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foxfirefey ([personal profile] foxfirefey) wrote in [community profile] dreamwidth_meta2009-04-29 04:34 pm

Open Beta speculations!

Open Beta is...dundundun...tomorrow!

Here is your post to speculate on what's going to happen. Do you think seed accounts are going to sell fast or slow? What kind of drama is going to erupt when the flood gates are open? Are you expecting to drag people over now that the gates are open more, or are people you know banging to get in?
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[personal profile] melannen 2009-04-30 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
The first batch of seed accounts will sell out in about five minutes. The second batch will either go faster or longer, depending on how many people tried to get one in the first batch and didn't. (I'm betting on faster.)

There will be a bunch of namesquat grabs with invite codes and $3 accounts, but I bet that a lot of the people buying longer paid accounts and seed accounts will be people who were already here in beta. There will be a ton of new communities that never actually get any activity. I think the actual increase in activity, as opposed to just a rush on journal names (and minus a flurry of intro posts on the first few days) will pick up a lot more slowly over the first month or so, though.

Also, wank. And porn.