Starter Edition Available on Beta? (Play without Beta)

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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SinoftheworlD
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Posted Apr 18, 2012
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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Posted Apr 18, 2012
I imagine this is the issue being resolved, although its probably their best bet at testing server stress for launch

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Posted Apr 18, 2012
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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.

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Posted Apr 18, 2012
Figured something was up .. have been getting errors and unable to login all morning.

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Posted Apr 18, 2012
Who names their barb, "Filip"?

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Posted Apr 18, 2012
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everyone make a barb named Filip @ release!

ROFL

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Posted Apr 18, 2012
they updated it to 11:00 pst

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Posted Apr 18, 2012
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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Posted Apr 18, 2012
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yyyyyy O.o wtf? This blizzard blue post is not even logic they are talking about ETA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA) and then about diablo wtf it have not any sense. I think somebody from blizzard was on drugs on something when write this...

lol. here's what you're looking for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_time_of_arrival ^^

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Posted Apr 18, 2012
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no Starter edition on my account.

nothing was added to anyones account. You could simply just login

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Posted Apr 18, 2012
but seriously, who name's their Barb Filip?

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Posted Apr 18, 2012
anyone else feel that Blizzard is still withholding a LOT of information about the game they are releasing in less than a month. This starter edition being one example

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Posted Apr 18, 2012
rofl "click your way to 60"

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Posted Apr 18, 2012
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anyone else feel that Blizzard is still withholding a LOT of information about the game they are releasing in less than a month. This starter edition being one example

If Blizzard didn't withhold any info, you can bet Boubouille would be out of a job.

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Posted Apr 18, 2012
so i guess we won't know if this beta access gift we've been given is still gonna be active after maintenance yet huh? I hope Blizz leaves it open, there's gonna be a lot of angry ppl complaining otherwise... it's like giving a 2 year old a candy bar and then taking it away, there's gonna be LOTS of crying

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Posted Apr 18, 2012
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anyone else feel that Blizzard is still withholding a LOT of information about the game they are releasing in less than a month. This starter edition being one example

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

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Posted Apr 18, 2012
Waiting, waiting, waiting...... zzzzz

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Posted Apr 18, 2012
they might as well leave the damn thing open. were only making one toon and the damage to say the most has already been done....

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Posted Apr 18, 2012
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i am pretty worried about how blizzard support is gonna manage diablo 3 where i see mmo's that are gettin major content patches having 4x less maintenance time then this .....

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.

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Posted Apr 18, 2012
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anyone else feel that Blizzard is still withholding a LOT of information about the game they are releasing in less than a month. This starter edition being one example

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!

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