For quite some time I was worried about the state of my preorder. Games Warehouse emailed me saying they probably would not have enough stock to fulfil my order, but luckily they secured enough stock and now the Open Beta access code is attached to my account.

Who else has got their open beta code in the beta center? Where did you get it from?

If you’re in Australia try using Games Warehouse, although they may be out of stock by now. Otherwise EB Games is always a good choice, although I’ve heard good things about GAME (although, they’re still new to Sydney).

I’m pretty sure this can be considered official. Mark Jacobs has clearly stated that the Open Beta will most likely be a month before launch. The full quote is below:

"As to when, it’s pretty safe to say that we are going to follow what has become conventional wisdom within the MMO community to have an OB about a month before launch. It certainly is possible we might extend it by a bit or even shrink it but no decision has been made yet. And since we haven’t locked in a date yet other than to say Fall 2008…"

Also some other points:

• The NDA will be lifted "quite a while before" the Open Beta
• The head start will start after the Open Beta ends

Well there goes our fantasy of getting months of free play time in beta…or was that just me?

Read the full post here.

Well Iain Compton from the European WAR team has given the vaguest answer the world has ever seen (slight hyperbole):

We don’t have a firm ETA for that part of the site yet but it will definitely be open before the open beta begins. As soon as it is open there will be news announcing the fact and, no doubt the regular community sites will also be reporting on it too.

What we now realize is that that part of the site will be launched at some point. Great, we should be able to pinpoint the date now! (sarcasm is great, right?)