500,000+ World of Warcraft Open Beta Test Signups

[archeiron]

500,000+ World of Warcraft Open Beta Test Signups! - Indoflaven on 11/11/04

This past Monday we launched the World of Warcraft open beta test, and by the following day, we had already reached a total of more than 500,000 signups! To everyone who signed up, we'd like to say thanks again for helping us make this the most extensive beta test ever for a Blizzard game. We take this as a strong indication that the gaming community is as excited about World of Warcraft's upcoming release as we are.

As for the status of the open beta test, more than 40 servers are currently active, and testing is running smoothly, with additional players completing their client installation and joining by the hour. Each server hosts thousands of concurrent users, most of whom are seeing Azeroth through the eyes of the Horde or the Alliance for the first time. We continue to review every suggestion submitted, so please keep them coming in!

The worldwide player base has the potential to be massive for this game based upon an extrapolation of these numbers. I am also thinking that EQ2 could have modest percentage of EQ's numbers in parallel to this, which would suggest that the market for MMO's is growing considerably. In any event, well done Blizzard.

[masteen]

We'll see how many of the b.net kiddies actually get their mommies to give CC infoz.

[Aabidano]

Test 1 and 13 became nearly unplayable after open beta started, hopefully they're doing some tweaking.

The only bright side is that you can give a good guess as to how the backend works via response time to different character actions

[Acun]

I play on Test 2 and dont even think about playing anytime from 6-10pm EST...Lag is awful.

[Janx]

WTF are my spells not working? WTF cant i attack? Why are things not attacking me?

2mins later after you've clicked to loot.

You have looted medium leather.

That needs to get fixed asap.

On a brighter note, just 29 on test 10!