Command and Conquer fans will be delighted to know that the beta scheduled for late summer will finally be coming to a start in the very near future! To guarantee a spot in the beta, which is supposed to allow players to play with the factions against each other in one 1v1 map and one 2v2 map, you must register before September 15 2008. Players must purchase a copy of Kane’s Wrath which includes a unique key that saves a spot for you in the beta program.

Already internally, friends and family of EA have been playing Ra3 night and day. EA plans to initiate the beta by allowing a set amount of people access, then adding more and more in the following weeks to come. According to EA the date in which you registered and the country you live in will have an effect on how soon you receive your download link. Here is a word from EA regarding the exciting event:

“Comrades, The Command & Conquer 3 Red Alert 3 Mutliplayer Beta Test is set to launch publicly very soon. Get ready to wage a crazy war with the Soviets, Allies, and the Empire of the Rising Sun in our online-only multiplayer Beta Test. And remember, the only way to get in to the Beta Test is by purchasing a copy of Command & Conquer Kane’s Wrath. If you are one of the thousands who already purchased Kane’s Wrath and registered your Beta Key, then you are in our public queue and awaiting activation status!

As mentioned here on our website, we will be rolling out the Beta Test activation keys based on the time in which you registered on our beta test website (http: //www.ea.com/redalert3beta/) 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 public queue as we are aiming to get global feedback in as much as possible for our beta test. When we activate your key you will be sent an e-mail with your Red Alert 3 Beta Test key with instructions on downloading and installing the beta. 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 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 feedback and improving Red Alert 3 before we ship later this year and 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 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 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. 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, official website, and via e-mail communications.

The Red Alert 3 Beta Test will be activated soon, and it will be a most glorious day for Command & Conquer gamers all around the world, until the final game ships of course!

-The Red Alert 3 Development Team”

Personally, I have entered my key roughly a week or so after the launch of Kane’s Wrath, but did so again two other times at a later. (I’ve heard of other players doing the same thing and also fearing for their access to the beta. I even hit submit without entering anything and it still said I was confirmed!) Each time it told me I was in the beta but I don’t really know what is happening. Hopefully, I’ll get my e-mail and everything will be OK along with the rest of the people in the same boat that I am in. I’ve asked if what I did will hurt my chances but I didn’t get a response yet so we’ll have to see. Even right now people are receiving their confirmation e-mails to ensure their spots in the waiting line but I have not received mine yet. If anyone has any new word on this please post it in the Command and Conquer forums here on CheatMasters!

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