It’s about playing with material that no one has seen before. It’s about going through bug reports and doing your best to help a company make their game better for you and everyone else down the road. But in the end, as those last days of beta are ticking away, it’s all about catching the events that developers throw for their beta testers as a way of saying “thank you” and leaving them with a memory that’ll last them a long time.
Back during the original beta, I managed to catch much of the end of beta event, though I caught it more towards the end.
This time I also caught it towards the end (about 2 hours after it began), but like the last time, it was just as incredible even if I didn’t see everything it had to offer.
Like last time, every major city was hit by the Burning Legion, though this time that attack included places like the Gurubashi Arena (some of the website GMs picked avatars, made themselves monstrous in size, and PvPed, though I missed out on this) and
Shattrath City. At the time, I was stationed in Outland so I flew over to Shattrath City to see what was going on. Pit Commanders, Doomwalkers, several dragons (Emeriss and Lethon) and Infernals were holding their guard at various locations across the city, making it hard to get anywhere (especially with the damn Doomwalker’s Aura of Death). Amid the field of bones I realized that, though efforts had been made to take down the various bosses, those attempts had been futile. Out of curiosity I flipped to my Draenei to see how Exodar was faring…and it wasn’t promising. Hearing word of the attacks going on in other cities, I switched back to my main and jumped into the nearest portal.
Rumors about Illidan in Darnassus drove me towards my capital city, yet I didn’t see anything at all…not even the fire damage that Shattrath and, I’d soon learn, other cities had suffered. Lame. A boat ride later I was flying past Ironforge, since the chat was ablaze with talk about how Stormwind was the place to be. It’s a good thing I passed it up, as I later found out that everything had been nullified in IF by the time I flew by.
And then there was Stormwind. I’d heard that the event started out as usual with the Burning Legion storming the front gates. As I rode deeper into the city and finally into the keep, I learned that the Alliance weren’t the only ones who got a rather interesting surprise: the Horde had been ported from their safe, warm homes in their major cities and deposited into the middle of our event, complete with several super sized GMs summoning demons, conducting mass rezzes, and otherwise doing their best to add to the mass chaos. Just for shits and giggles, they brought both Thrall and Cairne into the keep as well!
Amid massive spell storms and utter anarchy, the Horde fell and their bodies littered the throne room before we took their two leaders down so they could join them in the afterlife. As we gazed over the destruction, we all reflected on what had just happened. It was a battle that ended in countless deaths, and even more laughs, good times, and great memories. -Rebecca Bundy
Okay, so I got home, proceeded to put my new BC DVD disk into my laptop. I have to tell you, if you have a lot of other miscellaneous games on your computer such as other online games, you better start deleting them. You’ll need a lot more space for BC and all of the upcoming patches. So, for the Alliance, I took my mighty dagger and eliminated most of those subpar games and freed up some space. Ahhh, now I feel comfortable.
