Lost my Bet. I owe myself $10

Well. Countdown is over, announcements have been made, and boy did I lose my bet. No open beta announcement. In a way, we got a release date announcement, but it was just to announce WAR has been delayed again. Sad Panda.

One the other hand, the collectors edition contents WHERE announced, and they do look very choice. This is a collectors edition worth of the name, with a trade collection of all the WAR comics, in hardcover no less; A huge 224 page hardbound artbook; A pair of miniatures (or possibly one combined one) of the Ork Warboss and his Shaman co-boss from WAR; and a truly enormous set of ingame benefits, including a bonus xp item (limited to 3 uses, otherwise could you imagine the howls?), and 12 new: quests, items, titles, and heads.

Lots of goodies in that CE, I want one. Oh, and supposedly a beta key, though a beta key like all the other promotional beta keys, ie: you just get priority, not an instant invite.

Im usually doom and gloom about delays in game, and Im pretty doom and gloom about this delay. But Ive said what I want to about delays. All that I have new for this delay is: After all these delays with the promise of polish, WAR had damn well better be polished when it comes out. This game had best SHINE. MMOs usually have pretty rocky launches, and WAR's popularity promises the kind of launch that WoW experienced. Lots of lag, full servers, etc... but after these delays, I dont think WAR can get away with that kind of thing. You cant say "polish, make it better, polish" through three delays and then release a game that trips out of the gate. I doubt WAR would ever fall down on any facet, even the launch, but at least MY tolerance for mistakes decreases with every announced delay...