Stress Beta: Everyone who signed up will recieve an invite.
Open Beta: Following a character wipe, everyone will have to download this version of the game. (Most likely the final, or semi-final version of release.) Characters created and played in Open Beta will be available to you upon release. Enjoying your character? Well, buy the game and continue adventuring.
Note: While this information is very accurate, it is subject to minor changes. Black fucked around with this message on 08-25-2004 at 10:04 PM.
WHEN?!
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Black had this to say about Cuba:
There will be two upcoming betas for WoW.Stress Beta: Everyone who signed up will recieve an invite.
Open Beta: Following a character wipe, everyone will have to download this version of the game. (Most likely the final, or semi-final version of release.) Characters created and played in Open Beta will be available to you upon release. Enjoying your character? Well, buy the game and continue adventuring.
Note: While this information is very accurate, it is subject to minor changes.
So in otherwords, the NEXT beta invite is stress beta?
Also, can we get a VERY rough estimated time on when the next bunch of invites will be released? Like, within the next 3 months or something like that? Willias fucked around with this message on 08-25-2004 at 11:15 PM.
Edit: In otherwords, something a better than soon, or very soon. 
quote:Sometime soon.
But Willias doesn't really care for music, do you?
So in otherwords, the NEXT beta invite is stress beta?Also, can we get a VERY rough estimated time on when the next bunch of invites will be released? Like, within the next 3 months or something like that?
Edit: In otherwords, something a better than soon, or very soon.
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Black's unholy Backstreet Boys obsession manifested in:
Characters created and played in Open Beta will be available to you upon release.
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Absolutely retarded, I thought Blizzard was smarter then that.
quote:Why, sir, why? Seems like a great marketing tactic to me.
Taste Reynar, you will see... More is all you need!
Absolutely retarded, I thought Blizzard was smarter then that.
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How.... Black.... uughhhhhh:
There will be two upcoming betas for WoW.Stress Beta: Everyone who signed up will recieve an invite.
Open Beta: Following a character wipe, everyone will have to download this version of the game. (Most likely the final, or semi-final version of release.) Characters created and played in Open Beta will be available to you upon release. Enjoying your character? Well, buy the game and continue adventuring.
Note: While this information is very accurate, it is subject to minor changes.
Where was this originally posted?
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Naimah stopped masturbating to porn to say;
Where was this originally posted?
Blackmage gets his information first hand. Rest assured if he says something about WoW, it's true.
The stress beta sign-ups will appear in a week or so. What this will be is one free week of WoW to test Blizzard's servers. You will not able to communicate with current closed beta testers, however.
You will also need a fileplanet subscription.
As for Mac versions: They already have a closed beta Mac version, I don't see why they won't have one for Stress and Open beta.
Open beta will be appearing Soon(TM). Around November.
One more thing... Code freeze forced upon Blizzard by Vivendi rumours are completely wrong.
quote:By "signed" I mean "signs". Typo on my part, sorry!
What sound does a dog make? Ruff. Like Kegwen's mother likes it.
Uh, fuck. I lose the email account I signed up for the beta with on September 30th. I hope they send those out soon.
To sign up, you need a fileplanet subscription.
This is a good idea, but I think they're going to lose out on a lot of people who (without the open beta) would have bought it anyway, but ended up hating it.
Or whatever. My thoughts aren't coherent tonight.
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Black who doth quote:
You will also need a fileplanet subscription.
Guess I won't get to play then.
I despise fileplanet.
I have a Fileplanet subscription, so yay for me Kegwen fucked around with this message on 08-26-2004 at 02:13 AM.
quote:Try the Open Beta, then.
Taste Maradon!, you will see... More is all you need!
Guess I won't get to play then.I despise fileplanet.
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Black said:
Also.The stress beta sign-ups will appear in a week or so. What this will be is one free week of WoW to test Blizzard's servers. You will not able to communicate with current closed beta testers, however.
You will also need a fileplanet subscription.
As for Mac versions: They already have a closed beta Mac version, I don't see why they won't have one for Stress and Open beta.
Open beta will be appearing Soon(TM). Around November.
One more thing... Code freeze forced upon Blizzard by Vivendi rumours are completely wrong.
So they let us in for a week then take it away from us? That is just cruel and unusual.
quote:Yes to your question, anyways.
Captain Kegwen will get you high tonight:
edit: saw Black's reply.
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Black had this to say about Knight Rider:
Also.The stress beta sign-ups will appear in a week or so. What this will be is one free week of WoW to test Blizzard's servers. You will not able to communicate with current closed beta testers, however.
You will also need a fileplanet subscription.
As for Mac versions: They already have a closed beta Mac version, I don't see why they won't have one for Stress and Open beta.
Open beta will be appearing Soon(TM). Around November.
One more thing... Code freeze forced upon Blizzard by Vivendi rumours are completely wrong.
Wait you said that:
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Stress Beta: Everyone who signed up will recieve an invite.
So does this mean that everyone who signed up for closed beta gets in? Or that you have to sign up for something else to play for a week?
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Out of a possible 10, Willias scored a straight 1 with:
So does this mean that everyone who signed up for closed beta gets in? Or that you have to sign up for something else to play for a week?
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Out of a possible 10, Black scored a straight 1 with:
By "signed" I mean "signs". Typo on my part, sorry!To sign up, you need a fileplanet subscription.
READ, MAN, READ.
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Bajah had this to say about dark elf butts:
READ, MAN, READ.
I missed that post, sorry. 
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Black wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
Why, sir, why? Seems like a great marketing tactic to me.
As I understand it from your explanation: if I go out on release day and buy the game, I will not start on the same level playing field as other people. Since folks playing from the beta will already have an advantage over me.
So basically, if I'm not in the open beta, I'm already behind.
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Reynar had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
As I understand it from your explanation: if I go out on release day and buy the game, I will not start on the same level playing field as other people. Since folks playing from the beta will already have an advantage over me.So basically, if I'm not in the open beta, I'm already behind.
Yes, but you, like everyone else, have the ability to download the game when it goes into open beta.
People that generally buy the game in the first week or two will have heard about it anyway and likely follow it -- also likely knowing about this opportunity. This may get those that weren't going to buy right away to go ahead and buy right away anyway. Those that buy the game a month or two later would be behind anyway.
So, you'd be behind, yes...but it is just as bad as you being behind by buying the game at release a week after it came out. Essentially, Blizzard is releasing the game a few days early online-only. EVERYONE that wants to will be in the open beta. It would only be a problem if it were random people and not everyone in open. Falaanla Marr fucked around with this message on 08-26-2004 at 11:18 AM.
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Oh Reynar. Oh Reynar! Oh Reynar!!;
As I understand it from your explanation: if I go out on release day and buy the game, I will not start on the same level playing field as other people. Since folks playing from the beta will already have an advantage over me.So basically, if I'm not in the open beta, I'm already behind.
It also cuts down on the "50 people want to kill the same rat" effect that this game will have if everyone buys it on the same day.
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A sleep deprived Falaanla Marr stammered:
EVERYONE that wants to will be in the open beta. It would only be a problem if it were random people and not everyone in open.
Ahh, it sounded like after the character wipe, everyone who was currently in the beta would be moved to open. As long as everyone who wants to be, is allowed in the open beta, then Im ok with that.
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Reynar had this to say about Duck Tales:
Ahh, it sounded like after the character wipe, everyone who was currently in the beta would be moved to open. As long as everyone who wants to be, is allowed in the open beta, then Im ok with that.
Yeah, I wouldn't be ok with it if it was the way you were thinking either.
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Talonus Model 2000 was programmed to say:
The open beta has the potential to cause PvP to become a mess IMHO. If you don't play open beta, you're fucked at release in PvP. Yes, most players will download the open beta, but not everyone will. Those who don't are going to be in trouble.
And people that don't get it right away are gonna be screwed in PVP anyway because there will be people that outlevel the curve anyway.
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I want some of what Talonus was smoking when they wrote this:
The open beta has the potential to cause PvP to become a mess IMHO. If you don't play open beta, you're fucked at release in PvP. Yes, most players will download the open beta, but not everyone will. Those who don't are going to be in trouble.
Except not, since PvP as parce explained it is gank-free. If you attack alliance guards as a hoarde, you can expect to be ganked, but at least by then you're prepared for it.
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Delphi Aegis stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
Except not, since PvP as parce explained it is gank-free. If you attack alliance guards as a hoarde, you can expect to be ganked, but at least by then you're prepared for it.
Horde.
And...thats only on the blue server. On the red server, it is kill or be killed, RZ style.
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Falaanla Marr had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
Horde.And...thats only on the blue server. On the red server, it is kill or be killed, RZ style.
I was pretty sure that you couldn't attack Alliance people in Alliance areas unless they hit you first, and vise-versa? I was thought that was put in the game to keep newbies from being randomly ganked. :/
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Everyone wondered WTF when Willias wrote:
I was pretty sure that you couldn't attack Alliance people in Alliance areas unless they hit you first, and vise-versa? I was thought that was put in the game to keep newbies from being randomly ganked. :/
There are like two small areas for each side that don't allow ganking. by level 10, you're in gankable areas.
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This one time, at Willias camp:
I was pretty sure that you couldn't attack Alliance people in Alliance areas unless they hit you first, and vise-versa? I was thought that was put in the game to keep newbies from being randomly ganked. :/
Yes. There's Alliance, Horde, and Neutral areas. Alliance members have immunity in Alliance zones, and will only engage in PvP if they choose to initiate, and vice-versa for the Horde in Horde zones. Neutral zones are free for all areas (though you still can't attack members of the same faction).
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This one time, at Falaanla Marr camp:
There are like two small areas for each side that don't allow ganking. by level 10, you're in gankable areas.
You're right, sounds like one of the Zek servers. BTW, what do you lose by dieing to pvp in WoW?
