The possibility to download the Early Access client will be available soon. The links were up for a short moment today but they didn't link to the correct client yet. Some forum users posted those links so if you are at the moment downloading from that source, you are getting the wrong client.
The correct clients will be made available soon (today or tomorrow). Please wait for an official announcement.
Thank you for your patience.
Due to technical issues with the updater the Early Access client will not be available until later afternoon tomorrow. The opening date for the Early Access (17th of May) is not affected by this though. It just means the starting time of the download will start a tad bit later than initially planned. Thanks for your understanding.
Update: 11th of May 16:00pm GMT+2
After the downloader is available, we can start charging the Early-Access fee over the selected paying method. After that, access to the downloader for the Pre-Order client will be provided(around 14GB).
Depending on the paying method used, this could cause further delay in the Pre-Order download. Once the money is collected from a player, he will get an email with information on where to get the Downloader for the Pre-Order. Everything will be done and finished within 24 hours in the worst case.
We are not allowed to charge the players before providing the download.
We are sorry for any inconvienience this may cause and hope that the fee collection goes as fast as possible for all of you. To shorten the waiting time we have put together a little Howto for the Funcom Downloader, so you get the most out of it once you receive your download-link.
Update: 11th of May 16:00pm GMT+2
Just to clear up: Downloader is not ready, so no emails will be going out. Once we have it ready and start emailing we will let you know, so you can stop mangling your poor email client
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Oliver 'Tarib' Kunz
Senior Community Manager