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phillryu · Jan 28, 2004, 08:13 PM

http://www.blizzard.com/register/wowbetaAlt/

Except.. it's not working here!! AARGH!!! HELP ME! Post if you have similar problems of not connecting, and a useless .dll file downloading!

Vash · Jan 28, 2004, 08:26 PM

yea! The site is WICKED laggy now, and after about 20 clicks on continue it tried to download a register.dll file. Just wait for tomorrow when its not so busy and messed up.

rbarris · Jan 28, 2004, 08:41 PM

As it is *NOT* a "first come, first served" deal, you might be better off waiting til later tonight or tomorrow to sign up, when the load eases a bit.

Rob

Steb Mad · Jan 28, 2004, 08:49 PM

Originally posted by rbarris:
As it is *NOT* a "first come, first served" deal, you might be better off waiting til later tonight or tomorrow to sign up, when the load eases a bit.

I will not be able to sleep until I get a chance to register.

Warcraft is my life.

redJag · Jan 28, 2004, 10:47 PM

The only chance I'd buy WoW is if I got in the beta and was impressed. I'm just not into the pay-for-play thing, especially when you still have to purchase the game and get *no* functionality for doing so. Here's hoping (also waiting for SC:Ghost, definitely snapping that up).

nobitacu · Jan 29, 2004, 12:33 AM

I'm trying to sign up as well, and will not sleep until I've signed up!

Ming

nobitacu · Jan 29, 2004, 12:43 AM

It's done!!!! I've signed up!!!!!!!

YAY!!!! I can see myself testing the beta now!!!!

I can't wait!!!!

Ming

Steb Mad · Jan 29, 2004, 01:05 AM

Originally posted by nobitacu:
It's done!!!! I've signed up!!!!!!!

YAY!!!! I can see myself testing the beta now!!!!

I can't wait!!!!

!!!

Twilly Spree · Jan 29, 2004, 04:00 AM

Yes I too have a problem with the buy the game get nothing model. I hear it works for some games like Everquest, but I've never been a fan of online multiplaying.

phillryu · Jan 29, 2004, 05:21 AM

Oh great, now I get past the second step, and i tries to load some ActiveX app, fails, and the registration is ended. Grr!

-Q- · Jan 29, 2004, 09:31 AM

OK. Registered. Hopefully I'll get selected so I can find a MMORPG that I actually like. Everquest blows and Lineage wasn't far behind...

Steb Mad · Jan 29, 2004, 10:23 AM

I'm now WoW-ized

I wonder how many players they're seeking to beta-test WoW? I heard it's the largest in history.

nobitacu · Jan 29, 2004, 11:11 AM

I think as Mac gamers, we have a really good chance of getting into the beta, because there just isn't that many of us around since most WoW players are PC gamers. So we have a great chance of being picked. I am going to say that everyone in here will be picked if they sign up, they do need as much mac testers as possible, and well, we are quite rare, or at least compare to PC gamers. We should form a Mac Gamers Guild in the game, we Mac gamers need to stick together and stand our ground in the game.

Ming

rbarris · Jan 29, 2004, 12:11 PM

I think the drawing is closer to a lottery than what you describe, so it's pretty fair, each person has about the same net chance of getting in. Just IIRC.

Rob

Steb Mad · Jan 29, 2004, 12:29 PM

Originally posted by nobitacu:
We should form a Mac Gamers Guild in the game, we Mac gamers need to stick together and stand our ground in the game.

Sure, meet me there...

-Q- · Jan 29, 2004, 04:42 PM

Originally posted by Steb Mad:
Sure, meet me there...

nobitacu · Jan 29, 2004, 09:27 PM

Originally posted by Steb Mad:
Sure, meet me there...

Nice! anyway you can make this a background image? I also want to print out the photo with 8.5x11 so I can put it on my wall. How would I go about to do this?

Thanks,

Ming

redJag · Jan 29, 2004, 10:10 PM

Steb, nice image. I like the apple logos, not so much the panther discs

But very nice.

I am WoWzered now, hopefully I'll win a spot. Good luck to all.

Maharaja · Jan 30, 2004, 11:01 AM

yea, if you guys are making a guild, i'm interested. i love blizzard games.

SouthPaW1227 · Jan 30, 2004, 03:15 PM

I signed up for the beta, however, I'm surprised no one saw this yet...

Did you guys take a look at the suggested specs? The Mac specs are MORE demanding than the PC specs?! I dare say that has NEVER happened with any Mac version of a game, no? How could it require 1Ghz for Mac and only 800Mhz for PC?

iamnotmad · Jan 30, 2004, 03:30 PM

Originally posted by SouthPaW1227:
I signed up for the beta, however, I'm surprised no one saw this yet...

Did you guys take a look at the suggested specs? The Mac specs are MORE demanding than the PC specs?! I dare say that has NEVER happened with any Mac version of a game, no? How could it require 1Ghz for Mac and only 800Mhz for PC?

Those are not the final specs fortunately, they say the app has not yet been optimized for neither Mac nor Windows.

nobitacu · Jan 31, 2004, 02:38 AM

Yea, the number should come down when the final is out or towards the end of the beta testing stage.

Yea, I'm up for a Mac Gamers Guild. Let's form one. I don't think we'll have a big guild though... since it will be hard to find gamers that are using Macs. But if we could some how post the Guild info on all the Mac Gaming websites and asking all of the Mac gamers who are playing WoW to join, than we might get a nice large guild going. If we work together, I think we will be able to pull this off and make a nice guild size for Mac gamers only.

Ming

IBM:I BY MAC · Jan 31, 2004, 05:59 PM

I am a mac user, fond of blizzard, but I have an European, shipping adress, so that leaves me out of the first 2-3 test waves(like it was it in the TFT testing), but I don't give up the hope.

If ur creating a guild for mac users, Iam intrested to, and if anybody has a printer friendly version of the picture "play different" let me know. Thx

Steb Mad · Feb 1, 2004, 02:01 AM

The image above I made is just a quick photoshop job inspired by nobitacu's post.. I don't have a bigger size because that is the biggest image I can find at blizzard site.

If someone found a bigger pic, I would be glad to remake it with better quality.

nobitacu · Feb 3, 2004, 08:01 AM

I printed it out and resized it to 8.5" X 11" using Easy-PhotoPrint Plus, and it turned out looking pretty good. It printed in landscape mode. The picture is now on my wall. ^_^

The only difference is that after I printed it out, the picture is darker than what it should be. Now it really looks like night time. It still looks good, so I don't mind it.

Thanks again for making that Play Different picture.

Ming