Blizzard Entertainment Begins Closed Beta Test for World of Warcraft®: Cataclysm™
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
IRVINE, Calif. – June 30, 2010 – Blizzard Entertainment announced today that the closed beta test for Cataclysm™, its highly anticipated new expansion for World of Warcraft®, has begun. The company has started issuing invitations to participate in the testing process to a wide range of players from around the world who signed up via their Battle.net® accounts. While enjoying an early look at the game, beta testers will provide valuable feedback to help Blizzard Entertainment find bugs, address balance issues, and polish the new content.

"Our focus with Cataclysm has been to build on the knowledge we've gained through the previous expansions to deliver the best, most compelling World of Warcraft content for our players to date," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "Gathering focused feedback during the beta test will go a long way in helping us reach that goal when we launch Cataclysm later this year."

Cataclysm is the third expansion for World of Warcraft, the most popular subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game in the world. The first two expansions, The Burning Crusade® and Wrath of the Lich King®, each shattered PC game sales records upon their release. In Cataclysm, the face of Azeroth will be forever altered by the return of the corrupted Dragon Aspect Deathwing. Players will explore once-familiar areas of the world that have now been reshaped by the devastation and filled with new adventures. In an effort to survive the planet-shattering cataclysm, two new playable races -- worgen and goblins -- will join the struggle between the Alliance and the Horde. As players journey to the new level cap of 85, they'll discover newly revealed locations, acquire new levels of power, and come face to face with Deathwing in a battle to determine the fate of the world.

For more information on World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, please visit the official website at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/cataclysm. To set up a Battle.net account and sign up for a chance to participate in the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm beta test, please visit the official Battle.net website at http://www.battle.net.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Cataclysm Closed Beta Test started by Boubouille View original post
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  1. tumaelso's Avatar
    "
    The Tester Agreement (NDA) has been lifted. Lots of stuff has changed since the testing originally started so there are a lot of new screenshots to take to show all of the updates.
    "

    Source: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...85598&sid=2000

    yaaaaaaaay!!!!
  1. FNi's Avatar
    Can anyone here estimate how long expansions usually take from first closed beta to release (by using TBC and WotLK)?

    Interested in getting an idea of when the release date is.
  1. mmoc516e31a976's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Icex View Post
    You will take mail, but be careful there will be masive spam from scammers
    Mail and Battle.net warning. If anyone is scammed, then it's because it deserves to be.
  1. Sez's Avatar
    HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

    *cough* i mean ...

    cool
  1. LoLHellcy's Avatar
    NDA is down, Betas up, Happy Canada day every1
  1. Fortuitous's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Sulf View Post
    Can i have a key
    No keys this time, at least not yet. If you get in, they activate it on your account, if not, hopefully they will do the friend invite key process they did with Starcraft 2 beta.
  1. gannimor's Avatar
    Im sure right now Boubouille is preparing is super-mega-duper new!
  1. Sulf's Avatar
    Sorry, meant it in that sense, trust me i have no intentions of getting my hopes up.
  1. Mascotte's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by FNi View Post
    Can anyone here estimate how long expansions usually take from first closed beta to release (by using TBC and WotLK)?

    Interested in getting an idea of when the release date is.
    Around 3 months on both iirc.
  1. Lionhearte0's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Tauror View Post
    Mail and Battle.net warning. If anyone is scammed, then it's because it deserves to be.
    Wow. Nice logic. That's like saying, if anyone gets robbed, they deserve to be.
    Obviously telling a fake email is incredibly easy if you know a thing or two about them, but not everyone does, and some of them can be rather convincing.

    It is a shame though people don't understand what it means by "blizz will never ask for your password," because they don't realize asking you to login to the fake website is "asking for your password".
  1. Pokchop's Avatar
    Hope I get in. Got in on wrath and SC2 beta so far. Let's make it three! DDDDD
  1. lagmoose's Avatar
    MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAN WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BYGOD GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENE!

    Now the excrutiating wait of whether or not I get in Beta this time. :P
  1. Chesha's Avatar
    I got all excited, because I read this, checked my email and there was an email from Blizzard.

    Unfortunately, while it was actually from Blizz and not somebody trying to scam me, it was a link to the Support Customer Satisfaction Survey because they rescued my account from hackers the other day.

    Gaaah. The suspense is going to kill me.
  1. Frozenbeef's Avatar
    yayayayayayyayayayayayayayayayayayayyayayay...now give me a beta key or i will cry
  1. louandy2001's Avatar
    does this mean the NDA will be lifted?
  1. mmoc516e31a976's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lionhearte0 View Post
    Wow. Nice logic. That's like saying, if anyone gets robbed, they deserve to be.
    Obviously telling a fake email is incredibly easy if you know a thing or two about them, but not everyone does, and some of them can be rather convincing.

    It is a shame though people don't understand what it means by "blizz will never ask for your password," because they don't realize asking you to login to the fake website is "asking for your password".
    That's why I wrote "Mail and battle.net".
  1. mmoca322092fb4's Avatar
    Any word on the NDA status yet?
  1. mmoc516e31a976's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Sixpac View Post
    Any word on the NDA status yet?
    There is none.

    http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/bo...55625&sid=2000

    (Yes, the Beta forums are open too).
  1. lagmoose's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Sixpac View Post
    Any word on the NDA status yet?
    Bornakk has spoken, it is lifted.
  1. Dare's Avatar
    DO WANT.

    NAUW.

    PLOX.

    xD I'm excited.

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