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    posted a message on D3 Beta bugs
    Blizzard have a good pool of in house testers that could play the other Act and find bugs there. Those testers were probably focus on finding issues that were particular to those act.

    The thing you got to see is that every Acts are based on the same mechanism, and issues found in Act 2, will be present in Act 1, and vice versa. So by making F&F and CB (soon) test part of Act 1, they have enough to see most of the mechanism being massively tested. The other untested stuff are most probably being tested in house.

    Also Blizzard Beta for Diablo 3 is not about finding mechanism bugs, their prime concern is the server load, see how people computers are responding to the game settings. Yes they are ""happy"" if they find bugs, but it's not their prime concern (they got a big in house team for that)

    Lastly : Betas are known in the industry not to be the best way to find bugs in the game. Betas are there to stress test the servers, test the patching systems, find issues with balance and the likes. Most bugs associated with the game, mechanism and other found during Betas were most of the time found with the in house testing. It was just not fixed in that build. The build with what you play (beta build) and build for in house testing might be different, for various of reason.


    What I said here is only reflecting what I saw in the industry (I have been a game tester for many years and I am now a game developer), and not all companies are the same.
    Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion
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    posted a message on Let the bets begin!
    Quote from Molsterr

    Yeah.. One of the theories someone else said makes some since. They may have tested the "level" testing for the rest of act I and the other acts, knowing that closed beta would find all the issues in the first part of Act I, and that makes some since I guess.

    Lets see 9:19am their time.. 14hours 41 mins till no beta this week =(

    Don't hold your breath sir ;) Maybe next week. Maybe. We should make a poll that gives all the days of the two next week, where people can vote when the CB will be.
    Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion
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    posted a message on Diablo III Box Art
    .... That looks like Deathwing from World of Warcraft. Wtf?
    http://images.wikia.com/wowwiki/images/c/c7/Deathwing_Cataclysm.jpg
    Posted in: General Discussion (non-Diablo)
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    posted a message on Diablo 3 FREE Sign Up + $250 GameStop gift card ^O^/
    Sounds like a big scam (link not legit)
    Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion
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    posted a message on Beta down for maintenance
    Quote from Deventh

    Now i am not saying it will start tomorrow, but i am sure that they won't start it tonight it makes sense to start it after the battle-net maintenance and not few hours before that.
    This is the obvious (and logic) way of thinking.

    However, what would be nice to know is if it will go out tomorrow! Tbh, I was expecting Monday. My next bet is Wednesday, after that I give up trying to guess it.




    Quote from Essylia

    Because it's
    Tuesday
    Tuesday
    Server goes down on Tuesdays
    Everybody's waiting for the maintenance, maintenance. Etc and stuff.


    Nothing here to see people, move on.
    After Tuesday it's Wednesday. I cannot wait for Wednesday. I do not know when Beta comes out. What do I do? Tomorrow is wednesday,
    Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion
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    posted a message on Failed thread :(
    We should add a search button to this forum so over excited people could search.
    Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion
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    posted a message on IRS will Tax Diablo 3 Players
    If Diablo 3 RMAH is calculated like Gambling yup Canada doesn't tax it. However the province of Quebec have tons of laws around Gambling (that's why that province is often not accepted in prizes and sweepstakes).

    So I wonder if we will get screwed up by that...
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    posted a message on 'Jailbreaking' D3
    Quote from Gheed2010

    A thought occurred - obviously, hundreds, if not thousands of hacker kids are going to be trying to engineer a way to play d3 offline, if not on private servers.

    Do you think they'll succeed? If so, when?

    SC2 was broken in less than 2 weeks after the beta with a mode where you could play against basic A.I.

    This time however, it seems a lot of the NPCs behaviors are on server side... I'm still confident however that some people will be able to make a D3 offline client with basic AI for monsters. About loot? I don't expect anything.
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    posted a message on Amazing Diablo 3 mod for WC3
    Wow... what a nice job. It's quite close to the gameplay videos we have seen. I am impressed!
    Posted in: Warcraft & WoW
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    posted a message on Diablo 3 Beta Active on NON F&F Account
    Quote from slamaskin

    can you provide image in .jpg

    i checked this png and it actually seems legit, but i want to be certain so can you post jpg image ?

    How can an extension change for a file prove if it's legit or not... oO
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    posted a message on D3 "crazy brainstorm" game
    RMAH.

    Oh wait (mostly joking btw).
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    posted a message on Blizzard, Could You Change The Appearance Of The Demon Hunter Resource Globe!?!
    You need more options in your poll sir.

    P.S. What I mean, is there are so many options described too long that I get confused. Some of them seems repetitive. But the point of your poll is worth while.
    Posted in: Demon Hunter: The Dreadlands
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    posted a message on will my beta character remain on release?
    Quote from Urbanleg

    thanks man!

    Your welcome :)
    Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion
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    posted a message on will my beta character remain on release?
    From the official Diablo 3 Beta F.A.Q. : http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/events/diablo3-announcement/index.html#beta:d3-faq

    Will the progress I make during the beta test carry over when the game launches?
    No, the purpose of the beta test is to ensure that the game and hardware infrastructure are ready to go as soon as possible. The main benefit of participating is being able to be among the first to play the game extensively prior to release. However, everyone will start on equal footing once the game is launched.
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