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Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures siege mounts have been getting a lot of discussion on the official forums lately. In the thread "Pre order mounts and their future?" started on the Official AoC Forums by Nolf asks the question about siege mounts being made available to the community that did not receive one with a preorder. Funcom's Svein Erik "Sharum" Jenset dropped in to respond and let the community know that there might be siege mounts available in the future.

We might make an attempt at "making everyone happy" by adding new Siege Mounts to the game and letting the War Mammoth and Killer Rhino remain pre-order exclusives. Who knows what the future might hold :>

Not everyone was happy about this statement and some went as far as to accuse Funcom for lying about making preorder siege mounts exclusive to preorders only. While I recall the look of the preorders being said to be exclusive, I don't recall hearing the actual siege mounts as being exclusive. I'm pretty sure from the beginning of the siege mount discussion that Funcom stated there would be other siege mounts in the game, even though they have yet to make it in. Svein Erik "Sharum" Jenset
responded to one such post in this thread to try and set the record strait.

We never promised anyone that, through pre-ordering, they would gain access to a type/class of mounts that would be unavailable to everyone else; on the contrary we (even me personally) have said time and time again that while we have no direct plans to make the Killer Rhino and War Mammoth available to people that didn't pre-order we've been playing with the idea of making other types of siege mounts available to the public.

One other option would be to NOT include other siege mounts, of any kind, in the game; which could easily be viewed as disruptive to game balance. Furthermore, should we implement other siege mounts but make them more powerful those that pre-ordered would most likely feel cheated.

So, as it was intentionally and as it it still is, our plans involve releasing further types of siege mounts into the game in the future; and doing so without disrupting the game balance. The Killer Rhino and War Mammoth will still be exclusive in their appearance, and as such should depict anyone mounted on one as someone who pre-ordered the game.

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