Binky:The main issue here is that there is a lot of speculation in this thread.

We have given out zero details on this Eighth Age box. GameStop and EB were not given the go ahead to post any information until the official site is live (Thursday), but they did and they didn’t have all the information to make it clear for you.

Also, the tokens don’t need tested, the items themselves do so we can avoid any issues like with the evil items. More testing is better than too little testing.

Everyone active account will get one of the items regardless of purchasing this expansion.

And “new players” can also mean “returning” or “former players”. So in that case, a transfer code could be very handy if you play on Lake Austin and the retuning buddy played on Sonoma, now he can buy this box and have all the expansions and have a transfer code to join you on Lake Austin in one fell swoop and the cost of a transfer code.