I just want to see what it’s like compared to pirate realms. 5 Levels can do that for me.
Should of seen some of the older expansion betas. People were selling and trading access keys, the forums for them were private which resulted in the beta becoming the “cool kid club” forming cliques, and that was only made worse as Blizzard actively hunted down and sent cease and desists to websites that showed beta content making the outsiders even more envious, or just plain upset they knew nothing of the expansion other then what Blizzard themselves released (unless privately told of course).
MoP’s beta was more or less the complete opposite and a total mess because of it. I think it’s been handled much better now.
blah blah blah. Have fun being a digital check I guess? Take care.
Hey, Blizzard. If you’re reading, I’ll test your layering.
I won’t promise to have positive feedback about it, but I’ll test it.
There was a blue post stating they didn’t intend to send out anymore full beta invites because they have reached the numbers they need for testing.
Don’t need to test layering if you never get into the game in the first place
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Hey at least you all now tested the login servers. I even attempted a login and then realized what the test actually was and went back to retail.
For this phase/build of beta (1.13.1)…
The beta is still under development, quite a bit ways to go before the release build. This past week was only the first phase of testing, now is the stress testing, next will be a new build of beta, more stress tests, etc. So more invites will inevitably follow…
It’s no different than the betas for the expansions. first weeks of beta, a few players have access, but as time goes on, more and more people find they have beta access.
I agree this is in fact the worst beta ever and thanks to our popular streamers to mess it up by doing a mass speed run challenge for $500 streamers should not run video games for everyone i want to actually test the game itself not some stupid tests to be played with i have sat here wasting around 3-4 hours of my time not being able to even get in the stress test when i do have an invite to it watching two specific streamers doing stupid stuff and i think we know who i am talking about.
TBH for those of us that got in around 12:00 a.m. Central in the US . The “Layering” is acting exactly like “Sharding” . Phasing was still an issue, you’d be in a group killing mobs then all of a sudden your mobs Phase out, and your group would Phase into the middle of a pile of players with no mobs. So it worked exactly in reverse of what was planned. In some instances. in others it worked exactly like they had said. Quite personally Sharding and Layering has had some good effects, but the negatives out weigh the positive for " Layering " testing. The fact that first people to get into the Stress Test was Streamers, whom already had Beta keys and where level 30’s, shows that the Beta invites had nothing to do with the criteria Blizzard posted as a selection process. The reason I say this, was because of having to use the old gray matter to remember where quests objectives where at , due to the quest chain slimming Bliz did all the way back in Cata . People whom came after Cata where kinda lost as to what to do , till they grouped up or followed a group to these points. At the end of the day though, the chat was swamped, not with trolling, but about how much they actually liked . The fact you had more to do with toon and how versatile they became, you weren’t locked to just one type of weapon , proficiency to use level up for unarmed combat, in case your weapon breaks, you can still fight, etc. I mean all in all , with the exception of the " Layering" phenomenon , Players actually enjoyed the game again as well as exploring the “Roots” of what World of Warcraft was designed to be , in its beginning .
Well that’s the entire point of a stress test. You want to over-stress everything so you know the limits, and know what you have to improve on.
Also, betas are not that great. You’re playing an incomplete, broken version of the game. You’re going to get stuck behind quests that are impossible to complete, you’re going to randomly die for no reason, there’s going to be tons of disconnects, they’re occasionally going to wipe everyone and start back over from the beginning, mobs are going to do weird things, spells are going to not work… It’s a bug test, that’s all. And when it’s done, all that work you put in is gone because you have to start over from level 1 when it goes live. If you like running dungeons, well, too bad if their focus at the time is on the questing process, because a lot of time those dungeons are disabled. If you want to raid test, it’s probably only going to be a couple nights of already decided bosses per night and then raids get shut back down.
The mentality that a beta test takes to do it right means that if your’e mad about not being invited, then not inviting you was the right choice.
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Lol. Temper tantrum on aisle four. No-tears shampoo on aisle five.
Hey Blizzard, i will gladly login 1000 times if it helps for a smooth launch day. ![:stuck_out_tongue:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/stuck_out_tongue.png?v=6" ":stuck_out_tongue:")
I can’t even.
They will survive and BETA will get tested without you. If you dont play classic then thats your loss. The more players in classic means more classic servers
well since you refuse to test the thing they asked you to test then you are not coming across as the type of person we want taking on full responsibilities. Can’t pull the all or nothing argument here
Cry more, see you August 27th.
it’s just depressing than a private server will be better than an officially launched “classic” server.