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got it too. i feel like they sent it to everyone bcs it's not actually an invite to beta, just an invite for a short playtest december 5 - december 22.
December 5-22 is our upcoming closed beta phase.
I can confirm that we did not send invites to everyone. Despite doubling the number of invites again for this phase, the number of signups who still haven't received an invitation to beta is much, much bigger. Meeting that demand is one of the primary motivators behind launching our upcoming Kickstarter campaign.
I went to bed watching and harnessing the power of Giant Grant Games' latest video "Warcraft 3: A Brief Retrospective", which is only 4 hours long, so very brief indeed, and woke up having received the Beta invitation, just saying.
I came to Warcraft 3 as a 7 old kid, so not only did this retrospective really bring back the extremely fond memories of how fun and playful the W3 game style is, but it added GGG's incredibly astute attention to the details of the design of the game as an RTS. Obviously, being a kid back then a lot of the details about the assymetry of the races and W3's innovations of the RTS genre in comparison with previous games were things I didn't realize at the time, I just experienced the game and took all that for granted. However, now, as an adult, being able to really appreciate the design dimension, it was such a treat to watch the GGG video and it has made me soooooo hype to delve into the beta <3
Welcome to Stormgate! <3
Signed up day one. Whatever I’ll just keep playing SC2 lol.
We really appreciate your support. We wish we could invite everyone to beta test, especially our day one signups, but it’s simply not possible without additional funding.
I hope this doesn’t deter you from continuing to support Stormgate and I look forward to seeing you in-game.