanks

 

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Hopefully a Stardockian (i.e. stardock staff heh heh) will jump in but  I do not think the bonus content is ready yet.. again think  is operative term...

Reply #2 Top

what is the bonus for walmart ?

Reply #3 Top

Sounds like a website bug. After you're logged in to the website, try going back to the Walmart page. Since you're logged in this time, it should let you enter the code.

Reply #4 Top

As far as I know, the content is supposed to be available sometime after release, I don't think it's available yet. But I don't have a Walmart/BestBuy copy, so I can't say for a fact.

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Best Buy content isn't available yet either.  I think other issues are getting priority over bonus content creation.

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what additional content?

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Quoting GCFL, reply 7
what additional content?
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 walmart insisted on some so.... Stardock said they would add it.. I believe book content is coming first because it was promised first..

Quoting silenthightimes, reply 5
just bought the game instaled and update to day sep 8 2010 still have not fixed or put in the walmart bonus.
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None of the bonus content has been released yet.. the book content is coming soon but I cant find the thread with the release info again heh heh but it is also mentioned int the dev journal form yesterday.

https://www.elementalgame.com/journals

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Well, WHEN will it be available.  Today is October 24.  I bought from Best Buy and have seen nothing regarding bonus content.  I also get thrown back to the home page.  What's up?

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Some of the book content is out.  Some extra choices for sovies (3 of whom I have played) came 1st, then an extra map which I have not checked out yet.  There are supposed to be 3 more things coming over the next few months.

I'm pretty sure the remaining extras will have to wait for 1.1 patch.  Not just a matter of "priority" but also avoiding wasting time on double-work -- I suspect that all the extras will need some re-writing for the patch, so why do more the old way and then rewrite.

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Quoting Twohawks, reply 8

 walmart insisted on some so.... Stardock said they would add it.. I believe book content is coming first because it was promised first..

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Well thank you Walmart! What a complete waste of developer time. >:(

I guess this is another argument for digital distribution...

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Well, WHEN will it be available.  Today is October 24.  I bought from Best Buy and have seen nothing regarding bonus content.  I also get thrown back to the home page.  What's up?
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The Walmart/Best Buy content has already been released. Enter your code here for Walmart or here for Best Buy, then it should appear for download in Impulse.

Reply #13 Top

-deleted- Nevermind, it worked now. Must login first before going to link. Cannot login after going to page.

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Hello, I picked up a copy of the game at Walmart, and inside was an insert saying to go to www.elementalgame.com/walmart to enter the serial number to access the free content. Only, when I go to that address, it says log in to link the content with my Impulse account. When I log in, I get dropped back to the Elemental website's homepage, with no notification of whether it did anything or not, and at no point was I asked to enter my serial key. I've launched the game, if it did work, what "bonus" content am I suppposed to be looking for? My game is registered and updated via Impulse.

Thanks

 

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The content will download through Impulse separately, you'll see it, I think it's called Elemental: The Relic of Argynn.

Reply #15 Top

Damn, I should have gotten it at Wal-Mart instead of Impulse, they are selling it for 10$ cheaper and it comes with extras :(

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Quoting Lord, reply 15
Damn, I should have gotten it at Wal-Mart instead of Impulse, they are selling it for 10$ cheaper and it comes with extras
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Yeah, they "rolled back" the price to $39.96 last I checked.

Reply #17 Top

Has anyone actually seen the bonus content in-game?  I have started multiple games since installing the Best Buy content and have yet to see it in-game.

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and it comes with extras
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They will be released to everyone 90 days after they were initially made available. They're just some extra random quests that you'll encounter while exploring map locations.

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Quoting Reiknar, reply 19
What a fucking joke.
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So you created that profile just to post that comment? Way to contribute. The Walmart/Bestbuy content is just a few quests and utterly worthless nonsense that you could mod into the game yourself and do 1000x better in just a few hours, or you could just download one of the mods that has a bunch of additional content.

 

Making posts like these and necroing threads with pointless comments like that are just going to rile the anti-trolls on the forums.

 

I was a pre-order and bought the book too, and I don't care that the extra content is late because I'm not missing it. It has no bearing on my game whatsoever. So either you didn't actually look to see what little content there was, or you're petty enough to demand they do something when they should be spending their time fixing issues that are preventing some people from actually playing the game period, or you're just trolling.

And based on the fact that you created the profile specifically for this post, you're either specifically trying to tick people off and don't want retaliation against your actual account, or you're not really worried about the game so much or else you'd have made an account a long long time ago to complain about the issue. Or again, you're just trolling. Edit: Or you just bought the game - I was a bit tired last night. :D

 

I can relate to people with legitimate concerns. "What a fucking joke" isn't a legitimate concern, it's just inane babbling about a thread from last year.

 

Edit: Ah, I saw that you were looking for legitimate support today. My assumption was that you were complaining that the content had _not_ been released, not that it was going to be released. That and with your bug issue, it looks like you're having an issue that I've not run into yet. I was tired of people begging for things to be released when the game itself was doing things like what you're experiencing to people. Honestly the exclusive content thing was a joke in the first place - Stardock is a smaller publisher so Best Buy and Walmart want to push them around and try to get people to buy from each. It's ridiculous. Though if forced to make a choice, just based on how they each treat their people, I worked for both and Best Buy is by far the better employer, so I'd buy from them.

 

But still, the "what a fucking joke" comment didn't really give people much to go on, and with a game that launched as poorly as this one did, and after some of the discussion between Frogboy and some of the other forum members the other day (i.e. at this point people with problems need to either stfu or be constructive or leave) I thought mayhaps you'd just created a new profile and necro'd just to tick people off.

Reply #21 Top

He actually posted his issues in the Support forum.  He is (somewhat understandably) upset that the advertised "exclusive" content he purchased isn't really exclusive.  It's like selling "exclusive" club memberships and then letting in the riff-raff after 90 days.  If Stardock didn't want to keep the content "exclusive", then they shouldn't make deals with the Walmarts/Bestbuys of the world to advertise content as such.

Reply #22 Top

I was actually in the process of editing my post when you posted. I kept track just in case I was mistaken about their intentions. And now that there's clarification I can understand - It'd be like me buying the collector's copy like I did for an extra $20-30 and then having the exclusive content mailed out for free to all the people who bought regular copies.

Reply #23 Top

You are correct though; his communication skills could use some work. :)

Reply #24 Top

It's okay. I've put my foot in my mouth plenty of times and not even gotten my feelings across. At least he got across that he was frustrated, if not the reason. :D