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.
I doubt this "Starter Edition" error/bug/accessibility has nothing to do with it though. When the shit hit the fan about this supposed "open beta" I looked in my account and didn't see anything about if I were flagged or not, so I tried to log in and got in anyway! But if I were to try to log in after the maintenance, well... there's a good chance I won't be able to if they fixed it
It seems you guys legitimately got the beta in that last huge wave. My friend still doesn't have one on his account.
Play Dota 2 first, You'll thank me later.
http://www.diablofans.com/blizz-tracker/topic/220996-diablo-iii-beta-down-for-maintenance/