I got into Wow beta!

[BarTopDancer]

World of Warcraft. An online role playing game aka a giant timesuck.

[wendybeth]

I was a beta and theater tester for another online game, but we were required to sign an agreement to not divulge our participation for two years. Is WOW different in that respect, or is the company I tested for just really paranoid?

[Tenigma]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

I was a beta and theater tester for another online game, but we were required to sign an agreement to not divulge our participation for two years. Is WOW different in that respect, or is the company I tested for just really paranoid?

Testers sign varying degrees of non-disclosure agreements depending on how far along the game is in the testing stage. In the earliest of stages ("Alpha" or "friends and family only") it is completely closed, and anyone leaking information about the game or sharing screenshots gets in big trouble.

We're not in closed beta anymore, meaning people can write about it. However a person can only play the beta version if they get a select invitation from the company, as they are restricting how many users to the server at any time.

After this round is over, we will go to public beta, where anyone who has the game can download the beta to test it out. Usually by them the biggest of the bugs are already fixed.