Just a day after Guild beta keys were being sent out EA Mythic’s Community Coordinator James Nichols has posted a mini-announcement on the Warhammer Alliance forums in regards to the Guild beta contest that was held some time ago:

Hey all,

We still fully intend to honor the contest, and I’m happy to announce have been selected and will be notified shortly

Why were we waiting so long? Well development of a game is fluid in some respects, with our extended release schedule it allowed us to take more time to make sure that when guild beta happens it serves it’s full purpose. We don’t want guilds to come in and tell us stuff we already know, we want to work together to find things that weren’t apparent to us…guilds are a vital part to a games longevity and community.

They are often times large, organized groups of people that can work in unison to provide us with feedback and insight from an angle we can’t really achieve with in house testing and individual beta participants.

If we brought such a specialized group of people into a beta that wasn’t ready for them much of that momentum would be lost and the program itself wouldn’t be as effective.

We’re really excited for Guild Beta and we have some great groups of people. We’ll have some announcements coming up concerning it but for now we’re just getting everything in order. Exciting times are ahead, stay tuned!

Lucky guilds. I should’ve planned ahead and got into a guild ages ago. Still, I can be an awesome guildie, so if you have a spare key or win one in the contest, mind sending it my way? I listen, will be a very good healer and will do as told…or not (but seriously, I’d heterosexually love you if you did).

It seems quite definitely that the keys for long-awaited Guild beta are finally being sent out. There has been no official announcement from Mythic (yet) but quite a few members of the WAR community are saying their guild members have begun receiving their keys via email.

Of course, I’ll keep monitoring this and keep everyone updated!

EDIT: Okay, I’m sure this can be considered confirmed now as more reports are coming in that the keys have indeed started to be sent.

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