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Best news i've heard about WAR, US, Euro, and Ocenaic servers launching at the same time, SWEEET!!!!

Originally posted by greymann

Originally posted by Deto123

Originally posted by greymann

Originally posted by Ascension08

No free previews for Greymann awwww! Obviously only letting people who are interested in and CARE enough about the game to pre-order it actually test it to make it better is 100% wrong. We should get random hippies to do it because they'll do a much better job.

 

Care about the game?  Neither fanboys nor mythic have given anyone outside the beta much to care about.  It's a win win for me.  If it turns out to be great I'll be there.  If not, at least I didn't commit prematurely.  Oh poor neglected greymann didn't get in in open beta and that first week of launch.  I smell fanboy fear big time on this one.  Hope some people don't have to change their avatars soon.

The thing is that i stated earlier, is this has been common knowledge for quite some time now. Bringing this up is redundant. If you think Mythic hasn t been open on info and given people things to care about, you re either blind or living under a rock.
 

Caring... lol

Right, you just want to get in the game for a free trial, a little preview to see if you like it, not to test. The game's better off without you so stop your bitching. "Oh but I will test you don't know what I'll do!!" I hope you don't come up with that kind of response, haha. You've already showed that you think beta should be a marketing tool more than a development tool.

Originally posted by greymann

Originally posted by Sain34

How is it a "thing of the past" when it's only been the fade for the past few years. For the first 5 years of MMO history Beta was a sacred and honored thing. Now a days the avgerage shmoe expect to get into beta and get pissed when they don't. I never understood Open Betas anyway, the idea of a beta test is to bring people that can help make the game better. John Q Jackoff can't even remotly help make the game better and in all honesty just wants free game time.

 

Are you a bitter game dev or something?  You just revealed your total unprovoked disdain for players.  You'd rather players buy blindly falling for hype and become jaded at the industry. Hail to the corporation!  Any dev confident in their product will release a demo or in a mmo's case an open beta.  Open betas only hype a game more if it's worth crap.  Bad games suffer.  It doesn't get any simpler then that.

Actually I will probably the first person on an MMO forum to NOT claim to be a dev or code wizard. Honestly I am just sick of the undeserved sense of entitlement that people seem to walk around with

Originally posted by mike470

Wow, I'm surprised.  I expected a much later launch date.

I'm guessing open beta is just a thing of the past....

So did everyone else. Sadly (and I am not a WoW fanboy) I think they cut the content (stupidly cut at that) they did just so they could release the game early to get a head start on WotLK. Something I think will turn out to be a mistake for Mythic.

GG EA for screwing with WAR.

Originally posted by AlienShirt

Originally posted by mike470

Wow, I'm surprised.  I expected a much later launch date.

I'm guessing open beta is just a thing of the past....

 

So did everyone else. Sadly (and I am not a WoW fanboy) I think they cut the content (stupidly cut at that) they did just so they could release the game early to get a head start on WotLK. Something I think will turn out to be a mistake for Mythic.

 

GG EA for screwing with WAR.

Better to cut content and make sure whats releasing is solid rather then pull a age of conan.

Also, most people think open beta is demo now a days so it's pretty smart to release it when the product is pretty much "finished" (eg. 1~2 weeks before hitting the shelves).

Obviously they wanted to release before WOTLK or they would've lost a lot of customer... suscribers or initial box buyers.

Open beta admission: Pre-order customers can experience the glory of battle and the thrill of WAR by participating in the open beta test.

Where are all the people that were bitching about AOC "Open beta" on fileplanet now? (even if they opened it to anyone a little later)

I thought WAR was diffrent?

 Shouldn't you be:

 Looking forward to it. It's about time... :-)

"OPEN BETA ACCESS
Experience the glory of battle and the thrill of WAR before the game goes live.

The Open Beta will be level capped and content restricted. You will be allowed to choose any of the game's 20 unique careers and advance through rank 20. You will also be free to explore and battle across Tiers 1 and 2 of each army's homeland. Please note that any characters created during the Open Beta will NOT carry over into the live game as they will be wiped from the servers.

To register for Open Beta:
1. After August 15, 2008 visit the Mythic Entertainment Account Management website.
2. Create a new Warhammer Online game account.
3. When prompted, enter your Open Beta code.

Your Open Beta code can be found on the card in your pre-order box or in your pre-order confirmation email. Open Beta files will be available for download on August 15th. Stay tuned for more details. "

Source: http://www.warhammeronline.com/preorder/

Originally posted by KnightHawk63

Greymann to be honest with you, if you want an open open beta then you need to look at another genre because MMO's just aren't doing them anymore.  Quit your QQ'ing and find another game to troll just because you didn't get to play the game.  What is the point of your posts to begin with?  They made a release date and your bitching about it?  Seriously, find reason in your post and then come back, also whining about the open beta is pointless when your obviously not interested in the game.

MMO's aren't doing them anymore?  Since warhammer right?  As if they make the rules.  Get real.  Some people actually understand that not providing an open beta unlike other major mmo releases before them is a negative thing for many reasons.  You're just mesmerized my friend.  It's impossible for you to get it.