Those Origin prices are Batsh*t mental, it looks like they are now overcharging to include early access, £45 + £5 pre order for the Digital Download!

Will wait for release and pick it up for £30

I always say look at wow alpha/beta compared to when it went live.
the 3 weeks before live had 2 huge updates.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re0eutBfIXo&feature=feedu
Combat looks quite good, from what the guy kept saying to help people when your stunned you can break out of it with the right key / key combo and not just button mash but some timing as well.

As far as I understood it... this weekend 25-27th is EVERYONE that signed up for testing and accepted the invite...

Damn the server queues are likely to be crazy 

And yep I'm in it... really cant wait... already have it downloaded and just read start is 4pm Friday London time (depending on when you accepted the invite - as its staggered like early access)

They are not being kind and letting you look at the game.
They are using everyone to stress test the servers. They want to see the queues, they want people to crash the servers, they want the lag.
They want to see how the combat mechanics handle when there is a full server as it is something you can try and simulate but it is not the real thing. They want to see how they handle queues and the systems that handle or do not handle it.

It will also happen when this game goes live as updates, new servers can take some time but learning after go live you need these things will result in a longer time to solve them.

thats exactly what its for.. 1000000 of people in the starting zones. I just wanna play around with character customising & get to grips with crafting.
I quit wow a month ago with 700k in my bank & an arse loads of mats

Quote from: neXus on November 23, 2011, 22:38:35 PM

They are not being kind and letting you look at the game.
They are using everyone to stress test the servers. They want to see the queues, they want people to crash the servers, they want the lag.
They want to see how the combat mechanics handle when there is a full server as it is something you can try and simulate but it is not the real thing. They want to see how they handle queues and the systems that handle or do not handle it.

It will also happen when this game goes live as updates, new servers can take some time but learning after go live you need these things will result in a longer time to solve them.

thats exactly what its for.. 1000000 of people in the starting zones. I just wanna play around with character customising & get to grips with crafting.
I quit wow a month ago with 700k in my bank & an arse loads of mats

This guy is doing some extensive coverage:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TotalHalibut/videos
You can see the character customisation. They have put some thought in it. You got some races like cyborgs only for some class types etc for Lore sense.

Had a go on the tonight it is playing well to say the servers must have been getting a fair old hammering with it being open beta, I’m still not sure if I will buy the game as I simply don’t have time to commit to an MMO anymore, I’ve only played one of each faction up to level 3 but I must say I’m finding the storyline and voice acting quite compelling so far so might just get the game for the levelling experience.

Here is about 10 mins of game footage (warning contains spoilers)


Found an annoying bug there is a orangey dot below the default chat window position in the top left, at first I thought it was a stuck or broken pixel, which I wasn't happy about as I only got the monitor this week a Dell 27” but hadn’t noticed it in any other games so after 10 mins of firing up other games and swapping wallpapers and not being able to see it, I logged back into the game and changed resolutions to run Fraps as running it at 2560x1440 and recording at the same time was a bit much for my comp and the bloody dot moved!  a quick google found that others had the same dot! lol