You'll need to purchase an online pass if you want to experience the entirety of Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning.

The images appear to hint at the lockdown of an entire questline called the House Of Valor, which requires the redemption of a unique code to access. Of course, if you buy the game used or don't have access to an Internet connection, you're potentially out of luck.

The online pass itself denotes that the House Of Valor faction questline comprises "seven additional player quests". How prominent said objectives are in the context of the full game remains to be seen — but we think it's a little bit sneaky how EA has kept this quiet.

Update @ 06:30AM GMT: 38 Studios' community manager "Muse" posted the following comments on the company's official forums:

"We wanted to post a quick clarification for something we've seen a few comments about. For what it's worth, the House of Valor content was not in the finished game/disc at one point, then removed. It isn't there and we're locking you out of it. The House of Valor was created as stand-alone content, and was always intended to be the first DLC. Instead of holding onto it and charging for it later, we opted to give it to everyone who purchases the game new, for free, on launch day. We hope that helps clarify that point, at least."

Certainly makes things a touch more palatable, huh?