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Beta Access Chances?

LentechLentech Member Posts: 119
in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

Any idea roughly what the chances of gettin picked for closed beta ?

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  • TonevTonev Member Posts: 462

     

    I'll give you some choices and I am dead serious abouth this to

    • Get a computer with uber $%^* on it like dual core, 4 gigs of RAM, 8800 GT or two 9600s and vistas
    • Get a computer that is $%^* and can't run WOW on high settings
    • Go to a event and get a closed beta pass along with the first two I listed
    • Know someone in EA/Mythic (the fat guy in the video looking at how many Orc teeth people's system have preferably).
    • Make a fansite, get it on the official EA/Mythic forums and tell them you need a beta pass
    • Draw some Warhammer pictures and post them on Warhammer Alliance in the contests they have all the time (same people have won about 6 passes already for friends).
    • Straight up wait for one of the important guys like Paul or Jeff to show up at the EA/Mythic development center and take them at gun point, demanding a beta pass

    This pretty much sums it up right here cause being a veteran member for 1 year doesn't get you jack $%^*, buying the BOOM studio comic book doesn't get you jack $%^* and having a mid grade system doesn't get you jack $%^*, when it comes to closed beta access.

  • puma713puma713 Member Posts: 288

    . . .And I believe they only send out invites once a month, at the beginning of the month.  I could be wrong about it, but they've already chosen May's winners, so. . .go figure.

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  • SeaCowSeaCow Member Posts: 19

    Is it easier to get in if you preorder the game?

  • ArconaArcona Member UncommonPosts: 1,182

    Mainly high end computers in beta right now. Mid to low aren't invited to beta yet due to lack of slider capabilities on graphics.

    They're strict about the beta testers they let in, since they do not have graphical sliders in yet and thus want the higher end computers, once you can turn down the settings they'll have more mid-range and low-range computers.

    source: comic con article

    Thats why I havent been invited with my mid-range PC.

    My girlfriend's new PC is close to high-end, but I only just signed up for her

    So sign up with a high end computer.

  • ArconaArcona Member UncommonPosts: 1,182
    Originally posted by SeaCow


    Is it easier to get in if you preorder the game?



    You get a spot in the open beta if you preorder the North American collectors edition (60,000 units)

    or the European collectors edition (55,000 units)

  • JupstoJupsto Member UncommonPosts: 2,075

    Originally posted by Arcona

    Originally posted by SeaCow


    Is it easier to get in if you preorder the game?



    You get a spot in the open beta if you preorder the collectors edition

    whats stopping you from preordering the collectors and then just canceling it once you get into beta?

    off topic: its funny reading that page. all the stuff people gave funcom grief over, buying early acess and ingame bonuses etc. mythic are doing the same thing.

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  • ArconaArcona Member UncommonPosts: 1,182
    Originally posted by Consensus


     
    Originally posted by Arcona

    Originally posted by SeaCow


    Is it easier to get in if you preorder the game?



    You get a spot in the open beta if you preorder the collectors edition

    whats stopping you from preordering the collectors and then just canceling it once you get into beta?

     

    off topic: its funny reading that page. all the stuff people gave funcom grief over, buying early acess and ingame bonuses etc. mythic are doing the same thing.

    They send you a preorder box right after you preorder and charge your creditcard for the game. Thats how it is in Denmark, I heard in USA you can return a MMORPG even after you made an account with the CD-keys

  • ManiaCCCManiaCCC Member Posts: 121
    You just must be lucky.. I have just decent computer and just singup for newsletter (and beta of course) and I won.
  • Lonesamurai1Lonesamurai1 Member Posts: 1,210

    Originally posted by Arcona

    Originally posted by Consensus


     
    Originally posted by Arcona

    Originally posted by SeaCow


    Is it easier to get in if you preorder the game?



    You get a spot in the open beta if you preorder the collectors edition

    whats stopping you from preordering the collectors and then just canceling it once you get into beta?

     

    off topic: its funny reading that page. all the stuff people gave funcom grief over, buying early acess and ingame bonuses etc. mythic are doing the same thing.

    They send you a preorder box right after you preorder and charge your creditcard for the game. Thats how it is in Denmark, I heard in USA you can return a MMORPG even after you made an account with the CD-keys

    actually HMV here in England just sold me the collectors edition preorder last weekend without taking my details

     

    I realised after I left the store

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  • Punk999Punk999 Member UncommonPosts: 882

    Originally posted by Arcona


    Mainly high end computers in beta right now. Mid to low aren't invited to beta yet due to lack of slider capabilities on graphics.
    They're strict about the beta testers they let in, since they do not have graphical sliders in yet and thus want the higher end computers, once you can turn down the settings they'll have more mid-range and low-range computers.
    source: comic con article
    Thats why I havent been invited with my mid-range PC.
    My girlfriend's new PC is close to high-end, but I only just signed up for her
    So sign up with a high end computer.

    Amd4200

    8600

    2gig

    i was invited months ago dont need high end at all.

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  • linedawglinedawg Member UncommonPosts: 123

    I don’t think a preorder will help out anyone's chances. I know I have preordered a CE edition myself and 100% paid for so all I have to do is pick up the game. Also I registered for the closed beta last year and I have not received any code to access the beta. Also my system specs are extremely high and I believe that is something they are looking for to gain access to the beta.

    Personal I believe it is just random luck to get into the beta and I would not really get your hopes up to gain access.
  • SarileSarile Member Posts: 45

    I'm not holding my breath about getting into beta. Having an older dual core computer, I can still do quite well with it and will be able to run WAR on it without any problems. As much as I want to be in beta like everyone else, I can wait.

  • ZebladeZeblade Member UncommonPosts: 931

    if some get invied for not preorder then some do get invited with high end systems (like me) then its random.  Yet I signed up over a year ago and have been in other betas.

     

     

  • StratfordStratford Member CommonPosts: 112
    Originally posted by mcharj11  
    One guy did say in a letter to PCG though that he got in by simply telling them in the sign up that he was female because Mythic are looking for a broad user base.

     

    Ugh.  Please tell me that pun was intended.

  • linedawglinedawg Member UncommonPosts: 123
    Originally posted by Lentech


    Any idea roughly what the chances of gettin picked for closed beta ?



     

     

    Slim to none lol
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