This was posted on Blizzard's forums and then deleted. Not sure if the mods here will care but it is a site that is being manually updated by beta players to keep a semi-accurate count. Interesting idea I thought.
You could argue it still gives us a relevant and accurate rate of increase. One can assume that for everyone 100 people added about the same number of those 100 will go to public games.
What I'm saying is that if the number of players in public games goes from 100 to 120 then it is safe to assume that the total population increased by approximately 20%, but that doesn't actually tell us anything about what that number is.
As I said on the official forums when this same site was posted there: the only reason one would want to track beta population numbers is so that you can whine at Blizzard about how few people they have let in. It's pointless. Blizzard will issue more beta keys when they are ready for more people on the servers, and not before.
I still do not agree with their policies on telling us when the F... we should be checking our Battle.net accounts.
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You should never have to check your email to find out if you are in the beta. You'll never see a "fake" D3 beta box on your account (though that would be one epic troll by Blizzard).
Guys I just posted this on the general forums but it is pretty relevant to this thread, because it seems like some people are really upset about this...
5. If everything is running incredibly smooth after steps 1-4, invite people from the general public to open the flood gates on stress testing and get focused gameplay feedback/bug reports
Things To Keep in Mind
1. There has not been a client patch in over a week.
2. The Auction House and Public Game systems are still buggy.
3. Blizzard does not want thousands of people reporting already-known issues in the feedback/bug report forums.
Look to more patches & more bug fixes as good indicators of invites being sent out. Sit tight until this happens.
As I said on the official forums when this same site was posted there: the only reason one would want to track beta population numbers is so that you can whine at Blizzard about how few people they have let in. It's pointless. Blizzard will issue more beta keys when they are ready for more people on the servers, and not before.
Yes the only reason to have this site is for everyone to whine about the status. Surely no one would like to simply see how many people are playing and how it increases? I'm not going to look and bitch. I want in just as much as the next guy but I've got better things to do with my time then cry about Blizzard's lack of invites to a beta I'm not guaranteed to get into anyways.
It was just bad timing to say "hey closed beta is out" when you just give away few keys and most of them to press. So YES i'll whine couse the customer is always right and if they want my money them nerds better put their back into it.
So if they don't hurry up with beta invites, you won't spend money on Blizzard products?
By all estimations, it's still basically F&F and Press beta right now. It's a logical impossibility that a true closed beta would have started and not one poster on here, ALL OF WHOM have opted in, would NOT have gotten a beta.
And yes i'll buy the game, but it's not gonna be becouse of the "great" service and customer support blizz has provided, but beacouse i waited over 10 year for it to come out.
So first you say they better speed up or no money. Now you say you're buying it because you waited so long?
While I'm just as frustrated as anyone else (both because I'm a bit spoiled, AND because Blizz PR is being annoyingly obtuse), I'm surprised no one is considering probably the biggest gating element to large scale, opt-in beta distribution: bugs.
It's extremely likely that Blizzard is finding and fixing system/scale level bugs found INTERNALLY at an amazingly rapid and panicked rate.. They may have found some pretty big issues with FnF, and in committing fixes, have introduced more issues. It could be that a netcode uplift/re-write was found to be necessary once the servers started to get loaded with real users...
I'm sure they want to turn this thing loose on the masses. To me, as a software engineer of 8 years, who's been through the panic of many "t-minus-to-beta" development stages, the most likely explanation for the delay is bugs.
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While I'm just as frustrated as anyone else (both because I'm a bit spoiled, AND because Blizz PR is being annoyingly obtuse), I'm surprised no one is considering probably the biggest gating element to large scale, opt-in beta distribution: bugs.
It's extremely likely that Blizzard is finding and fixing system/scale level bugs found INTERNALLY at an amazingly rapid and panicked rate.. They may have found some pretty big issues with FnF, and in committing fixes, have introduced more issues. It could be that a netcode uplift/re-write was found to be necessary once the servers started to get loaded with real users...
I'm sure they want to turn this thing loose on the masses. To me, as a software engineer of 8 years, who's been through the panic of many "t-minus-to-beta" development stages, the most likely explanation for the delay is bugs.
I agree. I read a blue response to public games not functioning properly and I bet that is a huge culprit of them not pushing it out to us yet.
This was posted on Blizzard's forums and then deleted. Not sure if the mods here will care but it is a site that is being manually updated by beta players to keep a semi-accurate count. Interesting idea I thought.
That's why I said semi-accurate. Maybe I should've said loosely accurate.
What I'm saying is that if the number of players in public games goes from 100 to 120 then it is safe to assume that the total population increased by approximately 20%, but that doesn't actually tell us anything about what that number is.
Second Blizzard stated that they plan on ramping up the amount of players when the servers are ready.
Still very useful info,
I know it's pointless to bitch about this, but I totally agree. What is the hold up?
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You should never have to check your email to find out if you are in the beta. You'll never see a "fake" D3 beta box on your account (though that would be one epic troll by Blizzard).
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3229034398?page=1#0
Yes the only reason to have this site is for everyone to whine about the status. Surely no one would like to simply see how many people are playing and how it increases? I'm not going to look and bitch. I want in just as much as the next guy but I've got better things to do with my time then cry about Blizzard's lack of invites to a beta I'm not guaranteed to get into anyways.
You sure can. It won't have any effect on when they send out more keys, and in the meantime you come across as annoying and ignorant.
So if they don't hurry up with beta invites, you won't spend money on Blizzard products?
GG Blizzard.
So first you say they better speed up or no money. Now you say you're buying it because you waited so long?
It's extremely likely that Blizzard is finding and fixing system/scale level bugs found INTERNALLY at an amazingly rapid and panicked rate.. They may have found some pretty big issues with FnF, and in committing fixes, have introduced more issues. It could be that a netcode uplift/re-write was found to be necessary once the servers started to get loaded with real users...
I'm sure they want to turn this thing loose on the masses. To me, as a software engineer of 8 years, who's been through the panic of many "t-minus-to-beta" development stages, the most likely explanation for the delay is bugs.
-Thomas Jefferson
I agree. I read a blue response to public games not functioning properly and I bet that is a huge culprit of them not pushing it out to us yet.
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EDIT : Wrong data, someone posting false information. Freaking stupid kids.
Looks like the kids are trolling the site now. I can't wait to play with those guys... /end sarcasm.
They should really not let people post directly on the site. Should make the post wait until it's confirmed.
Agreed. It should only be some people posting those informations. Some approved users.