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cormyn
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On November 8th, 2010, the following will happen:

1. Our closed beta process will begin in the morning
Our closed beta users have already been chosen. Chances are excellent that if you haven't already heard from us by now on an official basis, you won't be in the closed beta. The closed beta group will help with some core testing, which may be as boring as following a list of instructions or a list of things to test for functionality. Their testing will last as long as it takes to get some basic portions of the site working 100% perfectly. Only then will we start the open beta.

2. Our open beta sign-up page will go live sometime between 10am and 6pm
The public beta sign-up page will be at http://beta.armorgames.com/. On that page, you'll only need to enter your Email address. I highly recommend you use the same Email address as your AG2 account, so we can synchronize your account settings easier, and it won't make sense to register multiple Email accounts because beta testers who do not reply to their invite codes will get dropped from the beta. We will not manually add anyone to the list. If you want in, you have to add yourself. I expect it will be some time in the morning, United States Pacific (California) time, but we might need longer to get everything synchronized.

3. We will send out messages on Twitter letting people know that AG3 Beta is starting
I highly recommend you follow these Twitter accounts for updates:
- @armorgames - this is the official Armor Games twitter feed where we announce new games being released, but we'll also announce on here when the beta sign-up page is live. I don't know how much else we'll say on this Twitter account about the beta.
- @cormyn - this is my personal Twitter account (well, one of them), where I will be posting information about the beta process once we get started. I expect to be pretty verbose about what we're working on, things that are working, etc.

We'll probably tell our closed beta users not to say too much publicly about AG3 until someone from AG says it first.

We don't expect the closed beta to go on very long before we start inviting people who signed up after the 8th.

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cormyn
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Well, since we haven't "officially" said anything on the blog or our main twitter feed, we've only had about 30 people sign up, heh. I'd wager most of them have been posting in this thread for the past few hours.

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It's fine then - I'll stick with the Hotmail account I tried after my AOL account (or rather - I) failed. Sorry to have taken up some of your time - If I get the chance, I'll mail you a Dr. Pepper.

Efan
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Now what?
And please tell us this huge prank of yours.

samdawghomie
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Wow. NO response from Gmail, or Hotmail.

Freakenstein
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I got my gmail email just fine. Did you add mail@armorgames.com to your contacts? Your confirmation may be somewhere other than your inbox.

samdawghomie
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I've got them in both contacts. And I have checked every single folder aviliable.

cormyn
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Samdawg, a high percentage of our users are using @gmail (or other google-hosted domains) and their messages are getting through. Let me dig in a little more.

samdawghomie
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I guess the day after your birthday is just a really [crappy] one. lol


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Instantly got your email.

vinster132
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we've only had about 30 people sign up

Wow, I thought more people would sign-up. Only 30...hah.
cormyn
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Has anyone else gone to the beta site, signed up, seen the thank-you page, and NOT gotten an Email?

Efan
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I thought more people would sign-up.

Remember school, work, time differences and commitments.
cormyn
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Only 30-ish people have sign up because we haven't officially announced it on the blog or the @armorgames twitter account.

vinster132
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Remember school, work, time differences and commitments.

Right, I forgot. I took the day off of school because I didn't feel so well.
MRWalker82
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I took the day off of school because I didn't feel so well.


I think you meant you wouldn't have felt well if you weren't among the first to sign up for open beta... But I could be wrong. Oh, and I had no issues with my yahoo, although it filtered it into my spam folder. Took care of that though.
Efan
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What now?

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