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World of Warcraft: Forever players are reliving 2004 with hour-long queue times to get into the highly-anticipated beta
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With a week to go before World of Warcraft Forever’s beta spins down and the true preparations for launch gear up, there’s one thing that’s clear beyond a doubt: This has been one popular test run. Third-party sites tracked over a million characters created in the beta to date, with a pretty even split between [...]
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16 articles- PC GamerWorld of Warcraft: Forever players are reliving 2004 with hour-long queue times to get into the highly-anticipated betaRead full article on PC Gamer (opens in a new tab)
- MassivelyOPWorld of Warcraft Forever clocks over a million characters created in the beta so farRead full article on MassivelyOP (opens in a new tab)
Preview from MassivelyOP: World of Warcraft Forever clocks over a million characters created in the beta so far
With a week to go before World of Warcraft Forever’s beta spins down and the true preparations for launch gear up, there’s one thing that’s clear beyond a doubt: This has been one popular test run. Third-party sites tracked over a million characters created in the beta to date, with a pretty even split between [...]
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- PC GamerWorld of Warcraft: Forever won't destroy what made the old classes so satisfying by modernizing them into oblivion: 'The level of mechanical complexity found in the beta classes is indicative of our intentions'Read full article on PC Gamer (opens in a new tab)
- MassivelyOPWorld of Warcraft Forever beta continues to adjust dungeon XP and bans over 4K accounts for RMTRead full article on MassivelyOP (opens in a new tab)
Preview from MassivelyOP: World of Warcraft Forever beta continues to adjust dungeon XP and bans over 4K accounts for RMT
The fourth week of the World of Warcraft Forever beta is in full swing, with an increased level cap of 30 and the opening of the City of Dalaran dungeon. Testers no doubt are getting whiplash from the sizable class tuning happening right now, although they do have all 16 legacy points to play with [...]
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- PC GamerThe WoW: Forever beta's nerf to dungeon XP isn't nearly as bad as it seemsRead full article on PC Gamer (opens in a new tab)
- PC GamerI'm sure whoever chose to charge for WoW: Forever beta access is feeling very chuffed, given Blizzard's had to expand its server size a second timeRead full article on PC Gamer (opens in a new tab)
- MassivelyOPBetawatch: World of Warcraft Forever gets the beta explosion as Aion 2 cracks its doors open a bitRead full article on MassivelyOP (opens in a new tab)
Preview from MassivelyOP: Betawatch: World of Warcraft Forever gets the beta explosion as Aion 2 cracks its doors open a bit
So the World of Warcraft Forever beta kicked off to insane numbers, and so many articles about the spinoff reboot. Seriously, it was a lot. And that’s pretty great, you can’t say that there is a lack of transparency. If you aren’t in the beta and/or don’t want to spend the money on the beta access, [...]
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- PC GamerWorld of Warcraft: Forever dev has 'no sympathy' for players kicked from the beta for offensive names: 'If you're genuinely confused, remember that it's our database, we can see every character you've created'Read full article on PC Gamer (opens in a new tab)
- MassivelyOPWorld of Warcraft Forever discusses beta player reactions, Skyborne, and planned future adjustmentsRead full article on MassivelyOP (opens in a new tab)
Preview from MassivelyOP: World of Warcraft Forever discusses beta player reactions, Skyborne, and planned future adjustments
With the first week of beta in the rearview mirror of World of Warcraft Forever, the devs of Blizzard are taking some time to unpack some of what they’ve seen and discuss things that are happening in the MMORPG in a video podcast format. Much of the chatter in the podcast was understandably about player reactions to [...]
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- PC GamerYou can properly test talents in the WoW: Forever beta, nowRead full article on PC Gamer (opens in a new tab)
- MassivelyOPWorld of Warcraft Forever continues to delve into character creation while players discover crazy items in the betaRead full article on MassivelyOP (opens in a new tab)
Preview from MassivelyOP: World of Warcraft Forever continues to delve into character creation while players discover crazy items in the beta
It’s a good week to drink deep and full of World of Warcraft Forever developer diaries, as Blizzard released yet another pair of them yesterday. Both of these continue to plumb the depths of new character creation options, including the additional class/race combos and the new Skyborne race. “World of Warcraft Forever opens new ways [...]
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- EurogamerBlizzard layoffs are reportedly imminent, days after an exciting BlizzCon and a seemingly popular World of Warcraft: Forever betaRead full article on Eurogamer (opens in a new tab)
- ShacknewsWorld of Warcraft: Forever lead addresses beta login issues & volume of playersRead full article on Shacknews (opens in a new tab)
Preview from Shacknews: World of Warcraft: Forever lead addresses beta login issues & volume of players
'Betas for WoW aren't usually huge meter movers,' Senior Game Producer Tom Ellis said in a post discussing the technicals of the login errors.
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- MassivelyOPWorld of Warcraft Forever beta sees ‘crazy’ numbers: ‘We’ve got something really special here’Read full article on MassivelyOP (opens in a new tab)
Preview from MassivelyOP: World of Warcraft Forever beta sees ‘crazy’ numbers: ‘We’ve got something really special here’
It’s not only World of Warcraft fans who are pumped about the beta for Forever; one of the game’s lead developers couldn’t contain his amazement at the success of the test so far. On Twitter this past weekend, Josh “Aggrand” Greenfield posted, “Man, it was hard to sleep last night, I was so excited. Beta [...]
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- MassivelyOPBetawatch: World of Warcraft Forever begins beta, Aniimo and RuneScape Dragonwilds leave early accessRead full article on MassivelyOP (opens in a new tab)
Preview from MassivelyOP: Betawatch: World of Warcraft Forever begins beta, Aniimo and RuneScape Dragonwilds leave early access
So I could try to make jokes about World of Warcraft Forever going into beta, but they won’t really land, because the beta is not going to last forever. It’s actually only going to last for about two months, because there’s already a set launch date. That isn’t forever. That’s significantly different than forever. Forever would [...]
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- ShacknewsHow to sign up for the World of Warcraft: Forever betaRead full article on Shacknews (opens in a new tab)
Preview from Shacknews: How to sign up for the World of Warcraft: Forever beta
Blizzard Entertainment is opening the doors to a vast new revision of Azeroth with playtesting starting this September.
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I'm sure whoever chose to charge for WoW: Forever beta access is feeling very chuffed, given Blizzard's had to expand its server size a second time
- MassivelyOPWorld of Warcraft Forever clocks over a million characters created in the beta so far (opens in a new tab)
- PC GamerWorld of Warcraft: Forever won't destroy what made the old classes so satisfying by modernizing them into oblivion: 'The level of mechanical complexity found in the beta classes is indicative of our intentions' (opens in a new tab)
- MassivelyOPWorld of Warcraft Forever beta continues to adjust dungeon XP and bans over 4K accounts for RMT (opens in a new tab)
- PC GamerThe WoW: Forever beta's nerf to dungeon XP isn't nearly as bad as it seems (opens in a new tab)
- PC GamerI'm sure whoever chose to charge for WoW: Forever beta access is feeling very chuffed, given Blizzard's had to expand its server size a second time (opens in a new tab)
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- MassivelyOPBetawatch: World of Warcraft Forever gets the beta explosion as Aion 2 cracks its doors open a bit (opens in a new tab)
- PC GamerWorld of Warcraft: Forever dev has 'no sympathy' for players kicked from the beta for offensive names: 'If you're genuinely confused, remember that it's our database, we can see every character you've created' (opens in a new tab)
- MassivelyOPWorld of Warcraft Forever discusses beta player reactions, Skyborne, and planned future adjustments (opens in a new tab)
- PC GamerYou can properly test talents in the WoW: Forever beta, now (opens in a new tab)
- MassivelyOPWorld of Warcraft Forever continues to delve into character creation while players discover crazy items in the beta (opens in a new tab)
- EurogamerBlizzard layoffs are reportedly imminent, days after an exciting BlizzCon and a seemingly popular World of Warcraft: Forever beta (opens in a new tab)
- ShacknewsWorld of Warcraft: Forever lead addresses beta login issues & volume of players (opens in a new tab)
- MassivelyOPWorld of Warcraft Forever beta sees ‘crazy’ numbers: ‘We’ve got something really special here’ (opens in a new tab)
- MassivelyOPBetawatch: World of Warcraft Forever begins beta, Aniimo and RuneScape Dragonwilds leave early access (opens in a new tab)
- PC GamerWorld of Warcraft: Forever players are reliving 2004 with hour-long queue times to get into the highly-anticipated beta (opens in a new tab)
- ShacknewsHow to sign up for the World of Warcraft: Forever beta (opens in a new tab)