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World of Warcraft Stress Test Beta Signups Open

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the sneak-a-peek dept.

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.

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  1. save some money by saqq · · Score: 5, Informative

    For anyone who was planning on forking over 15.00 use this link to save you some money! (7.90)

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  2. What are they testing? by KDR_11k · · Score: 5, Informative

    Considering FilePlanet's average performance this is more of a stress test on FilePlanet rather than WoW.

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  3. About stress tests by Dragoon412 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  4. Re:Well That's the Kiss of Death by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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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