Oyayu

Well we could be saying what a wonderful Open Beta launch Warhammer Online had in Europe, but unfortunately Mythic deemed it necessary to trust in GOA to run their European operations again.

I was almost lulled into a false sense of security by the GOA representatives towing the party line of “trust us” - “we know what we’re going” and “we WILL launch successfully”. How wrong can you be? 

Yesterday there was a news article posted on the WAR Europe site stating that registration would be open from 08.30 this morning. There was no stating which timezone this was, but assuming GMT is normally best. Apparently this was CET. Not that this really matters, seeing as this time came and went in multiple time zones and there wasn’t hide nor hair of the Open Beta registration.

Some wise soul then went on to post that it was necessary to register a new account in order to enter your Open Beta key, so I believe a good 90% of the Warhammer Online community then attempted to make new accounts, which ultimately led to the website having a bit of a spaz. This, it seems, was also not the case and we were later told that we can use our original WAR Europe website accounts when registering our Open Beta keys.

The Beta servers finally came online at about 5.15pm CET, so much for an early afternoon launch. However this will be no help to any of the people who are yet to register their beta keys, as the authentication servers for the website have been taken offline, meaning no one can currently register a new account or login to their current account to register their beta keys.

I am just shocked mostly the GOA left everything to the last minute, again. Making that mistake once is fine, but I’m sure Mythic would have been damn pissed the first time around, let alone letting them make the mistake a second time. The US were treated to entering their Beta keys 2 weeks ago or more, with 2 weekendsworth of previews inbetween for players. What did the Europeans get? Lied to, a broken “open” beta launch, and some GOA employees trying to make out everything is fine and dandy.

If only we could transfer to the US servers, or perhaps Mythic would like to open some European operations for their next MMO launch, hopefully GOA won’t have screwed things up too royally so Mythic can actually make some money to do that!

I wrote this on Sunday evening after a very very frustrating day, I wasn’t going to publish it, but I figure my anger can be vented publicly, perhaps someone from GOA will realise they’re a joke company.