Blizzard just announced that 100,000 Diablo III Beta Invites have been sent this week, and there's a lot more to come!
Official Blizzard Quote:
We recently invited 100,000 more North American players to the Diablo III beta, so we recommend that those who have opted-in check their Battle.net accounts to see if they were chosen.
Please be aware that with this large wave of invites we expect there could be an increase in the number of phishing attempts. Some unscrupulous individuals send out falsified emails purporting to be from Blizzard, but are in fact meant to steal your login credentials. For more information on how to identify these emails please refer to our Battle.net Security site. One easy way to ensure your invite is legit is to avoid clicking on links in any invite emails you receive, and instead log in to your Battle.net account and see if you have a Diablo III beta license attached. If there’s no license you can be sure the email you received was not from Blizzard.
If you didn’t receive an invite, never fear! We’re going to continue to give away beta invites, so be on the lookout for promotions, contests, and giveaways on our properties as well as at your favorite fansites. We’ll have more information about these global giveaways as well as regional betas in the coming weeks.
Congratulations to those of you who recently got into the beta! Please don’t forget to use the Beta Feedback and Beta Bug Report forums (and the Technical Support forum if you run into trouble running the game), and for those who haven’t gotten in yet, we wish you the best of luck!
Bashiok also pointed out that they will have information on regional beta invitations soon!
Good luck to anyone who didn't get in and is still waiting. Stay strong.
Doesn't matter what country you're from, forum posters will complain about anything =)
When I started playing my beta account last night (within an hour of getting the e-mail) there was about 600 of one quest and 200-300 of another quest.
So....almost 1k rooms were going at the high point I saw it (went down the rest of the night).
Yeah, the way it's restricted.....honestly I was almost bored of the beta before I got it from watching RHGaming D3 stream off and on.
I'm surprised anyone can play this beta consistently and not get bored
I'm going to save the bulk of my monster slaying stamina for when the game actually come sout methinks. Don't want to get burned out spamming the king a million times.
But this is exxactly what they want, to see how bad lag can get to X numbers on Y servers and see how everything still holds up. itll level out =)