WotLK Beta Opt-In Now Open!
Posted on July 5th, 2008 by Lawbringer under General Tips
On July 3rd, Blizzard made the above post at www.worldofwarcraft.com This is big news from Blizzard for WotLK since the Beta for Burning Crusade was a closed event.
Hurry over to the home page and register your accounts for the Beta opt-in. Now, registering an interest in being invited to the beta does not guarantee that you will be included in the Beta by any means, just that you will at least have a chance at getting into the Beta.
The only way to guarantee a spot in the WotLK beta is to buy a Beta key somewhere. As of this morning there were 8 Beta keys available from people who attended Blizz Conn in Paris that listed their beta cards on ebay, if being in on the beta is worth $600 bucks or so to you. Of course, these beta keys also come with a murloc suit or a Tyrael pet (which is an awesome thing to me being a monster D2 fan!) but the price is a bit on the – well, silly side of enormous.
Normally when Blizzard announces an opt-in for a Beta, the beta itself is not very far away from starting. Sometimes it is a matter of a few weeks between an open Beta announcement and the start of the beta itself, which is pretty exciting. This announcement means that we can be pretty sure that the full retail release of the WotLK expansion will be before the end of 2008.
We try to not only help you be prepared at DYS, we also want you to get so far ahead you can Dominate! What better way to dominate WotLK than to know it before anyone else does. Register right this minute – if you get in on the Beta, be sure to post back here with your toon names so that you and other DYS readers can team up and crush everyone else from day one in the Beta and beyond.
Good luck, and always Dominate!
You sould see if you can get keys for a contest for this site.
Its worth a shot.
I wouldnt pay even a hundred dollars for the chance to play beta. I’m sure it will be fun, but the fact remains that its the same game. So is the selection of players just like a lotto drawing or something? Or are they looking for certain kinds of players.
you spelt have wrong
lol “jsut that you will at least ahve a chance at getting”
and just lol
I think it’ll be a little bit of both. They want the normal every day player to test out the beta, but they also want the High end guilds like SK gaming etc to test out the more hardcore aspects of the game quicker, and with more scrutiny.
Xigbar of Blackhand
If you guys really wanted us to get ahead, wouldn’t you have posted this as soon as it was up? Aka half a week ago?
Just saying, this is poor turnaround time from a staff that’s usually awesome with hints and tricks.
James,
I posted this on the 4th, you will notice that the banner from the Blizz page was posted on the 3rd, so I’m not sure how you got that we were a half a week late.
There was a similar announcement on the wow Europe site a few days earlier, but so many people hit the thing it jammed or something and nobody could use that link for days.
There were also several scams out there in advance of the true Beta opt-in where folks had put up shell sites made to look exactly like the wow home pages in order to steal people’s log-in names and passwords.
In the interest of fairness, I posted this announcement as soon as I could after weeding through some of the problems myself as well as making sure I was sending people to the correct place in order to ensure that none of our readers got their account stolen. Sometimes being safe and completely accurate takes a little time.
As far as this announcement coming on the Europe site first, as well as Blizz-con being held in Paris we can only assume that Blizzard is seriously intent on expanding their presence in Europe with not only WoW, but also the upcoming D3. In other words, most favored nation status for you American dudes may be on the back burner for a while –
I also don’t necessarily want DYS to become a rumor mill or news agency either. Awesome tip and hints is exactly what we do and we think we do it better than anyone else. So you’ll just have to forgive me for not being the fastest guy to press for every little tidbit of news out there, plus there’s that whole scam thing we have to watch out for.
My apologies (sort of) for not having this up on the 3rd!
I think what James M meant was, like me got the email today/yesterday, which of course does not mean that it was posted today/yesterday.
Btw, thanks heaps for posting this (I already did it before this but didnt quite understand wth an Opt-In was).
Keep up the good articles
Seeing as you register your entire account for the beta, it seems unlikely that they are looking at the individual characters much. I hope I get to try it. I missed my chance to do the WC3 one way back when.
I know little about Beta testing so this may be an ignorant question buuuuttttt….
If we are one of the lucky chosen from the lotto and we level our character to say 75 while in Beta; will the progress be transferred or saved when it is realeased to the public officially?
I’m not completely sure but i would say that we would not get the extra lvls/experience because if there are any bugs that allow you to level up easier (eg. a creature type gives the same amount of xp regardless of what lvl you are.) then it wont be there in the public realms which would give everyone that was picked for the WotLK test an unfair advantage.
But bear in mind, I’m not completely sure,that’s just my opinion.
Archenemis,
Progress on the PTR (Public Test Realms) and any open Beta testing will not transfer once the game goes live. You will be playing on a toon that you transfer (copy) from your current toons on your account or a Death Knight you create from scratch (most likely level 55 or 70). Once the Beta ends, everything just goes away.
The purpose for the test is to find out what is wrong with the software and Blizz needs a lot of people testing everything to work out all the little bugs that are left as well as balancing issues. Once they have all the bugs worked out it all goes away.
Why would anyone want to do something that just goes “poof?” To be the first to do it and gain an advantage when everyone is playing for keeps.