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World Of Warcraft Open Beta to Start Next Week

Posted by Zonk on from the zug-zug dept.

Drac8 writes "Blizzard and Fileplanet have announced that the World of Warcraft open beta will start at the beginning of next week. Fileplanet subscribers and current Beta testers are invited to start now. Fileplanet subscribers may find it slow going, as servers are overloaded and requests for signups/keys are going very slow."

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  1. Re:not much of a test by Rentar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe a server crashing during a load test ist not 'failure' after all?

    Sometimes a load test is not asking "Does our server crash when it's slashdotted?" (as this is a rather boring question, with the answer beeing yes or no), but "What part of our server is mostly stressed by a serious slashdotting and which part(s) do we need to enhance/replace to make it more stable?".

    The latter question has quite a lot of possible interesting answers ranging from hardware (the new IBM DeathStar failed!) via software (our ftp-servers have a fixed maximum of 5 connections) to wet-ware (our sysadmin was shocked by the amount of traffic, had a heart-attack and stumbled over the power cable).

    When someone is serious about this question than a test that looks like a failure to someone else can be a huge success.

  2. difference between stress test and open beta by vehn23 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you're wondering: paying $16 to fileplanet to play a beta a week before everyone else and 2 weeks before release.

    1. Re:difference between stress test and open beta by Tofof · · Score: 5, Informative

      Actually, that's the cost for a quarterly subscription. A few hours after the announcement went up on fileplanet last night, they changed the link. It was originally pointing to the $7.90 basic subscription page. http://www.fileplanet.com/subscribe/wow/r3.html is the cheaper signup page.

  3. Re:not much of a test by mconeone · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In regards to the software testing, I think it has more to do with the game than the network connection. Specifically, what actions are taking too much CPU time/bandwidth/memory. Hopefully they'll get the kinks out in time for the open beta.

  4. Check list... by Lord_Pain · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Save up a month of Vacation from work. Check
    2. Full-size fridge stocked with Redbull. Check
    3. Emergency store of Cheese-wiz and crakers. Check
    4. Plenty of empty bottles for call of nature. Check

    I am now prepared to cease being a productive member of society and devote my life to World of Warcraft.... May God have mercy on my soul.

    --
    -- What's this '-r *' file doing here? -- Oh well, a simple 'rm' should do the trick.
  5. WoW vs EQ2 by Dachannien · · Score: 3, Interesting

    EQ2 goes live: 8 November, for $49.99

    WoW open beta begins: 8 November, for free

    Coincidence?