Yeah that was a real downer. I had to force myself to log in for that one. Not that I don't enjoy the game for the sake of playing it, but reading about some of the massive changes then finding out none of it was in game wasn't fun.

Will this be the build that changes the tutorial and adds the option to skip the starter islands?

I read that article too (I'm from Finland) but it wasn't really clear if that's only the case with the keys you have got from IGN or if it works with all beta keys.

LOL -- in many ways that is more true then most peeps will realized --

Hey that's right, where's my monkey? They owe me a monkey!

I didn't get a monkey vanity pet, would've been swweett but I got a mudcrab instead, I will call him George. (kudos if you get the very faint reference)

Has any US sites had this yet? I am simply not going to believe that this is for both servers till I see a press release from Zenimax or article on the US IGN.

Yes, this will be a newer version of the game.

Poor Rutger.

And you will hug him and pet him and squeeze him.

IGN doesn't have their own keys, the beta will be for everyone.

I'm such a kid at heart sometimes... that still makes me laugh.

Cool! Thanks for info. Kinda makes sense, too. 2 weeks period until early access seems reasonable.

I wonder, if this is the last Beta, maybe we should make something special of it.

Like eating sweetrolls? =^.^=

Towards the end of the beta they should have this massive event happen where a bunch of daedroth's and daedric's titans summon around Cyrodiil and attack Keeps... gotta have the beta go out with a bang...

I wonder if they will delete our characters for the newer build. Hope not, but would make sense if they want as many people as possible to test out what they've done to the tutorial areas.

Dang. Smack dab in the middle of SXSW.