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Warhammer Online Beta Application Now Open
Eurogamer reports that applications for the Warhammer Online Beta are now open on the official site. The Beta will be open for both American players as well as folks in the EU, and each have their own site available for signup. We had a chat with the Warhammer team late last year, which should give some insight on the game. Eurogamer as a hands-on preview available from January, if that's more your thing. "'Empire is a world about the End of Days,' bellows Paul [Barnett]. 'A world on the brink of extinction. No matter what they do, the Humans must keep fighting or they'll all die. Breed and fight, expand or die, that's all they can do.'"
The beta registration requires you to submit information from DxDiag.
Since the article only contains the European beta site links, you will find the North American sign up site here: https://betacenter.eamythic.com/signup.php After signing up there, you confirm your e-mail address (GMail dumped the e-mail into my Spam folder, fyi), and then upload your DxDiag info.
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Most Warhammer fantasy players sell their armies and buy cocaine, as it is a cheaper habit to support.
I can see it now: You wish to create a second player alt? That'll be $40, thank you.
Don't fill out the application form like I did if you're not on a Microsoft machine. You'll just be feeding them lots of personal info, and won't be able to proceed to step 2... plus, there doesn't appear to be any "delete my account info" option. I'll let the legion of other zealots whine about lack of OS X support, my only gripe is that they didn't make it clear up front.