Funcom unveils The Secret World beta

The quiz itself is pretty old. But the fact that it enters you for a chance at beta testing is new. Previously, taking the quiz only allowed you to choose a society and gave you a pretty lame media kit.

Actually, the fact that I had taken the quiz when Massively first announced it and then got an email from Funcom last week inviting me to take the quiz to register for beta has left me wondering if I don't have to take the quiz again in order to be registered for beta. Probably not, but they were unclear on that count.

Funcom sent out an email with updates to this little quiz with news you can get into the beta. The very day this was posted.

So actually Massively isn't reporting old news, they're on top of it. You all just missed that Funcom email and are so far out of the loop on it, that you can only plug your ears and shout "OLD!" when in fact it's not.

dragon for me as well but may go Illuminati when i learn more

I will.

Anybody with half a brain cell I suspect? AoC is now a pretty damn solid MMO, and Funcom have a pretty damn solid track record.

Me too. Boycotts are over-rated. Chances are the games are made by two different development teams anyways.

Besides, I liked Age of Conan. Not enough to keep playing but I didn't quit because it was a bad game, just not my type of game.

I will too,like many others :)

I'll try it out, I mean I've played funcom games before and found them to be great, while some are not so great. I mean, anarchy online was good stuff and Dreamfall: the longest journey is still regarded as one of the best point and click adventure games of all time. I liked where AoC was heading, but I wasn't able to get into it because the graphics were so messy, but that's just me and doesn't reflect the game-play at all. I could see this game (the Secret World) ending up being something like a Deus Ex MMO, which I think would be amazing. I didn't know about this quiz until the people here on Massively.com told me about it and I appreciate them bringing us news about the genre of games I like best. Of course there will always be people out there who've heard about such and such a thing before everyone else, but that doesn't make it irrelevant to everyone else. Maybe y'all should take that into consideration before blasting massively.com's writers on something that may seem old, but in actuality isn't really to most people. just a thought.

Since you want to be so judgmental with Massively on this article, you do know that Funcom had sent out an email the very day this was posted that was about this very subject.

Perhaps, just perhaps, that email is why this got put up on Massively.