World of Warcraft Closed Beta Ending

JD-1027 writes "Blizzard is ending it's closed beta test of World of Warcraft Friday at 3pm PDT. Somewhat of an abrupt announcement, welcome by most, that means the release of the game is inching closer." In all likelihood this indicates the imminent arrival of the Open Beta Test.

been waiting for this since they announced it

[sgant]

It's been what, 2 years since they announced it? I'm really looking forward to it. But I certainly haven't built up my expectations for this, having been let down too many times (can you say SWG?)

WoW, HL2 and LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth are the big 3 I'm waiting for. But here this past week, while I heard of Guild Wars, I never really looked into it.

After the first couple of minutes of "oh wow, pretty" wore off, I learned that it was a kind of boring game while I was playing the World Wide Event that's going on now. I'm talking...snoozer.

But that's a game in progress, so perhaps it will get better and better over time, but it's mainly a haven for Diablo regects at the moment. They REALLY need an /ignore command in that game.

Closed Beta was fun

[Godai]

All you guys who end up downloading the Open Beta client are in for a treat. I've played a troll mage (EnSabahNur) through to 57 and had a great time. Still work to be done on it, but a blast nonetheless.

Re:been waiting for this since they announced it

[Godai]

There is an /ignore command. And yeah, there are currently a fair number of Dialob rejects but also a goodly number of good people. Look for that ration to tilt wildly towards the former in the Open Beta :)

Re:Horray

[Dr. Smack PhD]

Every class can solo fairly well in WoW (some better than other, of course). I actually spent a lot of time soloing during Closed Beta. I did quite enjoy group play though, as well. It is nice because if you are an anti-social person, you can still enjoy the game without groups, but if you like grouping, there's plenty to do on that end of the spectrum, too.

Yea, if I was blizzard i'd close down too.

[JVert]

Nobody is going to be interested in taking bug reports this weekend at blizzard because they are all playing guildwars.

Re:Time required?

[urbancontra]

I know I wasted a ton of time playing this game, and I'm a senior in college as well. I don't think you have to devote too much time a week to it to have fun, but it certainly is MORE fun when you get into higher levels. You don't get talent points until level 10, and talents are really where you can start customizing your character. Then again, I can make it to level 15 in one sitting (but I have experience, of course). The best part about leveling in WoW is that it doesn't feel like work. Most of your time will be spent questing, and Blizzard has done an excellent job making sure you don't have to grind through your levels. The quests progress naturally and smoothly throughout the game until you get to about the upper 40s. I'm sure Blizzard is still working on higher level content, though. They're adding a new high level instance with this upcoming patch. Crafting is the latter of what you described. Mining requires you to find different kinds of ore veins scattered across the world. Leatherwork requires you to kill things and skin them. For tailoring, you find cloth on various humanoid corpses. Alchemists can gather herbs from around the world. The only catch is, if you want to gather your own materials, you have to choose the corresponding gathering skill as your second tradeskill, and you can only have two. Of course, you could just buy your materials, but that gets expensive quickly.