General Discussion

Warning: lots of predictions and educated guesses ahead.

Fileplanet has made a few announcements eluding something 'stupendously huge' and 'sinisterly massive' being available through open beta via Filefront sometime in the immediate future.

The hints... judging by their history, there is only one game big enough to warrant these descriptions considering the company it will be in:
LOTRO beta
Everquest beta
Age of Conan beta
World of Warcraft beta

Other clues:
Letters bolded that spell 'Darkness Soon'
The capitalized & enlarged letters that begin each update spell WAR

There is only one thing that can be considered 'this' huge.
Couple all this information with the recently disclosed information that WAR is going to be available in stores in less than 6 weeks, plus the closed beta now coming to an end and pre-paid orders are being told they will be given open beta access very shortly.. there is only one possibility.

WAR is coming.

What follows suit in the past is that subscribers get the first keys available, sometimes prior to the open beta being actually available to play.  Once it comes out, or the distribution of keys slows down or there is an excess of available keys, they are distributed freely to non-subscribers a few days after the initial keys have been released.

Or theyre full-of-shit-money-grabbing-sellouts trying to get their subscriber base up and it's going to turn out to be Hello Kitty Online.

Personally, I cant wait. (I bet you couldent tell :P) I got into the Age of Conan closed beta early on and it pretty much ruined the experience for me when the game came out.  We were seriously given something that would barely pass as prototype or alpha release quality.  It was so frustrating to play back then.  As I understand, the game is fairly polished, ready for release they just need to perform some major stress testing.

The first post said the next posts will reflect the open betas theyve had.
The third post said that it's finishing the 'trilogy of beta celibration'
So the next post will logically be the announcement.  Announcements have been spaced 2-3 days apart.

If my predictions are correct, the next post will announce WAR is the beta in approx 48-72 hours together followed shortly by distrubution of keys, or together with distribution of keys.  Servers will be available to play a short time after the announcement (possibly a few days).
 

W hat's the next big beta...
A nd much like Christmas...
R ed Faction fans rejoice...

Yep, seems pretty clear.

Then again I left my tinfoil hat out in the rain last night, could be getting rogue signals from Ron Howard.

did thIs turn out to be  the Red Faction Guerilla for 360?

Also:  As a closed beta tester of WAR (I'm allowed to say that)  I can guess they won't go through fileplanet.  There is a couple reasons I can't discuss but the main one is that "open beta" is invite only.

You have to buy a pre-order copy of Warhammer CE to get into the "Open Beta" .  That would kind of piss off some people if now all you had to do was be a fileplanet subscriber.  Not to say the keys will be easy to come by.

I mean they already have over 780,000 applicants why would they need fileplanet to bump their game until after release?

Originally posted by fungistratus

You have to buy a pre-order copy of Warhammer CE to get into the "Open Beta" .

thats what I thought      but look at this link 

www.direct2drive.com/6/6327/product/Buy-Warhammer-Online:-Age-of-Reckoning-(Pre-Order)-Download

SE and CE get in open beta, they may even let old CB testers in open.

Sounds like it to me :D

The big announcement is the Star Craft 2 Demo.  WAR is hardly newsworthy enough for fileplanet to make a big deal about it.

Its blatantly obvious its warhammer online.

Lets take a look at the facts:
Three blog posts that spell: WAR

Day after the last letter that spelled WAR is shown is warhammer online pre-order that comes with a gaurantee open beta

I'm 99% certain its Warhammer Online...would be a 100, but you can never be 100% sure on things until it happens...but with all the facts, its pretty obvious whats its going to be.

I HIGHLY doubt its starcraft 2...and if its anything other than warhammer online it would be the rts version of it. Its too much of a coincidence the blog posts spell "WAR"

It is true that every pre order of WAR gets Open-Beta key along with Head Start and the two items but I have heard *unconfirmed* that WAR CE pre order's get a longer beta. As far as that file planet thing goes I can see where WAR speculation comes from but I wouldn't jump to conclusions as sites like that are infamous for hyping up one idea but ends up to be a mind crushing other.