But can anyone confirm that opt-in keys have already arrived? There have been rumors about the starting beta for the whole day, but no normal people seem to be invited at the moment.
As far as we know only a VERY limited number went out to the public, maybe 10, maybe 20.. Mostly press and fansites were let in. Now the rest of us are patiently waiting.
Kind of old news, unfortunately barley any went out to the public.
How do you know that ? Maybe they are not people who stalk the forums all the time and just want to play the game.
For every 10 people who get into the beta at least 1 will be either a forum goer, or will want to go post on official boards to brag. Remember there is a pretty long download time, someone is going to post. The law of numbers tells us a small number of 'normal' people got in.
Edit: If 1000 people got in we would absolutely know about it.
So, I'll cautiously provide a little insight in the hopes it doesn't make you sad.
09/20/2011 04:58 PMPosted by Senzlols
Are the invites done today?
This is something we aren't likely to answer during the beta test. Ever. I know everyone's aching for a piece of the Diablo III action, but the testing process won't be well served if the forums are flooded daily with questions about beta invite waves. There is no predetermined schedule for the rate at which players get invited to test the game.
The Blizzard folk who are monitoring the concurrency trend of people online and playing, as well as the stability of the game servers, will do waves of invites as needed. When I say "as needed," I mean when the servers are stable and we're comfortable with the room we have to get more people in the game. We won't do waves of invites if we feel our infrastructure at any given time can't handle an increased concurrency.
Beyond that, there's really only an extra morsel of information -- small though it may be -- I can provide as to when invites might go out. They'll go out, as I said before, when we're comfortable with increasing concurrent players online. And they'll typically go out during standard business hours (9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday - Friday, North American Pacific time).
For those who make it in, I really hope you enjoy it as much as I do. We look forward to hearing your feedback. For those who don't make it in quickly, stay tuned for more information on other giveaways and promotions. Just try not to drive yourself crazy waiting to get in. Ultimately, this is just a test of a very small portion of the game to prepare us for the official launch, when everyone can play the full game!
One last thing:
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Threads shouldn't be directed at Blizzard employees. We frown upon it. The forums should be a place where players can discuss topics with one another, and sometimes with Blizzard employees. We don't want forum threads created, directed at us, just to get our attention. It disrupts the flow of the forums. I know it seems ironic this thread got my attention and I've responded, but I'm only doing so in the hopes we don't see a repeat of this thread tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day, and...
Kind of old news, unfortunately barley any went out to the public.
How do you know that ? Maybe they are not people who stalk the forums all the time and just want to play the game.
For every 10 people who get into the beta at least 1 will be either a forum goer, or will want to go post on official boards to brag. Remember there is a pretty long download time, someone is going to post. The law of numbers tells us a small number of 'normal' people got in.
Edit: If 1000 people got in we would absolutely know about it.
To be fair all 10 of those people could not be part of that other 10% you mentioned. And then the next 2 people could be. 10 is too small of a data set. Even if 99.9% of people didn't forum post they could invite 1000 opt-ins and it's still possible none of them would post. Either way we have seen zero proof that any opt-ins are in the game so I'm sticking with exactly ZERO until we at least see proof of one.
https://twitter.com/#!/BlizzardCSEU_EN/status/116447879673036800
As far as we know only a VERY limited number went out to the public, maybe 10, maybe 20.. Mostly press and fansites were let in. Now the rest of us are patiently waiting.
For every 10 people who get into the beta at least 1 will be either a forum goer, or will want to go post on official boards to brag. Remember there is a pretty long download time, someone is going to post. The law of numbers tells us a small number of 'normal' people got in.
Edit: If 1000 people got in we would absolutely know about it.
To be fair all 10 of those people could not be part of that other 10% you mentioned. And then the next 2 people could be. 10 is too small of a data set. Even if 99.9% of people didn't forum post they could invite 1000 opt-ins and it's still possible none of them would post. Either way we have seen zero proof that any opt-ins are in the game so I'm sticking with exactly ZERO until we at least see proof of one.