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.
On June 26 2010 03:55 sc.Kryos wrote: yeah...but if it's the 28th in Korea isn't it the 27th here?
This is correct, which leads me to the question if this article is just based on the old rumors which said 28th. They don't seem to cite any sources either and a random french esports site reporting about anything significant before TLnet visitors knowing about it is rather rare.
Apparently some PC bangs in korea already put up some advertisement about the re openning of the beta exclusively on their cyber cafés at the 27 for us and 28 for them. So it's easy to confirm from some TL user that lives in korea.
That's what it is said on the French forums, they also said that they will try to get a picture of the PC bang advertisement to back up their news soon.
And it's not some random esport website, it's one of the Main esport HUB's in france and their teams are pretty well known.
On June 26 2010 03:59 Accer wrote: This is great news! I wonder what, if any, changes have been made since the close of the last phase?
Don't expect any. Most likely they just transferred to the new retail server locations and ran tests on them to make sure they are operating correctly.
Quant à nous, il faudra nous contenter que d'environ deux semaines de jeu puisqu'il a été signalé sur les forums officiels que la bêta fermerait définitivement deux semaines avant la sortie du jeu.
I can read french. And THAT part is no good for us
It says we (non-korean) will only have 2 weeks of phase 2 beta left b4 closing again. Yes you read it right: the beta will be close 2 weeks b4 the release
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet I hope it's not a hoax though. That's a bit earlier than what they officially announced at the closure : they said beta was going to restart a couple weeks before the release.
Quant à nous, il faudra nous contenter que d'environ deux semaines de jeu puisqu'il a été signalé sur les forums officiels que la bêta fermerait définitivement deux semaines avant la sortie du jeu.
I can read french. And THAT part is no good for us
It says we (non-korean) will only have 2 weeks of phase 2 beta left b4 closing again. Yes you read it right: the beta will be close 2 weeks b4 the release
It just says what blizzard already told us, the phase 2 will last around 2 weeks. If the beta last 2 weeks, you'll have like a week and a half of down time, so it's no big deal, everyone knew that the beta was going to last for 2 weeks. And it's for everybody, not only non-Koreans.
I can't wait. Also I would like to see if any of the changes they did to bnet 2.0 have taken affect already.
Quant à nous, il faudra nous contenter que d'environ deux semaines de jeu puisqu'il a été signalé sur les forums officiels que la bêta fermerait définitivement deux semaines avant la sortie du jeu.
I can read french. And THAT part is no good for us
It says we (non-korean) will only have 2 weeks of phase 2 beta left b4 closing again. Yes you read it right: the beta will be close 2 weeks b4 the release
Nop it just says what blizzard already told us, the phase 2 will last around 2 weeks.
On June 26 2010 04:11 ChApFoU wrote: That's a bit earlier than what they officially announced at the closure : they said beta was going to restart a couple weeks before the release.
Didn't they say they were gonna close the beta again just before the game releases. That would make sense to be a week. If so then this shouldnt be earlier than expected as this is a couple (2) weeks before the second closure.
The poster also said in the comments that he got the info from 'a korean player'. This guy'd better be right otherwise France will be hated by billions of angry nerds.
This is wonderful news indeed! I wonder if there will be any changes to battle net as it comes up. I know they said there wasn't going to be major sweeping changes for phase 2, but eh.
How am I going to wait 7 more days.. I am going crazy -July 1x 2 weeks = July 14 it's down (on Wednesday(?) -Release date 27 = 15 days more of no Sc2 time...
Edit: Time to re-learn Sc:Bw for the time being.........
On June 26 2010 04:46 NuKedUFirst wrote: How am I going to wait 7 more days.. I am going crazy -July 1x 2 weeks = July 14 it's down (on Wednesday(?) -Release date 27 = 15 days more of no Sc2 time...
Edit: Time to re-learn Sc:Bw for the time being.........
It's funny...I decided to go through the SC1 campaign's and just last night decided to run Yabot to see SC2 again...wow...playing SC1 made me absolutely retarded at SC2, haha. I'll be sticking with Yabot until beta/release from now on.
Sweet news, though the past few weeks without SC2 have been surprisingly good for me. I got out of the house more, started working out at the gym, playing my huge backlog of other games I had, alot less tense overall then when I played SC2 all day.
Skeptical at no source but I think the main issue, if this is true, is why do the pcbangs get it earlier then everyone else? That is totally stupid and makes me doubt the credibility of the article even more
So the 1st through to the 14th or the 15th eh? Ending the middle of the week? They should just extend it through to that weekend and end it Sunday night, the 18th.
On June 26 2010 05:31 kNyTTyM wrote: Skeptical at no source but I think the main issue, if this is true, is why do the pcbangs get it earlier then everyone else? That is totally stupid and makes me doubt the credibility of the article even more
Cyber cafés in Korea is a huge business, everyone plays on cyber cafés and you find them everywhere, you can't walk 100 meters without a cyber café or a shop with gaming computers and stuff. And as for PC Bangs, they are the trade mark of Starcraft in korea, the main game played there is starcraft and it's THE place to play starcraft. They are also one of blizzard Korean partners, so if blizzard want's starcraft 2 to be as big as starcraft 1, they need people in the cyber cafés to be playing Starcraft 2, so giving exclusive stuff to promote sc2 and to make the PC bangs attract more costumers is a way of achieving their objectives.
Good thing the beta is coming back soon I really can't wait not only to get back to playing some awesome ladder matches, but also to have all these amazing tournaments and show-matches start up for beta phase 2.
On June 26 2010 05:31 kNyTTyM wrote: Skeptical at no source but I think the main issue, if this is true, is why do the pcbangs get it earlier then everyone else? That is totally stupid and makes me doubt the credibility of the article even more
Cyber cafés in Korea is a huge business, everyone plays on cyber cafés and you find them everywhere, you can't walk 100 meters without a cyber café or a shop with gaming computers and stuff. And as for PC Bangs, they are the trade mark of Starcraft in korea, the main game played there is starcraft and it's THE place to play starcraft. They are also one of blizzard Korean partners, so if blizzard want's starcraft 2 to be as big as starcraft 1, they need people in the cyber cafés to be playing Starcraft 2, so giving exclusive stuff to promote sc2 and to make the PC bangs attract more costumers is a way of achieving their objectives.
I realize that but I still see no reason to start up Beta in ONLY pc cafes 4 days before everyone else.
lmao @ all the posts in this thread and all the people who have been complaining about SC2 being such a terrible game and unfinished because of all the bnet issues.
I realize that but I still see no reason to start up Beta in ONLY pc cafes 4 days before everyone else.
Well if you realize that, then that's you'r reason. It's just marketing and business. Let's say you have a product that everyone is dying to get/try/play, then if you are the only one that offer the product 3 days prior to anyone else, you will get huge amount of customers because you are the only one offering the product.
PC bang being blizzard partner, the fact that they get access to the beta 3 days before everyone means that during those 3 days, every single Korean sc2 fan will be playing at their places, so huge benefit.
I don't know how you can't get this. And to the Why ? well simply because they are blizzard partners therefor they must have some kind of agreement leading to this, blizzard must be profiting from this as much as PC Bang.
It's just the law of the market and how to make money for PC bang while promoting the game for Blizzard and probably leading to more events/agreement for the future between those 2.
On June 26 2010 03:55 Wr3k wrote: Not sure I can handle 5 more days.
I have this plan that involves Freezing myself so that the 5 days seem instant...All i have to do is empty my freezer and try to get my ass folded up in there and a REALLY GOOD friend that will unfreeze you and not forget you are in there 0.o
hey guys, if i'm repeating this news, please forgive me.
i was on youtube the other day checking out the well known HDstarcraft's (or might have been huskystarcraft) channel and he mentioned something about a match among 4 professional players(TLO included) that's going to happen this coming sunday, which is the 27th. so the rumor about the beta coming back may be true.
On June 26 2010 08:03 kitchendaily wrote: hey guys, if i'm repeating this news, please forgive me.
i was on youtube the other day checking out the well known HDstarcraft's (or might have been huskystarcraft) channel and he mentioned something about a match among 4 professional players(TLO included) that's going to happen this coming sunday, which is the 27th. so the rumor about the beta coming back may be true.
i think blizz will give us a week notice (or more) to get everyone amped and excited and to create a near pre launch scenario where thousands are logging on at the same time. so im a little skeptical of this article because this is just kind of springing it on us, and would be like oh yeah the server has been up since yesterday you didn't notice? just doesn't make much sense..
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.
Most professional websites are translated very well with google chrome's translator
On June 26 2010 08:09 KillerPlague wrote: i think blizz will give us a week notice (or more) to get everyone amped and excited and to create a near pre launch scenario where thousands are logging on at the same time. so im a little skeptical of this article because this is just kind of springing it on us, and would be like oh yeah the server has been up since yesterday you didn't notice? just doesn't make much sense..
I doubt it I don't think they did when the beta was first announced did they? All they said was "will launch this month (february)". Then it was released 1 random day
I'd rather wait for long rather than speed up beta to be back in July 1st even though I really addicted already. Because I want blizz to fix the issues that they had previously, still awesome if they managed to fix the issues and at the same time launch phase 2 at exact date.
I realize that but I still see no reason to start up Beta in ONLY pc cafes 4 days before everyone else.
Well if you realize that, then that's you'r reason. It's just marketing and business. Let's say you have a product that everyone is dying to get/try/play, then if you are the only one that offer the product 3 days prior to anyone else, you will get huge amount of customers because you are the only one offering the product.
PC bang being blizzard partner, the fact that they get access to the beta 3 days before everyone means that during those 3 days, every single Korean sc2 fan will be playing at their places, so huge benefit.
I don't know how you can't get this. And to the Why ? well simply because they are blizzard partners therefor they must have some kind of agreement leading to this, blizzard must be profiting from this as much as PC Bang.
It's just the law of the market and how to make money for PC bang while promoting the game for Blizzard and probably leading to more events/agreement for the future between those 2.
Ok so I think you misunderstood. I am asking why not release it internationally on the same day not why only in PC bangs in korea. I don't really care if the Korean beta can only be played in PC bangs since they are soo easily accessible to everyone. If they want to generate some money that way then fine. I however don't think it is fair to have only korean beta online for those few days. Relaunching US and EU beta should have little affect on the Korean advertising plans.
Well that won't be an exclusivity if everyone have it at the same time. Exclusivity means before anybody else. It's not about fairness it's just how it works.
If i get you right, you want to have the us/eu beta at the same time as PC bang, while Koreans get it 3 days later, that create more unfairness that the present situation imo.
I don't find it's unfair anyway, you can play the game in the cyber café 3 days before anybody else, or you can play it at home same time as everybody else. We don't have this kind of situation in EU or US because cyber cafés and lan centers aren't part of the culture mostly because everybody can afford good internet or computer, so since it's particular to the korean market, it's just how it is, 3 days earlier or later isn't that big of a deal since it's been already several weeks of waiting.
On June 26 2010 12:18 duck.fit wrote: hrmmm getting surgery on the 2nd of july, 2 weeks off of work with a large bottle of pain killers and starcraft 2 beta = blessing in disguise.
How many 1000's of games you think you're going to play?
I had surgery yesterday (and am doped up to the eyeballs), was sad that beta isnt starting on the 26/27th as has been previously rumored ;(
This isn't true man... some random PCBang is going to get rights to release beta earlier than the rest of the world? At least it doesn't sound logical to me... but then again I'm wrong a lot..
On June 26 2010 12:51 Darpinion wrote: This isn't true man... some random PCBang is going to get rights to release beta earlier than the rest of the world? At least it doesn't sound logical to me... but then again I'm wrong a lot..
1 : PCbang is huge in Korea and a business partner of Blizzard, it's not just some random cyber cafe 2 : It's only a beta, it's not like they're releasing the full game in advance and giving PCbang the exclusivity.
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.
Hells yeah beta is coming back this coming week :D
On June 26 2010 12:51 Darpinion wrote: This isn't true man... some random PCBang is going to get rights to release beta earlier than the rest of the world? At least it doesn't sound logical to me... but then again I'm wrong a lot..
1 : PCbang is huge in Korea and a business partner of Blizzard, it's not just some random cyber cafe 2 : It's only a beta, it's not like they're releasing the full game in advance and giving PCbang the exclusivity.
I guess this is where me and the OP differ. To me it feels like they are releasing the full game 3 days early in PCbang because they have a partnership of some sort.
I guess we'll see if the rumors are true tomorrow.
wow if this is true it's a lot earlier than i expected. awesomeness, i'm pretty excited for this beta to come back, and even more for the release. oh campaign goodness.,
Ah, I'm in Seoul... wonder if I can play in a PC bang without a korean b.net account? Probably not... And you need a korean social security number to make a korean bnet account.
awesome for me, I have my college orientation june 29th & 30th, so that will keep my mind completely off SC2, and when I come home, it will prety much be back! :D
On June 26 2010 12:51 Darpinion wrote: This isn't true man... some random PCBang is going to get rights to release beta earlier than the rest of the world? At least it doesn't sound logical to me... but then again I'm wrong a lot..
1 : PCbang is huge in Korea and a business partner of Blizzard, it's not just some random cyber cafe 2 : It's only a beta, it's not like they're releasing the full game in advance and giving PCbang the exclusivity.
I guess this is where me and the OP differ. To me it feels like they are releasing the full game 3 days early in PCbang because they have a partnership of some sort.
I guess we'll see if the rumors are true tomorrow.
They do.
PCBanG is one of their marketing partners as announced by Blizzard, I believe. So you guys don't differ in opinion too much. You're both right. PCBanG is huge, and they also have a partnership.
On June 26 2010 17:04 vT.sOel wrote: awesome for me, I have my college orientation june 29th & 30th, so that will keep my mind completely off SC2, and when I come home, it will prety much be back! :D
I quit WoW and never missed it once I went to college. You're going to be pretty distracted from SC2. ^^
On June 26 2010 17:04 vT.sOel wrote: awesome for me, I have my college orientation june 29th & 30th, so that will keep my mind completely off SC2, and when I come home, it will prety much be back! :D
I quit WoW and never missed it once I went to college. You're going to be pretty distracted from SC2. ^^
aha yes Ive heard that alot. I don't plan on playing a whole bunch in college, I;m a pretty social guy haha. maybe a few hours a week? maybe none.. maybe more, who knows
either way I have 2 months of summer left, which is lots of time to game ! :D
On June 26 2010 17:04 vT.sOel wrote: awesome for me, I have my college orientation june 29th & 30th, so that will keep my mind completely off SC2, and when I come home, it will prety much be back! :D
I quit WoW and never missed it once I went to college. You're going to be pretty distracted from SC2. ^^
Haha, just be careful it doesn't happen the other way around
On June 26 2010 18:51 XazXio wrote: uh way to kill iccup ladder irony how many people say sc1 better than sc2 but when sc2 back up everyone like ohh best thing since sliced bread!
whether people say sc1 is better or not seems irrelevant. when it comes time to shine, they're going to choose sc2 over broodwar. it's new, exciting, there are tons of players to play against, and the best part is... everyone is still bad at it!
On June 26 2010 18:51 XazXio wrote: uh way to kill iccup ladder irony how many people say sc1 better than sc2 but when sc2 back up everyone like ohh best thing since sliced bread!
whether people say sc1 is better or not seems irrelevant. when it comes time to shine, they're going to choose sc2 over broodwar. it's new, exciting, there are tons of players to play against, and the best part is... everyone is still bad at it!
apart from that, the ones who say sc1 is soooo much better than sc2 are just fanboys who don't realize that sc2 still has 2 awesome expansions and a shitload of contentpatching ahead of it ~~ sc2 will be > sc1 after the 2 expansions come out, 100% sure of that.
I was expecting this much, but it's great to have confimation. Bring the beta back just before July 4th weekend, have it be hard-tested by as many people as possible. Wonder how much more change will be done from now till release?
I am very interested to see what patch changes have been made during the downtime. I don't expect it to be major changes, but I bet there will be quite a few little racial tweaks to contemplate.
cause it's a thursday. why that day in specific? it makes no sense. getting the servers up 1 day before weekend in case something goes wrong is stupid, also , normal maintenance days are tuesdays (or wednesdays in case of the european WOW servers).
by the way part of this process is probably linking the wow and sc2 battle.net together. the new friend system is introduced inw ow there as well.
Sounds strange because it's so close to the weekend... and we all know how releasing stuff so close to the weekend, a holiday weekend in fact, can be problematic for blizz.
My guess would be July 6th, a Tuesday coincidentally enough!
On June 26 2010 04:46 jamesr12 wrote: I still think this is a hoax, "some korean guy told be beta starts the 27th" : now that is a quality souce if I have ever seen one
Good thing "Some Korean Guy" didn't Say there was a god. otherwise millions of people would start believing it...But yes it is True...if "Some Korean Guy" said beta will be up on june 27th and July 1st, then it is true..."Some Korean Guy" is never wrong, it doesnt Matter what korean guy, as long as it was "some korean guy"
On June 26 2010 19:33 Beyonder wrote: I'm really happy with this. Just after my bachelor thesis too! Thanks :D
you have to do a bachelor thesis?!
what field?
Psychology It's not that big of a deal. Some people hold an experiment, others just cover literature.
Ohhhhh, now that you mention it, I remember a dorm-mate of mine having to do some kind of experiment or something at the end of his. I guess he was the only psych major I knew.
I had just never heard of a bachelor thesis before. Writing papers is the worst!
Hopefully this isn't a rumor. From a development point of view July 1st makes a lot of sense for Blizzard, they can run it for roughly 20 days, and then have a week after that before launch.
Edit: They do it on Thursday/Friday because they know a lot of players don't play during the week, to get as accurate a stress test as possible it makes sense to do it on these days as for many people this is the end of their work week (some people work weekends and take Friday off). So having tests of this nature on such days usually means more players will be playing.
On June 27 2010 02:37 SichuanPanda wrote: Hopefully this isn't a rumor. From a development point of view July 1st makes a lot of sense for Blizzard, they can run it for roughly 20 days, and then have a week after that before launch.
Edit: They do it on Thursday/Friday because they know a lot of players don't play during the week, to get as accurate a stress test as possible it makes sense to do it on these days as for many people this is the end of their work week (some people work weekends and take Friday off). So having tests of this nature on such days usually means more players will be playing.
Or do it the 28th and have more time to test and more room to fix major problems the first week.
On June 27 2010 02:42 Jenslyn87 wrote: Do you guys know if the beta will run up until right before the game is released, or if there will be, say, a week without any possibility for gaming?
The beta will stop 2 weeks before release. Or something like that.
I must say that I don't think it's as much about when is the most optimal time to start the 2nd phase of the beta. But it's more an issue of when have they fixed their new hardware they're going to add to meet the demands of release.
I'm sure they're eager to start the second phase as soon as they can, once the technical difficulties have been sorted out. I don't think there are any reasons to delay anything, the more beta time they get, the better, I'm sure they feel like that.
On June 27 2010 02:37 SichuanPanda wrote: Hopefully this isn't a rumor. From a development point of view July 1st makes a lot of sense for Blizzard, they can run it for roughly 20 days, and then have a week after that before launch.
Edit: They do it on Thursday/Friday because they know a lot of players don't play during the week, to get as accurate a stress test as possible it makes sense to do it on these days as for many people this is the end of their work week (some people work weekends and take Friday off). So having tests of this nature on such days usually means more players will be playing.
Or do it the 28th and have more time to test and more room to fix major problems the first week.
I still think that'd be the more logical choice.
No because they're not going to get a release stress test on a Monday like they would on a Thursday.
On June 27 2010 02:37 SichuanPanda wrote: Hopefully this isn't a rumor. From a development point of view July 1st makes a lot of sense for Blizzard, they can run it for roughly 20 days, and then have a week after that before launch.
Edit: They do it on Thursday/Friday because they know a lot of players don't play during the week, to get as accurate a stress test as possible it makes sense to do it on these days as for many people this is the end of their work week (some people work weekends and take Friday off). So having tests of this nature on such days usually means more players will be playing.
Or do it the 28th and have more time to test and more room to fix major problems the first week.
I still think that'd be the more logical choice.
No because they're not going to get a release stress test on a Monday like they would on a Thursday.
Thursday isn't a Friday - it's still a really busy day.
Not only that, they aren't testing for one day of stress, they're testing for a release-like situation.
It makes the most sense so we can avoid something like what happened with patch 13 (I think that was the patch number). For all intents and purposes, that patch was a complete disaster, being released late in the week (a Thurday/Friday) and people couldn't play at all (getting random DC's/lockups consantly) for the better part of 4 days. They would be much more capable of fixing something like this during the week than over a weekend.
On June 27 2010 02:49 Jenslyn87 wrote: Zhek: I've never seen them say that... are you sure it will go down two weeks before release?
They have never said that, they have just said that phase2 would run for around 2 weeks.
Also, a lot of you guys in this thread are taking the numbers too seriously, they NEVER stated that it will run for exactly xx days or anything like that, they've just given out some rough estimates.
For all intents and purposes, that patch was a complete disaster, being released late in the week (a Thurday/Friday) and people couldn't play at all (getting random DC's/lockups consantly) for the better part of 4 days. They would be much more capable of fixing something like this during the week than over a weekend.
I hate to say it because this term gets thrown around too much, but it's beta. If anything they should open it up on a really busy day, on a time where people are most likely to break b.net completely, just so they get some more valuable data before the official launch.
On June 27 2010 02:49 Jenslyn87 wrote: Zhek: I've never seen them say that... are you sure it will go down two weeks before release?
They have never said that, they have just said that phase2 would run for around 2 weeks.
Also, a lot of you guys in this thread are taking the numbers too seriously, they NEVER stated that it will run for exactly xx days or anything like that, they've just given out some rough estimates.
Exactly, it's a BETA test so you can't really put an exact timeline on it. If things go fine, sure but if otherwise they will have to keep it live longer in order to fix certain issues that may arise.
I hate to say it because this term gets thrown around too much, but it's beta. If anything they should open it up on a really busy day, on a time where people are most likely to break b.net completely, just so they get some more valuable data before the official launch.
Except you don't want that problem to linger - that just eats up valuable test time and turns days that people could have spent playing into wasted time. Sure, you want to see these problems, but you want to do it at a time when people will actually be there to fix these problems.
I hate to say it because this term gets thrown around too much, but it's beta. If anything they should open it up on a really busy day, on a time where people are most likely to break b.net completely, just so they get some more valuable data before the official launch.
Except you don't want that problem to linger - that just eats up valuable test time and turns days that people could have spent playing into wasted time. Sure, you want to see these problems, but you want to do it at a time when people will actually be there to fix these problems.
And you get tons of valuable testing done when the beta isnt up at all. If they are ready to put up the beta they should put it up. I can understand the PC Bangs first for marketing reasons, but there is no reason to delay because if something goes wrong it might not get fixed right away. Plus this close to release I am sure lots of bizz employees are working weekends anyways.
I hate to say it because this term gets thrown around too much, but it's beta. If anything they should open it up on a really busy day, on a time where people are most likely to break b.net completely, just so they get some more valuable data before the official launch.
Except you don't want that problem to linger - that just eats up valuable test time and turns days that people could have spent playing into wasted time. Sure, you want to see these problems, but you want to do it at a time when people will actually be there to fix these problems.
Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
End of the line, is they want it back up ASAP. Whether it breaks, or whether its on a good day, doesn't really matter.
Just seems to make more sense to bring it up before the 4th of July weekend, not after. If you bring it up before, you get valuable data over a holiday weekend for the US. If it goes down, fix it on Monday. If you bring it up after the holiday weekend, you get zero data, zero stress testing and then it goes down in the middle of the week anyway...
The sooner, the better. Why sit around with a perfectly capable product waiting for a 'good day' to bring it up?
On June 26 2010 16:43 reking wrote: Ah, I'm in Seoul... wonder if I can play in a PC bang without a korean b.net account? Probably not... And you need a korean social security number to make a korean bnet account.
However, you don't need a korean social security number to make an Asian account, which can probably still be played since Korea uses the Asian server.
Some time ago, Blizzard announced on it's official forums that the beta would resume at the beginning of July without giving any further details on the supposed date. Today, we learned that this beta would start back on July 1st for us and on June 27 for our Korean friends, although exclusively in their cybercafes named "PCBANG".
PCBANG is THE Korean cybercafe that was created in 1998. Used to play Starcraft, it's the rendezvous of Korean players. Indeed, for the small sum of one dollar per hour, the players can train decently with quality computers and all this while being right beside their playing partners. Small precision: PCBANG is not a chain of cybercafes but simply the name of Korea's cybercafes.
It's therefore thanks to a small poster published in every PCBANG in Korean that we learn that the beta will resume in two days in cybercafes exclusively. Otherwise, to play at home may it be in Korea, in Europe, or in America, the beta will resume publicly on July 1st. Ideal restarting date for many of us as it also marks the end of exams and the beginning of summer break. [Removed sentence: irrelevant joke on how they will have to chose between playing or going outside.]
As a final note, a favor will be given to the emblematic country of Starcraft: the beta will be open to them on July 27, which is the same day than the official release of the game, for an undetermined length of time. But for us, we will have to contempt ourselves of about 2 weeks of playing as it was posted in the official forums that the beta will close definitively two weeks before the release of the game.
I knew it would come back online just as I am leaving for vacation >.< I'm still happy though as I will return to just a few days waiting for the full game to go live
No confirmation as for yet. Tomorrow is the scheduled beta relaunch with the PC Bang chain of cyber cafe. I dont see any major promotions or things along those lines in the PC bang homepage either (it is already 27th in korea). Awaiting confirmation.
Can you guys stop flooding the forums with stupid meme's? Last time I checked this isn't 4chan. I'm kind of surprised they would launch phase 2 on July 1st. Feels a little too soon, considering all the work they still have to do.
One thing which has been in the back of my mind is that a few of the popular commentators (eg: day9, husky) have "news that they cannot announce yet". I suspect they actually know when the beta would be back up but is forbidden to drop any hints.
I'm 90% positive that the beta won't be coming back until the 5th at earliest. I'm sure Blizz would give at least a week pre-notice before the beta comes back up. I wouldn't get my hopes up.
On June 27 2010 09:21 Sunny Afternoon wrote: I'm 90% positive that the beta won't be coming back until the 5th at earliest. I'm sure Blizz would give at least a week pre-notice before the beta comes back up. I wouldn't get my hopes up.
And your words count for?.... nothing. Everyone needs to just chill and stop speculating lol.
On June 27 2010 09:21 Sunny Afternoon wrote: I'm 90% positive that the beta won't be coming back until the 5th at earliest. I'm sure Blizz would give at least a week pre-notice before the beta comes back up. I wouldn't get my hopes up.
And your words count for?.... nothing. Everyone needs to just chill and stop speculating lol.
And your words count for?.... nothing. Everyone can speculate just as much as they damn well please lol.
On June 27 2010 09:21 Sunny Afternoon wrote: I'm 90% positive that the beta won't be coming back until the 5th at earliest. I'm sure Blizz would give at least a week pre-notice before the beta comes back up. I wouldn't get my hopes up.
And your words count for?.... nothing. Everyone needs to just chill and stop speculating lol.
And your words count for?.... nothing. Everyone can speculate just as much as they damn well please lol.
Blizz didnt announce phase 1, I doubt they will announce phase 2
On June 27 2010 09:21 Sunny Afternoon wrote: I'm 90% positive that the beta won't be coming back until the 5th at earliest. I'm sure Blizz would give at least a week pre-notice before the beta comes back up. I wouldn't get my hopes up.
And your words count for?.... nothing. Everyone needs to just chill and stop speculating lol.
And your words count for?.... nothing. Everyone can speculate just as much as they damn well please lol.
Blizz didnt announce phase 1, I doubt they will announce phase 2
They announced how long phase 2 would last, at the very least. Also, if nobody knew the beta was back due to lack of advertisement, that would kind of defeat the purpose of some of their testing imo. They're bound to get more traffic if they do announce the date, and I'm sure that's one of the things they'd like to test.
On June 26 2010 18:51 XazXio wrote: uh way to kill iccup ladder irony how many people say sc1 better than sc2 but when sc2 back up everyone like ohh best thing since sliced bread!
whether people say sc1 is better or not seems irrelevant. when it comes time to shine, they're going to choose sc2 over broodwar. it's new, exciting, there are tons of players to play against, and the best part is... everyone is still bad at it!
apart from that, the ones who say sc1 is soooo much better than sc2 are just fanboys who don't realize that sc2 still has 2 awesome expansions and a shitload of contentpatching ahead of it ~~ sc2 will be > sc1 after the 2 expansions come out, 100% sure of that.
The ONLY way that SC2 isn't superior to BW right now is that BW is a bit more balanced. SC2 is superior in every other way imaginable.
On June 26 2010 18:51 XazXio wrote: uh way to kill iccup ladder irony how many people say sc1 better than sc2 but when sc2 back up everyone like ohh best thing since sliced bread!
whether people say sc1 is better or not seems irrelevant. when it comes time to shine, they're going to choose sc2 over broodwar. it's new, exciting, there are tons of players to play against, and the best part is... everyone is still bad at it!
apart from that, the ones who say sc1 is soooo much better than sc2 are just fanboys who don't realize that sc2 still has 2 awesome expansions and a shitload of contentpatching ahead of it ~~ sc2 will be > sc1 after the 2 expansions come out, 100% sure of that.
The ONLY way that SC2 isn't superior to BW right now is that BW is a bit more balanced. SC2 is superior in every other way imaginable.
SC2 has the potential to be. Bnet 2.0 is hardly at that stage right now.
On June 26 2010 18:51 XazXio wrote: uh way to kill iccup ladder irony how many people say sc1 better than sc2 but when sc2 back up everyone like ohh best thing since sliced bread!
whether people say sc1 is better or not seems irrelevant. when it comes time to shine, they're going to choose sc2 over broodwar. it's new, exciting, there are tons of players to play against, and the best part is... everyone is still bad at it!
apart from that, the ones who say sc1 is soooo much better than sc2 are just fanboys who don't realize that sc2 still has 2 awesome expansions and a shitload of contentpatching ahead of it ~~ sc2 will be > sc1 after the 2 expansions come out, 100% sure of that.
The ONLY way that SC2 isn't superior to BW right now is that BW is a bit more balanced. SC2 is superior in every other way imaginable.
I can imagine an actual high ground advantage and less hard counter units, see what I did there?
On June 26 2010 18:51 XazXio wrote: uh way to kill iccup ladder irony how many people say sc1 better than sc2 but when sc2 back up everyone like ohh best thing since sliced bread!
whether people say sc1 is better or not seems irrelevant. when it comes time to shine, they're going to choose sc2 over broodwar. it's new, exciting, there are tons of players to play against, and the best part is... everyone is still bad at it!
apart from that, the ones who say sc1 is soooo much better than sc2 are just fanboys who don't realize that sc2 still has 2 awesome expansions and a shitload of contentpatching ahead of it ~~ sc2 will be > sc1 after the 2 expansions come out, 100% sure of that.
The ONLY way that SC2 isn't superior to BW right now is that BW is a bit more balanced. SC2 is superior in every other way imaginable.
theres no real highground advantage. Once it has that, THEN it will be amazing.
getting back to the topic, I don't think it's opened in Korea. There's no news about it in Korean sites, and none of the TL'ers in Korea are updatingus
On June 27 2010 13:55 stalife wrote: getting back to the topic, I don't think it's opened in Korea. There's no news about it in Korean sites, and none of the TL'ers in Korea are updatingus
its already the 27th over there huh? how long tho?
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.
That sounds legit, if it was on a sunday I would have said no way.
On June 27 2010 12:23 Darpinion wrote: The ONLY way that SC2 isn't superior to BW right now is that BW is a bit more balanced. SC2 is superior in every other way imaginable.
With that being said, we're talking about 12 years of testing, altering, and balancing versus a game that hasn't even been released yet.
I'm excited to see the direction SC2 will take over the near future.
Blizzard has also already mentioned they are working on chat channel, cross-realm play, and LAN (possibly for tournament only I think I heard?) All post game release unfortunately. But nonetheless, the game hasn't been released and there are already massive changes taking place at a rapid pace. Imagine where we will be in 12 years, or 5 years, or even a quick 1 year.
On June 26 2010 18:51 XazXio wrote: uh way to kill iccup ladder irony how many people say sc1 better than sc2 but when sc2 back up everyone like ohh best thing since sliced bread!
whether people say sc1 is better or not seems irrelevant. when it comes time to shine, they're going to choose sc2 over broodwar. it's new, exciting, there are tons of players to play against, and the best part is... everyone is still bad at it!
apart from that, the ones who say sc1 is soooo much better than sc2 are just fanboys who don't realize that sc2 still has 2 awesome expansions and a shitload of contentpatching ahead of it ~~ sc2 will be > sc1 after the 2 expansions come out, 100% sure of that.
The ONLY way that SC2 isn't superior to BW right now is that BW is a bit more balanced. SC2 is superior in every other way imaginable.
I can imagine an actual high ground advantage and less hard counter units, see what I did there?
It's been said over and over, SC had just as many 'hard counter' units.
On June 26 2010 18:51 XazXio wrote: uh way to kill iccup ladder irony how many people say sc1 better than sc2 but when sc2 back up everyone like ohh best thing since sliced bread!
whether people say sc1 is better or not seems irrelevant. when it comes time to shine, they're going to choose sc2 over broodwar. it's new, exciting, there are tons of players to play against, and the best part is... everyone is still bad at it!
apart from that, the ones who say sc1 is soooo much better than sc2 are just fanboys who don't realize that sc2 still has 2 awesome expansions and a shitload of contentpatching ahead of it ~~ sc2 will be > sc1 after the 2 expansions come out, 100% sure of that.
The ONLY way that SC2 isn't superior to BW right now is that BW is a bit more balanced. SC2 is superior in every other way imaginable.
Sick of the sc2 fanboys, better graphics does not equal a better game. It's got a while and expansions before it can even hope to compete. It is so freaking boring to watch with one clump of units vs another. BW's large scale, multi-front conflicts and regular non-gimmicky harrass shits all over SC2's 1 dimensional battles. I'm sticking with BW, SC2 is boring.
On June 26 2010 18:51 XazXio wrote: uh way to kill iccup ladder irony how many people say sc1 better than sc2 but when sc2 back up everyone like ohh best thing since sliced bread!
whether people say sc1 is better or not seems irrelevant. when it comes time to shine, they're going to choose sc2 over broodwar. it's new, exciting, there are tons of players to play against, and the best part is... everyone is still bad at it!
apart from that, the ones who say sc1 is soooo much better than sc2 are just fanboys who don't realize that sc2 still has 2 awesome expansions and a shitload of contentpatching ahead of it ~~ sc2 will be > sc1 after the 2 expansions come out, 100% sure of that.
The ONLY way that SC2 isn't superior to BW right now is that BW is a bit more balanced. SC2 is superior in every other way imaginable.
Sick of the sc2 fanboys, better graphics does not equal a better game. It's got a while and expansions before it can even hope to compete. It is so freaking boring to watch with one clump of units vs another. BW's large scale, multi-front conflicts and regular non-gimmicky harrass shits all over SC2's 1 dimensional battles. I'm sticking with BW, SC2 is boring.
Oh please, thats your opinion. The game has been out for fucking 4 months compared to a game that's 12 years old. The game is already WAY better than when SC1 first came out, so shut the fuck up, please.
By the way i did read all that source link, and the guy who posted that isnt sure. basicaly he said his friend in korea gave him this info but didnt send any proof. the source really said he really wasnt sure in those ending comments on the link so basicaly this post topic should be >> A Korean told me it was coming back on the 1st <<
By the way i did read all that source link, and the guy who posted that isnt sure. basicaly he said his friend in korea gave him this info but didnt send any proof. the source really said he really wasnt sure in those ending comments on the link so basicaly this post topic should be >> A Korean told me it was coming back on the 1st <<
The newser is pretty convinced, the people who aren't sure aren't the one who posted the news but they are simple users asking for proof and whining and stuff, pretty much like in every forum/thread anyway.
The newser answered: Anyone living in korea can go check any PC Bang and see for himself.
He also said: He asked for a picture of the PC Bang advertisement to his source but didn't receive it yet since the korean guy is pretty busy.
And we also have someone from Team aAa who confirmed the news and the source:
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.
Now i'm not saying that the news itself is 100% legit or that we should trust this 100%, but the newser and the web site are pretty sure of what they are putting online (right or wrong), and that you must have miss read something there. They won't be newsing about something without being sure of it, it's not written ''Maybe we will have beta on 1st july''
The newser used in the title only, a French verbal tense that express something like ''The beta may reopen on fuly 1st'' while using affirmations and confidence in the hole article. As he said, it's just to cover his back in case it doesn't happen, while he is sure and trust his source, writers often use this kind of stuff to try covering their backs. Which is stupid because if something you post using ''affirmative writing'' don't occur, there is no grammatical form of saying stuff that will prevent you from loosing all credibility.
well I think PlayXP said blizzard sent them a press release saying it will start in beginning of july, aka july 1st, because why would they release it any later when the game is coming out july 27th.
On June 27 2010 17:07 heishe wrote: if beta was active in korea again, we'd have heard about it by now. it's BS, just like I imagined. but maybe tomorrow!
wait beta is active in korea? does that mean the asian server is back up? brb 10 minutes...
If the beta does come back up, man do I have a lot of training to do. I got NonY in my fucking Macro Micro 2 leg 2nd round. (Now tell me that isn't pressure - let alone: Haypro, ZpuX, Gretorp, Kiwi fml)
On June 27 2010 15:26 Polar_Nada wrote: this thread is getting out of hand...
thats what happens when a crowd of people take false information as legit, and the company that is responsible for Informing us when the exact date when the beta will be back, fail to do so...you get a bunch of violent people...right now im ready to kill these frenchmen in france that have leaked out False information lol and i believe a Lot of other people feel the same way i do!!
Well I live like 15 meters away from a PC Bang in Seoul, but nobody there speaks english and I don't have a korean bnet account (someone said I only needed an asian one, but i'm not sure that would work in these PC bangs..). I haven't seen anyone play SC2, then again I didn't see anyone play it when the beta was going on either..
By the way i did read all that source link, and the guy who posted that isnt sure. basicaly he said his friend in korea gave him this info but didnt send any proof. the source really said he really wasnt sure in those ending comments on the link so basicaly this post topic should be >> A Korean told me it was coming back on the 1st <<
The newser is pretty convinced, the people who aren't sure aren't the one who posted the news but they are simple users asking for proof and whining and stuff, pretty much like in every forum/thread anyway.
The newser answered: Anyone living in korea can go check any PC Bang and see for himself.
He also said: He asked for a picture of the PC Bang advertisement to his source but didn't receive it yet since the korean guy is pretty busy.
And we also have someone from Team aAa who confirmed the news and the source:
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.
Now i'm not saying that the news itself is 100% legit or that we should trust this 100%, but the newser and the web site are pretty sure of what they are putting online (right or wrong), and that you must have miss read something there. They won't be newsing about something without being sure of it, it's not written ''Maybe we will have beta on 1st july''
The newser used in the title only, a French verbal tense that express something like ''The beta may reopen on fuly 1st'' while using affirmations and confidence in the hole article. As he said, it's just to cover his back in case it doesn't happen, while he is sure and trust his source, writers often use this kind of stuff to try covering their backs. Which is stupid because if something you post using ''affirmative writing'' don't occur, there is no grammatical form of saying stuff that will prevent you from loosing all credibility.
I am French, and you are totally righ in your demonstration and your translation.
Ikse (team aAa guy and the guy who posted the information on the link above) posted : Bah j'ai demandé une photo mais il ne doit pas avoir que ça à foutre :p ne l'ayant pas encore vu de mes propres yeux je rappelle que j'ai mis du conditionnel...
Translates to : Bah, i asked for a picture but he prolly has better things to do, since i didnt see it with my own eyes, i remind you that this is conditional..
So seeing how much he doubts is own info (wherever he got it) doesnt tell me its coming out on the 1st FOR SURE, chances are that it will since they annouced a 2 weeks 2nd phase in early july before release. It will be soon anyways...
On June 27 2010 17:32 Anfere wrote: Korean confirmation with the Advertisement picture ? That's what it seems with my google translator but i can be wrong. Check for yourselvs
In case anyone missed this but of info, no replay from Phase 1 will work in Phase 2. If any of you have any replays you want to keep (and don't want to rely on getting a Phase 1 beta installed on another pc) you better start frapsing.
On June 27 2010 19:04 Attris wrote: Really funny how mods close threads that they deem useless or spam, and yet this dumb one continues. I really feel they need a pat on the back.
Only this one seems to hold some legit info on when the beta goes up again. Who will visit a closed thread for up to date info on something, not a single person(unless theyr'e really desperate ). So while it has turned into a flamewar somewhat it still has a purpose.
Hey guys, i got a hold of the beta key for the first phase.
so, if i was able to play the first phase of the beta, am I already qualified to play the 2nd phase? i mean do i have to get a hold of another beta key or sign up for the 2nd phase in order to play again?
On June 28 2010 00:08 kitchendaily wrote: Hey guys, i got a hold of the beta key for the first phase.
so, if i was able to play the first phase of the beta, am I already qualified to play the 2nd phase? i mean do i have to get a hold of another beta key or sign up for the 2nd phase in order to play again?
Everyone who was in the phase 1 can play in phase 2 with the same account. Don't know if there is an "Sign in to SC2 beta" option in your bnet account but if it's still there, just sign in with your newly accuired betakey and enjoy the game when the phase 2 comes out.
On June 28 2010 05:09 Deadlyhazard wrote: Anyone in SK know if this is true? It's already past June 27th in KR, right (for cybercafe users)?
if you read the update at the bottom of the OP, you will see that PlayXP states it should be available on the 28th in korea, not the 27th. Give it 24hours and then see what happens.
On June 28 2010 05:09 Deadlyhazard wrote: Anyone in SK know if this is true? It's already past June 27th in KR, right (for cybercafe users)?
if you read the update at the bottom of the OP, you will see that PlayXP states it should be available on the 28th in korea, not the 27th. Give it 24hours and then see what happens.
On June 28 2010 05:09 Deadlyhazard wrote: Anyone in SK know if this is true? It's already past June 27th in KR, right (for cybercafe users)?
if you read the update at the bottom of the OP, you will see that PlayXP states it should be available on the 28th in korea, not the 27th. Give it 24hours and then see what happens.
it's morning the 28th in Korea already, actually
yeah, but its 6:00am, so obviously nothing is gonna be announced or released yet....
On June 28 2010 05:09 Deadlyhazard wrote: Anyone in SK know if this is true? It's already past June 27th in KR, right (for cybercafe users)?
if you read the update at the bottom of the OP, you will see that PlayXP states it should be available on the 28th in korea, not the 27th. Give it 24hours and then see what happens.
it's morning the 28th in Korea already, actually
yeah, but its 6:00am, so obviously nothing is gonna be announced or released yet....
just saying, you were under the assumption it was still the 27th.
On June 28 2010 05:50 Drowsy wrote: Yeah I mostly just want to know one thing... ARE CAHT ROOMS BACK1? After this much downtime I'm really hoping for some big bnet changes.
They already said the game for the 2nd beta will be pretty much exactly the same as the 1st beta. Features like chat channels wont be coming until a post-release patch.
On June 28 2010 05:50 Drowsy wrote: Yeah I mostly just want to know one thing... ARE CAHT ROOMS BACK1? After this much downtime I'm really hoping for some big bnet changes.
tl has been flooded with posts concerning chat channels and how they are coming after the release of the game. given your post count I would have expected you to have browsed around here a bit to see that but I guess not so here ya go brother: chat chans confirmed (post 11 is what you're looking for)
The last source that the OP gave (PlayXP) doesn't actually say "OH MY GOD BETA'S COMING BACK ON THE 28th!" It's more or less the same as this thread, pointing out evidence (ie the poster) and questioning how legit it is. Most of the comments (at least the ones that I bothered to read) say "I work at PCBang and I've never heard of this". Or they just say other useless crap.
Either way, I hope the news is legit and we get to play in a few days!
On June 27 2010 16:38 darkemperor wrote: Are there still ways to obtain key or do I have to wait for the game to come out? playing against com became boring after some point ._.
if you dont' have a key by now it probably means your computer cant run sc2 1 way or another.
On June 28 2010 05:09 Deadlyhazard wrote: Anyone in SK know if this is true? It's already past June 27th in KR, right (for cybercafe users)?
if you read the update at the bottom of the OP, you will see that PlayXP states it should be available on the 28th in korea, not the 27th. Give it 24hours and then see what happens.
it's morning the 28th in Korea already, actually
yeah, but its 6:00am, so obviously nothing is gonna be announced or released yet....
just saying, you were under the assumption it was still the 27th.
Actually you are the one assuming, not me. I stated to give it 24 hours for confirmation, which would be 5am on the 29th, a clear time indicator whether or not the rumor was true. You just blindly assumed I meant another 24hours until anything will happen, which I did not. The only reason I stated the 27th in my answer was due to that being the original date in the OP, which has lead to confusion among posters.
Dont really think the korean beta will be up tomorrow. Someone said that he asked a pc banG owner and he didnt know anything about the beta coming back. Its not really blizzardish to just open the beta and dont say a word. Well, i hope blizzard will prove me wrong
July 27th, Open Beta begins! South Korea especially for fans of Starcraft will be held is an open beta. StarCraft II to anyone from July 27, you can try for free. It is so easy. Battle.net accounts, if the official website (http://kr.battle.net) Starcraft II through the play simply download the client!
July 27th, Open Beta begins! South Korea especially for fans of Starcraft will be held is an open beta. StarCraft II to anyone from July 27, you can try for free. It is so easy. Battle.net accounts, if the official website (http://kr.battle.net) Starcraft II through the play simply download the client!
July 27th, Open Beta begins! South Korea especially for fans of Starcraft will be held is an open beta. StarCraft II to anyone from July 27, you can try for free. It is so easy. Battle.net accounts, if the official website (http://kr.battle.net) Starcraft II through the play simply download the client!
July 27th, Open Beta begins! South Korea especially for fans of Starcraft will be held is an open beta. StarCraft II to anyone from July 27, you can try for free. It is so easy. Battle.net accounts, if the official website (http://kr.battle.net) Starcraft II through the play simply download the client!
That's gotta be a typo -- why have an open beta the day of the release?
July 27th, Open Beta begins! South Korea especially for fans of Starcraft will be held is an open beta. StarCraft II to anyone from July 27, you can try for free. It is so easy. Battle.net accounts, if the official website (http://kr.battle.net) Starcraft II through the play simply download the client!
Isn't the game coming out July 27th anyway?
27th July there's an open period where every single Korean and Taiwanese person can enter the game for absolutely no fee. It's been mostly referred as "open beta" even if it's not really a beta at that point. This has nothing to do with the closed beta that will be available before the game launches the 27th of July.
Hoping that there will be some more information regarding the closed beta when I wake up in the morning.
July 27th, Open Beta begins! South Korea especially for fans of Starcraft will be held is an open beta. StarCraft II to anyone from July 27, you can try for free. It is so easy. Battle.net accounts, if the official website (http://kr.battle.net) Starcraft II through the play simply download the client!
That's gotta be a typo -- why have an open beta the day of the release?
July 27th, Open Beta begins! South Korea especially for fans of Starcraft will be held is an open beta. StarCraft II to anyone from July 27, you can try for free. It is so easy. Battle.net accounts, if the official website (http://kr.battle.net) Starcraft II through the play simply download the client!
That's gotta be a typo -- why have an open beta the day of the release?
well for the koreans, there's only 1 way to play SC2 at launch. and that is to have an active WoW subscription.
so until the digital purchase is available in korea, the open beta will be free to all non-wow players as they wouldnt have any other way to play the game.
July 27th, Open Beta begins! South Korea especially for fans of Starcraft will be held is an open beta. StarCraft II to anyone from July 27, you can try for free. It is so easy. Battle.net accounts, if the official website (http://kr.battle.net) Starcraft II through the play simply download the client!
Oh didnt see that. Actually because i dont speak korean. Although this sounds pretty weird, even for blizzard. But it looks like a reliable source..
July 27th, Open Beta begins! South Korea especially for fans of Starcraft will be held is an open beta. StarCraft II to anyone from July 27, you can try for free. It is so easy. Battle.net accounts, if the official website (http://kr.battle.net) Starcraft II through the play simply download the client!
Isn't the game coming out July 27th anyway?
Probably meant June.
Anywas.. Really hope beta comes soon. I've lost all interest in other games besides tf2... But that'll get boring lol
July 27th, Open Beta begins! South Korea especially for fans of Starcraft will be held is an open beta. StarCraft II to anyone from July 27, you can try for free. It is so easy. Battle.net accounts, if the official website (http://kr.battle.net) Starcraft II through the play simply download the client!
Isn't the game coming out July 27th anyway?
Probably meant June.
Anywas.. Really hope beta comes soon. I've lost all interest in other games besides tf2... But that'll get boring lol
July 27th, Open Beta begins! South Korea especially for fans of Starcraft will be held is an open beta. StarCraft II to anyone from July 27, you can try for free. It is so easy. Battle.net accounts, if the official website (http://kr.battle.net) Starcraft II through the play simply download the client!
That's gotta be a typo -- why have an open beta the day of the release?
well for the koreans, there's only 1 way to play SC2 at launch. and that is to have an active WoW subscription.
July 27th, Open Beta begins! South Korea especially for fans of Starcraft will be held is an open beta. StarCraft II to anyone from July 27, you can try for free. It is so easy. Battle.net accounts, if the official website (http://kr.battle.net) Starcraft II through the play simply download the client!
That's gotta be a typo -- why have an open beta the day of the release?
well for the koreans, there's only 1 way to play SC2 at launch. and that is to have an active WoW subscription.
so until the digital purchase is available in korea, the open beta will be free to all non-wow players as they wouldnt have any other way to play the game.
Please state your source for that statement. The free playtime was an addition to your WOW subscription, not the only way you can purchase it.
I won't quote him and demand and explanation as the poster above already did this, but I too really want to know his sources :D
As far as I know the beta is just for testing, like a demo and wow thing is just an added bonus (if you have wow already) not that you NEED wow to buy sc2
July 27th, Open Beta begins! South Korea especially for fans of Starcraft will be held is an open beta. StarCraft II to anyone from July 27, you can try for free. It is so easy. Battle.net accounts, if the official website (http://kr.battle.net) Starcraft II through the play simply download the client!
That's gotta be a typo -- why have an open beta the day of the release?
well for the koreans, there's only 1 way to play SC2 at launch. and that is to have an active WoW subscription.
Where are you getting this from?
He's misreading the portion of the game release statement in which those players that have wow subscriptions don't have to pay a fee for 1 month after getting the game. This only applies to those locations that have to pay fees, and it doesn't mean you need to have a wow account to play, just to play for free (after buying the game of course)
July 27th, Open Beta begins! South Korea especially for fans of Starcraft will be held is an open beta. StarCraft II to anyone from July 27, you can try for free. It is so easy. Battle.net accounts, if the official website (http://kr.battle.net) Starcraft II through the play simply download the client!
That's gotta be a typo -- why have an open beta the day of the release?
well for the koreans, there's only 1 way to play SC2 at launch. and that is to have an active WoW subscription.
so until the digital purchase is available in korea, the open beta will be free to all non-wow players as they wouldnt have any other way to play the game.
Please state your source for that statement. The free playtime was an addition to your WOW subscription, not the only way you can purchase it.
Well in Korea, there is no retail version of the game, only digital purchase. As far as I know, digital purchase won't be available until awhile after the game has been released. So the only real way to 'buy' the game in korea at launch is to add it into your wow account and not everyone plays wow. So that's why theres a 'free' open beta in Korea.
July 27th, Open Beta begins! South Korea especially for fans of Starcraft will be held is an open beta. StarCraft II to anyone from July 27, you can try for free. It is so easy. Battle.net accounts, if the official website (http://kr.battle.net) Starcraft II through the play simply download the client!
Sounds like Blizz is concerned about trying to generate more enthusiasm for sc2 in Korea? Apparently Koreans aren't as enthralled about the sequel as was originally hoped.
They're mostly pissed off at the price, especially since it's only available in digital form. Advertising never hurts, Blizzard's probably just trying to get people to move from SC:BW to SC2 with the 'free' open beta incentive.
its only 10:30am on the 28th in korea most patches come at night im still hopefull that beta will come out tonight in korea. Just bcause I want the July 1st part to be true
so originally everyone thought p2 comes back up on the 27, but now because of time zone differences between the korean/french/us sites it might come out on the 28th in us time? so wouldn't that also push the july 1st date to july 2nd, assuming the rumors are true?
On June 28 2010 10:44 thrawn2112 wrote: so originally everyone thought p2 comes back up on the 27, but now because of time zone differences between the korean/french/us sites it might come out on the 28th in us time? so wouldn't that also push the july 1st date to july 2nd, assuming the rumors are true?
I'm guessing it is based on Blizzard's timezone which is pst. July 27th here is basically 28th in Korea since they are 16 hours ahead. July 1st in pst is July 1st in the US
So for east coast us is it june 28th or july 1st we will be getting our delicious beta back?
Cause summer has started. And i am so bored because this is the first night were i have nothing to do. I've been lurking these forums and playing dota.
On June 28 2010 11:47 maniac1122 wrote: So for east coast us is it june 28th or july 1st we will be getting our delicious beta back?
Cause summer has started. And i am so bored because this is the first night were i have nothing to do. I've been lurking these forums and playing dota.
I'm one of those who applied late for the beta. Anyone know if Blizzard has been giving out or is going to give out additional beta keys for this next phase?
Since there has been no news so far, I can only safely assume that this news was faulty....HOWEVER, it has not reached July 1st yet...so we'll just have to wait and see.
What would we do of our time without those kind of unverified beta reopening threads that give us hope and help us pass time by spamming F5 and reading every answer and lurking other threads waiting for this ''verified news'' to pop up !
If it's not on July first, it wouldn't be that far after so just be patient ! I'm still hoping to see it reopen on July first.
I've got a feeling this whole July 1st thing has grown too big of legs. Couple days ago they say in early July and like 6 hours later theres semi sketchy confirmations it's the first day of July.
Hopefully I'm dead wrong but it just doesn't seem right..
Dammit! Um.. besides wouldn't all PC Bangs have to download a probable huge ass patch anyway Minor things like Button Art/Small details new maps and B.net changes will propably be included in a new patch upon Phase 2 release.
I think it's pretty obvious that the "Korean open beta July 27th" announcement (which is a free trial at PC Baangs coinciding with retail launch) has morphed, by a combination of excitement and mistranslation, into "Korean beta returns June 27th". Look at the Korean B.net forums, there is no post about beta returning, this is a hoax/error, deal with it.
The only official word so far has been "early July".
It says that the open beta starts July 27 in Korea. Why does this prove anything?
I guess it safely disproves the open beta restarting on June 27 in Korea. Looks like the Canadian dudes are completely incapable of telling the difference between "june and july."
On June 28 2010 15:18 Thanatos1495 wrote: Has anyone else noticed that if you run SC2, the message about the beta being down has disappeared? oO I have very high hopes for today...
On June 28 2010 15:18 Thanatos1495 wrote: Has anyone else noticed that if you run SC2, the message about the beta being down has disappeared? oO I have very high hopes for today...
still there for me as well. I reread it and noticed how it says to stay tuned to the official forums for more info as we get close to the launch of phase 2, so I doubt the beta is coming back up anytime soon
All this seemed to go to be true, it made no sense that blizzard would say nothing about it if they were having a "premotional early start" in korea, very strange promotion indeed to say nothing at all about it.
My guess is somewhere in the 5th-9th, maybe the 8th, gives them 3-4days that week to get it ready and 1-2 days to monitor the restart. But thats just me guessing and being excited and hopefull.
Would be nice if blizzard could give us an estimated restart day (just a thread they could update ad the estimate changed), but i can see why they dont, whay to many people that would flip out with "blzzard lied to us, those jerks" threads if they changed the estimate date.
Definitely no beta on the 1st, I'll say. He said a couple of weeks, so I'm assuming roughly two weeks before the 27th. Should be coming around the 12thish.
On June 28 2010 18:40 Deadlyhazard wrote: Definitely no beta on the 1st, I'll say. He said a couple of weeks, so I'm assuming roughly two weeks before the 27th. Should be coming around the 12thish.
It wont go down the day before release, probably closer to a week before release.
I'm hoping ~5th july.
Well actually I'm hoping today, but if i'm being realistic the 5th :/
On June 28 2010 18:40 Deadlyhazard wrote: Definitely no beta on the 1st, I'll say. He said a couple of weeks, so I'm assuming roughly two weeks before the 27th. Should be coming around the 12thish.
Phase 2 of beta should end aprox. 2 weeks before release date.. If you are right, that means we will have 2 days of Phase two! LOL
On June 28 2010 18:40 Deadlyhazard wrote: Definitely no beta on the 1st, I'll say. He said a couple of weeks, so I'm assuming roughly two weeks before the 27th. Should be coming around the 12thish.
Never say never. stop crushing ppl's small little hope about haveing the chance to play in two days. obviously in the back of their mind 90% of the ppl here they kinda know it wont happen. but alittle hope never hurt neone. and if ur speculateing urself without no proof or source, theres no reason to say "Definitely" rather then just say "i belive".
They will probably start it back up when earth, the moon, jupiter and mars are in alignment. makes the most sense that way. then they will have a few days to check for stuff, try out stuff and do other stuff to make sure the first stuff was alright. if nothing of the stuff was bad stuff, then they will launch phase 2.
I'm sure they also said that they would take the beta down a couple of weeks before release, so that's like the 13th July when it goes down until release, as they need to move hardware around etc. So if it restarts on the 1st of July, we get a bit less than 2 weeks, seems about right.
On June 28 2010 20:42 general.li wrote: I'm sure they also said that they would take the beta down a couple of weeks before release, so that's like the 13th July when it goes down until release, as they need to move hardware around etc. So if it restarts on the 1st of July, we get a bit less than 2 weeks, seems about right.
Or we might actually have the 2 weeks before launch, as was with all the previous blizz betas.
so somewhere like 13th to 27th sounds about right, still hoping for 1st tho
I don't think Blizzard will need too much time between end of phase two and release, because the reason for ending phase one was to do the hardware stuff! I assume they'll need maybe one or two days only, But expect them having around one week between end of phase two and release as an assurance.
On June 28 2010 20:42 general.li wrote: I'm sure they also said that they would take the beta down a couple of weeks before release, so that's like the 13th July when it goes down until release, as they need to move hardware around etc. So if it restarts on the 1st of July, we get a bit less than 2 weeks, seems about right.
Or we might actually have the 2 weeks before launch, as was with all the previous blizz betas.
so somewhere like 13th to 27th sounds about right, still hoping for 1st tho
Actually (this has prolly already been mentioned) this is imo the most correct way, they did it with other betas and just released a huge content patch containing everything just before the game went live.
This is imo probably one of the best things they can do.
On June 28 2010 23:05 Lighioana wrote: Would be so good for Blizz and nice for us to have the single player in phase 2. I hope they add it when the time comes.
Why would that be good for Blizz? It's not like single player needs the fine tweaking that the multiplayer requires, and if the multiplayer is any indication I really doubt there are any bugs in the single player. They've pretty much said there is 0% chance of single player coming in beta.
I really wish this thread would stay on topic. I appreciate all the posts like "Would be so good for Blizz and nice for us to have the single player in phase 2. I hope they add it when the time comes." "But most open betas with MMO's do the, ends the day before release things. Other games are a bit different." however they are definetly not about Beta to restart July 1st. All of these bumps are making me check here with no new relevant information. Please keep it somewhat on topic!
On June 28 2010 23:41 Sheth wrote: I really wish this thread would stay on topic. I appreciate all the posts like "Would be so good for Blizz and nice for us to have the single player in phase 2. I hope they add it when the time comes." "But most open betas with MMO's do the, ends the day before release things. Other games are a bit different." however they are definetly not about Beta to restart July 1st. All of these bumps are making me check here with no new relevant information. Please keep it somewhat on topic!
Oh, you wanted some concrete information in a vague, unfounded, and basically proven false rumor thread? If you want to know when Beta starts, watch the B.net official forums. If you want to gets your hopes up based on poor Korean-English translations, TL is the place to be.
On June 28 2010 23:41 Sheth wrote: I really wish this thread would stay on topic. I appreciate all the posts like "Would be so good for Blizz and nice for us to have the single player in phase 2. I hope they add it when the time comes." "But most open betas with MMO's do the, ends the day before release things. Other games are a bit different." however they are definetly not about Beta to restart July 1st. All of these bumps are making me check here with no new relevant information. Please keep it somewhat on topic!
Oh, you wanted some concrete information in a vague, unfounded, and basically proven false rumor thread? If you want to know when Beta starts, watch the B.net official forums. If you want to gets your hopes up based on poor Korean-English translations, TL is the place to be.
I think he means, if you have poor korean-english translations, say that, that's relevant. not bump with stupid bm like you're doing right now
On June 29 2010 00:26 EliteAzn wrote: We already know that phase two has not started in SK, now we're just waiting until July 1st to truly see if the french site did fuck up
Please stop all the French hating. They at least posted a news they believed about SC2. Even if it didn't turn out to be right it was still something that gave a lot of us hope.
While it's mainly Americans hating on French and making fun of their military i find it quite ironic. But hell, America won Vietnam, Irak and Afghanistan (LOL at all those fail wars). But of course, if you just watch Fox News, america is a Big winner for sure :D long live the republican propaganda news channel relating ''accurate'' news about the american situation in the middle east :D
On June 29 2010 00:52 Anfere wrote: While it's mainly Americans hating on French and making fun of their military i find it quite ironic. But hell, America won Vietnam, Irak and Afghanistan (LOL at all those fail wars). But of course, if you just watch Fox News, america is a Big winner for sure :D long live the republican propaganda news channel relating ''accurate'' news about the american situation in the middle east :D
The US hasn't gone to war since World War II. Stop the misinformation please, ty
On June 29 2010 00:52 Anfere wrote: While it's mainly Americans hating on French and making fun of their military i find it quite ironic. But hell, America won Vietnam, Irak and Afghanistan (LOL at all those fail wars). But of course, if you just watch Fox News, america is a Big winner for sure :D long live the republican propaganda news channel relating ''accurate'' news about the american situation in the middle east :D
The US hasn't gone to war since World War II. Stop the misinformation please, ty
On June 29 2010 00:52 Anfere wrote: While it's mainly Americans hating on French and making fun of their military i find it quite ironic. But hell, America won Vietnam, Irak and Afghanistan (LOL at all those fail wars). But of course, if you just watch Fox News, america is a Big winner for sure :D long live the republican propaganda news channel relating ''accurate'' news about the american situation in the middle east :D
The US hasn't gone to war since World War II. Stop the misinformation please, ty
Don't people think Blizz would have announced this by now to the general public if it was starting on the 1st? That is sort of strange, to keep it such a big secret... Although who knows how they decide these things.
Also, people seem to forget that the USA would have remained under English rule had France not intervened on our behalf during the war in the late 1700s. The colonies could not win on their own. Basically, we have to thank them for our independence in the first place. Oh, and there was this guy named Napoleon who almost conquered all of Europe.
On June 29 2010 01:01 Piski wrote: Now this thread have gone completely off-topic
That's okay, just gotta ignore the haters and trolls with giant inferiority complexes like Anfere and Paramore, post on topic as best you can with new or updated information.
People need to stop posting their far left history opinions and stick to SC2 strategy.
How are history and the beta coming back related ? Please avoid 4chan-like comments. If you have information, feel free to share it. If we wanted to read kids discussing history, would we be reading TL ?
Anyway, the beta will come back whenever Blizzard decides it should come back. Until that...
The last time United States passed a bill with the title "Declaration of War" was in 1942, against Romania. Since then, the United States has used the term "Authorization to use Military Force" as in the case against Iraq in 2003.
Now.. back to the thread's subject.. lol.
BTW, that's from Wikipedia.. don't tell me it's not an accurate source either
On June 29 2010 01:08 shiftY803 wrote: Don't people think Blizz would have announced this by now to the general public if it was starting on the 1st? That is sort of strange, to keep it such a big secret... Although who knows how they decide these things.
Also, people seem to forget that the USA would have remained under English rule had France not intervened on our behalf during the war in the late 1700s. The colonies could not win on their own. Basically, we have to thank them for our independence in the first place. Oh, and there was this guy named Napoleon who almost conquered all of Europe.
Okay, now I'm done with the history lesson.
your history is inaccurate
1st of all napoleon was not french he came from an island off the coast of mainland Europe called Corsica.
2nd the "army" napoleon used during the Napoleonic wars was only 1/4 french for the majority of the war.
On June 29 2010 00:52 Anfere wrote: While it's mainly Americans hating on French and making fun of their military i find it quite ironic. But hell, America won Vietnam, Irak and Afghanistan (LOL at all those fail wars). But of course, if you just watch Fox News, america is a Big winner for sure :D long live the republican propaganda news channel relating ''accurate'' news about the american situation in the middle east :D
On June 29 2010 01:08 shiftY803 wrote: Don't people think Blizz would have announced this by now to the general public if it was starting on the 1st? That is sort of strange, to keep it such a big secret... Although who knows how they decide these things.
Also, people seem to forget that the USA would have remained under English rule had France not intervened on our behalf during the war in the late 1700s. The colonies could not win on their own. Basically, we have to thank them for our independence in the first place. Oh, and there was this guy named Napoleon who almost conquered all of Europe.
Okay, now I'm done with the history lesson.
your history is inaccurate
1st of all napoleon was not french he came from an island off the coast of mainland Europe called Corsica.
2nd the "army" napoleon used during the Napoleonic wars was only 1/4 french for the majority of the war.
3rdly french people don't take showers
Dude, Corsica is part of the french territory, learn some geography before posting crap, I won't even answer to the 2nd point but the 3rd made me laugh :p
On June 29 2010 00:52 Anfere wrote: While it's mainly Americans hating on French and making fun of their military i find it quite ironic. But hell, America won Vietnam, Irak and Afghanistan (LOL at all those fail wars). But of course, if you just watch Fox News, america is a Big winner for sure :D long live the republican propaganda news channel relating ''accurate'' news about the american situation in the middle east :D
finally this thread has arrived
They didn't win the Vietnam war.. or the Afghanistan war.. in fact they are still in Afghanistan.. got beat down in Vietnam (watch the movie with Tom Cruise) ..
Even the war in Iraq (both the first and the second wars) can be seen as both defeat or victory depending on how you look at it...
On June 26 2010 15:13 SpiDaH wrote: 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.
Hells yeah beta is coming back this coming week :D
I'm sorry but, how can you explain that only one French website got the info ? I mean, there's no such information on international sites like SCLegacy/GG.net/starcraftwire/PlayXP/bnet korean-english forums, not even from Day[9], the farseeing thought hammer. =.=
Whatever the source is, I don't think it has enough credibility to write a news about it, but gg anyway, they got the huge amount of hits they wanted ;p ^^ sorry for being so harsh, but it's not worth it to write a news when you're not even sure about what you state, don't make false hope turn into hatred ;]
On June 29 2010 01:08 shiftY803 wrote: Don't people think Blizz would have announced this by now to the general public if it was starting on the 1st? That is sort of strange, to keep it such a big secret... Although who knows how they decide these things.
Also, people seem to forget that the USA would have remained under English rule had France not intervened on our behalf during the war in the late 1700s. The colonies could not win on their own. Basically, we have to thank them for our independence in the first place. Oh, and there was this guy named Napoleon who almost conquered all of Europe.
Okay, now I'm done with the history lesson.
your history is inaccurate
1st of all napoleon was not french he came from an island off the coast of mainland Europe called Corsica.
2nd the "army" napoleon used during the Napoleonic wars was only 1/4 french for the majority of the war.
3rdly french people don't take showers
Dude, Corsica is part of the french territory, learn some geography before posting crap, I won't even answer to the 2nd point but the 3rd made me laugh :p
only reason i put the 1st one is cause culturally and ethnically speaking Corsicans are different from mainland french in the way that Hawaiians or Alaskans are different from mainland Americans
On June 29 2010 01:49 Melancholia wrote: *reads the last page* *double checks thread title* wat
i thought the same. its because of the arbitrary moderation around those days.
last time i came here to share a very funny force-field parody-videoclip with everyone, for what i got a temp ban. (for bumping an old forcefield topic, because i didnt want to create a new one)
but what should i say lets just start and spam about european history or other non-releated crap
and now i probably should say: "are there any new rumors, beta is REALLY starting on july, 1st?" just in case to not get a stupid ban again from someone with a bad day
I really believe it will be up for us on 7/1. Reasons:
#1 - If it's not up in Korea now, the 1st isn't too far away so Blizz could have said let's just bring them all up together. #2 - With most of the US having a 3 day weekend, why not open the beta when a lot of people will have free time? If testing is still the goal, opening the beta on a Monday or Tuesday isn't really a good idea because most of the traffic is on the weekend. #3 - I sacrificed a chicken on a marble altar and Ghazhakuleodaemonicus the Wish Giver really likes that kinda stuff
A friend of a friend of a friend of an aunt who read it from a korean website who claimed that they got it from someone who knows something from a pro gamer that might be or not be a RTS player heard from his cat that the mouse he just catched that a Korean PC bang manager overheard something related to SC II from an unknown entity that The beta will come out sometime next month. Don't quote me on this though.
On June 29 2010 05:33 Jenslyn87 wrote: For the love of God... I can stand this no longer. I will take no responsibility for my actions if the beta isn't up soon!
On June 29 2010 05:31 Integra wrote: A friend of a friend of a friend of an aunt who read it from a korean website who claimed that they got it from someone who knows something from a pro gamer that might be or not be a RTS player heard from his cat that the mouse he just catched that a Korean PC bang manager overheard something related to SC II from an unknown entity that The beta will come out sometime next month. Don't quote me on this though.
Best.Post.Ever. Seriously, that was freaking hilarious!
Blizzard can't bring The beta during the same week where the new Twilight hit the theaters, so for that very accurate reason, there won't be any beta 1st July !
On June 29 2010 05:38 Anfere wrote: Blizzard can't bring The beta during the same week where the new Twilight hit the theaters, so for that very accurate reason, there won't be any beta 1st July !
On June 29 2010 05:31 Integra wrote: A friend of a friend of a friend of an aunt who read it from a korean website who claimed that they got it from someone who knows something from a pro gamer that might be or not be a RTS player heard from his cat that the mouse he just catched that a Korean PC bang manager overheard something related to SC II from an unknown entity that The beta will come out sometime next month. Don't quote me on this though.
I was so ready to believe you but then you wrote "unknown entity" and it dawned on me you weren't serious. omagosh like, total troll!
With most of the US having a 3 day weekend, why not open the beta when a lot of people will have free time? If testing is still the goal, opening the beta on a Monday or Tuesday isn't really a good idea because most of the traffic is on the weekend.
There is almost no way they would bring it up during a holiday weekend when their own support team isn't working. It almost certainly will come back up on an early weekday.
On June 29 2010 05:38 Anfere wrote: Blizzard can't bring The beta during the same week where the new Twilight hit the theaters, so for that very accurate reason, there won't be any beta 1st July !
I think the target audience for Twilight isn't exactly the same as the one for Starcraft II.
Or maybe I'm wrong, and most SC2 players are fat, greasy, acne ridden 14 years old girls.
On June 29 2010 05:44 Sandrosuperstar wrote: how come every twilight movie is named twilight?
Every Harry Potter is named Harry Potter in the same way. They all have additional names to differentiate between the each subsequent book. Ex. Twilight : New Moon, Twilight: Eclipse.
On June 29 2010 05:31 Integra wrote: A friend of a friend of a friend of an aunt who read it from a korean website who claimed that they got it from someone who knows something from a pro gamer that might be or not be a RTS player heard from his cat that the mouse he just catched that a Korean PC bang manager overheard something related to SC II from an unknown entity that The beta will come out sometime next month. Don't quote me on this though.
I was so ready to believe you but then you wrote "unknown entity" and it dawned on me you weren't serious. omagosh like, total troll!
RTS player heard from his cat that the mouse he just catched that a Korean PC bang manager
On June 29 2010 05:31 Integra wrote: A friend of a friend of a friend of an aunt who read it from a korean website who claimed that they got it from someone who knows something from a pro gamer that might be or not be a RTS player heard from his cat that the mouse he just catched that a Korean PC bang manager overheard something related to SC II from an unknown entity that The beta will come out sometime next month. Don't quote me on this though.
I was so ready to believe you but then you wrote "unknown entity" and it dawned on me you weren't serious. omagosh like, total troll!
On June 29 2010 05:31 Integra wrote: A friend of a friend of a friend of an aunt who read it from a korean website who claimed that they got it from someone who knows something from a pro gamer that might be or not be a RTS player heard from his cat that the mouse he just catched that a Korean PC bang manager overheard something related to SC II from an unknown entity that The beta will come out sometime next month. Don't quote me on this though.
I was so ready to believe you but then you wrote "unknown entity" and it dawned on me you weren't serious. omagosh like, total troll!
On June 29 2010 00:52 Anfere wrote: While it's mainly Americans hating on French and making fun of their military i find it quite ironic. But hell, America won Vietnam, Irak and Afghanistan (LOL at all those fail wars). But of course, if you just watch Fox News, america is a Big winner for sure :D long live the republican propaganda news channel relating ''accurate'' news about the american situation in the middle east :D
The US hasn't gone to war since World War II. Stop the misinformation please, ty
With most of the US having a 3 day weekend, why not open the beta when a lot of people will have free time? If testing is still the goal, opening the beta on a Monday or Tuesday isn't really a good idea because most of the traffic is on the weekend.
There is almost no way they would bring it up during a holiday weekend when their own support team isn't working. It almost certainly will come back up on an early weekday.
To be fair, most game devs, when in beta, don't take holidays.
I originally predicted the beta wouldn't re-open until the 7th. At this point I'm willing to throw that number back a few days to the 4th. Seems like the information people are getting regarding beta opening isn't very reliable, and I'd much rather just believe in myself.
On June 29 2010 07:25 Xapti wrote: I originally predicted the beta wouldn't re-open until the 7th. At this point I'm willing to throw that number back a few days to the 4th. Seems like the information people are getting regarding beta opening isn't very reliable, and I'd much rather just believe in myself.
4th, as in the 4th of July on Sunday? Your first prediction sounds reasonable, I'm betting on the 6th or 7th as well since the 5th is a paid legal holiday.
With most of the US having a 3 day weekend, why not open the beta when a lot of people will have free time? If testing is still the goal, opening the beta on a Monday or Tuesday isn't really a good idea because most of the traffic is on the weekend.
There is almost no way they would bring it up during a holiday weekend when their own support team isn't working. It almost certainly will come back up on an early weekday.
What do they lose?
Servers up Thursday/Friday night, gather some data and the CHANCE of having to bring it back up on Tuesday morning
vs
Guaranteed no data, no nothing, nil, nada and zip until they bring it up Tuesday morning
Oh no, the irate Beta crowd who get to play the thing for free might be a little peeved that they couldn't play when the server asploded on Sunday night.
With most of the US having a 3 day weekend, why not open the beta when a lot of people will have free time? If testing is still the goal, opening the beta on a Monday or Tuesday isn't really a good idea because most of the traffic is on the weekend.
There is almost no way they would bring it up during a holiday weekend when their own support team isn't working. It almost certainly will come back up on an early weekday.
What do they lose?
Servers up Thursday/Friday night, gather some data and the CHANCE of having to bring it back up on Tuesday morning
vs
Guaranteed no data, no nothing, nil, nada and zip until they bring it up Tuesday morning
Oh no, the irate Beta crowd who get to play the thing for free might be a little peeved that they couldn't play when the server asploded on Sunday night.
Kind of like the irate Beta crowd who get to play the thing for free and are peeved that the servers went down at all and are demanding they come back up immediately?
EPT
cant wait ! 
;P
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my 3rd point was for giggles 
SO UH YEAH STARCRAFT YEAH 
