Access to 5.0.1 PTR and Mists of Pandaria Beta

Wonder if Free-To-Play accounts have access to PTR... Anyone know?

Holy sheeeet ! September 4th or 11th are looking pretty good for MoP release, now ...

but the classes are not balanced yet....

5.0.1 PTR this week
5.0.1 Live 31.07.2012
5.0.3 28.08.2012
gogogo pandas!

Originally Posted by Necrotica

Wonder if Free-To-Play accounts have access to PTR... Anyone know?

It was possible to play 4.0.1 on PTR with trial account so with 5.0.1. should be the same

So I have a normal game account, one named as wow1 for ptr, and wow2 for mop beta, yet I still can't use ptr? That seems kinda ehh...

Originally Posted by Milkshake86

3 months til PTR is live @ 5.0.1 and 1 month following for MOP, so 4 months

3 months is not "Right around the Corner." They wouldn't be announcing 5.1 coming to the PTR soon if it was 3 months away, I'd put it at a month tops, and even that seems too far away for an announcement. What'd I'd like to ask is how long is a pre-launch patch on the ptr before it goes live, if any reasonable average can be deduced from past events. We already know that release is about 2 weeks after 5.0 is released on Live, so with a little math here and there, maybe we can come up with a better estimate.

So never mind, I realize he meant that the ptr stuff makes it onto live, as opposed to the ptr you know, coming out. Ignore my post

why would you care about the PTR if you have beta access they prob dont want the PTR flooded

Originally Posted by Necrotica

Wonder if Free-To-Play accounts have access to PTR... Anyone know?

they have been in the past.
in cata pre release patch ptr i was able to log on without being subbed

Pre-orders going up mid august said my game retailer, and are generally always shipping 2-3 weeks after that date :P

Well finally.

They've had the pre-patch migration data up on the background downloader for over a month now :

http://ak.worldofwarcraft.com.edgesu...nContent_1.MPQ
http://ak.worldofwarcraft.com.edgesu...nContent_2.MPQ

So If you've still had the PTR installed from the last PTR they did . when you open the launcher for the PTR it would start downloading data

Originally Posted by Faerwen

3 months is not "Right around the Corner." They wouldn't be announcing 5.1 coming to the PTR soon if it was 3 months away, I'd put it at a month tops, and even that seems too far away for an announcement. What'd I'd like to ask is how long is a pre-launch patch on the ptr before it goes live, if any reasonable average can be deduced from past events. We already know that release is about 2 weeks after 5.0 is released on Live, so with a little math here and there, maybe we can come up with a better estimate.

Blizzard's blue post does not say "around the corner". It's OP's words. It does make a difference.

Originally Posted by LukePL

5.0.1 PTR this week
5.0.1 Live 31.07.2012
5.0.3 28.08.2012
gogogo pandas!


It was possible to play 4.0.1 on PTR with trial account so with 5.0.1. should be the same

Lol no! Imagine the conflict!!
Just no... I know Blizz is very competitive with releases, but that's an overkill!

---------- Post added 2012-07-03 at 04:31 PM ----------

Originally Posted by Infinity

Blizzard's blue post does not say "around the corner". It's OP's words. It does make a difference.

This OP is usually right about such things!!

Originally Posted by Fleugen

September 11th? Wouldn't count on it, not because it's too soon, but simply due to the significance of the date.

It's been well over a decade. Tons of movies, books, games, albums, everything, have been released on that date in the various years since.

Maybe they wouldn't have released, oh, say, Cataclysm, with its trailer of a flying object destroying buildings, on that date (at least not anytime this century), but I think Mists is safe.

thats very intresting

Originally Posted by belgicanofl

Pre-orders going up mid august said my game retailer, and are generally always shipping 2-3 weeks after that date :P

Pre-orders going up? I've had it pre-ordered for months now :\

Either way I'm hoping for Sep 18th or 25th.

Originally Posted by LukePL

5.0.1 PTR this week
5.0.1 Live 31.07.2012
5.0.3 28.08.2012
gogogo pandas!


It was possible to play 4.0.1 on PTR with trial account so with 5.0.1. should be the same

Nope.

Talent patch PTR > 2 weeks > Talent patch on live + Invasion event on PTR > 2 weeks > Invasion event enabled on live > 2 weeks > MoP Launch.

---------- Post added 2012-07-03 at 04:36 PM ----------

Originally Posted by Maleficia

Pre-orders going up? I've had it pre-ordered for months now :\

Either way I'm hoping for Sep 18th or 25th.

Being on a list at a small retailer is not the same as pre-orders going live at the biggest retailers of the world.

Fair enough that they want to give people who didn't get a chance to get into the Beta something to do aswell, but isn't it a little odd that you get locked out of something after paying?

Not that i'm personally really bothered about it.. just struck me as odd

Originally Posted by Gingercrab

They'll be testing the 5.0.1 pre-expansion event on the PTR.. you can't do that on the beta!

Well this isn't Cata that changed the whole world, they can let the pre-event run on the Beta as well, as it takes place in the old world.

Originally Posted by Count Zero

It's been well over a decade. Tons of movies, books, games, albums, everything, have been released on that date in the various years since.

Maybe they wouldn't have released, oh, say, Cataclysm, with its trailer of a flying object destroying buildings, on that date (at least not anytime this century), but I think Mists is safe.

Won't be launched on that day, it's an American company so not going to happen 28th of August or 4th of September are the dates.

---------- Post added 2012-07-03 at 04:38 PM ----------

Originally Posted by Nathanyel

Well this isn't Cata that changed the whole world, they can let the pre-event run on the Beta as well, as it takes place in the old world.

Won't happen on beta. Pre-event is scaled for 85, not for 90. It's coming to PTR.

Kinda funny how Annual pass people don't get PTR.

Originally Posted by PlatedPriest

they have been in the past.
in cata pre release patch ptr i was able to log on without being subbed

Without commenting on the starter edition accounts (no idea) I can say that being subbed to WoW at the time PTR is going on means nothing. Blizzard does "screening of active accounts" some time before they open PTR and if you are subbed at the time of the "screening" then you will have access to that PTR regardless of being subbed to live WoW while the PTR runs.

This screening usually takes place anywhere from 1 day to 3 weeks before the PTR goes live.