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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.
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Thanks Winged!
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Please no! *OFFTOPIC*
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Thanks for the answer!
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Hmm I guess that's what gives Diablo it's uniqueness, I'm just so used to WASD and Arrow keys and aiming with my mouse now-a-days is why I ask.
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Glad I can be part of such a amazing community. I am a huge fan of Diablo and cannot wait for Diablo III to come out.
I was watching a Diablo III boss battle video and was wondering is the movement in the game going to be with mouse like it was in Diablo I & II?
Thanks.
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I can't wait for Diablo III everytime something cool like this get's released I want it more & more!