WoW Stress Test

[invaLPsion]

Woo! I'm in! :)

I get to try the WoW beta on my new Dual 2.5GHz G5 for 7 days for free!

Check it out at www.fileplanet.com. :)

[Maclarny]

I'm in the wait line for the download! 137/220! Can't wait to see how it runs on my PC :D

[Nermal]

USA only :mad:

[Maclarny]

I'm downloading it now. It's huge! 1.8 GB download. Looks like my PC is going to be on overnight :cool:. Will post impressions once I get it up and running.

[rbarris]

I'm downloading it now. It's huge! 1.8 GB download. Looks like my PC is going to be on overnight :cool:. Will post impressions once I get it up and running.

Er, that better be 2.37 x 10^9 bytes or you got a bad DL.

[Golem]

USA only :mad:


Sucks:(

[crazzyeddie]

Pay for Gamespy account? I don't think so.

[JasonL]

I downloaded it last night. I hope it isn't much longer before I get to play!

[Maclarny]

Pay for Gamespy account? I don't think so.

You don't have to pay anything to get into the stress test. Yu just need a free gamespy account and a lot of patience. So I got about 1 gig into the download on my PC and my damn internet hiccuped and everything stopped. So I restarted the download using iGetter on my Mac and it has been going smoothly since.

[Schmittroth]

I downloaded the file but I can't seem to extract it. Stuffit won't touch it.
OSX thinks it's a BOMArchive file. What's that?

[Vlade]

Just signed up! Is there a place where I can download the installer right now (is it PC And Mac because I have both but I wanna play it on my PC), so that when I get the key I can start playing right away?

[vraxtus]

Man I am way too lazy to leave my comp on to d/l 1.8 gb worth of a BETA file -_-

[Vlade]

Man I am way too lazy to leave my comp on to d/l 1.8 gb worth of a BETA file -_-

I would think you would have to be more lazy to turn it off instead of just leaving it on :)

[clr900]

Nice, I just signed up too and am waiting to download. But I won't be able to play it until my dual 2.5 ships on 9/03! Hopefully Blizzard won't start it before then.

[Maclarny]

Man I am way too lazy to leave my comp on to d/l 1.8 gb worth of a BETA file -_-

Well we can assume that this beta must be pretty close to the retail game if they want to test their servers with it.

[vraxtus]

I would think you would have to be more lazy to turn it off instead of just leaving it on :)

Well... with the amount of time it would take to d/l and the amount of power it would cost me... eh, not sure it's worth it.

[Laslo Panaflex]

I just installed, now just waiting for the stress test to start. It is pretty safe to say that I will be playing it non-stop during the test, it is the best way to determine whether or not I am going to buy it when it is released.

[qster00]

Im having a similar problem, I cant extract it. Anyone have any solutions to this problem?
-Q

[BrianKonarsMac]

why waste your time d/l'ing a 1.8 GB file to help blizzard stress test their servers? you will be able to play the game for one week only, and during this week, as it says on blizzard and fileplanet's sites, there will be so much lag it will hardly be playable, worth your time.

the game will be out in a few months, i'll just wait for the real deal rather than dealing with shady gamespy.

[Laslo Panaflex]

why waste your time d/l'ing a 1.8 GB file to help blizzard stress test their servers? you will be able to play the game for one week only, and during this week, as it says on blizzard and fileplanet's sites, there will be so much lag it will hardly be playable, worth your time.

the game will be out in a few months, i'll just wait for the real deal rather than dealing with shady gamespy.

Well, I went to a family BBQ at noon, and when I came home at 4 it was done, and more than half of that time was waiting in line for the download, since I am not a gamespy premier member. That really didn't waste any time for me as far as I am concerned. As for dealing with shady gamespy, yeah, I would never sign up, or "upgrade" my free account for 19.99 to get a gauranteed, CD key, I jsut sign up for free and got a CD key.

As for why would you help Blizzard stress test their servers? are yo crazy? How else will they know how their servers perform with lots of users on at a time. Would you rather the WoW release be like Star Wars Galaxies where people couldn't even play it because the servers were hammered? Laggy or not, what's wrong with playing WoW for free before its released?, it really wasn't a bother at all.

[qster00]

Nevermind, I just ended up downloading it again with a newer version of Speed Download. Im loving my new 4000/384 connection.
-Q

[applemacdude]

got an account and its on ebay

[shortyjj]

got an account and its on ebay

Wow, that's really ****ty. I didn't get an account because of people like you.

[Vlade]

Wow, that's really ****ty. I didn't get an account because of people like you.

Boo ****ing Hoo... I didn't win the lottery because of people like you :mad: . You shouldn't be mad because someone won a drawing and you didn't.

[ZildjianKX]

Boo ****ing Hoo... I didn't win the lottery because of people like you :mad: . You shouldn't be mad because someone won a drawing and you didn't.

It's more like someone took the last piece of desert only to sell it when they didn't need it and you don't get desert.

[BrianKonarsMac]

Well, I went to a family BBQ at noon, and when I came home at 4 it was done, and more than half of that time was waiting in line for the download, since I am not a gamespy premier member. That really didn't waste any time for me as far as I am concerned. As for dealing with shady gamespy, yeah, I would never sign up, or "upgrade" my free account for 19.99 to get a gauranteed, CD key, I jsut sign up for free and got a CD key.

As for why would you help Blizzard stress test their servers? are yo crazy? How else will they know how their servers perform with lots of users on at a time. Would you rather the WoW release be like Star Wars Galaxies where people couldn't even play it because the servers were hammered? Laggy or not, what's wrong with playing WoW for free before its released?, it really wasn't a bother at all. im just really bitter that i didn't get into the original beta, and now i get a chance to play it, but it's going to be too laggy to really enjoy/appreciate.

although i am all for helping blizzard in any way possible (even though they are owned by vivendi...) and would gladly d/l the 1.8 GB's to help them test their d/l service, but then again that would interrupt my porn d/l's...where is fiber when you need it?

[Laslo Panaflex]

WoW Stress test is now live, I just logged on this morning before work. I can't wait to spend all weekend leveling up my char, just to have the stress test end in a week and have my char erased. Man, blizzard really does know how to hook ya, first try it for free for a week, then you must go by it.

Just from playing it for ten minutes this morning, I can already tell that I am going to buy it.

[Converted2Truth]

Wow is live, and I got in! Half the servers were down at 7am MST, but hey...

Not too sure if i like it yet. Graphics seem weaker than City Of Heroes/STW. The HUD seems weaker too. But i'm sure i just have to get acustomed to it.

[BeoVir]

I just played WoW for 8 hours straight and forgot to sleep now I have to go to work and man does this suck...AWESOME game though... I cant wait to own it

[Xenious]

For some reason I never got the email telling me where to go to create my account (I have a registration key) whats the url to create the account?
-jim

Ahh i just got the email! :)