I, along with everyone else, have been waiting for the release of Warhammer Online. I have eagerly attended as many of events as possible, and tried to enter every contest available for a chance to play in the beta.
Well on April 18-19 I attended the Comic Con in New York City because I heard the Warhammer team was going to be there. The Comic Con was, my surprise, much more fun than I had anticipated. I was able to meet Robert Mull, which he was able answer a lot of concerns and questions I had about the game. I also got to meet Jeff, Paul and Josh, which was pretty cool. The best part of the whole Comic Con, as if things weren’t going great enough already, they had a drawing there for Closed Beta Access, and to my surprise I WON. I was so excited that when I got home I entered the beta key and got ready to finally dive head first into beta testing. I pretty much swore off sleep for the rest of weekend. However, after entering the key, nothing happened. Nothing at all. All I did get was an update on my profile stating that I was at the 2008 Warhammer event, but no email, no nothing, not even a response of any kind stating that I was accepted to the beta. I sent a email to the Beta Center Support wondering if their server was down, or if I had done something incorrect. I also sent a copy of the email to Robert Mull. After a day I got a response back stating they need to check my account. I gave them all the information to do so, and to my surprise they responded very quickly with a rejection response stating that I do not meet the system requirements to enter closed beta. Now my computer is less than a 6 month old Dual Core Pent. 2.8 GHz, 2 gigs memory, 7600 Nivida Geforce OC. I have played everything at High Graphic with no problem, and now I win a contest and I’m rejected due to system requirements that they haven’t even announced yet. Why have a contest for closed beta and have people win and not let them in? This is a beta test after all! If I’m correct, this is a chance to try the game out, test it, and fix and tweak it. So why would one only allow people with very high end computers to test a game that will most likely have over 600,000 people playing it with system specs close to mine better or worse?
I want people to read this and see that being a dedicated fan and follower does not mean anything to EA-Mythic, nor does winning their contests mean you will win anything at all. I’m sorry to say, but I am very upset that during the event no one mentioned that, even if you win, you may still not get in. I even personally spoke to Robert Mull and told the crowd that this was a beta key to get into closed beta, not open beta, and not once mentioned that there were system requirements that had to be met, or that even if you win you may not get in.
I had some concerns about this when I saw the most recent Beta news thread on the forums. It seems that they have some rather restrictive qualifications for their Beta.
I can't say that their reasoning is wrong, because there some merit to it, but to refuse Beta entry to a contest winner is somewhat childish.
Of course, if I were to use one word to describe the WAR Dev Team it would be Brilliant. But if I had two, the second one would be childish.
I want people to read this and see that being a dedicated fan and follower does not mean anything to EA-Mythic, nor does winning their contests mean you will win anything at all. I’m sorry to say, but I am very upset that during the event no one mentioned that, even if you win, you may still not get in. I even personally spoke to Robert Mull and told the crowd that this was a beta key to get into closed beta, not open beta, and not once mentioned that there were system requirements that had to be met, or that even if you win you may not get in.
To say that being a dedicated follower means nothing to EA Mythic would be completely wrong. Also, if you were a dedicated follower like you said, you would understand and likely have read the other threads in which they have responded to with similar topics. You could win a spot, but your computer requirements may not let you in yet. As a dedicated follower I am shocked you missed all the other threads they had on topics like this over on WarhammerAlliance.com for example. They have explained it multiple times. I can understand the frustration of winning and not getting in but saying that being a dedicated follower to them means nothing is just taking shots at them. You are mad, you don't mean it, and you are trying to vent though. To each his own.
Ouch, sorry ldgnlbeowolf, that has to suck. Still, pc specs have been a big part about every Beta I can recall being in. They start high and start dropping near the end of the Beta. I suspect it was the 7600 that raised the flag. That's the only thing I can see that is questionable.
Ouch, sorry ldgnlbeowolf, that has to suck. Still, pc specs have been a big part about every Beta I can recall being in. They start high and start dropping near the end of the Beta. I suspect it was the 7600 that raised the flag. That's the only thing I can see that is questionable.
sorry to be really negative here, but who wants to take bets on weather or not this person ever posts again?
(please disregard that I have like 3 posts my self :P)
No worries.
I hope he does continue to post. Honestly I suspect he will become part of the short list for those to get invites as soon as the Beta specs start dropping. Justifiable venting is one of the great things about forums.:duck:
Very Disappointed at EA-Mythic
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