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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Monday, January 26, 2004
At 6:00 pm PST on Wednesday, January 28th, the signup period for the World of Warcraft Beta Test will officially begin. We will provide a link to the beta-test application right here in the news section at that time. Testers are not going to be chosen on a first-come, first-served basis, so you will be able to submit an application and receive equal consideration anytime during the signup period, which will end on Wednesday, February 4th at 6:00 pm PST. Please note that multiple submissions from the same household will result in complete disqualification.
For this initial phase of the World of Warcraft beta test, we will only be able to accept applications from Canada, Korea, and the US. The test for Europe and other countries around the world will happen later this year. Please do not contact us for further information regarding the beta test; we will be posting a FAQ in the days ahead</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

There you have it. I hope to be see'n yalls there!

3 hours people.

Wot, no one interested at all? Jmeat? Vertigo?

Not willing to get hooked on a game that I'd have to pay an additional monthly fee to play normally!

Battle.net seems to be hammered at the moment.

I can understand why, but then again the beta signups are over the next week, and they are definitely not first-come first-served.

I'll probably check back in a few days and sign up.

Yea, i've been trying to sign up since i got home.

Their server got owned.

Work has been brutal to me, so not much free time. Although a quick check of battle.net reveals a page cannot be displayed error.

BTW, phoenix, are you automatically in the beta?

Its not first come first serve, and you have a week to sign up. Blizzard will choose people to ensure a fairly representive cross section of testers.

They forked over Diablo II: LOD and I've never cared for WC other then WC3 singleplayer, haven't played TFT yet.

Battle.net got more from me playing Di2 then I thought it would ever get after the horrors of playing on it with Starcraft and Broodwar. I think blizzard can suck mah ballz

1) Yes their server was pwned. It's not first come first serve, but exctied nerds are excited nerds. It's working now, just got the sh!t kicked out of it's bandwidth.

2) Yes, I'm automatically in

3) Tyranny, WoW is a MMORPG (like everquest, shadowbane, dark age of camelot et al) and as such will not be on battle.net. I know you hate the new cows in 1.10, but baal runs are just as lame .

Hellcows in 1.10 aren't worth my time and they are hardly what ruined Di2 for me. Regardless of if WoW uses B.net or doesn't use B.net, it is irrelevant either way as WoW also hits onto one of my other major pet peeves, which is paying monthly for online multiplayer.

Pinko convinced me to sign up. They'll probably pick me only because I'm the only poor bloke stil using a GF2 card

Signed up

Tyr I wouldn't even consider paying a fee for any game but an MMO. There's just infinitely more staff to pay and hardware to maintain with an MMO, the cost of keeping the game running requires a monthly fee.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by Scorch:
Pinko convinced me to sign up. They'll probably pick me only because I'm the only poor bloke stil using a GF2 card </font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

*eyes scorch suspiciously*

well, it appears i have some poor-bloke competition.

May the poorer bloke get into the beta... good luck