Red Alert 3

Earlier today the beta became available to FilePlanet subscribers for a very short period of time only allowing a few people to get into the beta. It turns out that the version that they received was a faulty version and they immediately pulled this from use. Recently Apoc the Electronic Arts Red Alert 3 Community Manager posted that the beta would be launching tomorrow for the first 2,000 people who registered through the Kanes Wrath.

Here is the exact text of the message that Apoc made on the Official Forums.

Hey everyone,

I am purposely making another sticky thread to update you to ensure everyone reads this.

Earlier today we had to make an emergency change to the current "friends and family" build which was being hosted at FilePlanet. We asked them to pull the current build down. When they did this, they put up their standard temporary page which had misleading information that our beta test was for Founder Club members only.

Everyone, this is false and inaccurate. The official word on our Beta is still the same. If you bought Kane's Wrath and registered on our beta test website, you will be in the Beta Test in the process of which we've described multiple times. Yesterday we started sending out update e- mails, everyone who registered through the website should have received this e-mail update.

Please make sure you are checking the e-mail account tied to the EA Account you logged in with when registering at the Beta Test website. For most of you, this is your official EA Master Account e- mail.

Now, all that said, we are posting up a new build on FilePlanet tomorrow (Saturday), and will begin to publicly activate the first 2,000+ registered users. Yes, that means if you were one of the first 2,000 to register on our Beta Test website, you will likely be playing Red Alert 3 this weekend =) You will receive your activation e-mail.

For the rest of you, like we said, we will be ramping up the Beta as we get more comfortable with the software. One of our primary purposes for doing a Beta Test is to weed out any serious technical issues so when the game officially ships, we've fixed them. Thus, we are rolling this out slowly and will ramp it up to thousands and thousands in a weekly process, maybe multiple times a week. The software will dictate that.

So everyone, please ignore what you read on Fileplanet, yes it is true they have a small amount of keys for FP subscibers, but those will be given away in a lottery some time next month.

The only way you can get in the Red Alert 3 Beta Test is if you purchased Kane's Wrath and registered your key on our Beta Test website. Luckily, for 99% of you, that means YOU.

If our plans change for tomorrow, we will let you know, but everything is looking good for our first small public launch.

Thanks!
APOC

Hopefully there will be no further complications with the beta and that there will be a launch tomorrow. It has also been revealed that there will be an embargo on Videos and Screenshots for the earlier phases of the beta. This is still not official but if there is, hopefully EA will be posting some official ones for all those players waiting patiently for their turn!

There is still no official time when the beta will be re-launched tomorrow with the updated build but hopefully it will be early!