Mark popped by the War Hammer Alliance forums and explained what was going on regarding the Oceanic Closed Beta Invites and attempts to clear up the confusion for some folks.

Folks,

Hmm, not sure why anyone is confused on these issues but I'll try to clear them up.
1) WAR is currently still in Closed Beta anywhere and everywhere. Open Beta doesn't start anywhere until Closed Beta has ended everywhere.
2) OB will start after the game finishes Closed Beta and before the Head Start.
3) The Preview Weekend that Mythic has announced applies to those customers who have bought the North American CE at the present time.
4) There is no separate Oceanic CE, there is only a European (GOA) or North American (Mythic).
5) The CE customers who are being invited into beta right now are, as I've said a number of times, being invited into the current stage of the game's testing which is Closed Beta, instead of being invited later for the Open Beta. They will, of course, still get into the Open Beta.
6) The NDA lift has nothing to do with the stage of Beta. We'll lift it, as I've said a number of times, when a couple more issues are taken care of by the team. It may lift while we are still in Closed Beta (I do hope so) or it may not.

Part of the confusion may (not sure of this) be coming from the fact that some people might be getting messages for *both* the North American CE purchase and the start of the Oceanic Beta. I'd check on it but it's 1AM Sunday here and I believe my community guys are smarter than I am and fast asleep.

Mark