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 Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
(Beta is live! Please let us know if you experience any additional issues in this thread.
Blue Post
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 Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
(Just an accessibility error that we're correcting.
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.
ROFL
lol. here's what you're looking for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_time_of_arrival ^^
nothing was added to anyones account. You could simply just login
If Blizzard didn't withhold any info, you can bet Boubouille would be out of a job.
pretty sure that info was datamined a long time ago...Blizzard would intentionally keep quiet about this because they want as many impulse sales as possible...most likely after a week or so they'll enable and announce the starter edition for the people who didn't buy because they were on the fence
hopefully they are just taking their sweet time because they have that luxury due to it being beta
they will get a ton of backlash if people suffer extended downtime when they go live because it would just add lots of fuel to the "NO LAN/offline" frustration.
Blizzard already said a while back that there will be some sort of "demo" that people can play for free when the game comes out. They said it will be very limited and probably be as long as the beta. I thought everyone knew this?
And does it matter if they don't tell us everything? Some surprises are nice!