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Blizzard's World of Warcraft Beta Goes Live

Posted by simoniker on from the kappa-lambda-mu-nu dept.

craenor writes "Perhaps the most anticipated entry into the increasingly crowded PC MMORPG market, Blizzard's World of Warcraft, has just reached the live Beta stage, for those select players lucky enough to be picked. In a distinct change from the existing trend in Beta tests, they are not going to require NDAs for participating players, and everyone will have read access to the official Beta forums while testing takes place." The WoW site includes a basic game FAQ for beginners, and BitTorrent is now live as Blizzard's Beta distribution method of choice, as the mentioned earlier on Slashdot Games.

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  1. Oh No ! by rkoot · · Score: 4, Funny

    My favorite Vaporware vanished in thin air !!
    r.

    1. Re:Oh No ! by Kierthos · · Score: 5, Funny

      Don't worry... there's always Duke Nukem Forever.

      Kierthos

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  2. Rejoice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hooray! Another reason for me to camp in the basement of my parents house!

    1. Re:Rejoice! by LarsWestergren · · Score: 2, Funny
      Hooray! Another reason for me to camp in the basement of my parents house!

      ...only when you run down there, you find a big group of players that have been camping there for two days for a special mob to spawn. Get in line.


      God, I am so glad I beat my Everquest addiction.

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    2. Re:Rejoice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
      I think the "Progress Quest" parody of everquest is the best cure for game addiction I've seen.

      Now I'm addicted to Progress Quest. and play it often - but the neat part is that it takes all the time-consuming grunt-work out of EverQuest while keeping the fun.

    3. Re:Rejoice! by Minwee · · Score: 2, Funny

      So I guess "the most annoying habit of lame-ass RPGers" would be "interacting with other people".

  3. Re:Shameless by toriver · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... and another idiot is already posting a link to the auction on Slashdot... :)

  4. NOOOOOOO!!!!!!! by CGP314 · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is bad, bad news. Now the game is one day closer to being finished which means it's one day closer to when I can buy it, which means it's one day closer to the day I won't be able to leave my computer ever again.

    Blizzard game are like the purest of drugs. I got hooked on WarCraft I by a free demo in the store (the first one is always free) and I've been a junkie ever since.

    My lowest moment ever was turning down sex with my girlfriend the first week that Warcraft III came out because I didn't want to step away from the game. I fear it will be even worse with World of Warcraft. : (

    -Colin

  5. Let me get this straight.... by John+Courtland · · Score: 1, Funny

    You, a seemingly regular (over 650 posts with a highish UN) Slashdot poster, DENIED sex.... WITH A CONSENTING FEMALE!!!! You've got some nerve, posting that on here... ;) But seriously, that is pretty low man, most girls would be gone at that point :P.

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  6. Re:Honestly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can we have a -1, Completely Misinformed mod option?

  7. Wait... I thought we were At War With Blizzard by Rogerborg · · Score: 4, Funny

    Over them suing bnetd?

    Well, I guess posting all those snippy comments on Slashdot really showed them who was boss. So now it's back to the usual fawning at their feet, is it?

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  8. Re:Shameless by geekoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    Same idiot? hhmmmm

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  9. Got that beat by Talisman · · Score: 1, Funny

    I was holding flags while playing SubSpace and had been running for about 2 hours. My gf was watching TV in the living room, waiting for me to finish the game and got bored. So to try and convince me to hurry up, she crawled under my desk and started blowing me.

    I kept playing as best I could under the circumstances, and lasted an easy 90 seconds before getting my ship annihilated. I was upset for a few seconds that she ruined my game, but then I came to my senses and bukkake'd her.

    Then started playing again :)

    Talisman

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    1. Re:Got that beat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I was holding flags while playing SubSpace and had been running for about 2 hours. My gf

      I believed you up until right there.

  10. Here's an idea . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you were a smart virus author, you'd title the email it contained "World of Warcraft Beta Application Accepted."

  11. Two words by g0dfath3r · · Score: 2, Funny

    Zug Zug