RA3 beta Confirmation Options

[gben]

Comrades,

If you are receiving this e-mail then you are officially registered for the Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Multiplayer Beta Test and are in our queue. Soviet Kirov's bombed our beta test satellite communications around the launch of Kane's Wrath in a deliberate attempt to halt our initial beta test communication e-mails to you upon your registration. While they were successful in their attempt, we were still able to retrieve all data and have continued to collect Beta Test registrations in numerical order since Kane's Wrath shipped. We've recently reconstructed our communication technology with far better systems and defenses and will now be sending you frequent updates throughout the course of our multiplayer beta test. So fear not Comrade, we did not forget you!

The Red Alert 3 Multiplayer Beta Test is set to launch publicly very soon. When we activate your registration, you will be sent an e-mail with your Red Alert 3 Beta Test key and instructions on downloading and installing the beta. As previously mentioned on our website, we will activate registrations for the beta test based on the date & time in which you registered on our beta test website with the serial key from the insert contained in your copy of Kane's Wrath. We may also consider the country in which you reside as a component for when you will be activated in the queue as we are aiming to get global feedback in as much as possible for our beta test. If you registered for the beta test within the first couple of weeks, it is very likely you will be activated close to our first public launch. We will then continue to ramp up and activate registrations weekly, and potentially even multiple times a week. We will activate registrations primarily based around the status of our software. Certainly if we are experiencing any super critical issues, we will halt activations until they are resolved. It is our intent to start the beta test small, and make every effort to quickly ramp up to thousands of players in a matter of days and weeks throughout late-July and August.

We're committed to collecting your technical/bug and balance feedback and improving Red Alert 3 before we ship later this year. If you are receiving this e-mail, you will absolutely be a part of the Red Alert 3 Multiplayer Beta Test. This is the first of many communications. We wanted to give you a general update that the Red Alert 3 Multiplayer Beta Test is slated to go officially public very soon.

You may have heard that we have actually already started an internal-only testing period this week called "EA Friends and Family" where we are using a few hundred people to work out any potential technical issues with connectivity and the state of the game. It is our intent to collect constructive feedback from you during the beta test; however, we're spending a few days doing an internal-only trial run with friends and family of our development team, including all studios of EA. If you've heard rumors about our beta test launching today or even this week, they are referring to the process noted above. We have not activated any keys in the public queue yet however, so don't worry…you're not late to the party!

We have also opened up our official Red Alert 3 Beta Test forums where you will be encouraged to post your constructive feedback to help us improve the game. Since the beta test is starting to trickle out, we chose to open up this forum section early during our trial run. We will make sure to keep it updated with sticky threads and updates and certainly the moment we start to activate people in our public queue, you will hear about it on our boards and via e-mail communications (hopefully one of those e-mails will be your activation key if you registered early!)

Get ready to wage a crazy war with the Soviets, Allies, and the Empire of the Rising Sun, the Red Alert 3 Multiplayer Beta Test will be activated soon.

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE COMMAND & CONQUER NEWSLETTER TO RECEIVE CRITICAL AND EXCLUSIVE INFORMATION FOR RED ALERT 3 AND MORE

-The Red Alert 3 Development Team

No doubt other people received this today, but I thought I would post mine up.

[hagren]

I did not get one yet, although I only sent in my betakey this week or so Hopefully I'll get a mail...

[gben]

Alright, I am updating this thread with a few quick Q& A's so everyone is not confused.

1. How do I know I am registered, I did not receive a confirmation e- mail when I submitted my key?

We have sent out an update e-mail today to the thousands of you who have already registered. This is the first confirmation e-mail that you are in our queue. If you registered, you should receive this e-mail within the next 24 hours, if you haven't already.

2. What e-mail address are you sending me updates and eventually my key to?

All e-mails for the Beta Test including your activation e-mail are being sent to the e-mail account tied to the EA Account you logged in with on our Beta Test website when your originally registered your key. For most of you this would be the e-mail tied to your Master EA account (i.e. the account in which all of your EA games are registered under). You should be checking this e-mail account for all of our communications.

3. Dude, where's my Beta Key?

We have not sent out ANY Beta Key E-mails yet and we will not do so until we are ready to fully activate the Beta Test publicly.

Right now we are just testing the beta internally with "friends and family" of our development team and EA.

Very soon, as I mentioned in the other sticky thread, we still start to activate those in our public queue when we feel the Beta Test is ready to go officially public. We're very close to that, but it will not be before this weekend.

You will receive your Beta Test Activation E-Mail based on the time & date in which you registered your key contained in your copy of Kane's Wrath. We have a queue of thousands of people all who registered, and they are ordered in numerical order. We will start with a small activation and look to quickly ramp to thousands and thousands over the course of days and weeks in late-July and August. It is our intent to get as many of the people who registered within the first few weeks of Kane's Wrath launching in the Beta Test as early as possible. Right now, we cannot make any promises or predictions until the software has passed our internal comfortability and starts to get in the hands of hundreds and thousands of you. If things go very well, I think you'll see us ramp it up very quickly.

So, ending point here, you will get your Beta Key e-mail when we activate you in the queue. If you registered early, you have a very very good chance to be apart of the first few waves around the official public launch. From there, we will activate more as we get more comfortable with the Beta Test itself.


All good my people? Everyone got the down-low now? =)

I will continue to update this thread with more questions.

Thanks,
APOC

from ra3 beta forums

[Luk3us]

I got an email too!

[gben]

Ironically - today my ISP informed me that I have exceeded my peak downloads for the month and it's being throttled back down to 64kb!

(It's funny how peak hours are up to 4am!!! Gamers have no life!)

[Red Blitzkrieg]

I got the e-mail too XD

[Sandstorm]

So I don't understand. I pre-ordered Kane's Wrath and picked it up on the first day at the store. I tried to register for my beta key that day, but the site wasn't working. I finally got to register this month when I saw they are giving away free keys to File Planet members. However, I haven't received my email with a beta key still. Again, I don't understand how they can be giving out free keys on the spot to File Planet members, but will not send me mine. Does anyone know who I can talk to about this?

Beta Noob

[Luk3us]

If you only recently registered that would mean you are really really low down on the list at this point. Though my understanding was that EA were releasing a few thousand into the beta every other day or something. Not sure really. You can go pester EA on their forums I guess.

[Alphabear]

fileplanet subscribers get it because they pay for their subscription