Open Beta on official site is working!

[d1s293]

I don't know what just happend, but I followed the link from this place to the https://signup.worldofwarcraft.com and I got through and made an account. It appears that they have one big universal key that is something like:

BLZRD OPEN BETA LIVE

Or something like that. Anyways, I suggest you all try it. There's no notice of it on the official sites, so go now before they get swamped. I'm just downloading the patch now, anyone have an alternate link?

Good luck!

[me4hegemon]

Gahhh It Doesnt Work
Damnit

[jeffmd]

"The requested URL /authkey.html was not found on this server."

yea... its a little buggy. ^^

edit: its back to the ole black screen.

[Blackmoore]

Was. It's all now past tense.

[Grendel Rose]

I think it was a tad premature (i.e. somebody put ti up before it was supposed to be up) given how fast it went back down.

[d1s293]

Wow, yeah, I guess it was premature. I don't know how it happened, but I must have somehow slipped in through some small crack. My friend (who has a stress test account) just tested my login and password and it worked fine.

Good luck all! Keep checking that signup page, maybe it'll change back again!

[Blackmoore]

Actually Caydiem said it was up, but 20 minutes later, BOOM!

EDIT: False Alarm...

[dethfire]

I can't believe this level of ******edness, is blizzard run by high school students?

[dethfire]

"
[ServletException in:/WEB-INF/jsp/menuView.jsp] Unable to read TLD "META-INF/c-1_0.tld" from JAR file "file:/cache/var/webapps/signup/account-creation/WEB-INF/lib/standard.jar": org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Failed to load or instantiate TagExtraInfo class: org.apache.taglibs.standard.tei.ForEachTEI' [ServletException in:/WEB-INF/jsp/base/footer.jsp] Error creating temporary file' "

[Blackmoore]

Yup. They're running on 2003 servers so people = boom!