The playtest has begun

[FATDRAGONGAMES]

Thanks!

 

[Gamer McSmartypants]

...

 

[Piratecat]

Guys, we will suspend people who link to non-official copies of the playtest docs. Please don't do this. It's frustrating, but WotC's site will need to deliver them.

Thanks.

 

[Zulithe]

Desperately trying to fetch my playtest pack from WotC... man this is painful

 

[CleverNickName]

Aaaaaaand I'm still unable to download. I got the second e-mail nearly four hours ago, and I'm still getting "Bad Request" screens.

"Frustrating" was two hours ago. This is rapidly becoming "not worth my time."

 

[Piratecat]

Once the Central, Mountain and Pacific time zones came online their servers didn't stand a chance. I think I'm waiting until tonight to try.

 

[CleverNickName]

Once the Central, Mountain and Pacific time zones came online their servers didn't stand a chance. I think I'm waiting until tonight to try.

Same here. (Since I have class tonight, though, I'll probably end up waiting until tomorrow morning.) I'm really curious about it, but I can't waste a whole day on it.

They have a splash screen up now, apologizing for their slow server response "due to the overwhelming demand" of the playtesting event. As if they didn't see this coming, and it somehow caught them by surprise.

 

[nedjer]

4 hours on and Scotland's still waiting to get a look at Next. On the plus side, it should be amusing to hear about the terrible technical complications and overwhelming data transfer involved in the downland of . . . a handful of PDFs. Goes they must have had an old i386 lying around and thought they'd give it a whirl

 

[On Puget Sound]

On Trevor's post on the wizards community forum, commenters have posted links I can't copy here. Trevor has not moderated them away, so I used one and it worked. It required downloading something that could read .rar files, though.

 

[pauljathome]

4 hours on and Scotland's still waiting to get a look at Next. On the plus side, it should be amusing to hear about the terrible technical complications and overwhelming data transfer involved in the downland of . . . a handful of PDFs. Goes they must have had an old i386 lying around and thought they'd give it a whirl

One does have to give credit to WOTC for their commitment to total and utter technical incompetence. Others can only aspire to their ability to totally and utterly muck up the simplest of tasks.