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That's for US though, how will it be handled here in Europe?
IainC_Goa said:On the subject of the standard edition pre-order in Europe. The EU pre-order for the standard edition begins on the 28th of August and the full details haven't yet been announced for it. As Mark has said however the EU version won't have the open beta access. This is mostly because we are instead going to be making open beta places available through partner websites in the different European territories instead. European communities are different to North American ones and we feel that this is the best way to support them and to give EU WAR fans the opportunity to take part in the open beta.
So let me get this straight.
- There will be an EU open beta.
- It will be accessible to Pre-Ordres
- Others without pre-order will get the opportunity to join trough "local sites"
- GOA is useless, EU web page is useless, and EU customers are not prioritized.
I have trawled the EU page, but the flash is driving me crazy, and the information posted by IainC_Goa can be found where?
EU web page is useless, and EU customers are not prioritized.
hehe, yesterday it said starting Aug 4th, im kinda getting a bit bored waiting to b honest. get rid of the NDA already.
Nothing new there Mythic really don't care much for their European players compared to Blizzard,or even Turbine.
Nice to know, would have loved to read it on that rather useless Web Site, but kudos to Iain to come to Goa's Rescue as usual.
Also that's another tangible clue that Mythic don't give a shit about Europe problems and go on with their things no matter what
There's nothing on the EU site at the moment as there is nothing to announce. We'll be posting full details of the pre-order program for the standard edition when everything is ready to go. In the meantime, as Mythic have announced their details, I'm just answering questions. It would be a bit odd to post a news article saying there was no news.
So this allows those in the US who pre-ordered to get beta access from today?
There's nothing on the EU site at the moment as there is nothing to announce. We'll be posting full details of the pre-order program for the standard edition when everything is ready to go. In the meantime, as Mythic have announced their details, I'm just answering questions. It would be a bit odd to post a news article saying there was no news.
That sounds exactly like your post about solving Dyvet's population issues.
That being said I just applied for the US beta with hope to get in the open one with my US DAoC account. Looking at GoA's past in "serving" the DAoC community, your new Warhammer site and this thread here I am 100% sure I did the right thing.
After working in the games industry I really can't understand the situation at the moment.
How can Mythic come out with a well thought out release plan complete with CE pre-order, standard pre-order and promises for both headstart and closed/open access, whilst GOA are stuck posting on forums 'Uhhh we didn't expect this' (Ian's post somewhere on this board).
Seriously, where is the communication between the two companies? this is a partnership that will fall down the same trail as DAoC if these problems aren't ironed out asap.
IainC, we've been fed the whole 'EU and NA players will have the same gaming experience' line from mythic, yet at the moment that promise is already starting to crumble pre release.
Can you somehow explain the situation so the community has faith that we aren't being cradled by the hands of incompetence here? Because from all angles that is the picture being painted at the moment.
Yeah but we don't work for Mythic or GOA, he does and as Community Manager he should be one of the closest people involved with communications between Mythic and GOA. However I agree, it's not GOA's fault as Mythic clearly were too retarded to inform him.Now, no need to string up IainC about this. If you ask me, its fair to say that he's both as in the dark as us, and potentially just as frustrated about it.
. EU are not getting any less than they was promised , all thats happening is US are now getting an extra preview weekend as far as i can tell.
It's not the fact that where not getting what where promised because we havent been promised anything, only that the game will release on the 18thSep, we have absolutely nil information, thats what gets people all twisted and start posting shit. If we had the info about all the beta's head starts previews what ever no one would be whining, unless of course it's bad news, but any news is good for me, as long as im not sat in the dark.
Just the fact that they have all there info they can all relax while we sit here and bicker about whats happening when realy nobody even knows.
If GOA could give us more information im sure everyone would be happy.
I'm not GOA's biggest fan but it seems difficult to me for anyone to blame GOA if Mythic suddenly bring everything forward unexpectedly?
As to using this incident to make guesses about the respective service levels once the game is live seems a bit of a stretch.