Starcraft II Beta This Month!

By Magistrate Feb 10, 2010
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midgetlove spotted a confirmation of Starcraft II's beta starting this month, in addition to it's likely release this year with World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. Get ready for Battle.net 2.0 and the future of Blizzard games- 2010 looks like an exciting year for Blizzard fans!

Also, over at ShackNews it was shown that this will be availible for digital download via the new Battle.net account system.

See the original thread here, and a special thanks to midgetlove and milanv for bringing this information to the site!

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Zhar
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Posted Feb 10, 2010
..... AH MAH FACKING GAD!!!

Seriously, normal, un-molested English CANNOT contain the amount of excitement that was just felt.
... Holy fuck, SCII, finally.

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Posted Feb 10, 2010
Okay i'm going to ask a stupid question......(dont hurt meee)..... What is a betafor a game?

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Posted Feb 10, 2010
It's like... letting people play it for free in return for testing it and reporting glitches, imbalances, etc. before the game goes to store shelves.

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Posted Feb 10, 2010
Starcraft fans rejoice!

I know I won't.

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Posted Feb 10, 2010
So, who gets to test it?

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Posted Feb 10, 2010
Not sure. I believe people that already have beta keys- I think there were some given out to fansites last year- and then it might be random? Not sure. I'm not very knowledgeable in that area

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Posted Feb 10, 2010
Quote from "doink" »
So, who gets to test it?

you get to opt in, go to battle.net and make your battle.net account you can then click on sc2 beta settings and send them your system specs. Then you may be chosen to become a beta testa!

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Posted Feb 10, 2010
... Can we masquerade as a SCII fansite for a while to secure some beta keys?
I'm sure Blizzard won't realize it's really us.

... It'll be the cleverest of clever ruses.

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Posted Feb 10, 2010
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... Can we masquerade as a SCII fansite for a while to secure some beta keys?
I'm sure Blizzard won't realize it's really us.

... It'll be the cleverest of clever ruses.

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*goes to scratch out our URL with a sharpie*

you get to opt in, go to battle.net and make your battle.net account you can then click on sc2 beta settings and send them your system specs. Then you may be chosen to become a beta testa!

And there you have it

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Posted Feb 10, 2010
Lol, I love how you're like the only other person who appreciates that pic as much as I do :D.

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Posted Feb 10, 2010
The Beta starts with north America... for now.

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Posted Feb 10, 2010
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The Beta starts with north America... for now.

They did not say North America, they just said beta starts soo... don't assume its just us Americans that get to test!

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Posted Feb 10, 2010
you get to opt in, go to battle.net and make your battle.net account you can then click on sc2 beta settings and send them your system specs. Then you may be chosen to become a beta testa!

I really wish my computer could run something like starcraft II. But I'm not even going to bother trying to sign up for it because there is no way my computer is up for it.

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Posted Feb 10, 2010
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I really wish my computer could run something like starcraft II. But I'm not even going to bother trying to sign up for it because there is no way my computer is up for it.

what are your computer specs?

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Posted Feb 10, 2010
My spec are far from top-of-the line, its good technically but just a single core and nothing more.

I'm hoping this will get me picked. I'm sure they want to test it on all kind of system.

So, if you have a crappy system, don't hesitate.

This is great news by the way. Its been.. wow, a long time since I subscribed for the SC2 Beta and I'm still waiting, someday, for a god damn email saying I'm in

I'm still extremely skeptical about SC2. To be honest, I'm afraid that it will turn out trash... I REALLY don't want that to happen. And I hope I get in the beta and that it makes me feel better about it.

This post in short: About damn time!

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Quote from "SFJake" »
My spec are far from top-of-the line, its good technically but just a single core and nothing more.

I'm hoping this will get me picked. I'm sure they want to test it on all kind of system.

So, if you have a crappy system, don't hesitate.

This is great news by the way. Its been.. wow, a long time since I subscribed for the SC2 Beta and I'm still waiting, someday, for a god damn email saying I'm in

I'm still extremely skeptical about SC2. To be honest, I'm afraid that it will turn out trash... I REALLY don't want that to happen. And I hope I get in the beta and that it makes me feel better about it.

This post in short: About damn time!

the spec requirements for blizz games have always been low, no harm in sending your specs in. Like poster above said, they may be interested to see how it runs on a low-end PC!!!

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Posted Feb 10, 2010
I have a 2.8 ghz Pentium 4 processor, .5 gigabytes of ram and a Radeon 9250 graphics card. O well I will sign up anyways, it can't hurt.

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Posted Feb 10, 2010
i have

Operating system: Windows 2.6.1.7600 ()
CPU type: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8300 @ 2.40GHz
CPU Speed (GHz): 2.421
System memory (GB): 3.498
Graphics card model: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
Graphics card driver: nvd3dum.dll
Desktop resolution: 1920x1200
Hard disk size (GB): 285.505
Hard disk free space (GB): 151.227

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Posted Feb 10, 2010
Lol, Zhuge you've got like the exact same system as me.

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Posted Feb 10, 2010
um zhar.

isnt yours a desktop?

this is a effing lappy.

LOL

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