PC BanG leaked that the Beta of SC2 will restart the 27 of June exclusively on their Cyber cafés while it will restart for everyone else on the 1st of July. The news comes from PC BanG employees.
It doesn't seem weird since PC BanG are one of the partners Blizzard announced during their press conference of the 24th of June.
Team aAa confirmation on this thread (page 6):
Being from team aAa's shoutcast staff and having a colleague who lives in Korea who confirmed this on top of everything, I can pretty much assure you guys that the news is legit. Our website has a reputation amongst french esports fans which obliges us to be as accurate as possible whenever we post anything in our news, getting multiple confirmations to ensure quality of information and professionalism behind every post.
On June 26 2010 03:40 Sparkyrabbit wrote: This is better news then when i found out I was straight..
lol.
So with 10 new and conflicting rumors coming out a day, how can we be sure this one is real? Wasn't there the Korean news conference that said June 28?
On June 26 2010 03:47 Ichabod wrote: Seems odd; would this only apply for europe then? asia and US servers are up in the air?
It would only apply to Korea, the article states that the company "PCBang" is Korean.
Also with my weak French I think the first sentence says Blizz announced this on their official forums, anyone willing to dig up the post? I read it slightly wrong.
PC Bang is a chain of cyber cafés that is the place where all people who play starcraft regroup and stuff, it's a well known cyber café chain in korea and it's blizzard partner.
Translation of the first paragraph: ''Not long ago, blizzard announced on their forums that the beta will restart early july without giving a precise date or any details concerning the beta reopening. Today, we got the information that the beta will restart the 1st of july for us and the 27 of june for our korean friends exclusively in the PC bang cyber cafés chain.''
So no they didn't say that blizzard announced this on their forums
Google translate actually works on that page pretty well.
Some time ago, Blizzard announced on its official forums that the beta would resume in early July without giving any further detail on the alleged date. Today we learned that the beta would resume July 1 for us and the June 27 exclusively for our Korean friends in their cafes appointed PCBANG.
On June 26 2010 03:47 Ichabod wrote: Seems odd; would this only apply for europe then? asia and US servers are up in the air?
It would only apply to Korea, the article states that the company "PCBang" is Korean.
Also with my weak French I think the first sentence says Blizz announced this on their official forums, anyone willing to dig up the post? I read it slightly wrong.
It doesnt say that they announced this on their official website but that they said it would come early july.
Article says 1st july for all and 27th june for that cafe in korea.