Ah, understandable.
I’m sorry you heard false information, and I completely understand that there are others, like yourself, who have not been following all this closely like many of us here have. I can see why you would think what you did. I hope the streamer you heard it from made a correction to his, or her, audience later on.
Since you subscribed, I would say you at least have a fairly good chance of getting at least in one of the stress tests. I didn’t get a beta invite, but was in the last two stress tests. They invite many more people to those, as opposed to the closed beta. The stress tests don’t last very long, a couple of days, but it’s still fun to get in, report some bugs, and get to see old WoW again finally.
Keep in mind that emails don’t always come, or come late. If you use Google, check your promotions tab, because that’s where my invite for the stress test showed up. But the best way to check for an invite to either the beta or stress test is to check your battle net launcher. Above the “play” button on the WoW page is a dropdown menu (if you have more than one WoW account tied to the account). Like a WoW1, WoW2, PTR, etc. If you are in the beta or stress test, you will see a “Classic Beta / Stress Test” (or something along those lines) pop up in that dropdown menu. If you see that, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you actually have beta, but could have access to the upcoming stress test.
The way to be sure if you have the actual beta is launch the Classic Beta / Stress Test client. If you see more servers than just the “Stress Test” server, you have beta.
Also, everyone who was recently in the last couple stress tests had this option removed from their launcher in the last couple days. More than likely because they will be sending out another wave of invites for the next stress test the middle of this month.
Also, sorry I came off as sarcastic earlier. There has just been tons of threads here lately similar to yours and people upset about beta. It’s more understandable to me for it to come from someone who hasn’t been following this and you heard something that unfortunately, just wasn’t true.