Open Beta Registration
Posted by Basti on September 7, 2008
Many people have been waiting for this…start of the european open beta
First of all, I want to quote an announcement posted by Lain Compton:
Secondly our website has already been dealing with traffic that makes the expected rush for signups pretty trivial. We get more visits per day that the total number of open beta keys in existence across the world. We have launched major timed events before and we have a lot of experience in making sure that key systems are able to handle the pressure. The account pages are coming, they have been tested thoroughly and we aren’t concerned about the stability of the server.”
So my first try to register started at 9:30 cet (the announced time when registration servers will be up). Unfortunately I only got a black screen when clicking the register button. Few minutes later someone posted an information that there are “several problems” (we didnt expect that, lol) with bringing up the servers, so “registration delays”. After pressing F5 for the next 60 minutes times, I gave up.
Some hours later I gave it a second try and wow, a registration page appeared. So I filled out the form and reached a page were I had to enter some captchas displaying on the site, to ferify myself. Actually there were no captchas. I tried this for about 50 times. Always the same Problem.
Early afternoon I gave it a last try and recognized they replaced the broken captcha query with a static one. So I filled out all information again and pressed the submit button. Since you dont see any ingame Screenshots here, you might already know what happened. I got an error (414)!
Thanks Goa
