Guild Beta Notifications Issued
By: Richard Duffek
08 Aug 2007 19:35:27 ESTYes it is indeed true folks. They went out this afternoon, so let me take this time to answer some questions I’ve seen floating around:
* These are just the notifications that the guild in question was selected, not an actual invite. Those will come a bit down the road still, we just wanted to give the lucky guilds a heads up and start gathering the required info from them.
* The ones that went out this afternoon were NA only. GOA should be sending the EU ones out any time now as well, it’ll just be offset due to the time difference.
* If your guild was selected, yes you are allowed to tell people if you so wish, but we take no responsibility for the ‘Can I join your guild?’ spam you’ll get from doing so.
* There will be more phases, if your guild wasn’t lucky enough to be picked this round, don’t give up hope.I’ll edit in more answers as I come across them. Gratz everyone who got in!
Was your guild one of the lucky ones? I know some people actually made fake guild names and emails to get in. I haven’t stooped that low just yet… 😉 I have always considered it an interesting idea to invite guilds to join in betas. I’ve always been curious as to exactly why a company would go through the effort when players in the game can form guilds already. The only obvious (and likely when it’s obvious it’s fact) reason I can see is that they have some content that needs organized groups and they will rely on a guild hopefully being organized and working as a cohesive unit.
Grats to those of you who got in and I hope your invites are sent to you soon!
I took the invite-by-guild system as a pretty strong indicator that this really isn’t a solo-friendly game. Which is a good reason to pin my hopes on Pirates instead. 😉
Actually, Heather, an invite-by-guild system is just in place to make sure group content gets tested, dungeons and whatnot.
You can’t count on individuals to test the group encounters, but you can count on guilds that go so far as to sign up for betas together.
From what has been said, WAR will be just as solo-friendly as WoW. But of course, that’s assuming you’re not into the PvP side. If you go being a one man army in contested territory, expect to get whooped.
Now go sign up!
WAR will definitely be very solo friendly. It’s just that there must be indeed group content that I suppose they expect a guild could do more easily.