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!
im playin right now. its not down
ive been playing non stop for hours.... lol
thank god i got in.
i mean ive already beat it with all chars. just mindlessly maxing them all now. having that realization that all the ppl saying "your not missing much, beta is boring" were right. lawl. i knew it was just a short demo but dang. soooo rdy for release
Have fun!
betas tend to stay open all the way up to the week before the release, if not closer, and if they do give the 2 months wanring like they said they want to do..thats lots of time
This is exactly right. Thanks for saying what I was thinking.
Well that explains why my sister's computer -- I can't use mine, "unsupported video card" -- was experiencing a load of lag last night. It almost feels as though we're going through a repeat of WoW at release...
good thing its NOT release and a stress test
they DID kinda start as a NA company, can you really blame them?
Unreasonable much?
This.
They are an American company, even when they were owned by Vivendi. I'm not that shocked. Why wouldn't a British company start their beta in Britain?
Yes, thank goodness.
And then the lag. BOOOO!
But seriously, how can anyone play in this? My game would pause for about 10 seconds everytime I shot and killed a zombie with my poison dart. I gave up before I even got in the New Tristram.
To those of you not getting the beta, I promise you you're not missing that much.