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The whole beta is a fiasco. A bunch of people (including myself) at work tried to get in and word is the available tokens were gone within the first 5 minutes. I guess all of the @sshat kids at home with no job on their parent's elite T8 connetion got in first.

My main question is: if the Beta is targeted for a mature audience of 17+, why open it at 12pm PST on a Monday when the majority of adult gamers are at work? Makes no sense. What they should have done is have everyone who'se interested email their gamertag and then pick at random to determine who gets a token.

93_confirmed wrote:

My main question is: if the Beta is targeted for a mature audience of 17+, why open it at 12pm PST on a Monday when the majority of adult gamers are at work? Makes no sense.

People probably waste a lot more time on the web at work than at home.

Here's an update from 402:

Update: 24 Hour Beta Sign-ups

Just wanted to give you guys a small heads up that we're planning to go live around 7:30pm-ish PDT time, which is rather soon. (don't freak out if it's not right at this time, give it time to get up and propagate DNS servers.)

As I gave heads up to before, the plan is to go with a 24 hour free reign sign-up. Therefore, anyone who signed up earlier, or signs-up within the next 24 hours will have an equal chance to get into the beta regardless of any other circumstance.

Therefore, when the site goes live again here shortly, you can sign up now, later tonight, tomorrow morning, or anytime within the 24 hour period and be put in the running to receive a token.

We will be randomly selecting users from the database who sign up during those 24 hours and sending out codes accordingly in batches. You will know within the first 72 hours whether you got in or not via email, so you won't be waiting around for ever just wondering.

More official and fine details will be available on the site when it goes live with the new sign-up, just wanted to give you guys who have been religiously checking the blog for updates a quick heads up before it went up.

Thanks for all the support everyone. Let me know if you have any other questions.

Things to remember:
- This is still for the US Beta. International sign-ups are coming and will have tokens exclusive to those regions.

- Everyone who signs up within the 24 hours has an equal chance. Period.

- There are tokens available, so if you are eligible, then sign-up!

Let me know if there are any looming questions I can help with. Thanks guys!

still says it's down for maintenance for me.

well i tried one more time and it actually worked... hopefully a group of us will get selected

I was just able to finally register..WOOT! Now, the waiting game begins!

ANOTHER UPDATE:
We already have sign-ups coming in, so I can see the site is working well for a group of you. If the site is going slow or not loading for some of you, be patient. We are doing this 24-hour roll out so that everyone doesn't have to hit the site at once.

I'm hand holding on this one and monitoring everything so if things go south, I'll we have a back-up in place to still take sign-ups, don't worry guys.

UPDATE 2:

If you see this page, then you've been entered for a chance at the beta. Some of you may still be having problems, but stick with it. The site seems to be holding up for most, as we're getting lots of sign ups.

There are about 87,000 available spots that will be given out via this sign-up (that number could change, we're trying for more). As you can tell by the above image, you should know within 72 hours if you've been randomly selected for the Beta.

If you do not get into the beta via this sign-up, there are several ways to get tokens still coming via other sites (i.e. Gamespot) that I'll keep you updated on.

Let me know any questions or problems you guys are having, if you get an error half way through reg, just refresh and continue through. There's a full 24 hour period for sign-ups so don't stress if you don't get to sign up right now, it's all equal and we hope to get all interested parties in if numbers allow.

Here's the confirm that you should see at the end of the registration:

Your name will now be entered into a random drawing for Tokens into the Xbox 360 Multiplayer Beta. At 7pm PDT tomorrow, Tuesday August 28th, we will be drawing names for entry into the Beta. Within 72 hours of this Drawing, we will contact you via email with news on whether or not you were admitted. Even if your name is not chosen in the random drawing, there will be more ways to get into the Beta, and we will continue to update you on the details as soon as they're finalized!

If you are selected in the Drawing, please be patient and wait until you receive your token. We will be sending out Token Codes in batches to ensure the Xbox Live servers are ramped up at a safe pace.

If you use an email client such as Yahoo, G-mail, or Hotmail, please be sure to check your junk mail folder for news on whether or not you've been selected. Also, please add [email protected] to your address book. This will ensure that you don't miss out on any of the action.

Check back into Charlie Oscar Delta for Updates, and don't forget: this is a Beta! You can send us your feedback at [email protected] as well as post your thoughts on the Charlie Oscar Delta Boards. We'll be reading your Feedback, so please let us know what you think!

Well I'm signed up. Here's hoping.

Wow... I can't even get them to send the confirmation email to register. I just keep telling them to resend it once a day. Maybe one day they will actually do it.

Just signed up. Here's to hoping.

Me too.

Go Go Beta Take 3.

I just need a demo already.

I also signed in. So exciting!

Well not really but I didn't know what else to say.

Mr.Green wrote:

I also signed in. So exciting!

Well not really but I didn't know what else to say.

It's US only, you and I won't get in.

I am now signed up as well.

Sinatar wrote:
Mr.Green wrote:

I also signed in. So exciting!

Well not really but I didn't know what else to say.

It's US only, you and I won't get in.

I swore I could have read somewhere that the beta was now going to be international.

Edit: Nevermind...

93_confirmed wrote:

Here's an update from 402:
...
Things to remember:
- This is still for the US Beta. International sign-ups are coming and will have tokens exclusive to those regions.
...

Sinatar wrote:
Mr.Green wrote:

I also signed in. So exciting!

Well not really but I didn't know what else to say.

It's US only, you and I won't get in.

Well f*ck it. Let's go to the pub instead.

Well f*ck it. Let's go to the pub instead.

That's one thing me and Frenchie here agree on!

UPDATE 3:

I wanted to give you guys an update on how the 24 hour sign-ups are going. The 24 hour mark officially ends around 7 pm tonight, so if you haven't signed up yet, do so.

Some of you seemed confused on the "Accept The Agreement" page, you MUST read the agreement (aka scroll down to the bottom of it) before you hit accept. Otherwise it won't take you to the next page. This is a legal requirement, as with most things annoying.

Those of you who keep having the page refreshed on the gamertag / email page, this is because it is case sensitive. So if you have a capitalization in your email, make sure it's in the one you're putting on that page.

I'm going to TRY to get tokens to everyone who signed up within this past 24 hour period, NO PROMISES, as between now and 7pm, there could be 8 million sign-ups, but we're going to try.

Don't worry if you sent double, there's no penalty, we're filtering the lists for duplicates, so if you sent more than one the additionals will just be deleted. Keep the questions coming, and I'll let you know as soon as we send out the first wave of tokens to the winners.

Regardless, before tokens go out, we'll send emails to those who got in BEFORE the token just so you know in advance to be on the look out on your inbox.

I'll keep you guys updated.

Stylez wrote:
Well f*ck it. Let's go to the pub instead.

That's one thing me and Frenchie here agree on!

Ontario and Québec agreeing... MASS HYSTERIA!

8 million sign-ups? I highly doubt that! It's probably more like 800K...

93_confirmed wrote:

8 million sign-ups? I highly doubt that! It's probably more like 800K...

That would still be very impressive for a beta with sign ups limited to 24 hours.

Well, there was a lot of anxious build-up to the Beta drop and the initial frenzy after only letting 1000 people in generated even more ferver.

I never get in the beta's ....but I signed up so we will see. Damn this game looks fun.

Good news for those of us that were persistent! From 402:

Beta Registration Has Ended... More Opportunities to Come!

24-Hour Beta Sign-up has officially ended. I've pulled the final list, and the first batch of tokens are going to start sending out immediately.

Before I let you in on the best part, I want to make it clear that tokens are going to be going out in waves, we're probably going to let in a little over 10,000 people a day to slowly ramp up to the full amount. So even if you are selected tonight, you may not get your token just yet. Be patient. Enough of the logistics, now on to the good part.

I told you that we'd take care of the community, and I'm happy to say we were able to live up to that promise. Everyone who signed up for a chance at the beta via the 24-hour Beta Sign-up, WILL be getting a token!

We're going to send out congrats emails to all of you eventually, but keep in mind (again) the tokens themselves will be in waves. So you might get it today, you might get it tomorrow, you might get it later than that. So be patient, I know everyone would love to be in the first wave, but keep in mind this is a beta TEST, and this is one way were testing our servers performance is by ramping up slowly and tracking how it effects the game, playlist downloads, matchmaking, etc. We're hoping to try and get them all out as quickly as possible, but just wanted to give you a heads up if you don't see a token immediately in your inbox.

As I said, everyone who completed the sign-up over the past 24 hour's will be getting a token, if for some reason you missed the 24 hour sign-up keep in mind we're going to have more chances to get tokens in the future (possibly another Charlie.com sign-up) as well as through Gamespot.com, and GameStop, not to mention International users have their very own exclusive tokens / sign-ups coming up.

Thanks again for all the support everyone, once you've all received your token, downloaded the beta, and are online stabbing me in the back on Vacant.... I'm sure it would have all been worth it.

Stylez wrote:
Well f*ck it. Let's go to the pub instead.

That's one thing me and Frenchie here agree on!

Let's all go to the Pub, especially since they ignored us for this first beta signup.

That's good to hear.

I'm happy with this idea of we all get to play.

Check your e-mail, invites are out...

jakeleg wrote:

Check your e-mail, invites are out... :-)

Not in my inbox...but someday soon I hope.