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World of Warcraft Stress Test Beta Signups Open
erax0r writes "FilePlanet has been given 100,000 World of Warcraft stress test beta accounts. Sign up for a FilePlanet paid account to be given a beta CD key which will be activated a later date. Blizzard has also composed a FAQ for the stress test." If you're not a FilePlanet subscriber, and with the exception of this I don't know why anyone would be, you have a chance of getting in the stress test, but forking over the cash guarantees your spot.
Why US only? Yes I read the FAQ; same time-zone, language barrier yadda yadda. Wouldn`t it be better if they had different time-zones, that way Blizzard could monitor the game play during working hours and not leisure time. Or maybe Americans play games when at work ;) .
John Carmack fan, browsing at +5 since 1999.
That is why online games are so popular with publishers. Instant anti-piracy protection. As long as you make sure only known accounts can play you have instantly killed of piracy. Just check the number of people begging for half-life keys.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Maybe because it's a stress test; which by its very nature has to have a shitload of people.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
What about $10.25 for 90 minutes of entertainment in a movie theatre? I think $1 a day is a pretty fair deal personally...