** Official WoW Catalysm Alpha/Beta Thread **

There is also news that some gaming sites are giving away Beta keys, so seems the Beta is coming. If we got in the Alpha do we auto get into the Beta?
 
The last patch with REALID seems to have thrown the authentication set up into a a bit of a flakey. I had an 'unable to connect' message at log on with a fresh install on my desktop and a working log on with my old laptop.

What I did to fix this was open up my hidden folders and transfer folders from my battle.net cache from the working laptop to the duff desktop battle.net cache. Now my reasoning here is that any logon problems may be remedied with this fix, so all you 'banned' account peeps may get logged on by trying this too.

http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B01lXFFE2IvjY2E0Y2U4NmUtZTY1Ny00NjBiLThjMjEtNzBjNzYwMjYzZWZi&hl=en

The files in this zip should replace the files in here...

[USER] Local/Blizzard Entertainment/Battle.net/Cache

This folder is only viewable remember by changing your folder option setting to view hidden folders.

Make a back up/rename the folder to keep your original files if you wish.
 
As someone posted earlier, I think its down to them rolling out the public beta soon. No update from colin but if he wouldnt be allowed to confirm or deny that anyway

Masai, since the folder is merely a cache it can be deleted and will recreate itself next time you login. I would advise everyone AGAINST downloading files from anywhere but blizzard, the files in the cache contain executable data (check file by opening in notepad and observing MZ header at the start) and are probably used in encrypting the login details

not that im saying you would, but those files could have been tampered with
 
Could be wrong but i don't think they broke alpha accounts before the beta for wrath, seems a bit odd so i'm still thinking theres another reason behind it.
 
G-Man said:
Could be wrong but i don't think they broke alpha accounts before the beta for wrath, seems a bit odd so i'm still thinking theres another reason behind it.
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wouldnt it be easier for them to just take the server down than ban tons off accounts if that was the case?
 
It looks like BRK from bigredkitty.net was in the Alpha too, his blog is complaining that his access has been removed too. So looks like it is not just you guys who have lost your access.

Hopefully the Beta is starting real soon and there will be some keys to try to win!
 
G-Man said:
Could be wrong but i don't think they broke alpha accounts before the beta for wrath, seems a bit odd so i'm still thinking theres another reason behind it.
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I believe it's probably due to the fact that we didn't have battle.net last time round, thus account were flagged in a completely different way.
 
AshFU said:
wouldnt it be easier for them to just take the server down than ban tons off accounts if that was the case?
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Not really, for example they could simply have us set as a "user group" of sorts, then disallow the user group from accessing the servers, and giving us the error message.

Kinda like lusrmgr for windows, where you can make accounts part of a group and then set permissions for that group. (This is a guess though!)
 
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