Legit: TBC Closed Beta Invites Distribution

[Praetor]

If it's a scam, I assume the real payload of the scam would be the follow-up e-mail sent to all the harvested e-mail addresses, addressing them by name, and offering a download link to the "beta client."

This strikes me as an odd way to go about handling closed beta invites, for all sorts of reasons.

[Yukiri]

A guildy who's alot more in the know than I am took what I posted on the guild boards and did a dns search thingy. Got these results:

Important part:

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=198.74.38.108

OrgName: Vivendi Universal Interactive Publishing, Inc

Im still waiting for some blue to post, but it's beginning to lean toward this being real.

[forge]

Me and Warrian already checked into the dns. Everything checks out there.

[InterSlayer]

The email headers checked out as far as I can tell. The servers used resolve as Blizzards, so if it were fake there would have to be some pretty hard core DNS/IP address spoofing.

The return email address for the beta form is directly to Blizzard, so fake or not, at worst it just spams their beta mailbox :P

[Ravvenn]

I could see why they wouldn't announce it (psycho people posting how raiders get favored, etc) - but if it's legit, they should have used some better wording in the email because it doesn't look very good. The thing that makes me even consider it being legit is the guy it was sent to in our guild, he doesn't look at forums, he doesn't use his email for -anything- but his account.

He's still not touching it without confirmation. They should also keep in mind that a lot of people aren't too cozy sharing their full names with their guild members. Looks like a few manginas may need to come clean if they want beta!

[Tolanin]

ive seen other companies do betas like that where you need to send in the names...

I think its not unreasonable they would change the format to this kinda thing, its alot harder to ebay the keys this way than if they just sent out batches of beta keys like they did for the original CB.

[Murr]

What makes it seem legit is they're just asking for emails and a full name and *not* account names - I'd imagine they're just sending you a link and some sort of beta key to use like any other MMO beta, and not soliciting account names for haxoring.

[Ravvenn]

If they are sending a link, it should have just been announced due to the recent issues with keyloggers (in the form of links). They should know that people are paranoid to trust any link on the Blizzard website or links related to World of Warcraft because of the high number of accounts that have been hacked in the past month alone.

[Frax]

Originally Posted by Ravvenn

I could see why they wouldn't announce it (psycho people posting how raiders get favored, etc)

There are already at least two threads ranting about this, even though there has been no official acknowledgement that it is even from Blizz.

[Warrian]

You would think that *IF* it was fake, Blizzard would have made an announcement telling us to ignore it. Losing accounts only creates more work for them and I highly doubt they want that to happen.

[Ravvenn]

Tseric posted:

I will eat your cookies, then watch you cry as I do not give you a beta invite.

I am heartless, yes.

lol?

Here

The players invited to the beta have a rather broad demographic, so looking at it as only raiding guilds being invited into the beta is simply innaccurate.

The players we need for testing and that we have invited span from individuals, to PTR contest winners, to Blizzcon attendees and yes there are some raiding groups.

The portion of players this thread seems to be focusing on amounts to about 20% of the players invited. This hardly presents itself as a situation where we are catering to a single play style or personality type.

Seems ok!

[Mkopec1]

Dont any of you dudes have 2nd computers?

Click the link from another comp without wow on it and you should find out if its a scam or not, right?

[Elmdor-ZulJin]

I do wonder what their cutoff point for inviting raid guilds was. One Wing boss? Two? Three? I would take it from the CM Comments that this is real, however. QUite a bit of evidence is pointing to it.

I know I felt very sad when my guild got the invites yesterday and I spent 4 days levelling a Shaman to 50 in the contest (Which I still haven't recieved an e-mail about. ).

[Ravvenn]

Originally Posted by Mkopec1

Dont any of you dudes have 2nd computers?

Click the link from another comp without wow on it and you should find out if its a scam or not, right?

There-Is-No-Link

[Ravvenn]

PS: If you missed the link or their website goes down. It IS legit, grats Betas!!

Wewt!