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World of Warcraft Closed Beta Ending

Posted by Zonk on from the long-live-king-bronzebeard! dept.

JD-1027 writes "Blizzard is ending it's closed beta test of World of Warcraft Friday at 3pm PDT. Somewhat of an abrupt announcement, welcome by most, that means the release of the game is inching closer." In all likelihood this indicates the imminent arrival of the Open Beta Test.

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  1. been waiting for this since they announced it by sgant · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's been what, 2 years since they announced it? I'm really looking forward to it. But I certainly haven't built up my expectations for this, having been let down too many times (can you say SWG?)

    WoW, HL2 and LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth are the big 3 I'm waiting for. But here this past week, while I heard of Guild Wars, I never really looked into it.

    After the first couple of minutes of "oh wow, pretty" wore off, I learned that it was a kind of boring game while I was playing the World Wide Event that's going on now. I'm talking...snoozer.

    But that's a game in progress, so perhaps it will get better and better over time, but it's mainly a haven for Diablo regects at the moment. They REALLY need an /ignore command in that game.

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    1. Re:been waiting for this since they announced it by Godai · · Score: 3, Insightful

      There is an /ignore command. And yeah, there are currently a fair number of Dialob rejects but also a goodly number of good people. Look for that ration to tilt wildly towards the former in the Open Beta :)

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  2. Closed Beta was fun by Godai · · Score: 4, Insightful

    All you guys who end up downloading the Open Beta client are in for a treat. I've played a troll mage (EnSabahNur) through to 57 and had a great time. Still work to be done on it, but a blast nonetheless.

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    Wood Shavings!
    - Godai