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No need to announce beta loudly because most of the people won't be getting in it'll be a waste of time on Blizzards part.
1000 beta keys being sent out @ last years blizzcon which is 1000 loyal Blizzard followers, that's alot of testers already.
1000 testers is absolutely nothing if you're looking at an infrastructure that more than likely needs to be able to support at least 1-2 million customers. We can safely assume based on Blizzards track record that the game will hit 1 million copies sold - so even if only 10% of the people who own the game are online at any given time (a reasonable number based on mmo statistics) you end up with a constant minimum server load of a 100.000 people. So let's say betatesters are a more zealous bunch and 50% of them are online at any given time - those 1000 keys would come up to about .5% of the minimum expected server load. Even if as a stress test Blizzard wants to reach 10% of this minimum server load assumption they will need at least 20x as many players - and keep in mind that these numbers are very conservative - imo the beta won't be a small scale thing either.
1000 people is more than you'll see in your daily life, think about it.
is definitely my first class choice because of the playstyle.
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Thanks lol.
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Anyone else feel the same way about having a crappy computer & worried about not being able to play because of that?
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Competitive gaming is a big part of players in any game. Most players will eventually want to try it out and will probably get involved with it depending on if they like to learn from their deaths and keep trying, which is what leads to them wanting to play competitively.
Why do you think FPS games are so huge? Because online it's non-stop killing the other player. People love to PvP it's in our blood.
I don't see how Blizzard isn't understanding this. It will be a huge part of a ARPG game, especially at the end- game.
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1000 people is more than you'll see in your daily life, think about it.
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No need to announce beta loudly because most of the people won't be getting in it'll be a waste of time on Blizzards part.
1000 beta keys being sent out @ last years blizzcon which is 1000 loyal Blizzard followers, that's alot of testers already.
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The beta isn't a major thing.
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Get over it.
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If that's how he feels then he's just going to have to cry for a little bit.
@Diisfunk: Really? I had no idea there was multiplayer. Hmm I thought battlenet was made for me to create a account to play with offline.
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That's a good way to think about it.
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Get over it. I don't see why you care if someone gets better gear than you as soon as he joins compared to your 6 months of farming. It sounds to me like you didn't enjoy your 6 months of farming so you dislike the guy who bought your exact items as soon as he joins.
Your hatred will pass or just don't play a game you won't enjoy playing.
All in All: Don't worry about someone else, worry about you.
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Your looking at it at a bad POV, you can make money from a game you love to play and will play for a while so why not get money out of it if you can?
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Ahh I see so why not just give an e-balance instead of real world money? It'd be easier for Blizzard to send it to your account than to send it to your paypal or send as a check.
I mean if the e-balance is smooth and I can either use it as real life money and as cash towards the game that would be perfect.