Originally posted by Tyveil Is the beta still going on? I got my invite last week and just haven't had the harddrive space or the desire to play. If anyone wants my account I'll probably give it away.
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O for the love of god ill kill for a beta account!!! *worships Tyviel* EDIT:*sees earlier post* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO god they better have open beta soon, i was in the stress test.. Why did they have to take it away?! WHY!?!
Originally posted by Tyveil Is the beta still going on? I got my invite last week and just haven't had the harddrive space or the desire to play. If anyone wants my account I'll probably give it away.
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O for the love of god ill kill for a beta account!!! *worships Tyviel* EDIT:*sees earlier post* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO god they better have open beta soon, i was in the stress test.. Why did they have to take it away?! WHY!?!
Alittle obsessed are we?
Originally posted by Strider1233 I NEEEED world of warcrack- er craft! They gave us 10 days to play then took it from us, its horrible, ive played nothing for 2 weeks..
... and whos fault is it you have not played anything else? Seriously... go grab a game from EB or something... I know its hard, believe me I wasnt exactly happy after the stress test but I got over it. Join a guild or something. (www.jazer.com)
I think people with extra accounts should be nice and offer to share them with the 4star and up members of this site. Why? Well, yes, I do want one, but here's my thought. Everyone's selling them on ebay so the price is dropping anyways. Secondly, those who are 4 stars and up tend to be serious gamers who want to TEST the product before it comes out and help find the bugs in it. Anyways, i doubt it'll happen, but I'd be a nice gesture from those who got extra accounts.
SOE makes decent games that appeal to nerds. Their customer service is run by jocks who bully nerds. Wonder why SOE sucks so bad...
Originally posted by Cik_Asalin I have a non-Wow beta (wont say which here). I'd like to trade for a WoW beta PM me
I already told Blizzard of 2 different sites running emulators for WoW. They'll be getting closed very soon. As for thoth, I'm glad you did. I'm glad not EVERYONE testing WoW is so greedy as to put their accounts for sale. Even if I had several hundred dollars to sink into an account, I wouldn't. Why? Because the beta accounts are being WIPED. In anycase, I'd like to see more people offering their second accounts up on here if they haven't done so. And not to be greedy myself, but if anyone could PM me on here if you're giving away a spare account, let me know.
(PS- Found someone on ebay quite literally selling his soul for a beta account. Just search WoW on ebay to see the pathetic person)
SOE makes decent games that appeal to nerds. Their customer service is run by jocks who bully nerds. Wonder why SOE sucks so bad...
Originally posted by methane47 Welll, Yes They do, and Everyone backs up their data and information... But the thing is... The backups aren't backups incase of natural disaster... They are backups incase of server fault or a virus or corrupt data... blah blah blah... The thing about corporate backups... They back them up on machines and media that are stored in the SAME building... So people at most reserve a seperate room on maybe a different floor for backups......
Actually it is usually only differential backups that are stored in the same building. Full backups (usually weekly or monthly) are (or at least should be) stored in a vault off location. I work at a college and that is how I do it here.
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Originally posted by dekron LOL I got one but I just deleted the email about two weeks ago. Wasn't to hyped to play WoW after such negative reviews I read.--------------------------------------------33.333333333333336% of me is a huge nerd! How about you?Killer 100% Achiever 53% Explorer 33% Socializer 13% --------------------------------------------
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It appears to me that the current testers are getting to pick the next round of beta people.
Due to an error on WOW's part they mailed new invites and keys to the testers that were already in and instead of fixing that mistake they have decided to just let all the testers friends and family have them. While this seems a generous gesture I certainly hope it doesnt mean that they are not going to invite "new" testers as well.
Here is the mail I found it posted on the beta boards at WOW.
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From: worldofwarcraftbeta@blizzard.com T worldofwarcraftbeta@blizzard.com Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:07 PM Subject: Instructions for second authentication key
As you know, Blizzard is conducting a new phase of the World of Warcraft closed beta test. As a part of this phase, over 10,000 new beta account authentication keys were emailed to prospective testers.
Unfortunately, an error was made during the issuing of these keys and a number of current beta testers accidentally received a second authentication key.
Although it was never our intention to send additional keys to current testers, we feel it would be counterproductive to disable these keys when the opportunity presents itself to widen the beta test pool. Thus, we encourage you to distribute this second key to a friend. Please do not create a second account with your new key as this would be in violation of the Terms of Use agreement.
This email authorizes you to deliver the second authentication key, along with the original email instructions, to a friend whom you believe would make a valuable addition to the closed beta test. This person can then create an account to play World of Warcraft by visiting www.worldofwarcraft.com.
After creating a World of Warcraft account, your friend will need to contact Billing and Account Services at Billing@blizzard.com to change the email address associated with this second key. If your friend does not change the email address, then any future emails related to that account, including technical support information and instructions on downloading subsequent patches, will go to the original email attached to the second authentication key and not to your friend.
For quick access to each individual tester, and to comply with the Beta Test Terms of Use agreement, please ensure that whomever you give the second authentication key to immediately associates their email address to the second key.
Thank you for your continued support, and we hope to see both you and your friend in the World of Warcraft soon.
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starman...what i would do that work extra account....oh what i would do.....*sniff* i can always look at the screenshots and pertend im playing until release right?
Originally posted by dekron LOL I got one but I just deleted the email about two weeks ago. Wasn't to hyped to play WoW after such negative reviews I read.
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Originally posted by Tombs Two things over the past week are bugging me about Blizzard. The first is the tornado. I don't mind that the servers came down due to a natural disaster type event. That is something nobody can control and could hit servers anywhere. However, this is the part that bugs me... Posted on the wow server status section of the boards: Blizzard network engineers are currently testing server hardware for any indications of damage. We hope to have a thorough test completed within the next 24 hours and by then provide a more extensive update of when we can bring the servers back online. Initial reports indicate that all vital data is still intact, meaning players should be able to pick up where they left off. So there was a possibility if the storm were a little more powerful that there would have been an enormous character/item wipe? I am not in the IT field but big game companies like this don't, umm, back up data? I hope they learned a valuable lesson from this and do some of the basics for maintaining data integrity from here forward. Had this happened 4 months after release and been a little worse, what do you tell half a million people when their characters and items are gone LOL? The second thing is the beta invites... Word is that a good 70 percent of the invites they sent out were to people who got into the beta the first time around. As any good red blooded capitalistic American would do these people aren't emailing back, "Hey I am already in!" they are posting the second account on Ebay. Anyway, not a good week for Bliz or for my confidence in them.
No, game companies don't normally backup during beta phases, unless they are specifically testing the backup systems. Wipes are good, because then they get a whole new load of characters that hopefully do things different the second time; this way, more "areas" can be tested.
As for getting in, I wish... Ever since I went professional, I can't seem to get into free betas anymore. Oh well, not like I have the time for them anyways.
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Keeping backups off-site is kinda costly when dealing with bigass servers like i hope they have
But i wouldnt interpret that message like they didnt have a backup, more likely they dont want to use the backup because it would probably mean a roll-back for a day or so, which is never popular. They were just concerned that the servers were'nt hurt, thats all....
Oh, and if you throw any wow beta accs my way id certainly be glad to try it out ^^ *wonders if he has 5 stars now or was downgraded*
*edit* lol wtf 3 stars, gotta be more active heh
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Originally posted by Cik_Asalin I have a Beta Swap (will tell in PM) for anyone with a WoW Beta.
Can you stop bringing down this repectable site with swapping beta accounts?
Surely,admin you have 100k plus accounts now u can start banning people for doing this.This is not the first person posting this on this site recently.
Such a sad day, as Blizzard made a mistake. I suppose this was there way of resolving an unfortunate mistake. Thus meaning those that did sign up along time ago, really had no shot at getting into this phase of beta. Unfortunately, alot of those people in beta will not give to a friend, if one looks at ebay. So many dishonest people out there trying to make a quick dollar, and alot of good testers that will probably never see WOW beta.
A mistake is a gross understatement...for anyone to think that Blizzard deserves slack are idiots. . .and Hercules, take a powder. . .these forums are only dumbed down with your childish cries about a transaction that is completely acceptable now especially in light of Blizzards ignorance.
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Alittle obsessed are we?
I NEEEED world of warcrack- er craft! They gave us 10 days to play then took it from us, its horrible, ive played nothing for 2 weeks..
MoooOOOoooo!
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I think people with extra accounts should be nice and offer to share them with the 4star and up members of this site. Why? Well, yes, I do want one, but here's my thought. Everyone's selling them on ebay so the price is dropping anyways. Secondly, those who are 4 stars and up tend to be serious gamers who want to TEST the product before it comes out and help find the bugs in it. Anyways, i doubt it'll happen, but I'd be a nice gesture from those who got extra accounts.
SOE makes decent games that appeal to nerds. Their customer service is run by jocks who bully nerds. Wonder why SOE sucks so bad...
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I already told Blizzard of 2 different sites running emulators for WoW. They'll be getting closed very soon. As for thoth, I'm glad you did. I'm glad not EVERYONE testing WoW is so greedy as to put their accounts for sale. Even if I had several hundred dollars to sink into an account, I wouldn't. Why? Because the beta accounts are being WIPED. In anycase, I'd like to see more people offering their second accounts up on here if they haven't done so. And not to be greedy myself, but if anyone could PM me on here if you're giving away a spare account, let me know.
(PS- Found someone on ebay quite literally selling his soul for a beta account. Just search WoW on ebay to see the pathetic person)
SOE makes decent games that appeal to nerds. Their customer service is run by jocks who bully nerds. Wonder why SOE sucks so bad...
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It appears to me that the current testers are getting to pick the next round of beta people.
Due to an error on WOW's part they mailed new invites and keys to the testers that were already in and instead of fixing that mistake they have decided to just let all the testers friends and family have them. While this seems a generous gesture I certainly hope it doesnt mean that they are not going to invite "new" testers as well.
Here is the mail I found it posted on the beta boards at WOW.
Q u o t e:
From: worldofwarcraftbeta@blizzard.com
T worldofwarcraftbeta@blizzard.com
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:07 PM
Subject: Instructions for second authentication key
As you know, Blizzard is conducting a new phase of the World of Warcraft closed beta test. As a part of this phase, over 10,000 new beta account authentication keys were emailed to prospective testers.
Unfortunately, an error was made during the issuing of these keys and a number of current beta testers accidentally received a second authentication key.
Although it was never our intention to send additional keys to current testers, we feel it would be counterproductive to disable these keys when the opportunity presents itself to widen the beta test pool. Thus, we encourage you to distribute this second key to a friend. Please do not create a second account with your new key as this would be in violation of the Terms of Use agreement.
This email authorizes you to deliver the second authentication key, along with the original email instructions, to a friend whom you believe would make a valuable addition to the closed beta test. This person can then create an account to play World of Warcraft by visiting www.worldofwarcraft.com.
After creating a World of Warcraft account, your friend will need to contact Billing and Account Services at Billing@blizzard.com to change the email address associated with this second key. If your friend does not change the email address, then any future emails related to that account, including technical support information and instructions on downloading subsequent patches, will go to the original email attached to the second authentication key and not to your friend.
For quick access to each individual tester, and to comply with the Beta Test Terms of Use agreement, please ensure that whomever you give the second authentication key to immediately associates their email address to the second key.
Thank you for your continued support, and we hope to see both you and your friend in the World of Warcraft soon.
ROLEPLAYERS UNITE!!!!!
Critical thinking is a desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and hatred for every kind of imposture.
starman...what i would do that work extra account....oh what i would do.....*sniff* i can always look at the screenshots and pertend im playing until release right?
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pssssssst.....ppsttttttttt....pssssttt....psssssst....*cough*send me it in the mmorpg mail*cough* i love you dekron...please....lol...i'll be your slave...your bitch , your butler....for it.
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I would, but I deleted it. I saw WoW Beta Invitation in the subject and just clicked delete LOL
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No, game companies don't normally backup during beta phases, unless they are specifically testing the backup systems. Wipes are good, because then they get a whole new load of characters that hopefully do things different the second time; this way, more "areas" can be tested.
As for getting in, I wish... Ever since I went professional, I can't seem to get into free betas anymore. Oh well, not like I have the time for them anyways.
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Keeping backups off-site is kinda costly when dealing with bigass servers like i hope they have
But i wouldnt interpret that message like they didnt have a backup, more likely they dont want to use the backup because it would probably mean a roll-back for a day or so, which is never popular. They were just concerned that the servers were'nt hurt, thats all....
Oh, and if you throw any wow beta accs my way id certainly be glad to try it out ^^ *wonders if he has 5 stars now or was downgraded*
*edit* lol wtf 3 stars, gotta be more active heh
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Yea, spare WoW acounts will finda nice warm home with me
And don't bother going by the stars, the system that gives them out is kindy funky
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Can you stop bringing down this repectable site with swapping beta accounts?
Surely,admin you have 100k plus accounts now u can start banning people for doing this.This is not the first person posting this on this site recently.
Such a sad day, as Blizzard made a mistake. I suppose this was there way of resolving an unfortunate mistake. Thus meaning those that did sign up along time ago, really had no shot at getting into this phase of beta. Unfortunately, alot of those people in beta will not give to a friend, if one looks at ebay. So many dishonest people out there trying to make a quick dollar, and alot of good testers that will probably never see WOW beta.
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