Really?  You're bitching about additional content?  I thought I was reading a whiney post in the forums.  Bring on the content, and stop crying about getting too many quests, no one is forcing you to complete them.

Just wanted to provide an update, I've gotten an email to confirm which wave I am in.  Just for information purpose...

I confirmed my test invitation on Tuesday morning at 6am CST

I am confirmed for wave 1 on Friday at 10am CST

Also it should be noted I was a beta tester during the last beta weekend as well, I'm not sure if that has any bearing on what wave I am in.

Has anyone received the email letting them know which 'wave' they are in for the beta this weekend.  I received several emails from them but none of them mentioned which wave I am in, so I am still unsure when my start time is, if it's on Fri, Sat or Sun. I would think they would have those emails sent by now, only 48 hours left until wave 1 can begin.

in the queue?  Not sure what the cube is...  anyway, looking forward to trying the game out myself actually, guess I'll do it some day I have off of work so I can do it in the morning.

The lore panel is tomorrow for WOW and I have a feeling this is going to come up, at least I hope so, someone at the convention should have the brains to ask... 

Warning the following may be considered as spoilers by some, but it is mostly what I got out of what Chris Metzen said in the direct TV interview after the opening cerimony, and the stuff mentioned at the Mists of Pandaria preview panel following that.

The best I could get out of it after watching all day was that the Cataclysm cleared the mists away... I guess... and after a disasterous (for both sides) naval battle the Horde and Alliance wash up on the beaches of Pandaria and think "hey look at all this, um resources.. um we can take and use agains tthe other facetion...  and it becomes a race to exploit the panarens.  All the hate between the factions manifests as evil entities, so we all learn a leason about not fighting with each other and have to clean up our mess, the evil manifested.  So I guess the final patch of 5.0 will be a giant raid tea party where the two factions kiss and make up under the watchful eye of the sad pandas...  yeah, thats it....

I guess check out the wow lore panel tomorrow, cause after all of that I don't get it either lol!!

Originally posted by Vunak23

The writers and analysts that work for this website aren't digging too deep... Here are details on the next expansion. Its called Vengeance of the Void; VotV for short.

Here are documents from blizzard for the upcoming Blizzcon:

http://img1.mmo.mmo4arab.com/news/2011/07/07/wow/votv3.jpg

http://img1.mmo.mmo4arab.com/news/2011/07/07/wow/votv4.jpg

http://img0.mmo.mmo4arab.com/news/2011/07/07/wow/votv5.jpg

http://img4.mmo.mmo4arab.com/news/2011/07/07/wow/votv6.jpg

http://img1.mmo.mmo4arab.com/news/2011/07/07/wow/votv7.jpg

http://img2.mmo.mmo4arab.com/news/2011/07/07/wow/votv8.jpg

http://img1.mmo.mmo4arab.com/news/2011/07/07/wow/votv9.jpg

http://img1.mmo.mmo4arab.com/news/2011/07/07/wow/votv10.jpg

http://img4.mmo.mmo4arab.com/news/2011/07/07/wow/votv11.jpg

http://img2.mmo.mmo4arab.com/news/2011/07/07/wow/votv12.jpg

http://img2.mmo.mmo4arab.com/news/2011/07/07/wow/votv13.jpg

http://img4.mmo.mmo4arab.com/news/2011/07/07/wow/votv14.jpg

http://img0.mmo.mmo4arab.com/news/2011/07/07/wow/votv15.jpg

 

While these documents are not confirmed by Blizzard to be true, they have also not been denied  by them.

 

This was proved false long ago. 

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2367-WoW-Expansion-Vengeance-of-the-Void-Rumor-is-a-fake

Anyone can fake documents, can't fake a trademark.

Originally posted by fhjais

- There is global cooldown system (What reasonable argument is there to have this in place, other than WoW has it? What reason is there when there already exists weapon speed and casting speed?)
 

I didn't see anyone respond to this with the real reason it exists.  a global cooldown in games with thousands of client connections to a single server exist as a buffer to counteract the latency that exists between the client and server machines.  With thousands of people connected to a single server performance is a huge issue.  Even if the speed of the connection between the server and 1 client is fast the server still has to respond to millions of requests.  Without a global cooldown system to act as a buffer there would be very noticable lag between an action and it's effect especialy in PvP combat.

I'd also like to try this game before I buy, really wanted to help beta test but I never got an invite.  Any spare buddy keys I'd return the favor in the future.

Originally posted by SaintViktor

Originally posted by DiSpLiFF

you are really ignorant if you think a regular game costs as much upkeep as an mmo. Just think of how much content WoW comes out with in between expansions as a perfect example. 

compare guild wars 1 or diablo 1 or 2 to WoW

 The tools Blizzard used to make vanilla WoW are the same tools they used to make BC, Lich King and Cataclysm. It did not cost them extra money to use the same tools. You are saying each espansion costs more money when they use the same tools. Who told you that myth ?

Wrong

Blizzard keeps a team to upgrade change and maintain the tools they use for designing wow, in fact they're hiring more even...  what do they get paid with?  More upkeep (This job is specific to world of warcraft, not a new game.)

proof? http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/careers/posting.html?id=1000073

This is what I know from last night.

On Twitter FP said there was an update on beta keys coming soon, and after a few minutes I figured I would try the get key button.  It went through and I got a key.  I got lucky and my key worked.  Then FP let everyone know they messed up, imagine that.  First by posting the keys without a warning then by stopping after 40 were posted because SE screwed up and sent them all duplicate keys.  All 40 keys that went out were duplicates acording to them.  However a few of the keys worked, probably because the previous recipients had not used the key yet, so I'm guessing they're will be some sore people who buy keys from ebay.

GL to everyone on getting a key FP really screwed the pooch in every way possible with this one.  I have been around since the start of this fiasco and only hope the next batch is big enough for everyone here to get one!

Just got one 5 min ago

The thread that got deleted had a post that mentioned their office hours are 8am - 5:30pm PST so I would say 8:30 Eastern