The Many Faces of Beta

[Garthilk]

Heya everyone. I know that the site has been brimming with excitement this week with the latest revelations for the US and AUS community. I wanted to put something together that will hopefully help people make sense of what is going on. So I'm going to repost a few bullet points, that will contain information that anyone can find, just by visiting the DevPost Tracker. Additionally, the WAR Beta Forums may also hold some useful information.

• Most of the North America and Aussie Collector's Edition Preorders have received Closed Beta invitations as a gift from Mythic.
• WAR is currently still in Closed Beta anywhere and everywhere. Open Beta doesn't start anywhere until Closed Beta has ended everywhere.
• Open Beta will start after the game finishes Closed Beta and before the Head Start.
• The upcoming Preview Weekend that Mythic has announced applies to those customers who have bought the North American CE at the present time. Dates for the event have not been revealed.
• Closed Beta invites are always subject to eligibility, Mythic needs to have requirements in order to ensure an organized, structured testing environment. The CE Beta that people have been invited to, still has the restriction, you must exceed system requirements.
• There is no separate Oceanic CE, there is only a European (GOA) or North American (Mythic).
• The CE customers who are being invited into beta right now are being invited into the current stage of the game's testing which is Closed Beta, instead of being invited later for the Open Beta. They will, of course, still get into the Open Beta.
• The NDA lift has nothing to do with the stage of Beta. It will be lifted when it's ready.
• The Oceanic servers are not yet live, we hope to have them up at the same time we are putting up the new servers for the newly invited CE customers.
• The beta forums are currently full, Mythic will not be inviting new players into the beta forums at the present time.
• You can still update you comp specs file for the remainder of the Closed Beta.
• The EU open beta will start on time.
• The EU account center will open on time.
• The EU live release and headstart will happen on time.
• CE pre-orders for the EU will get everything they were promised. Mythic has announced extra bonuses and GOA will see what can be done for EU customers in response to that.
• The CE Beta servers are not online. They CE Beta servers will be online hopefully middle of the week.
• The CE Beta still has the restriction that industry, or press people will not be invited.
• Additional CE Beta waves will be invited as soon as some outstanding account issues are resolved.
• I was accepted into beta but my torrent download is slow, see this post.
• If you far exceed system requirements and have the CE preordered but did not get invited, be aware Mythic is closely looking at their account centers to ensure that if there are any issues, that they are resolved.

[bbates024]

Great post something for me to save a llink to to answer all the questions that keep popping up.

[Hive]

Good summary, but it still doesn't cover those of us with CE's and equal comp specs that have seeming fallen through the cracks.

[Snozberry]

Originally Posted by Hive

Good summary, but it still doesn't cover those of us with CE's and equal comp specs that have seeming fallen through the cracks.

The last bulletpoint might help us that should have been invited and have not been.

[Mercurion]

Or those who honestly misunderstood what "member of gaming industry" meant.

[Soapbar]

Thank you for posting this information.

[Garthilk]

Originally Posted by Mercurion

Or those who honestly misunderstood what "member of gaming industry" meant.

This was also addressed, hit the DevTracker. The answer howerver, is that Mythic isn't going to go through and attempt to verify the information, even those with honest mistakes.

[Hresvelgr White]

Now, granted I'm a little out of the loop, but does this:

• Additional CE Beta waves will be invited as soon as some outstanding account issues are resolved.

Mean what I think it means? I swore I read that today was the last wave for beta invites. That, however, makes it sound as though there are still more to come.

[Monsterinc]

Thanks for the post. much appreciated, i was kinda losing my head abit after i heard CE ppl have been invited to beta and then finding out that one of my friends who registered last night GOT BETA THIS MORNING !!! mythic hate me hehehe. yeah jsut seems to be alot of infomation flowing around about all the exciting events taking place

Thanks for the summary.

Cheers

Monsterinc

[Snozberry]

Originally Posted by Mercurion

Or those who honestly misunderstood what "member of gaming industry" meant.

I don't know they don't allow members of the gaming industry or press into CB this late in the game. I mean, they'd still be under the NDA and it's not like Blizzard hasn't already stolen their ideas (OH SNAP!). I can garantee you someone from the press or gaming industry lied and is in beta right now anyway.

[Leopold]

Originally Posted by Hresvelgr White

Now, granted I'm a little out of the loop, but does this:



Mean what I think it means? I swore I read that today was the last wave for beta invites. That, however, makes it sound as though there are still more to come.

I was wondering the same thing; I am definitely eligible to get invited (computer specs, age, etc) yet I still haven't been invited.

[serratemplar]

Posted at 2:31AM yesterday: here:

Originally Posted by Mbj

3) Our Oceanic servers are not yet live, we hope to have them up at the same time we are putting up the new servers for the newly invited CE customers. Hopefully, both the Oceanic and CE servers will be up by the middle of next week, no promises though.

Posted by Garthilk today:

Originally Posted by Garthilk

[*]The CE Beta servers are not online. They CE Beta servers will be online hopefully middle of the week.

My guess is that there has been some post in the meantime that I missed clarifying? I was under the impression I'd be waiting over a week for the server(s) to be up for we CE folk.

EDIT: It occurs to me that 2:31 AM on Sunday was very likely still "Saturday Night" for MBJ, so "next week" could very well mean Wednesday/Thurs of this week (in like two days) instead of next week (in like nine days). Possibly I just need sleep. I'm going to go do that now.

[Ghostlurker13]

Originally Posted by Garthilk

Most of the North America and Aussie Collector's Edition Preorders have received Closed Beta invitations as a gift from Mythic.

Not me, I preordered the CE and still don't have my email from Mythic.

[Sphader]

Thanks for the update, this gives me hope that since I have the CE preordered and have it in my beta account and did not get invited that I will still have a chance of getting in.

-Big Brother is always watching-

[Vicious Steel]

Well, I just bought a new comp and upgraded my system specs a few days ago. I am now well above the requirements. I also pre-ordered the CE. Will I get into closed beta? Or is it too late?