Blizzard's Burning Crusade closed beta invite plan
by David Nelson 
Sep 27th 2006 at 2:15PM
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This post by Nethaera in the WoW.com forums more or less sums up everything we already knew about the upcoming closed beta, as well as giving a little of the philosophy behind who they are picking for the beta test and why.In a nutshell, they want to spread out the invites amongst the hardcore raiders, the casual, the contest winners and friends of Blizzard. Interestingly, they do reveal that there will be more than one phase of the beta test, and there is a chance to get an invite as the process moves along. So maybe you don't have an invite in your inbox now, but you may get one later. Oh, and one more thing...don't bother sending them a sob story on why you should get a chance to test drive the expanison. They already know who they are inviting, and if you have to ask if you are on the list, you aren't on the list.
I interpreted this post as basically saying "Here's what we're doing, here is why, don't call us, we'll call you". Sounds suspiciously like what my girlfriend said in high school when she dumped me for my best friend. Couldn't argue my way out of dumped, and I can't argue my way into a beta invite. So sad!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Afroloop Sep 27th 2006 3:39PM
As much as I’d like to see it I actually don’t’ really want an invite (not that I’d get one anyways) because I’d rather see the final product when it’s complete and ready to be played and not spoil any of the surprise. I just hope it ships this year…
reygar Oct 3rd 2006 9:44AM
well i'm one of the contest winners so i'm not worried about getting into the beta.
Hoaxx Oct 15th 2006 3:00AM
Sob story INC.
so i signed up for the patch 1.10 beta key contest (the lvl 19 wsg part) And i used an undead warrior to open up a can of wopass on some alliance.
at the end of the contest, my character had 1000+ honor points and at least 100 honor kills. So i expected to maybe get in the beta.
a few months later, a CM announces that everyone who competed in the contest will get a beta invite, hooray! (i can only assume very few signed up for the beta contest)
a few months after that, a different CM announces that anyone who got a character past level 25 (fr both leveling contests) or got at least ONE honor point in the WSg contest will get in. No problem for me
just three days ago, i learned that one needed to e-mail a certain adress in order to learn the winner's list for the contest, i wasn't on it!!
What's worse, other people have had the same problem...but i can't reach them, since they posted on dranei alts on the beta forums, so i have no way of knowning their main's names, and i cannot post on the beta forums.
Q_Q