COD4 Beta: Infinity Ward Promises To Make Things Right
by Drake Hess on August 27, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Angry fans that waited for the Call of Duty 4 Beta sign up today at noon soon realized that the site could not take the traffic and that it crashed again, just like it did when news of the beta was first announced.
According to a blog by an employee of Infinity Ward, the company hosting the site www.charlieoscardelta.com assured them that they had taken the proper measures to make sure that it would be able to take the traffic — obviously it could not.
We do have some good news though, according to the same blog, Infinity Ward is now promising that they will “take care of the community” of loyal fans by doing away with the first come first serve format. Instead, they will allow fans to sign up for a full 24 hours — of course the site itself has to be up and running first, and of 6PM EST it is not.
According to the blog post, they are working hard to get it back up, so our best advice at this point is to check www.charlieoscardelta.com often throughout the day … and night.
Source: Fourzerotwo.com
Update: Someone posted the link to fourzerotwo.com on digg.com and it hit the homepage so you likely will not be able to access the blog site for a while. Fear not, we have the blog information for you below.
8/27/07
Madness? This is BETA!!!*warning* Bold words and profanity from this point on. Loose Lips Sink Ships.
QUICK-UPDATE:
First: I’m as pissed as you guys.
Second: Here’s the low down.
As the many of you who have stayed home from work, school, and neglected loved onces can attest to, CharlieOscarDelta.com has officially died. Today. Again. On Beta sign-up day. While we’re all waiting for the countdown timer to hit zero.
We were assured relentlessly time and time again by the company who runs and maintains Charlieoscardelta.com for us that they have adequately prepared the servers for this massive Beta roll-out.
That was fucking bullshit.
I’m not going to lie, I’m fucking mad as hell.
Fuck this first come first serve registration, WE WILL TAKE CARE OF THE COMMUNITY.
NO MORE FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE. We will be taking care of the guys who’ve spent the last 6 months on the site, reading all of our updates, participating in our forums, and staying home all day today refreshing the site to get a token. UPDATE: That doesn’t mean post count, join date, or rank effect your chances for good or bad, it just means everyone will have an equal chance regardless of the site errors.
YOU WILL BE TAKEN CARE OF, and we will make sure that everyone has an equal chance to get into the beta REGARDLESS of depending on the the site.
So here’s the current plan. We are cracking whips and making sure the site gets back up and running. We’re going to do away with the first come, first serve and are going to have open registration for 24 hours.
So whether you’re able to get on the site within the hour, or log on at midnight tonight, you can sign-up and have an equal chance at a token.
We will then take that massive database of sign-ups over the next 24 hours, and distribute all available tokens to the members who sign-up.
We’re doing everything we can to make sure this site crash does not effect your chances for Beta glory.
So keep the comments, emails, and calls coming guys, it’s just fueling our fight to make sure you guys are taken care of.
CHECK BACK OFTEN FOR UPDATES, as I’ll keep you guys FULLY in the loop.
HEADS ARE ROLLIN’
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on August 27, 2007 8:11 pm
Glad to hear they’re doing something about it. Now they just need to get the site back up before midnight.