Diablo 3 Beta [Beta withdrawal underway!]

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KKRT00 said:
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Why did Diablo 2 allow for multiplayer accounts in 2000? And save files for all 10 chars full of items hardly took 5mb back then and thats uncompressed.
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but they deleted your stuff after 90 days of inactivity if I remember correctly.


My personal guess its not about storage but as you pointed out - processing and bandwith
 
It's more about managing the number of calls to a database than it is about storage size. They are effectively lowering the number of accesses to their database by 40% with this change.

DB administration can be tricky and I am sure you would much rather have three tabs of storage than be shown a buffering symbol for 3 seconds as your storage items slowly populate into the GUI.
 
Freki said:
but they deleted your stuff after 90 days of inactivity if I remember correctly.


My personal guess its not about storage but as you pointed out - processing and bandwith
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But You dont need to process chars You dont use, You have other save file for Wizard and other Witch Doctor for example. And syncing items is just downloading them to memory at first and then checking sum from time to time to avoid modifications on client side.

BTW i've started Diablo 3 and checked how many data it transferred to me.

For recall to town and this many items
http://i.imgur.com/kPVsP.jpg

i got 122kb of data ...
http://i.imgur.com/5tjjn.jpg

And thats with login into the game, moving, syncing etc.

Cru Jones said:
It's more about managing the number of calls to a database than it is about storage size. They are effectively lowering the number of accesses to their database by 40% with this change.

DB administration can be tricky and I am sure you would much rather have three tabs of storage than be shown a buffering symbol for 3 seconds as your storage items slowly populate into the GUI.
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Its not like they couldnt stream it in background when You enter town? Those all items land in Your local memory after all and they dont search db for stash when You are in dungeons.
They could make also non shared stash like they wanted at the beginning and store some items in char save file.
 
KKRT00 said:
Its not like they couldnt stream it in background when You enter town? Those all items land in Your local memory after all and they dont search db for stash when You are in dungeons.
They could make also non shared stash like they wanted at the beginning and store some items in char save file.
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On the front end side you would be correct - but on the back end there would still be a higher demand for processing capabilities.


I doubt this is a business decision as in they want to sell you that space later on for real money - I think it's about cutting costs on the back end side of things...
 
Who sends all these beta invites lately? I'm signed up for beta events but ye chances are small.
Is it that US players have a higher chance into getting an invite over EU players?
 
I logged into Bnet last week to get my WC3 serial and realized I was in the beta. They should really send out emails, I have no idea how long I have been in it for (haven't logged into bnet since the beta started and I signed up). Couldn't download until today because of bandwidth cap though.
 
This is depressing, every time I check, every time they offer me their crappy annual pass but no sign of beta!
NoooooooooOooo :(
 
Staab said:
This is depressing, every time I check, every time they offer me their crappy annual pass but no sign of beta!
NoooooooooOooo :(
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I know what you mean. At first I didn't mind much because I thought it was really close to release, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore.
 
coopolon said:
I logged into Bnet last week to get my WC3 serial and realized I was in the beta. They should really send out emails, I have no idea how long I have been in it for (haven't logged into bnet since the beta started and I signed up). Couldn't download until today because of bandwidth cap though.
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Same thing happened to me, it's been months since I've checked my account. I feel a little guilty!
 
I really hope you newly flagged guys enjoy it - hopefully I'll get lucky soon, but if not - going blind into the retail version has it's perks I suppose :)
 
I just got excited because my mind interpreted this thing
BEwC7.png
as "Hey you might be in the beta!" :(
 
After five months of religiously checking my battle.net account in the morning, I FINALLY Get in.

Oh man. I love working at home!
 
lordy88 said:
I'm Stonewater #1762 if anyone wants to do Co-op!
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Youngling#1523 right up there smashing the hell outta mobs.
Need to up my chars to lvl 13..after xx times.

Hell, I promise when the full game is out, I will just fly through beta part as fast as possible.
 
I was flagged a few weeks ago by the samaritan.

The beta hasn't been activated on my battle.net account yet though. Anyone else in the same boat? I'm in the EU if that might matter..
 
Fonds said:
I was flagged a few weeks ago by the samaritan.

The beta hasn't been activated on my battle.net account yet though. Anyone else in the same boat? I'm in the EU if that might matter..
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Me too.. Flagged 2 weeks ago and yet on
my profile no beta.. Anyone has the answer?
My heart is imploding because of this.
I NEED the beta. :(
 
Just checked, and got super excited that when I logged onto Battle.net it gave me a new ToS to agree upon. After that, I checked accounts and saw I'm in the D3 Beta!!! Thank you!
 
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