Do you know if the vengeance thing is based on your friends list or is it just random from the steam community?
Also wondering about this, or if you need to register at that WB thing (I haven't yet).
As to the game, bought the premium edition last night. Only around 2 hours into it, but only done side stuff so far. No golden quests. My first encounter, ran up to some tents, started fighting three normal orcs, that called more, and suddenly 4 nameds had introduced themselves. I ran. Made me wish MMO games would do that though.
The HD texture pack requirements are highly overrated. I am playing on a laptop, GTX 880, 4 gigs and it runs without hickups at around 55-60fps. I did what TB did in the video, turned everything to max except ambient occulsion, that I set to high. For anyone with the PC version, I would suggest downloading them. They are free, so might as well try them.
Could not stand the PC controls, so playing it with my PS4 controller. Much better, though I do miss mouse aiming when using the bow. However, other than that it is worth it. I also like the rumble features.
So far it seems really good. Wouldn't mind a mod that made the blood spatter a bit more realistic though. Kind of looks like the internal parts of the orcs consist of blobs of green goo/jell-o.