To stop the people who are going crazy over speculation and rumours that people are in the beta... there are three things to watch for.
#1 You know as well as I do that if you were the first person in the beta, you'd go to that beta feedback forum and go ZOMG! The client is awesome! THe loader rules! OMG AMAZING
So if nobody has posted in that beta feedback forum, any claim of getting into the beta is bs.
#2 Within 24 hours of the first invite going out, Bashiok will go to the forum an d make the 'INVITES ARE OUT ZOMG EVERYONE CHECK YOUR BNET ACCOUNT'
#3 Let's face it... press invites are about 95% of the time during wave one. You know as well as I do that Sixen and Force won't keep it silent. We'll know within minutes of them getting that activation
So quit falling for those idiots making photoshopped screenshots and saying they're in... it's just getting a little silly
Typically if it is an F&F beta it won't be under NDA - a friend of mine is close friends with someone at Blizzard(I know this to be true because she actually got me an employee-friend ticket to Blizzcon(which is really just a regular ticket but it says 'guest on it') so I ain't just talkin' out my ass here ;)) has been in several of the f&f stages for various games and usually if it has an NDA they'll call it an alpha stage because it's mostly inhouse and under nda. Once the game hits any form of beta, they tend to lift the NDA.
There's a complication. While F&F beta isn't under NDA, Press and Fansites aren't getting invites for it. Which very much makes you ask "ok, now that I'm in can I report everything?" At least that's the current situation. But we can at least be sure the F&F beta hasn't started yet.
Anyway, we don't have any guarantee that anyone from the team staff will be in the F&F beta. But we'll definitely get a confirmation both from Sixen and official NA/EU blues when it starts. Which is likely to happen next week (that last sentence is speculation on my part, don't take it too serious).
Deventh, previously they've done f&f alphas which were under nda. If they're planning to do an F&F beta stage, that's a completely different thing and would make sense for them to announce it.
#1 You know as well as I do that if you were the first person in the beta, you'd go to that beta feedback forum and go ZOMG! The client is awesome! THe loader rules! OMG AMAZING
So if nobody has posted in that beta feedback forum, any claim of getting into the beta is bs.
#2 Within 24 hours of the first invite going out, Bashiok will go to the forum an d make the 'INVITES ARE OUT ZOMG EVERYONE CHECK YOUR BNET ACCOUNT'
#3 Let's face it... press invites are about 95% of the time during wave one. You know as well as I do that Sixen and Force won't keep it silent. We'll know within minutes of them getting that activation
So quit falling for those idiots making photoshopped screenshots and saying they're in... it's just getting a little silly
EDIT: Clarifying, the betas opened to the general public. Not a in-house FF beta/etc.
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