You should check if it say closed beta ore beta. I have the same guarante and mine say beta access, nothing about a closed beta access.
Closed Beta access with a proviso of access to the later stages of the closed beta. But according to Funcom customer support they have no beta schedule. Yet according to their press release the closed beta has been running for several months. Now I would of thought it's in the later stages, but fair enough if they come back to me and state the closed beta is planned for 24months I have a while to wait yet. But let's just say I get the impression the left arm is not aware of what the right arm is doing and somebody is telling porky pies.
Shrug. Everyone who got their beta access from either via AoC subbing or some other way will get their access, if you don't have any patience, well, that's on you. If the game releases and still you weren't invited then you'd have all the reason to complain.
As for now, this whole discussion reminds me of the people who kept nagging and complaining about how they didn't get a beta access in SWTOR where others did get it, sometimes even a year before them.
Beta, just like alpha, is many iterations and often with different groups of people, that's in games like SWTOR, TSW, and many other MMO's.
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums: Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
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Closed Beta access with a proviso of access to the later stages of the closed beta. But according to Funcom customer support they have no beta schedule. Yet according to their press release the closed beta has been running for several months. Now I would of thought it's in the later stages, but fair enough if they come back to me and state the closed beta is planned for 24months I have a while to wait yet. But let's just say I get the impression the left arm is not aware of what the right arm is doing and somebody is telling porky pies.
Shrug. Everyone who got their beta access from either via AoC subbing or some other way will get their access, if you don't have any patience, well, that's on you. If the game releases and still you weren't invited then you'd have all the reason to complain.
As for now, this whole discussion reminds me of the people who kept nagging and complaining about how they didn't get a beta access in SWTOR where others did get it, sometimes even a year before them.
Beta, just like alpha, is many iterations and often with different groups of people, that's in games like SWTOR, TSW, and many other MMO's.
The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums:
Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."