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Starter Edition Available on Beta? (Play without Beta) [Fixed] 62 Comments

18 April 2012 - 12:28 PM Posted by Molster

Update: Servers are live (You must have a beta key to login now)
Update: They have extended the maintenance period, we will get an update at 7:00 PDT
Update: They have extended the maintenance period, we will get an update at 4:30 PDT
Update: They have extended the maintenance period, we will get an update at 3:00 PDT
Update: They have extended the maintenance period, we will get an update at 11:00 PDT

Starter Edition Available on Beta? (Fixed, you now need a beta key)
Many reports are coming in that people without beta are able to play! We can indeed report this this was true however battle.net is currently down. Check out this thread for more info. Some reports also say they could only play with other "Starter Edition" players. It looks like players without beta who logged in were greeted with the Starter Edition banner at the top right (thanks Sinke)

We will keep this updated as soon as the servers are back from maintenance and inform if this is still working! (However with the maintenance worded with "while we work to resolve an issue." There is a very good chance this was a bug.

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Beta is live! Please let us know if you experience any additional issues in this thread. :)

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I know you guys are dying for all information you can get on this. In the same Maintenance thread, Nethaera has posted.

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Just an accessibility error that we're correcting. ;)

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#1 Newpower

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 12:36 PM

might be a bug since d3 beta server just went down.

#2 Sinke

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 12:36 PM

This is a screenshot taken by my friend one hour ago. Notice the 'Starter Edition' in the top right corner.
He has no beta licence attached on his battlenet acc, and he's from Europe.

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#3 AlucardIX

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 12:36 PM

This is a funny turn of events...

#4 SinoftheworlD

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 12:40 PM

It was Different to the beta in that you couldn't access the auction house or the Hardcore mode. but it still showed the "congratulations! you've just beaten the beta" message. as for who else you got to play with I have no idea...

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#5 Corpsie

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 12:45 PM

I imagine this is the issue being resolved, although its probably their best bet at testing server stress for launch

#6 Hjelpen

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 12:46 PM

They probably just allowed the starter trial version like 4 weeks too early

#7 Jaelzadeon

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 12:51 PM

Hjelpen, on 18 April 2012 - 12:46 PM, said:

They probably just allowed the starter trial version like 4 weeks too early

Except that it was using the beta client and wouldn't actually be the same game/characters when the game goes live. Or else we would all be able to get to level 13 before the game was even launched, lol.

#8 Xhawk

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 12:55 PM

Figured something was up .. have been getting errors and unable to login all morning.

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#9 Nuggetz

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 12:58 PM

Who names their barb, "Filip"?

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#10 Doomscream

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 01:05 PM

Nuggetz, on 18 April 2012 - 12:58 PM, said:

Who names their barb, "Filip"?

lol

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#11 ansl

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 01:36 PM

Nuggetz, on 18 April 2012 - 12:58 PM, said:

Who names their barb, "Filip"?

2. lol'ed

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#12 HanSatan

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 01:38 PM

Guess they started "starter edition" aka trial b4 they added codes into full retail version ^^

#13 Drachar

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 01:45 PM

Some poor overworked lab rat at Blizzard punched in a few wrong keys i think.

#14 Sinke

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 02:03 PM

ansl, on 18 April 2012 - 01:36 PM, said:

Nuggetz, on 18 April 2012 - 12:58 PM, said:

Who names their barb, "Filip"?

2. lol'ed

The Barb Filip who plays the beta

#15 Cannonrock

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 02:14 PM

everyone make a barb named Filip @ release!

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#16 Godfax

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 02:20 PM

Cannonrock, on 18 April 2012 - 02:14 PM, said:

everyone make a barb named Filip @ release!

ROFL

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#17 eViL_TOX

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 02:39 PM

they updated it to 11:00 pst

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#18 matrix179

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 02:45 PM

Little glimpse of hope for people that aren't in the beta but that were at the good place at the good moment.

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#19 KrAzyKrAsz

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 02:52 PM

Nuggetz, on 18 April 2012 - 12:58 PM, said:

Who names their barb, "Filip"?

What.. You dont know the story about FIlip the Mighty Barbarian?

I think its short from FlipFlop

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#20 Bubalame

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Posted 18 April 2012 - 03:03 PM

yyyyyy O.o wtf? This blizzard blue post is not even logic they are talking about ETA ([url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA[/url]) and then about diablo wtf it have not any sense. I think somebody from blizzard was on drugs on something when write this...