Office Pool: Open Beta Date
June 8, 2008Ever since the dawn of time and the dawn of the corporate office, there have been office pools — mindless, fun bets on various subjects. Why not us? Let’s take a topic that we all have in mind — the fabled date of the open beta start — and see if we can’t prognosticate a bit.
This is how it’ll work: just leave a message in the comments section stating your best guess for the open beta start. Month AND day. One guess per person. And those of you in the closed beta? This is not for you, sonny Jim.
I’ll keep updating this post with the guesses, and when it happens… well, we’ll see who’s right and who was lucky. Who knows, there might even be a prize in it for ya!
OPEN BETA DATE GUESSES: [Updated July 18]
- DarkGobbo – July 4
- Anonymous – July 14
- Nostradomus – July 18
- COS – July 29
- Arbitrary – Aug 1
- Suchey – Aug 1
- Medrin – Aug 1
- BloodnGlory – Aug4
- Incognito – Aug 5
- Gomf – Aug 4
- DMNYO – Aug 7
- Moxie – Aug 8
- Syp – Aug 10
- Xin – Aug 12
- Bryon – Aug 15
- Svoald – Aug 18
- RJO – Aug 19
- Scarybooster – Aug 21
- Snorii – Aug 22
- Eekanti – Aug 23
- Bob S – Aug 26
- Ardua – Aug 27
- Wrenn – Aug 28
- Sonny Jim – Aug 29
- Steve – Aug 30
- Daveturnbull – Sept 1
- Bildo – Sept 1
- Matt G – Sept 2
- Johnny Walker Black – Sept 3
- Traya – Sept 4
- Thor 123 – Sept 5
- Lepinski – Labor Day
- Railith – Sept 6
- Castigador – Sept 7
- Drew S – Sept 9
- Vayu – Sept 10
- JayDizzle – Sept 11
- Dave – Sept 15
- Zypher – Oct 1
- Mowowii – Oct 2
- Elnan – Jan 2, 2009
1st August
by arbitrary June 8, 2008 at 11:41 amI’m guessing September 6th with a release on November 1st.
by Railith June 8, 2008 at 12:20 pmSeptember 5
by Thor123 June 8, 2008 at 12:21 pmSeptember 3rd.
by Johnny Walker Black June 8, 2008 at 12:32 pmhmmmm…total guess, but I’ll say August 1st.
by Suchey June 8, 2008 at 12:56 pmSeptember 15, 2008 (which is a Monday and gives the game two months of beta testing before release. /fingers crossed
by Dave June 8, 2008 at 1:06 pmAug 15
by Bryon June 8, 2008 at 1:30 pmI think the NDA drop is announced in the July Newsletter, Pre-order customers are invited to Open Beta around Labor Day and the game launches in early October.
by Lepinski June 8, 2008 at 1:39 pm21 August
by Scarybooster June 8, 2008 at 1:52 pmHey Syp. Not to shamelessly plug my own site, but there are some interesting coincidences that point to a September release date. If this is the case (and there is a good chance I am completely wrong here) then we may have to rethink the open beta dates. Most major on-line retailers are announcing September release dates. I posted the links over at War Noob. Again, this could be old info on their web sites. But then again. . .
by Dave June 8, 2008 at 8:31 pmI really think we’re going to see an October release at earliest, perhaps November. But yeah, we’ll see.
by Syp June 8, 2008 at 9:10 pmI gotta, say, around the start of August is when it’ll start, gotta join the others at the 1st sadly(Totaly came up with that before reading those guesses fyi)
by Medrin June 9, 2008 at 1:13 amJust to be different:
Open Beta – November 1, 2008
by Snafzg June 9, 2008 at 7:39 amGame Launch – December 1, 2008
What part of “those in closed beta may not participate” failed to grasp your attention, Snaffy?
by Syp June 9, 2008 at 7:40 amAugust 8th.
by moxie (not mouse) June 9, 2008 at 10:44 amRofl… I don’t actually READ your blog! 😉
My bad!
by Snafzg June 9, 2008 at 2:05 pmGonna go with September 1st.
by Bildo June 9, 2008 at 2:59 pmAugust 18th. Its a Monday when employees get back in the office from the weekend and allows for many college students to play 1 week before they go back to classes, hah.
At least I can wish.
by Kurt "Svoald" Scheuringer June 9, 2008 at 3:06 pmDAoC origins server + 3 weeks.
So….approx Monday Aug 30th.
by Steve June 9, 2008 at 5:34 pmOctober 1st
by `Zypher June 9, 2008 at 7:29 pmAugust the 12th
by xin June 10, 2008 at 4:26 amI’m going to say that it’ll be out exactly in time for my birthday on September 9th.
by Drew Shiel June 10, 2008 at 6:46 amI’m gonna say August 28th.
by Wrenn June 10, 2008 at 8:24 amI’m going for Sept. 7.
by Castigador June 10, 2008 at 10:09 amJuly 14th
by Anonymous June 10, 2008 at 10:10 pmAug 22
by Snorii June 16, 2008 at 10:33 amAug 26
by Bob Sacamono June 16, 2008 at 10:34 amNDA drops July 29th…
by CoS June 16, 2008 at 5:35 pmAugust 4th
by Gomf June 17, 2008 at 5:56 amI think/hope it will drop on july 4th
by Darkgobbo June 18, 2008 at 10:49 pmwouldn’t that be a awesome independance day gift?
Sept 10th
by Vayu June 20, 2008 at 2:02 amIt will be released on July 18th
🙂
by Nostradamus June 23, 2008 at 4:01 amI want September 4th. It would be a nice birthday present for me 😛
by Traya June 23, 2008 at 11:27 pmGamestop says you can pick up your preorder on Sep.23….so I’m guessing that the open beta will be about a month…placing the open beta start date on or around Aug. 23…
by Lasteran June 25, 2008 at 12:22 pmSeptember 2nd, imo.
by Matt Graham June 26, 2008 at 10:00 amIm goin wiht early July. Just got an email from warhammeronline.com.
“Now is the time for the best of the best to band together as one and clash against their enemies. Starting in July, these guilds and thousands of players will compete for domination in the great arena of the Age of Reckoning.”
by Mike June 27, 2008 at 3:13 amNDA drop …. I’m going to guess August 27th
by Ardua July 1, 2008 at 6:48 amJan 2, 2009…. I hope I am wrong but this game has been pushed backed to many times to think positive
by Elnan July 1, 2008 at 3:30 pmSeptember 11 because thats my birthday
by JayDizzle July 6, 2008 at 3:48 pmaugust 7
by DMNYO July 6, 2008 at 11:10 pmAugust 19th 🙂
by RJO July 7, 2008 at 1:15 pmJuly 29th NDA is lifted.
by BloodnGlory July 9, 2008 at 2:25 pmAugust 4th. OPEN BETA
August 26th Release Date.
August 23. I bet $1,000,000.00!
by eekanti July 11, 2008 at 2:19 amOctober the 2nd ^^
by mowowii July 13, 2008 at 9:21 amI’ll say September 1st.
by daveturnbull July 14, 2008 at 11:54 pmAugust 5th
by Incognito July 16, 2008 at 8:26 pmAug 13
by JoshieLove July 18, 2008 at 8:46 pmAugust 19th for the open beta.
by EvilDomo July 19, 2008 at 8:21 amlet’s hope that it’ll open tomorrow because i just got my codes =D
Well, Nostradomus got the WotLK beta right. 😛
by Matt Graham July 19, 2008 at 8:48 amAugust 11th (2008)
by Esri July 20, 2008 at 5:30 pmSept. 30th, 2008.
by RAAX July 21, 2008 at 10:18 amAugust 14th
by Timm July 22, 2008 at 10:40 pmAug 20 homies
by Mike July 23, 2008 at 6:53 pmI beleive it’s going to go into open beta august 15.
by Aloris July 24, 2008 at 3:15 pmAugust 9th
by Sarky July 24, 2008 at 6:43 pmAugust 15th is my guess
by Fraze July 25, 2008 at 6:56 amAugust the 15th!
by Bertoxxulous the 1337 July 27, 2008 at 1:04 pmi’d say yesterday – but thats just wishfull thinking
by Batman July 29, 2008 at 2:12 pmI say on august 15
by Velzak August 2, 2008 at 1:15 pmI say August 15th 😉
by MattMarauder August 3, 2008 at 8:41 amsept 8th
by plastick August 5, 2008 at 2:13 pmsept 32 ! x)
by Tobold August 6, 2008 at 9:20 pmSeptember 3rd
by Akle August 8, 2008 at 10:57 pmAlthough people with the open beta codes will be able to download the content on the August 15th they still have no official date on when you can start gameing, my guess is August 25th
by Muzzy August 11, 2008 at 7:32 amNo matter what it will be August 15th, even if it’s just me sitting at my computer desk pretending I’m playing with my computer unplugged. That whole image thoroughly creeped me out, and somehow I still think it will come to fruition. For my sanity it better be the 15th.
by Brandon August 13, 2008 at 3:25 pmi believe…
early september…
head start will start on september 17, 11:59pm :X
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