glassdragon

If you are a subscriber and go here

http://www.fileplanet.com/betacenter...upsell_b.shtml
you are guaranteed a spot on the World of Warcraft Closed Stress test beta

and here

http://www.fileplanet.com/betacenter/tribesvengeance/

Tribes 3 Vengence Beta

the wow on will be up for everyone in a couple of days and the Tribes one is exclusive only to subscribers though. Remeber Subscribers are guaranteed a spot in the WOW stress test which will last about a week from what i read.

Feneant

I would love to know how much they paid Blizzard to be allowed to host this. It's BS and I lost a lot of respect for WoW in them saying 'unless you pay, we dont garantee you will be allowed in the stress test'.

It's a bloody stress test that lasts a week and they want us to pay, what the f*** is with that. I've been beta testing for years and when I had to pay for a beta in the past, they mailed you a cd and let you test for the remainder of the beta test and not a week to try to drum up the hype on their title.

glassdragon

i agree.. I am not a fileplanet subscriber and i will not subscribe for it. But i thought i might let some people know who are subscribers and havn't been there in a few days or were on the fence about subscribing. I wish it weren't like this either. They are both great betas, I did not lie about that. Yeah it would be nice for everyone to get a chance though :/ . As i said I'm not condoning the actions just providing info for people who are subscribed

Trigger

I subscribed to IGN and got a sub to fileplanet along with it - I didn't pay just for the prospect of getting these demos, so I don't really see it as paying to be a beta tester, but I guess I can see where you guys are coming from. I may check out Tribes 3.

CKMorpheus

I've been a FilePlanet subscriber for the past year and it has been the greatest investment I've made other than NetFlix. Being as how I'm an avid PC gamer, FilePlanet is a great place to get all the newest files I need for my favorite games. And the betas and exclusives, make it completely worth it. No need to wait in line, 3 Mb/sec download rates, no ads. It's great. Jeez, I sound like an ad exec.

Trigger

Shill shill!

glassdragon

I also see your point trigger. I guess if i paid for a service such as fileplanet then it would be nice to see that every now and again we would get some exclusive stuff to thank us for the money we spent. I will not buy a sub just for this but the people who had one before because they liked the content deserve it i guess

Groucho

This is why I am going with Guild Wars. I can play with no monthly fee, and I don't have to pay to try the game before committing to buying it.

glassdragon

public signup for warcraft test is up

Darkfriend

There was this controversy last week at Gamespot. Complete members could enter for a chance at 3 spots for the WoW beta.

They said the 19th they were going to post the winners... And they didn't.

Gamespot just posted a message on the boards saying that the winners were notified by e-mail.However, no winners went on the boards to share their joy.


A lot of people were upset. I hope Gamespot didn't put up a fake contest just to get more complete members

Feneant

Go figure, they are 'out' of keys just as the public thing opens, what a ****ing joke by Blizzard

Darkfriend

I still gave it a shot 'cause I'm curious. Just got my gamespy ID (NOT the subscription) and my application was accepted but I'm on the "waiting list".

Whatever , this is a stress test so even if I get in I do expect major lag and/or crashes; like in EQ when there was a GM event in a zone and 456 players would just flood the zone hoping to get a no-drop sandal with +2 wisdom

EDIT: I received my key and I'm in the stress test. It took maybe 6 hours from the time I applied so that's not too bad!

Now, since I don't subscribe to FilePlanet I'm now waiting to download the client...I'm now 403/424