This race-rolling dilemma will be cordially presented to you by Mythic's Warhammer Online -- the open beta for which launched earlier this morning. Members of the previous stages of the closed beta and those who have pre-ordered the title at "select retail partners" can now download the client and let loose the dogs of WAR (though we've heard a number of complaints from frenzied pre-orderers who have had trouble accessing the beta). Fear not, unwashed masses -- your Age of Reckoning will begin in a little over a week.
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You guys don't have to download the client from Fileplanet. Use the torrent --
http://torrent2.eamythic.com/WarBeta.torrent
You will still have to endure the lengthy patching process, though.
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Even AOC had the courtesy to allow people to start playing after 4 hours of queue downtime.
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So I stayed up til about 5AM when we got power back and just paid 6.95 to File Planet just so I didn't have to wait in line. Of course when I woke up at 11 I needed to patch the file which has taken 1 hour 20 minutes so far and is only 80% complete :(
I'm getting there!
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"Open" beta my ass...
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You may think otherwise, but from the sidelines, the WAR beta process seems abnormally sloppy to me - and I live with a guy who's had the game on preorder for months, so it's not like I'm completely oblivious to what's going on. Really, how many open betas a) basically require you to pay for them, and b) start a whopping 11 days before the game launches? Does that seem telling to anyone else?
I don't plan on getting into the game anyway - seems too blatant of a WoW ripoff to me. Ironic, given that Warcraft was initially a big Warhammer rip...
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I managed to get a free key lastnight at the websites handing them out and i'm waiting in line at fileplanet 115 minutes it says then as hours go by my waiting in the QUE goes up... 256 minutes, 384 minutes, 515 minutes
WTF fileplanet?
I'm not going to pay you just to download something
now looking for torrents
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As far as I see it, there is still plenty of time to get into the open beta, though I am still irked about waiting to let preorderers patch the game until today just so that Preview Weekend+ users didn't experience any lag. I doubt many of them were playing during the wee hours of Sunday morning, plus most of them were probably Open Beta players who were going to get instant access to the game regardless due to the fact they're already patched up. Oh well.
Anyway, what are the specs like for this game?
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Lol but seriously warhammer is one of the dullest MMOS I have ever played. I was so excited for this. Fail MYTHIC! You have ruined my love for MMOS.
Though what I'm REALLY excited for is the 40k MMO. I like the setting and lore of 40k much better.
My ultimate nerdgasm would come from a 4th edition Shadowrun MMO, though.
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FilePlanet's 'Download Manager ' was going at the blazingly fast rate of 20-80KB/s over the night. Torrents weren't going much faster either, averaging at about 64KB/s. The Torrent Tracker reported that hte average rate was 136KB/s. The number of people pulling the file has held steady in the 5000+ figure since last night.
This was a woefully poor way to distribute this title, especially realising the sudden influx of people when you distribute 7000+ keys the day before the Open Beta launches.I find it hard to understand that a company which purports to have spent 'just south of 100 million' on this title's development could not have found a better way to provide Direct Downloads.
Really, I hope that the logistics and the organisation of the other aspects of the game are better than this.
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I'd still be playing but I can't bear the thought of devoting too much time into a character that's getting wiped in a week. Also, gotta lvl up my guardian in LOTRO for Mines of Moria.
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Either way, the NA version has had zero server crashes all day, and basically zero lag.
Now to sort out the fact that Order is getting hosed on my server -_-;;
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As for the beta I can't wait! I hate how some people take for granted that the real purpose of a beta is to find bugs. They just want to play early, be cheerful, and not give a damn. But what really sets me off is when people find a bug and tell the whole world rather than the dev team.
I, on the other hand, want to play early, be cheerful, and give a damn while I'm at it. I like to submit bug reports as I find bugs. I'm not going to hunt them down, just let them find me instead.
Just some advice for fellow testers out there...
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http://torrent2.eamythic.com/WarBeta.torrent
You will still have to endure the lengthy patching process, though.
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how can you use a completely flashbased site for something (anything) that more than 10 users will use at any given time?
"ouch, where did all that users come from?" - "dunno, but they cant do anything at our site for the next 48 hrs" - "yeah, sounds good. wait didnt we launch something today or so?" - "nah dont sweat it, noone will care, so why should we have been prepared at all?"
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This is BETA testing, they are testing stuff..
Why did you expect a perfect launch?
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Having to take off half to three quarters of the service (account login/account pages/registration) just to calculate all the code-validations (which could have been validated days before) is telling me that they did invest about half my monthly wage in hardware that is dedicated to these processes.
do it either way - good or not at all.
this should have been their "trust us, we are good at what we do and are not AoC" moment. This is as much a marketing moment as a "selftest" for them.
And they just did an epic oops in both regards.
I cant understand that - a swbug that takes a while to fix is one thing, and one that i would not loose one word over. admitting on the page that they cant calculate hardwareneeds is quite another thing (and outlook? hope not.)
Im by no means saying that the launch experience has to be the same or anywhere near this, but not calling this an epic fail (technical and marketing) would be a lie.
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