Who didn’t expect this? :)

Both Fileplanet and the community site of World of Warcraft are dead. The “Open Beta” is officially started, at least in the dreams of both Blizzard and their players.

To begin with it’s not an open beta but when you are Blizzard you can also redefine the meaning of a word, who cares? You’ll have to subscribe and the fun is that the number of keys is limited. There are also local restrictions to be part of it.

The fact that the beta keys are limited is pushing the players to furiously refresh the homepage and hope to still get a spot. This obviously killing their site. Good plan, Blizzard. You couldn’t do this worse. Planning ahead your death must be fun.

Someone could expect that these big companies learn from previous mistakes.
No. This industry is made by masochist or noobs. Or both.

The World of Warcraft and Open Beta Account Creation sites are temporarily down. We are experiencing technical difficulties on our end and are working diligently to restore service to this site. We apologize for any inconvenience this is causing you. We do not currently have an estimated time for when the World of Warcraft Web site will be back up, but we are working extremely hard to solve these technical difficulties as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience.

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Who could expect that “limited accounts” + “open beta” would have caused this? Come on, who?