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Warhammer Online Open Beta To Begin September 7th

Posted by Soulskill on from the open-is-relative dept.

Mythic Entertainment has announced that the open beta for the long anticipated Warhammer Online will begin on September 7th, eleven days before the finished game goes live on September 18th. We've previously discussed WAR's delays and the content cuts involved in reaching this deadline. In the meantime, Mythic's Road to WAR website (which we talked about earlier this month) is still available. The press release notes, "Players can get into the North American open beta by pre-ordering Warhammer Online from select retail partners."

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  1. Oh yes... by Goldberg's+Pants · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This isn't going to be a disastrous release at all is it! 11 day open beta? With half the content now removed.

    Earlier this year I was really excited for this game but the release looks like it has epic fail written all over it.

    Hope I'm wrong, as the game truly has some innovation going on, but man...

    1. Re:Oh yes... by Narpak · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Two four cities removed is hardly "half the content". In fact the amount of content in the game is staggering. Personally I am looking forward to the game going live with great enthusiasm.

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    2. Re:Oh yes... by Bieeanda · · Score: 2, Insightful

      An eleven day open beta. Come on kids, just call it a fucking demo and be done with it. Worse, it's going to be a demo that grossly oversells the population as everyone crams in at the word 'open' and vacates when it's time to buy the box at retail and start forking over subscription fees.

  2. Open Beta? by RockClimbingFool · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Players can get into the North American open beta by pre-ordering Warhammer Online from select retail partners."

    How can it be called an "open beta" when you have to basically purchase the game?

    1. Re:Open Beta? by Narpak · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Well it is amount 100.000 players world wide. So it might not be "open" as such, but it is a significant increase to the amount of testers they have had in the beta up to this point.

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    2. Re:Open Beta? by Tom · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Because everyone can join, whereas a "closed beta" means that only selected testers can join.

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  3. Re:The capital cities have been removed by immcintosh · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, WoW really did a good job when it was released with all of its end-game content complete and in place... and now back to reality-land where WoW didn't have most of its end-game content at release either.

  4. Re:The capital cities have been removed by AuMatar · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Having played beta- the content in this game is PvP, pure and simple. If you like PvP, there is no competition. Wow is a sorry, sorry joke at it. If you like raiding- keep playing WoW. *Please* keep playing WoW, I don't want your everquest wannabe ass ruining another MMO.

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