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StarCraft 2 Beta |OT| (Beta Now Reopen, GL HF)
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Dead Prince
Banned
oh. i'm from US.msv said:
blurredvision
Member
Just went to the Gamestop across the street from work and plunked down my $5 pre-order, and got the beta code printed on my receipt. Hopefully the beta will last for at least another couple of weeks and not end in 4 or 5 days. :lol
The guy working said they just got an email this morning informing employees about the promotion.
The guy working said they just got an email this morning informing employees about the promotion.
Bjern Fita
Member
I think there's bugger all chance of it being merely printed on a card.Ashhong said:
Blizzard knows that they will be flipped on eBay if people are given the chance. That's cash to sellers that Blizzard could be getting themselves. They also then control the price of the pet, rather than letting it go wild.
Could be proven wrong in the end, but I very much doubt it.
GregLombardi
Member
I can't believe someone hasn't made a thread about this. You can get a beta key with a few clicks of your mouse, more people need to know about this! 
GhostRidah
Member
Is there any option to deliver on the same day as release like amazon? I added gran turismo 3 for 2$ and with overnight shipping it costs 91$ sweet deal but I want to play on release day and not a day later.
CharlieDigital
Banned
DemiMatt said:
Does not compute, but I'll more than gladly take that key off your hands
GhostRidah
Member
made you feel special huh?DemiMatt said:I liked it better when it was a closed beta instead of (for the most part an open beta)
blurredvision
Member
GregLombardi said:I can't believe someone hasn't made a thread about this. You can get a beta key with a few clicks of your mouse, more people need to know about this!
Careful though, it says specifically that you can't cancel your pre-order once you have the key. I know pretty much anybody wanting in on the beta will buy the game, but some people might rather buy it locally then wait for it to ship through the mail.
blurredvision
Member
fanboi said:
You're possibly right. It shows on my receipt that the code expires on 05/31. Could just be a generic date, but since the code goes directly through Blizzard and doesn't touch Gamestop at all, maybe it means something.
GregLombardi
Member
Yeah, I was pretty much figuring that anyone who would do this was going to buy the game anyway.blurredvision said:
Minsc
Gold Member
DemiMatt said:I liked it better when it was a closed beta instead of (for the most part an open beta)
Since you're matched by skill, it shouldn't make any difference if there is 10,000 or 10,000,000 players though! Just as long as there are players to play against from a similar skill level, how would you even know the difference?
Besides, it's not like everyone is going to run out and pre-order at Gamestop, though I'm curious to see if the active player count goes up any more than a normal wave of beta invites, could be the first time it breaks 10,000 by a good margin.
MeshuggahMan
Member
I'M IN!!! Luckily I'm down the shore for the week and it's empty around here. I was shocked there's even a gamestop down here :lol
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
DemiMatt said:it did! day 1 banshee rush!
Fixed.
So let me get this straight; I should preorder offline because I won't be able to play day 1 at retail if i order it online (for the 3 days of shipping)? I assume the CD-key they will provide with the gamebox will be different than the key they give you for preordering?
also does the discount code only work online? D:
also does the discount code only work online? D:
Teknopathetic
Member
Sup. Tre.gaf
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
Teknopathetic said:
Hot damn we've got a mod, we're legit now!
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
I wonder how easy its gonna be to get into platinum now with larger numbers
Ice Monkey
Member
Procarbine said:
I never really said anything about delaying queen though. When you said you expanded before pool was done, the point there is that you havent even been able to begin producing a queen and she takes a good chunk of time. You also couldnt have started zerglings then either.
Early expanding is fine but the pool should be top priority precisely because it allows you your first possible defensive units. In your example, you will have spent at a bare minimum your first 500 minerals on a pool and a hatchery, and then that would have only been minimum if you had 6 gatherers, at which point youve spent the first 4 minutes or more only gathering with 6 then 5 then 4 workers. If you built them with bought drones then youll have spent 600 minerals and have had only 6 workers after building the two buildings gathering. If you even consider building an extractor you're down to 5.
So then let's say you built more workers and an overlord at 10. Well now you're up to 600 for the buildings and by ten workers that'll be an extra 200 minerals and the overlord is 100. At that point you'll either build more workers or save up money to wait for the pool to be done but regardless if you decide to gather at a ten worker rate and dont want to be supply blocked youll have spent a grand total of 900 (+75 if you have an extractor) before you have built any defensive units whatsoever if you built as you said, a hatchery before pool was done.
I'm getting way too involved with this but suffice it to say my point is that if you try to expand that quickly you are as vulnerable early game as any race could probably be. Compound that by the fact that zerg has to mix worker production with defensive production and you're even more vulnerable.
It's a moot point if you think you have successfully defended against early rushes building like that. So you killed some reaper rushes maybe? Well the guy probably wasnt controlling the reaper well. A good player will 95% of the time he's sniping your stuff with one reaper not even be touched because they can outrun non-speedlings and besides you have none then anyway. Sure a queen is good defense, but expanding before pool is done, the pool isnt done and by the time you even get a queen out he will likely have 3 or more reapers who can kill her anyway with enough micro, and by that time he's justified the reaper cost by sniping likely 2 or 3 drones per reaper or even almost destroyed your spawning pool and now it's GG.
Again let me state for the record this is only in my limited experience, have you seen any top players successfully defend against early rush an expansion that's taken before spawning pool is done? How did they accomplish this? Did the terran hilariously get his quick reaper raped by a zergling or two?