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Forever Beta Will Return Shortly (October 21)
Blizzard game producer Zorbrix posted at that bringing the WoW Forever Beta back online had hit a snag.
Announcement
Good evening folks,
We hit a small snag while turning the WoW Forever Beta back online. We’re working right now to get it back.
In the meantime, you can speed this up by fully exiting the Battle.net Desktop App to force the update to happen manually.
Thanks!
What this means for players
- The Beta was offline during the Stress Test and was due to reopen after the test ended at . A problem in that step kept the Beta closed as of the post.
- If you cannot get into the Beta, do not just close the Battle.net Desktop App window. Exit the app completely and start it again, and it picks up the Beta update right away.
- Three minutes after the post, at , a player in the thread wrote that it was working now.
Today’s Stress Test schedule is in our earlier post Testing WoW Forever Today (October 21).
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