Open Beta Sign-ups are Imminent

[Aeife/Niamb]

Blizzard has announced that Open Beta sign-up will begin soon:

World of Warcraft Open Beta Sign-ups Coming Soon! - Ordinn on 10/07/04
We are happy to announce that we will soon be accepting applicants for the World of Warcraft® Open Beta Test for North America. The open phase of beta will give people a chance to enter Azeroth and play World of Warcraft before the game is released. More details will become available in the days ahead, so stay tuned.

www.worldofwarcraft.com/

[Jaxs]

I hope they invite all those that signed up before and dident get into the last phase of beta.

Then invite the world. One can only hope.

[jim]

I'm not sure if there is an actual signup or just a download but seems like it will be any day now. Apparently file planet had a link up (it's removed now) relating to the beta and Oct 14. All the info I know on that is in the following post.

www.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=392499&p=8

[Aeife/Niamb]

Thanks Jim....very interesting. I know this will sound dumb, but what exactly does open beta mean? Does it mean that it is open to everyone who signs up and meets the min OS requirements? Does it mean larger, but still restrictive in numbers? I'd really like to get into open beta, but have no clue as to what the likeliness is of that happening.

[jim]

Heh I don't see any answers to those questions. Guess we will find out when they post something more substantial.

One thing though, their servers are coming down today through tomorrow. Maybe it's so they can handle the massive downloads (just speculation heh).

The World of Warcraft closed beta servers will be coming down for scheduled maintenance on Thursday, October 14 through Friday, October 15. On Thursday, the downtime will begin at 10:00AM PDT and will continue through the day and into Friday. The maintenance should be completed at approximately 6:00PM PDT on Friday evening.

www.worldofwarcraft.com/

[DarkkHero]

[shadow=blue,left,300] WoW Open Beta[/shadow]has been delayed, again... Still, be looking for it at least a week prior to release. I am just happy to get to try it out before we go live. Greatful for anything they give us, ya know?