Actually they just finished last wave of closed beta invites (I got accepted like 6 hours ago) so I wouldn't expect open beta signups to start atleast for a week.
1) to have information on file to take action against TOS violations with email warnings, suspensions, or bannings, and
2) to be able to ration out the OB keys so as to preserve the downloading sites - ie send out a large number of keys to start, then 3 hours later send the next batch, etc - if everyone could just go to a site and download you might have a 72 hour wait time with 300k people trying to access the downloader...
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Actually they just finished last wave of closed beta invites (I got accepted like 6 hours ago) so I wouldn't expect open beta signups to start atleast for a week.
I suspect Open Beta signups are for two reasons:
1) to have information on file to take action against TOS violations with email warnings, suspensions, or bannings, and
2) to be able to ration out the OB keys so as to preserve the downloading sites - ie send out a large number of keys to start, then 3 hours later send the next batch, etc - if everyone could just go to a site and download you might have a 72 hour wait time with 300k people trying to access the downloader...
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