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Warhammer Beta = fail
Etelmik | 7:24 PM on 09.08.2008 11 comments


Mythic was stupid enough to only make it available by torrent or Fileplanet. Well I'm not going to pay to get a beta I'm already good for! Shouldn't have to pay to download my own damn game.

So I used the free version of Fileplanet, of course. At about 30 hours, I have 25% on torrent and I finished on Fileplanet.

The file is corrupted.

Bad start. Very bad start.



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Lurfadur's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 19:36
Lurfadur
I downloaded it from Fileplanet last week or 2 ago and only took me about 3 hours. Planning ahead FTW...
Etelmik's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 20:42
Etelmik
Lurf, I didn't get my key until Saturday night since it's a review copy.
Shin Oni's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 20:54
Shin Oni
how in the hell does a torrent of a somewhat closed beta take 30 hours?

i'd think an hour would be the max torrenting time.
AngelsDontBurn's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 21:05
AngelsDontBurn
I got my beta from Target and it was supposed to start yesterday and I never got an email to verify the account I created. Soooo, I can't play it. :(
Dead Movie Star's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 21:29
Dead Movie Star
I was in the preview weekend and have yet to start it up again except to update it on the 7th. No problems for me.
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 23:27
king3vbo
Your internet connection = fail
snotrocket's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 08:21
snotrocket
You should be somewhat lucky you were able to download it, my friend is in line waiting to download for 800 hours...that's not downloading, but waiting in line to download it. I agree, total failure on their end.
zell's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 09:29
zell
Considering this is mythic's first launch of an mmo since '01, i'd say they're doing very well for themselves (times change). DAoC was very smooth starting off, considering the time. Despite me not liking warhammer itself, I have to admit, the game launch and download system is very solid.

let's show up late for the movie and see if we can get good seats/tickets.
Planning ahead FTW (and sharing my fileplanet account with my friends).

It took me an hour and a half to download the beta.
Aertyr's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/09/2008 10:19
Aertyr
Your incompetency =/= Warhammer Beta
You fail = You fail
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