Access to 5.0.1 PTR and Mists of Pandaria Beta

looks like we will get the end of august release i was hoping for

Bibi is back!

Yay a post from Bibi!

And great news hopefully this means an august release

Pull even MORE people off the live realms - Brilliant!

Can't wait for it to come up. 5.01 ptr is surely better then that garbage patch on live.

lmfao, they want current subs to BUY WOW again so they can play on PTR. ( the buy wow for $10 bucks)
lmaoooo!!!!! not saying that's bad but like wow how greedy can one get, go on bizzard ya mad caunts

Originally Posted by schippie

Yay a post from Bibi!

And great news hopefully this means an august release

Early September, maybe the first or second week.


if 5.0.1 goes on PTR today, we'll "test" it for a month, then 5.0.1 will go to Live servers. Once 5.0.1 goes to Live servers, its about a month after that before the Expansion goes live.

Originally Posted by silver9172

They already said the 5.0.1 pre MoP build will only be out for about 2 weeks prior to release, so 3 months and 2 weeks.

That would make the release date 18th Sept

But I do think that a Aug 28 release would be the most epic badass thing Blizzard could do.


A GIANT "FUCK YOU" to Guild Wars 2. Wouldn't be the first time either they've released something new on the same day as another MMO's launch

Originally Posted by Elmot

Its gonna be in August, wohoo!!!
This is sooo gonna fuck up GW2 release ;p

Smart Blizzard.

Will it really fuck up the GW2 release, like really?..
if you love a game so much or anything in life its pretty god dam easy to pay $20 bucks for it. ( $10 a month) ..

you know?..

Honestly....how can some1 say that a PTR for a patch will last 3 months...omg people look at facts...all previous pre expansion PTR lasted 1 moth...that's it.

Blizzard is selling the old expansion packs cheaper, it can only means something...

Originally Posted by belgicanofl

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.

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

technically you are wrong yes activision is an American company blizzard is a french company they are both owned by vivendi which is french so the game could be released on september 11 although i believe it will be earlier say end of august

blizzard is a french company

Blizzard Entertainment is very much an American company, actually.

something to do! woppwopp

Seems to me that beta key holders will only miss doing the Theramore scenario while the PTR will only be doing the Theramore scenario. I will be happy to have something I haven't already seen when the pre-event goes live.

•While testing 5.0.1, players will not be able to access zones or content that is a part of the Mists of Pandaria expansion.

There will not be any August release, the Xpac date will be Sept 18th still

Originally Posted by Mx

Blizzard Entertainment is very much an American company, actually.

^ What he said, Blizzard is an American company.

It is rather odd that beta-flagged accounts are banned from the PTR, but they've never done the "Annual Pass" before, either. Oh well.

Originally Posted by Sindrasa

Because you can't race/faction change in the beta =/

Also i just realized that people with beta CAN acsess it they just can't use the "WoW 2" (Or whatever you use for your beta) you gotta use the drop down menu to click "WoW 1".

No, you can't. If the WoW account is flagged for beta, you cannot access the PTR. "WoW 1" or "WoW 2" -- those are not accounts, just sub-categories within a single World of Warcraft license. Now if a person has another WoW license on the same Battle.Net account that is not flagged for beta, then that separate license (aka account) can log into the PTR.

And here's an earlier post basically stating the same thing:

Originally Posted by reve

You read it wrong. Read the very first line that says anyone with beta on their WoW license will not have access to the PTR.

However, if you have more than one WoW license on your BNET account then you will get the PTR with it. By that I mean no starter edition, no PTR123, no beta license, nothing like that, basicly second separate WoW account that you paid for.

One statement I would also like to make: I'm tired of conspiracy theories involving Blizzard doing A, B, or C due to game/company X, Y, or Z. I'm all for having some fun with guessing the release date (early to mid-September, imo), but jeez... Give it a rest with all this Guild Wars 2 stuff.

Originally Posted by aiir

lmfao, they want current subs to BUY WOW again so they can play on PTR. ( the buy wow for $10 bucks)
lmaoooo!!!!! not saying that's bad but like wow how greedy can one get, go on bizzard ya mad caunts

you can play ptr even if you don't have playing time on live