I don't see why not. Giving last week to F/F should buy enough time to play. LoL Dominion coming out this Tuesday (I hope since they did a minor patch and introduced Riven, the exile) and if you're a minecraft player, supposively the 1.8 will be released too. I see why not release the first wave this Tuesday to have gamers like me experience the game and leave feedbacks on how it is or bugs of course. If these games are true to come out Tuesday then I hope the first wave of D3 Closed Beta is aside with them.
I think the way it will happen is that the first wave of closed beta will be small and therefore mostly fansites. But i definitely think 9/13 could be it and don't expect it to be any later than 2 weeks from now. Either way the game gets closer everyday and that is all I can focus on right now.
There is one very simple reason why i don't think it will start.
The Press/Fansite "Beta" didn't start yet
Usually it's Family and Friends, Press/Fansites and then the first closed beta invites.
Considering that they had to take the game offline today makes it even more unlikely since it's in there interest to have an overall strong performance for the Press and Fansites.
Except maybe they took it offline to make upgrades for closed beta. Kinda like they took the SC2 beta offline before releasing the game.
There's still too many server stability issues for them to be starting the closed beta. All they would get is a bunch of people complaining about DC's and lag on the feedback forums. I'm positive that once they get the server more stable and fix up the most apparent remaining bugs, they will start closed beta. That could be in 3 days, or a week, or two weeks.
Also guys, let's not create a topic daily about when the closed beta will start. Many were closed already and people still insist on making more duplicates =/
Except maybe they took it offline to make upgrades for closed beta. Kinda like they took the SC2 beta offline before releasing the game.
Possibly even the week after sometime. Don't get too confident, this is still Blizzard Entertainment.
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Beta will be the Wednesday after next.
September 21st is where I'm pegging it.
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I have an exam Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Here's to hoping it starts Wednesday afternoon!
Continue the discussion on this thread if you wish: http://www.diablofans.com/topic/27810-let-the-bets-begin/
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