Vanilla beta. Not sure why I got it, but I was a pretty active WC3 ladder player and forum poster. Been in several WoW expansion betas since and SC2 and the HotS alpha/beta.
I’ve always tried to be really active with giving feedback, and I think that helps in getting invites.
Fingers crossed for Dragonflight.
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After being invited into WC:III multiplayer beta long long ago I guess I made it to Friends of Blizzard list, so not including the WoW Open beta…
I have been in every WoW expansion beta, and three alphas, except for one, I believe it was Cata.
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I’ll let you know when I find out
MoP.
Testing the pandaren starting zone was both fun and pain
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Mine was mop , but then again everyone got mop lol
I had friends in closed Beta for Vanilla so got to see some of that when visiting them. I played Open Beta, but so did everyone.
I know I played Beta for Wrath… and of course MoP. I got into MoP on the first wave which was nice, but still crowded. I THINK I was in most of them after that? Then it turned into every Beta for everything (Hots, HS, Overwatch, etc.) including Bnet App betas and such. I wrote an initial FAQ for the voice app I think back in the day when the new one came out.
I try not to burn myself out on Betas though or I don’t enjoy the main game.
Looking forward to Dragonflight Alpha or Beta, whichever I get into.
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I got one in MoP then I didn’t get one in WoD, found and reported so many bugs that made it to live. Then I got legin, BfA, shadowlands, and BC classic. I doubt I’ll get it again.
Wrath of the Lich King.
My first alpha invite was Diablo 3 IIRC.
Unless you are a streamer you will never get one or your chances are 0 to 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001%.
Never been invited to anything. Only test I’ve done recently was 9.1 PTR. Blizzard does change some things - they fixed Soggodon when his initial iteration was boring, but otherwise meh. Feedback mostly falls on deaf ears it feels like, so why spoil the content for myself? I skipped 9.2 PTR and likely happier for it.
Eh. I’ve received beta invites from Wrath through BfA then I finally opted out so I didn’t get one for SL.
I don’t know how to stream.
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Wrath was my first, on a beta invite for addon developers by WoWInterface (before Curse won the official addon hosting site war)
You guys getting beta invite?
Think legion was my first (didnt apply for any before then) and the only other one i got was a streamer giveaway for shadowlands.)
Wrath. I’ve gotten an Alpha or Beta invite for all but like 3 or 4 expansions. Enough to know that people clamor over invites for no reason lol
Edit - no Beta for Vanilla or TBC…or WoD…I think those are the only 3. One of them doesn’t count cause they let everyone into Beta for MoP I think, but you had to sub for a year.
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I know I was in the WoD closed beta but I dont remember if that was the first one, pretty sure it was. I remember spawning at a oversized khadgar just outside what would eventually be the shadowmoon/alliance garrison entrance - I checked out the warlock perma infernal (So cool, if so in the way - alas, gone now) and the druid Saberon cat druid form/talent (another one that bit the dust) but can’t remember much else, i know I didnt do a whole lot in terms of questing cause I didnt want to spoil my retail release.
Mists was first and every expansion since then.
none but i prefer it that way.
i manage to get a bit bored as it is - imagine if i drained my fun ahaead of time in some useless beta
i had overwatch1 beta early and thats exactly what happened.
by the time the game was out i was already like “meh” and then when they broke my torb i just uninstalled.
they never really listen to beta-feedback either apparently. always ppl yelling that they reported an issue and its still on live after. so i really don’t see much uses to it.
I think WoD and every expansion since then. And I never actually installed it.