The WoW Beta Downloader

[Drak'Tzul]

An alternate distribution method (mail?) is hinted at by Blizzard for future phases, but for now this is how it's done.

I don't know is this post was of any interest to you, but I've been finding the whole process rather fascinating, especially considering the amount of time I've been having to spend with it :)

Very interesting indeed, thanks for pointing it out! :)

If Blizzard is looking for a CD release at a later date that would accomodate people who had problem with their subscriptions (like me for example).

Here's the problem:

When I registered for the Beta, in the 2nd or 3rd day, Blizzard had mentionned, more than enough, that the email address used to register should be a permanent one, meaning no Yahoo! or Hotmail. I had an account in both of those, so I used the address of my familiy's computer thinking that it would be stable and permanent enough to receive the notification in the event I was chosen. So I sent my application and waited a few weeks. On the second day after I registered, Blizzad decided that they had been too harch for the Yahoo! and Hotmail users and decided to let them use their accounts...

Then the cable company came. Where I live there had never been anything else than Dial-up, so we all got rid of the old system and installed the cables in our homes pretty quickly. I lost my old email address in the process, and the company asked a fee to have a simple redirect link to my new address, how cheap from them!

Since I registered as a dial-up user, and won't ever receive any email notification, my only hope lies in Blizzard sending Beta CDs. Alas! I hear they send them on an individual basis to needy users.

My only hope is to have the CD sent in a later phase (or have a friend who's very generous).