May I suggest you try running as administrator by right-clicking on the shortcut?

I find that upgrades for Starcraft only seemed to work when I did this.

fish_radio

182 Posts

July 31 2017 20:10 GMT

#147

Big faces without beta include:
Eonzerg, Trutacz, fish admins cough, Schamtoo, Day9, Bisu, Jaedong, Flash, Stork, Effort, Larva, Chulgu, Last, Shine, Shinee, TOP, SuperNova, ForGG, Bogus/Innovation, NaDa, ggaemo, Snow, Best, and more

Big faces with beta:
A guy with a beard, talking why SC2 > BW the entire time..

Wtfux

Northern Ireland163 Posts

July 31 2017 20:11 GMT

#148

Also, who the heck is JimRising and why does he have SC:R Beta? Quite jealous right now.

Garmer

1286 Posts

July 31 2017 20:13 GMT

#149

boxer vs yellow

Piratezerg

54 Posts

July 31 2017 20:17 GMT

#150

How can people be upset by this? The release date was August 14. The release date is still August 14. No one is in a worse position then before.

dr.shrinker

Norway369 Posts

July 31 2017 20:22 GMT

#151

Would just be fun to see some of the regular BW-streamers that's been playing this game when everyone else were occupied with SC2 and different stuff also get the chance early on. That being said I'm more than happy to watch Ret and other streamers play, and the game actually looks really good. Can't wait to try it out.

supernovamaniac

United States3047 Posts

July 31 2017 20:31 GMT

#152

On August 01 2017 02:59 The_Red_Viper wrote:
I really don't get why people are mad now. This is called "beta" but in the end it's just advertising.
The product will be out in 2 weeks for everyone. It's not like you could contribute a lot now anyway.
Would it be nice to play 2 weeks before release? Sure. But damn if that actually angers you i don't know what to say tbh.

Because since release of 1.18, plenty of players gave the game go and provided great feedback which allowed Blizzard to fix the game as much as possible. Even if remastered is running on 1.19 engine, there's bound to be bugs that need fixing.

I'm only slightly irritated because there were plenty of people who were playing the new 1.18 version over 1.16 to provide great feedback that not only fixed many of the initial issues that 1.18 PTR brought, but also provided amazing discussion overall on BW itself. IMO, these people should have been granted an access to ensure that they can provide the same quality feedback before the actual release of the game. 2 weeks or 2 days, if these people are given a chance to try and test things out, they can encounter bugs that may have slipped through QA, much faster than the SC2 personalities who may not even realize that things changed from 1.16 till now.

Cele

Germany4016 Posts

July 31 2017 20:33 GMT

#153

On August 01 2017 01:46 NonY wrote:

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Actually I agree a lot with this. This was one of the things that annoyed me when I was at my peak, or maybe a bit before my peak, since that courage result and TSL2 obviously got me a lot of instant praise. Anyway, there's quite a bit of lag on recognition in general. The best players from a few years ago (or in this case, almost a decade ago) are treated better than the current best. If I was in charge of invites, I'd definitely go out and find the current best top foreigners and get them all in. Getting in a few "foreigner legends" and some current popular SC2 personalities would be great as well, but you've gotta be most in touch with the guys who are currently the most passionate and invested.

And that's why i've always had a lot of respect for you. I always the impression that you are the kind of person to not rest on your laurels and who doesn't participate in stimulating the hype around your "persona" as a SC2 Pro / known celebrity.
I salute you on your attitude and wanna add, that i think many invitees probably think like you do. It's Blizzards (understandable) interest to invite people who bring a lot of viewers that led to this invite distribution. And I'm sceptical about it for the same points you address.

Adding to your observation, that there's some delay between peak and recognition i would like to add: from my pov, i sometimes think top player in 'post sc2 beta times' get a little less credit then they deserve. That's of course because Sc2 has a big audience that is informed about the best foreigners in Sc2 and there achievement's in Broodwar prior, but the audience for Broodwar itself between 2007 and today was very small by comparison. Our productions were smaller, with less budget, we did it without blizzard support and we had less viewers. That explains to me why there seems to be a slight lack of recognition. Then again it's not important, Beta is gonna be short and we still have 1.19 to play on in the meantime.

Cryoc

Germany912 Posts

July 31 2017 20:33 GMT

#154

On August 01 2017 04:06 Ancestral wrote:

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That's the point of a beta... to get feedback from people with knowledge about what the problems are.

Still leaves me in awe how people complain about not being able to play a half-finished game. Besides this, they already know about the gameplay problems for months, but they either don't care about it or are incompentent in that regard. The whole 1.18 patch was basically a beta for remastered. I am surprised Blizzard officially calls this pre-release a beta. But I doubt anything of substance will improve until mid August.

aFF]ZuluNAtion[

Poland173 Posts

July 31 2017 21:14 GMT

#155

So traitors who switched from BW to SC2 like Mana, ret, TLO have beta and they are just talking on streams like "SC2>bw", "lol bw so sux, units so stupid", "i will do not switch to this game, dont see future for it" seems like
very good advertisement - hahaha, so nice decision by Blizzard - rofl.

User was temp banned for this post.

Keniji

Netherlands2569 Posts

July 31 2017 21:19 GMT

#156

On August 01 2017 06:14 aFF]ZuluNAtion[ wrote:
So traitors who switched from BW to SC2 like Mana, ret, TLO have beta and they are just talking on streams like "SC2>bw", "lol bw so sux, units so stupid", "i will do not switch to this game, dont see future for it" seems like
very good advertisement - hahaha, so nice decision by Blizzard - rofl.

pretty sure ret would never say "sc2>bw".

It's not the sc2 streamers/players fault BW players didn't get invites.

dr.shrinker

Norway369 Posts

July 31 2017 21:20 GMT

#157

Haven't heard Ret speak badly of BW once when I watched him today, so that ain't entirely true.

friendlyscv

12 Posts

July 31 2017 21:35 GMT

#158

"traitors" ROFL

if you were a BW pro once you're never allowed to play any other games besides BW ever again I guess

Glueburn