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I recognize people will do anything for a beta key and a major reason for the join date cutoff is to prevent people from stealing addon code and creating new accounts to post them. It's very hard to come up with a computer algorithm to properly gauge how trustworthy someone is or whether they're trying to abuse the system for personal gain. I know going by the join date isn't perfect, but it's what we have. |
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Even the PTR did not require an active account, for me at least. |
To be honest to me it seems rather possible that the 'beta' of Legion will start with the release of the pre-patch for Legion.
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That said, we're looking at the pre-patch possibly happening in ~2.5 months. |
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http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/20742614769 However, I'm pretty sure we've had max-level premades available for PvE realms at some point in the past several betas so that more content, outside of leveling, could be more thoroughly tested. |
By the way, for historical perspective:
For BC which saw a massive change in how addons worked with the secure environment, protected API and such, and required entire rewrites of many addons, the lucky authors who got in early (thanks to wowinterface) got an invite only two months prior to the pre-patch going live. The closed beta started less than three weeks before the pre-patch went live. We managed just fine then. The time between WotLK author invites and pre-patch was around two months too. I can't find the email from the Cataclysm invite so don't recall how long that time frame was. For MoP (that was the Annual Pass thing maybe) it was five months. For WoD it was four months. I don't forsee anything close to the upheaval in Legion on the scale of BC. So we're well on track to getting in early enough to get our addons working in time for the pre-patch. |
It is quite likely that the official "beta" rollover happens very soon either way, they got nearly all missing features into the alpha now (which would generally qualify to cease calling it alpha), and chatter from some WoW CMs and Devs seems to point into a similar direction.
Maybe this week, maybe next, but quite certainly within this month. Maybe Watcher says something about it in the stream on Tuesday. |
I would be intrested in that function which determines how much mana are you gonna lose, when your current cast succeeds. Someone with a beta access could snoop around? :P
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From their legion dev update, it looks like they're targeting for the switch from alpha to beta at 2pm PT on Thursday with a big invite wave just prior.
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Just for convenience and to anyone that's interested, you can watch the developer update at this link:
https://player.twitch.tv/?volume=1&v...441&time=9m52s The transition to Beta is the first topic that Ion brings up. |
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Thanks for the video link MunkDev. Interesting how the perception of beta has changed and thus made Blizzard re-think when they should switch to beta. |
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Yes, it is. I'm thinking it's how they're going to handle things in the future, as well. An internal "Alpha", a long, possibly non-NDA, invite "Alpha", then a larger-wave "Beta" when things are more polished. If that's the case, people will have to let go of the phrase, "it's only Beta, guys!" :rolleyes: Quote:
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My invite to alpha/beta came today as well. Installing it now.
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