Spooncraft

During my absence, Nethaera answered a few questions players were posting about the closed beta of Wrath of the Lich King. Keep in mind that there isn’t any closed beta of WotLK going on right now (it’s still in Alpha) and any e-mail promising you a beta account is a scam. As well there are no download sites at all where you could get the Beta version of the game. Blizzard is actually monitoring very closely now any and all sites that are delving into their Alpha information (I haven’t gotten a letter yet) so if you have more than a few remaining brain cells you might not want to download any “clients” and such anymore.

How do you choose people that will be in the Beta? We generally pull from many places so that we have a good variety of people in the beta. Some of it is random and some are winners from contests, or specific groups that we want to pull from. We don’t have a specific schedule for you on who we will pull in or when to share with you, but we’ll do what we can to keep people as informed as possible. (src)

Is there a required amount of /played time or general experience to be qualified to get into the Beta? There is no minimum level of experience needed since we look at a broad spectrum of testers. We want people of all experience levels to be able to share their experiences with us so that we know where we might need to work on something more. We don’t necessarily want to make one aspect too hard or too easy on either end of things. (src)

Will there be some sort of application process to at least show interest in beta testing? If its completely random, what happens if you pick someone who isn’t even interested? Undetermined on the first question and it will most likely be the same as with any beta someone gets and isn’t interested in, they just won’t play it. We watch our numbers, we see if we have the beta testers we need, and if we need more, we get more people in. It’s all dependent on what the development team feel they want to have tested and where the focus is. We could have specific things we want players to test, or we could just want to load things up and stress it. (src)

She then went on to round out the thread with a little reminder. I just thought I’d update this thread with a little extra information to let people know that there will be a sign up process when it comes time for the beta as well. Please note that that time is not now. Please be aware that there are some scams currently running that are asking people to sign up for Wrath. We will let everyone know when it is time to sign up. (src)