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!
Was so excited that I ran in circles around my apartment! I hope that there will be more invites for those outside the US though; I know loads of people are dying to play this game.
no no no thats not how you do things, why would they want you to get bored and take back your order?
ZOMG I GOT INNNNNNNNN!!!!
Hopefully more Diablofans will get some invites.
uh... how? lol
I missed that =(
my sentiments exactly.
Edit: And now its back, weird!
This is the highest number in public games I've seen to date in the beta so far.
The total players in public games atm is: 714!
EDIT: Trying to make a public game and its taken over 2 mins so far lol.
i have the annual pass and just got a beta invite. lulz
the opt-in invites are 100% random. no matter what. has nothing to do with anything
And to all the EU people complaining, I'm from Africa, where goats and bucks are walking the street among us! JK, but we do have a bunch of hobos though...Just think of getting to play the game from start to finish the moment you buy it, without playing the beta 1million times...
Currently in the beta, players in public games is at: 1,123
Servers are laggy and i've desynced afew times but haven't had a complete freeze of the game yet.
1,123 public games at 4,492 players. This also does NOT include private games. The majority of all new beta players which just got invited will most likely be in private games at the moment trying out d3 for the first time on their own. I'm sure there are several thousand games going on right now which we cant tell.