Server Maintenance

[NonGayMan]

http://www.battle.net/forums/wow/board.aspx?ForumName=wow-general

Could this mean Open Beta sign-ups will be soon? One can only hope!

[Sovereign]

*sniifs air*

I think so > : )

Are all chars created during open beta to be deleted when it ends? On lineage 2 they saved them :X

[Randuin]

I know characters in closed beta weren't deleted :)

[zeal311]

After signing up for countless closed beta and not getting into any I honestly cannot fucking wait to play this game. The last time I played was on one of the first hacked server back at alpha leak. Wow was that a joke. Open beta begins monday is my guess.

[Grav]

Open beta will most likely not begin Monday. This is because they are having a "stress test" first which is including the closed beta characters. If they have open beta and the stress test at the same time, then that's different.

[Randuin]

So I guess I'm in this stress test then? Except my account doesn't work right now... so that wouldn't work too well...

[ask_rabber]

They sent or are sending out some e-mails with the information on the stress test.

[timmay1113]

i think that everything is going to be delayed a little bit
"The client download will now be available to closed beta testers when we announce further details regarding the upcoming stress test here on WorldofWarcraft.com. It will not be available early as we originally indicated in the email we sent yesterday. While our initial plan was to offer the stress test client for download to closed beta testers ahead of time, this is no longer possible due to the extensive maintenance being performed on our servers. We apologize for any confusion this has caused. Please enjoy your weekend! "

i dunno i think the earliest anything will come is the end of next week

[Randuin]

No email on my end.. not sure what happened

[Vollstrecker]

Open beta will most likely not begin Monday.

That doesn't mean that they won't open the signups Monday. They'll likely have signups going on during the Stress Test.

[Grav]

Signups doesn't mean it's beginning though. I'm not sure why they're having signups to begin with..

[zeal311]

Yea doesn't sign ups for an open beta kind of defeat the purpose?

[Vollstrecker]

They have to have a way of distributing keys and whatnot.

Also, signups may be necessary to get a rough handle on how many servers they're gonna try to rush and put up. I honestly doubt they have any more than the Closed Servers and the Stress Test servers ready to be brought online at the moment.

The new Stress Test will give a rough idea of how the servers will perform under a heavy load with the new game version (since the last stress test), and the Open Beta signups will tell them how many servers they'll likely need to accomodate the OB load when they're ready to begin.