People have been confused with a number of issues regarding Condemned by Fire and the closed beta. It’s good to see Mythic has cleared up misconceptions:

Greetings all,

Below is a brief FAQ to help alleviate some questions concerning the beta promotion included with BOOM! Studios’ Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning comic: Condemned By Fire.

Do I still have to register my code by May 31st in order to qualify for the beta contest?

The deadline has been extended to June 14th in order to enter your code.

How do I register multiple keys on the same Beta Center account?

As stated we only allow one key per Beta Center Account.

What phase of beta are the winners given access to?

Winners will be invited to CLOSED beta.

Thank you,

The Community Team

I was especially worried about the whole closed/open beta confusion, so it’s great to see I still have my chance to get into closed. I’m also relieved that I didn’t order 5 copies of Condemned by Fire.

[ Source: WAR Herald ]

The largest wave of beta invitations yet is coming up!

With the closed beta testing of Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning™ marching onwards, we are pleased to announce that we are stepping up the pace; within days the largest beta invitation wave yet seen will be sent out to hungry testers-to-be all over Europe! In other words, keep an eye at your inbox in the near future.

We wish you all good luck, and further wish to extend our gratitude to our current testers for creating such a positive community and we are confident the lucky new testers will feel welcome!

Naturally, we will update you when the invitations are sent out. See you all on the battlefield!

Pity this is only for Europeans but I’m assuming the US will get some more invitations soon too…hopefully.

Source: WAR-Europe

Not sure if this is under NDA (if it is I’m sorry, but I didn’t sign anything as I’m not in the beta), but it’s interesting and I don’t like pretending certain news doesn’t happen. My aim is to report on everything that may interest Warhammer Online fans, which is what I’m doing now.

Anyway, I’ve got word that the recent focus phase, which dealt with Tier 3 combat has ended (or will be ending very shortly). The phase lasted for just over a week apparently, and it makes sense that the next phase will move onto Tier 4 (although that is not confirmed, just speculation).

This message was delivered to current beta testers:

The beta servers will be closing down this evening at around 17:00 BST (18:00 CET). This will bring to an end the current Tier 3 focus test and allow the technical teams to prepare the way for the second part of this phase. This will require a few days of downtime and we will bring you more details of what you can look forward to next over the course of this week. Thanks for all your feedback and testing, keep an eye on the announcements for more details as we have them.

Good to see that the test is progressing nicely (it seems).