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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.
I don't know exactly how this one will go; maybe they've upgraded their hardware since I last played in beta, but even the stress tests with the standard beta crowd made the game utterly unplayable. The server would die every few minutes. You'd get 5 minutes of play for every 10-15 minutes of downtime. Often times, you'd get disconencted in the middle of a fight, and log back in as a ghost, then spend the up-time trying to get your body back, jsut to die again.
I think a lot of people are just getting their hopes up over what's essentially going to be one, bug, on-going crash.
And in case anyone's interested, here's my 2-sentence review:
World of Warcraft absolutely perfects the EverQuest-styled game, and pulls it off with a lot of flair and refreshingly understandable design decisions. Unfortunately, I've come to expect more from a game than EverQuest-styled monotony in a no-skill-required environment, and WoW, for all its polish, comes away feeling like half the game it should be.
Blizzard used Fileplanet because they have a shitload of servers to host this giant file. The stress-testers will only be able to play for seven days.
100,000 * 1.5 gigs each is just too much over such a short time for anybody except an established file-serving company.
Why not judge them on how they got the actual closed beta copies to the the players, with BitTorrent.
And if you don't want to play WoW because of this, I feel bad for you. It's an amazing game.
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You must not be looking in the right place. I signed up, didn't even give gamespy my name much less my credit card number and downloaded all 2.2GB of WoW goodness. I installed it, but the stress test isn't up and running for a few more days still.
I'm not sure what problem people are having.
Phear the proxy muahahahaha :).
;P. As for timestamped url's for downloads, so much for technological progress like download managers, 1.4Gb file single stream without restart capability, snigger...
As for fileplanet, what an incoherent pice of dribble, the thing doesn't even work properly half the time
Please ohh please someone post a torrent!
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Not sure what you are talking about. I personally have been subscriber to Fileplanet for a little over a year now and have never had an issue with their servers. I can't remember the last time I was not able to max out my cable connection downloading from them.
Moreover, its nice to be able to get the latest movies, patches, and files without having to wait in-line or scour the net for it. Hell half the time I find it handier to go Fileplanet to look for patches to old games, than to go the publisher's site.
While Im sure some people have their moral or principel reasons they do not use Fileplanet, I do not agree that it is performance related.
Gailin
I wish there was a fscking blue pill