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Adeli

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WoW Beta: Did you make it?
« on: November 10, 2004, 09:16:21 pm »
Who here got into WoW Open Beta?
I did, and had 67% on the downloader and when I woke up the computer was at a bluescreen!
I hate Windows sometimes.
THen I found out it was my brother\'s fault, he was downloading a 2.5GB file to a drive with around 1.6 gig left on it. He\'s such an idiot somedays.
Both he and I got reg. keys... so we have accounts and I\'m currently getting the file from Fileplanet. Blizzard\'s downloader was so slow.

So, did anyone else get in?
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« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2004, 09:20:54 pm »
Yeah I am in.
I actually had someone send me the Blizzard Installer almost 2 weeks ago so I was able to download the game in advance and just had to download the patches.

Blizzard is using Bit Torrent to download the 2.5gig file and there has been a ton of complaints about it. While I was downloading it, which wasn\'t even during a peek time like when OPEN beta hit, i was downloading at a max of 48kb/s but I was uploading as high as 96kb/s.

By the time the whole download was done I has uploaded almost twice what I downloaded. Tell me how that makes sense.

But besides that I love the game :D
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« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2004, 10:51:11 pm »
i think since its an OPEN beta... everyone who wants to get in gets in... but me no... I have no desire to play WoW... basically on the fact that my computer will kill me if I tried to make it work that hard
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« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2004, 11:02:04 pm »
Actually Blizzard did say that they are limiting the number of keys they are giving out for Open Beta and it is a first come first serve basis.
Basically once they have the desired number of people signed up then you won\'t be able to get in anymore.
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« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2004, 12:58:05 am »
I was too late...  X(
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« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2004, 02:55:54 am »
i signed up in time im so im happy
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« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2004, 03:18:17 am »
It closed pretty quickly...
48? You had it lucky...
Peak time, the maximum I saw was 20... average was 6...
Fileplanet is giving me 58!
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« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2004, 07:33:22 am »
I didnt get but I dont really care :)
All I need is PS, Warcraft, and Redmoon :)
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« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2004, 04:42:46 pm »
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It closed pretty quickly...
48? You had it lucky...
Peak time, the maximum I saw was 20... average was 6...
Fileplanet is giving me 58!

3mb download speeds :D
Also I think it helped I was downloading in the middle of the stress test and not when everyone else was so I wasn\'t as bogged down with slow connections.
Took me about 8 hours to download in total which seemed to be about a third what it took everyone else.
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« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2004, 03:55:16 am »
It ended up taking me 13 hours from Fileplanet yesterday.
It\'s fun and great though, so it was worth it.
Install took a while too.
Fun game... Level 6 Night Elf Hunter, name Tyralus
On Test 37
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« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2004, 04:14:40 am »
Avok Lvl 15 Tauren Warrior on Test 33.
Thats the main I am playing but I have a few others on other servers also.
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« Reply #11 on: November 12, 2004, 11:27:31 am »
Yep.. And it\'s almost just as boring as all the other mmorpg\'s out there pay to play or not.(at least the ones I\'ve tried :P )
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« Reply #12 on: November 14, 2004, 12:03:34 am »
I like WoW.
I especially like how the jobs are actually enjoyable and rewarding.

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« Reply #13 on: November 14, 2004, 01:38:35 am »
Eh, looks like I\'m too late. :(
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« Reply #14 on: November 14, 2004, 04:41:50 am »
its really annoying to get chain stuff when your characters class cant equip it

test 25 lvl 7 druid night elf
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