I’m really excited that the MoP Beta is just around the corner!
That said, I’ve never had the chance to get into any Beta during the WoW Classic era, and that’s been a bit disappointing for me.
I’m curious—how many of you have actually gotten Beta access before? And what were the requirements, if any, to get in?
Personally, I really hope the way Beta access is handled this time mirrors how it worked in some of the old retail expansions. I remember back in Warlords of Draenor (6.0), I got into the Beta simply because I was subscribed to Wowhead at the time.
It would be great to see something like that return for Classic—where access could come through multiple channels rather than being purely random. That way, more dedicated players could get involved in testing.
I’ve been in the TBC, Wrath, and Cata betas. The requirements are to sign up and then just get lucky on invite lists
I’ve gotten quite a bit of them for retail as if you got Cutting Edge from the last raid you’d usually get in at some point but for classic I don’t think we’ve seen a trend.
I’ve gotten TBC beta access, I think i was too late for the WotLK beta and I didn’t care for the Cataclysm Beta. That being said I signed up to the MoP beta within the hour of it being announced, while access isn’t based off of first come first served I’d assume it’s based off of your time played in the current expansion.
It’s definitely not, I got into the TBC beta and hadn’t even touched Vanilla Classic
Probably just random then.
don’t worry if its like cata they will release the broken beta as prepatch so you won’t missout
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the requirements to get into the beta are either being a streamer or hoping they pull your name out of the giant hat
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I was in the TBC, Wrath and Cata beta. Usually the first 1-2 weeks are reserved for Streamers to build some sort of hype. Afterwards, they let most people that signed up play. For Cata, they let in pretty much everyone that had signed up for it by the end.
The cata classic beta was such a disappointing, awful experience that i’m not bothering to opt in this time around. Every single bug I reported, even the game breaking ones, made it to live. Some of them were STILL in game at christmas.
Near as I can tell the beta is now just a stress test and any actual development time is for SoD. If they can’t be bothered to put the work in, neither will I.
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surely they wouldnt prio streamer privilege in the first batch of invites. surely they would consider time spent on current cata content over flooding the servers with streamers to broadcast to a large audience. surely that doesnt make more financial sense considering the current cata populations.
There’s nothing wrong with them inviting streamers and it makes no sense why they wouldn’t, it’s free advertising.
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True. It’s not like betas are for testing anyway. It’s just a hype machine.
imagine catering to streamers for a 13 year old game. rofl. Blizzard is so out of touch.
advertising for what? a 13 year old expansion? I’m pretty sure anyone who cares to know about it already knows about it. It’s just going to piss people off that streamers are getting in. Streamers are usually the first ones to quit anyways. The fact that they’re cherry picking ANYONE to get into mop beta is comical at best.
It’s still free advertising and who cares if MoP is 13 years old, people cared for Vanilla Classic and while the two can’t be compared it still makes sense for Blizzard to give beta access to those who’ll happily give their time to play it while exposing it to their audience.
There are people who are excited for MoP and this will make them even more so.
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it will make people excited to watch people play it instead of being able to play it themselves? Make it make sense.
So you’ve never seen someone do anything and think that you’d want to do that as well? Sponser streams must be bewildering to you.
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It doesn’t have to make sense to you, me, or anyone with a pulse. The reality is that, for example, Febuary 2024 saw 3,892 concurrent WoW streams with 180,860 viewers divided between them. It’s free money. Streamers are free advertising and the only backend support they need is the occasional hardcore death reset.
Its that time of year when a beta goes live, while its been true that content creators that always get it but to say that only content creators get in and not anyone else is just a lie.
I’m not a streamer or content creator by any means but I have gotten beta access for anything WoW since Warlords of Draenor (except DF, I was invited 2 weeks before the DF launching) sure its not like the first wave but still its to prove a point that us regular folk do get in.