World of Tanks: Phase One of Closed Beta Completed, Phase Two Begins Tomorrow

Wargaming.net today announced that it has completed phase one of World of Tanks’ closed beta and will proceed to phase two on September 1st, 2010. The latest round of closed beta will see new servers in North America and the introduction of several new features. In addition to retaining all gold and credits, beta testers will also receive 5,000 gold to test out the new features. A “light wipe” will take place to reset players’ tanks back to tier one and convert all experience earned during the previous closed beta into free experience.

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London (31st August, 2010) – Wargaming.net® announced today that the first phase of World of Tanks closed beta test has been completed.

Over the seven weeks of testing the game drew attention of more than 70 000 players around the globe with peak con-current users number exceeding 4 000 players. Beta-testers spent 3.2 hours per day at the average on exploring the in-game world what equals to 30 accomplished matches.

World of Tanks gameplay proved to be extremely addictive as during the stated period more than half a million battles were fought where 150 mln shots were made to destroy 15 mln vehicles.

The next phase of the closed beta test will be launched on the 1st of September.

“I would like to thank our beta-testers for their great work and all the invaluable feedback and data they helped us collect, “says Nick Katselapov, producer of World of Tanks.”We are going to use it to further polish and enhance the game. We had a number of features held in reserve during the first phase of the closed beta and we’ll be more than happy to introduce some of them as soon as the servers go live again”.

Join the beta at: http://game.worldoftanks.com/registration/cbt/