Diablo 3 Beta [Beta withdrawal underway!]

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Fallout-NL said:
Yeah, it's the absolute latest I see them releasing it, but I'm not exactly ruling it out either.
June can't even be considered "early" in the year. First three months is early, anything after that isn't.
 
Does anyone know where I could get an invite to this shit? Who's knob do I have to polish to get in on this?

~Thanks In Advance~
 
Gvaz said:
Does anyone know where I could get an invite to this shit? Who's knob do I have to polish to get in on this?

~Thanks In Advance~

Diablo's...but that means going to hell to service him. They have internet connection but it keeps dropping out every 3 minutes or so. Plus you get pop-ups.
 
I'm okay with this. I hate the active internet connection but knowing blizzard nothing anyone will say will change this.
 
Hazaro said:
Probably NA only or something

No, I got the Diablo 3 "Coming Soon" thing and I'm in the UK. But I don't think it means anything, I think it's just targeted at people who have or had at one point in the past, a subscription to WoW.
 
Danj said:
No, I got the Diablo 3 "Coming Soon" thing and I'm in the UK. But I don't think it means anything, I think it's just targeted at people who have or had at one point in the past, a subscription to WoW.
Never had a subscription to WoW, ever. Had a trial once that I played for about an hour though. Which really has me wondering why I have that since I'm not eligible for that 1 year subscription thing.
 
KScorp said:
Never had a subscription to WoW, ever. Had a trial once that I played for about an hour though. Which really has me wondering why I have that since I'm not eligible for that 1 year subscription thing.

been playing wow for 3 years and im not eligible :/
 
Gvaz said:
How do you find if you're eligible?
There's a small FAQ which I see by going here. It lists having a subscription at some point before Oct 18 2011, being 18 or older, having a valid credit card, and living in certain areas (United States of America, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, or Singapore).

The coming soon thing has nothing to do with the Diablo 3 beta, which is random.
 
KScorp said:
There's a small FAQ which I see by going here. It lists having a subscription at some point before Oct 18 2011, being 18 or older, having a valid credit card, and living in certain areas (United States of America, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, or Singapore).

The coming soon thing has nothing to do with the Diablo 3 beta, which is random.
:(

I fulfill all those :(
 
Negator said:
I wouldn't expect an invite until they roll out the next patch for the beta.

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Belgorim said:
Sooo.... am I borderline insane at this point for still checking my account a few times every hour?

I check every day - pretty sad when I think about it. But I have Battlefield 3 sitting at home and MW3, Skyrim and Saints Row 3 coming soon. That will Keep me busy unitl the new year.

I just hope that this small/slow/pathetic beta isn't a sign that the game is far from finished. March 2012 or bust!
 
Belgorim said:
We can start some sort of schedule. I call dibs on when I'm awake!

Oh man, did you see they added one of those bot pass code things? now its more of a pain when I have to input my account/password!
 
TheKurgan said:
I check every day - pretty sad when I think about it. But I have Battlefield 3 sitting at home and MW3, Skyrim and Saints Row 3 coming soon. That will Keep me busy unitl the new year.

I just hope that this small/slow/pathetic beta isn't a sign that the game is far from finished. March 2012 or bust!


This confuses me. You say that you check every day, implying that you're so hyped for Diablo 3 that you can't wait to play the 3/4 hour beta. Yet you insult the nature of the beta which tells me you don't know anything about the game or how/why Blizzard is running the beta at all. Huge logical disconnect there.

If you do even rudimentary research you'd be able to discover that the purpose of this beta is primarily technical/network in nature, beta invites are handed out based population density/feedback needs and they are waiting for the next beta update for any major key distribution as any new feedback on the current build is likely redundant. From every report available the game is for the most part feature complete and only the rune system is yet to be locked down game systems wise; the RMAH seems to be what is holding up release of the game (And this is in the hands of third parties apparently).

More anecdotally if you watch one of the videos on diablo.incgamers.com with the lead systems and technical designers when they're asked 'Is there any one thing that's keeping a release date from being announced' while their verbal answers toe the blizzard party line, it's blatantly obvious from their expressions (These guys are clearly not PR people) that they know exactly what is holding it up.

Why are people so whiny and unable to do even basic research about games they are supposedly 'dying' to play? It's just a beta anyway; for my money there's more fun to be had with the official skill calculator!
 
ParityBit said:
Oh man, did you see they added one of those bot pass code things? now its more of a pain when I have to input my account/password!
I got one of those last week for a day or so. But since then I have not had to input any kind of words. Might be that I have slowed down a bit on the F5:ing so they don't think I'm a bot anymore :)
 
Squire Felix said:
200 lucky people, and Im not one of them.

I don't know if they actually get access though. They likely get flagged for access and will be waiting with the rest of us for Blizzard to let the next wave in.
 
I installed the original diablo and started playing a new rogue. It is as always awesome. The only thing that slightly annoys me is not being able to play in 4:3 on a widescreen monitor. I cannot get it to not be stretched. I want those black bars!
 
Belgorim said:
I installed the original diablo and started playing a new rogue. It is as always awesome. The only thing that slightly annoys me is not being able to play in 4:3 on a widescreen monitor. I cannot get it to not be stretched. I want those black bars!

D2MultiRes mod is your friend then.


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That... looks terrible. Sorry.
 
The amount of fake Blizzard spam I've been getting has increased like 10-fold in the last month. It's driving me nuts. Would be even worse if I was expecting to get into this beta and was actually tempted to click any of them.
 
Belgorim said:
I installed the original diablo and started playing a new rogue. It is as always awesome. The only thing that slightly annoys me is not being able to play in 4:3 on a widescreen monitor. I cannot get it to not be stretched. I want those black bars!

In your video card's control panel there should be an option for this. For NVIDIA cards it's under "Adjust desktop size and position" -- make sure the scaling is set to "Aspect ratio" and not "Full screen".
 
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