Warhammer Online Goes Open Beta September 7 for Pre-order Customers
EA and developer Mythic Entertainment had previously promised that North American pre-orderers of the Collector's Edition would be granted early open beta access, with participating retailers including Best Buy, GameStop, GameCrazy, Amazon.com, GoGamer.com and EAStore.com.
That pre-order initiative has now been extended to include the standard version of the MMO, with closed beta players receiving open beta access on September 7 as well.
"For three years we have been saying that 'WAR is coming' and the team has been working hard to deliver on this promise," explained Mythic general manager Mark Jacobs. "In just a few weeks, we are going to throw open our doors and invite more players into the game than ever before. They will have a chance to delve into the open beta and see for themselves that WAR has arrived and it is glorious!"
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replyGood timing for this. Let's see if it makes a permanent dent in WoW subscriptions.
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Don't slam it until you try it. Pessimist.
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It won't. They should have released it after the next WoW expansion pack. Now people will try it for a few months and then switch back to WoW when it comes out.
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This is my current plan, but I will give WAR a fair chance to convert me. If it is a good game, I will find out from playing it for a few months before WotLK comes out and if I'm having fun with WAR then I'll keep playing it and not pick up the WoW expansion right away. Honestly, coming out before the WoW expansion is probably the way to go, because if I was in the middle of leveling up a new guy in WoW and going through tons of new content I'd have a harder time dedicating lots of time into a new game to give it a fair chance.
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I love how nipples replies all over this topic as the WoW fanboi.
Don't trash a game until you have tried it. You really that worried about your precious e-sport?-
The other side of the fence is that the Lich King alpha is horrible. It feels just like Burning Crusade with mounted combat and vehicles. It's an expansion and not meant to change the game in crazy ways, but it's just too much of a "more of the same" deal. Hit level 80 then rely on boring raid content or play in unbalanced arenas where class make up is way more important than skill of any type.
I am biased against WoW as I got sick of it months ago, and I'm biased towards Warhammer because I love the Warhammer universe, but I'm really enjoying it so far. -
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I trust this guy for some reason, if I were any of fanboys, I'd say "wait for reviews and general people's recommendations before plunging in and possibly wasting your money on nothing". If people listened to that advice before AoC arrived, it would've saved many fanboy tear dropping on the floor.
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