Sress Test 2?Follow

I believe this is a step in getting ready for the open beta. They are most likely introducing the patch everyone has been waiting for and this code is probably considered final for burning if it passes the stress test.

If the code doesn't stand up to the stress test, then they will have to optimize it so it does. Once they feel it is ready they will open the stress test and submit this code to be burned for retail release.

While we are playing open beta, they will be burning and boxing the retail packages for the release date(which is starting to look very positive for Nov. 22(despite Blizzard disavowing the date as not from them(looked like heads were gonna roll))).

Chances are strong though that another patch will need to be downloaded once we install our CDs/DVDs.

there wont be another signup, the CB testers r going to do it, or else there accont would be closed, instead of just left open like they are. Not sure if im right but it makes logical sense, and thats always a good thing.

What a silly thought, of course there will be a sign-up, but closed beta tester will probably be put in without needing to sign-up. If it were ONLY beta testers, they wouldn't have bothered ending the closed beta. The fact is that as many Closed Beta testers as there are, there aren't even half as many people as there was in the original Stress Test( I think there are a few thousand beta testers, but less than 10,000(the Stress Test had 100,000 people)).

So did you find it somewhat crowded during CB with the few servers available at that time?

This has been said time and timea again but ill say it anyways...

WoW is more finished than Many mmorpgs were when they released ( and 6 months afterwards). Look at L2, look at EQ (when it first came out), look at EQ2, its a good idea to release when EQ2 does, even if its early. /calm

If the servers continue to crash everday like in CB then it will suck somewhat. Same with the forums. I'm going to play it no matter what, but some people might be turned off if these problems continue.

as if any cares but also burned CD's can fade out and eventually not work where pressed CD's stay as long as the CD doesnt get scratched. Sorry i learned about it in school and had to pass it on ^^

i dont know, im kinda partial to the old 5 inch floppies... they rock harder then anything they come up with now.

You guys didnt know? Yeah they're releasing WoW on a convinient 1000 floppy disk format.

... um... last i checked a normal floppy disk... was... 1.44 megs.....

When I downloaded the stress test it was 2+ gigs, I can only guess that the actual realize will be larger, FFXI was like... 4 gigs?

So if they did it on floppy (please kill me now) it'd be closer to like... 2000 disk >.>

There is always IOMEGA Floppy Disk but then those sorta flopped and didnt sell as well as hoped.

In any case, burned, pressed, floppied, psychic, whatever... I just wanna play the final version >.>

I know a person-- an individual-- who buys CD-R discs in such quantities that they are cheaper (he claims) than floppies. Personally, I'm partial to floppies, but that's because I typically deal with documents less than 1.44 MB in size (Word documents and such). And although I've never had a floppy demagnetize on me, I have had quite a few shatter...

LOL so true, if you get a CD-RW all you need is 1 to beat out 800 floppies. CD-R is slightly less cool, as you can only use it once, but still 800 megs as opposed to 1.44 big difference ^^

Thumbdrives anyone? For 20 bucks you can get a 128mb drive that'll work in any windows 2000/XP computer without having to load drivers. And if you like transfering big things you can get 1GB drives for a pretty reasonable price (60-80ish).