will open beta char be there when the game goes live?
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Stormforge
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Why do people say there'll be a Open Beta.
How do you know this, for all I know that there'll be a Final Beta test and it's limited by cd-keys. Besides WoW rocks
P.S. All characters nutured and played with probably will be wiped so that the retail servers are clean for launch. It happened on the US servers. It will happen on the EU ones.
How do you know this, for all I know that there'll be a Final Beta test and it's limited by cd-keys. Besides WoW rocks
P.S. All characters nutured and played with probably will be wiped so that the retail servers are clean for launch. It happened on the US servers. It will happen on the EU ones.
Draylor
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Its unlikely Blizzard will confirm this either way until the last possible minute.
In the (unlikely) event that beta chars are carried over to release servers theyll say in advance - since it would encourage people to play more, providing a better stress test for servers, etc
Most likely theyll say nothing, ignore all questions about it, and announce just as the beta servers are being taken down that all chars will be wiped. Thats exactly what they did in US.
Would make sense to have chars from the final 'open' (ie preorder) beta be carried over to live servers: itll only be a very short period of time (a week or so) but would help reduce the overcrowding in the noob areas in the first few days. Problems with that are so bad on US servers that there are queues to even get to login - hardly a good start for what will be many peoples first experience of the game.
In the (unlikely) event that beta chars are carried over to release servers theyll say in advance - since it would encourage people to play more, providing a better stress test for servers, etc
Most likely theyll say nothing, ignore all questions about it, and announce just as the beta servers are being taken down that all chars will be wiped. Thats exactly what they did in US.
Would make sense to have chars from the final 'open' (ie preorder) beta be carried over to live servers: itll only be a very short period of time (a week or so) but would help reduce the overcrowding in the noob areas in the first few days. Problems with that are so bad on US servers that there are queues to even get to login - hardly a good start for what will be many peoples first experience of the game.