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World of Warcraft Open Beta Sign-ups

Posted by Zonk on from the ironforge-dwarves-represent! dept.

freakout writes "After years in development, Blizzard Entertainment announced on Thursday that they will soon be accepting applicants for the FREE World of Warcraft Open Beta Test for North America. The open phase of beta will give people a chance to enter Azeroth and play WoW before the game is released in mid-November." Perhaps you could play with your spouse?

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  1. How much by xiopher · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How much will the service be once it goes GOLD? I played the stress test through fileplanet and it was wonderfull. Also in other news fileplanet says they will have Matrix online beta signups. Can't wait

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    7680 MB Disk,192 GB Transfer,
  2. I played during the stress test by brutusbuck · · Score: 4, Interesting

    WoW was more stable, polished, interesting, and entertaining during a BETA in which they were TRYING to abuse the servers than SWG is today.

    Congrats to Blizzard. I wish you success.

    SOE, rot in hell. :)

  3. It could be staggered entry.... by GrnArmadillo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've heard that companies have staggered entry into open betas in the past. This will probably be a short open beta (2-3 weeks) with the game's impending release (no official date confirmed, but holding the beta now all but confirms that it will make the holidays, meaning around 6-8 weeks from now to RELEASE tops). Getting into the first wave may make a big difference in how much free trial you get before having to decide if it's worth buying a $50 game that shuts off if you don't subscribe.