EPTDidn't they give beta keys during WWI too?
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Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
Didn't they give beta keys during WWI too? | ||
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Ziph
Netherlands970 Posts
On October 26 2008 00:43 FrozenArbiter wrote: Didn't they give beta keys during WWI too? ye they did but for Wotlk | ||
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Coldboy_vn
Vietnam239 Posts
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Zoler
Sweden6339 Posts
On October 25 2008 18:39 Kong John wrote: ill be the sc2 boxer in 2009, ok? Boxer will destroy everyone, ok?? In Starcraft 2 | ||
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SaharaDrac
United States76 Posts
On October 25 2008 11:12 BluzMan wrote: Giving out keys for beta during an event hosted in the most distant part of the world is fucking stupid. "Giving out keys for beta during an event hosted in the HOME of your game studio is fucking stupid, it makes much more sense to come to my country just because I think nothing exists outside of my shitty little world." Shut the fuck up, dude. | ||
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Drowsy
United States4876 Posts
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Drowsy
United States4876 Posts
On October 26 2008 03:06 SaharaDrac wrote: "Giving out keys for beta during an event hosted in the HOME of your game studio is fucking stupid, it makes much more sense to come to my country just because I think nothing exists outside of my shitty little world." Shut the fuck up, dude. He wasn't suggesting that at all, and even if he were you're way overreacting. Consider that most starcraft players, the best ones especially, live in Korea. Consider also the amount of beta keys being wasted on Fastest Map Ever and World of Warcraft fatass nerds who aren't going to be able to test the game very well since they have no experience with competitive rts games. I bet people who played the original starcraft and would be good tester with good balance insights were a very small minority given the blizzcon demographics of wowtards. I think it'd be cool if pcbangs in korea had sc tournaments with beta keys as prizes, that'd get out the best testers pretty easily. All the pros probably won't have time since they're busy practicing bw. Does anyone know if there's going to be an opt-in type system where you basically have like a 1-7 chance to get in in addition to the blizzcon keys? It'd be reallllyyy great if they gave some keys to TL and GG.net communities since we tend to house the best and most dedicated non-korean starcraft players... | ||
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Spartan[nK]
United States213 Posts
On October 26 2008 04:48 Drowsy wrote: I'm thanking my stars I play poker now. I'm snap buying one of these if I can get it for a reasonable price... maybe 200-300. How do you guys know that the blizzcon beta keys are for sc2 specifically? What if they secretly purchased the hello kitty franchise and want to make a children's game out of it? They said they were for SC2 at BlizzCon and it even says in the pamphlet from BlizzCon. | ||
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SirNeb
United States243 Posts
Though due to the competitive nature of the sc2, they might do something even more extreme to get the keys out to a more competitive audience. | ||
Liquid`Ret
Netherlands4519 Posts
On October 25 2008 05:19 Spartan[nK] wrote: Lol, dude chill I don't care anymore. I'm probably the one being greedy anyways. 4 is already enough for me. I should've been satisfied enough for just helping a fellow TL user go to BlizzCon instead of asking for their keys. If you didn't care anymore you shouldn't have posted on here making Machine look bad. | ||
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Drowsy
United States4876 Posts
On October 26 2008 05:27 SirNeb wrote: In original war3 beta, beta keys were given to the usual blizzard friends/family and they were also handed out to certain groups of players/community. Most known bw/war3 competitive players will find their ways to beta keys without spending a cent on it, usually in the means of blizzard giving a few of them X amounts of keys and telling them to distribute the keys among others of that group. Though due to the competitive nature of the sc2, they might do something even more extreme to get the keys out to a more competitive audience. Everyone at tl.net with x amount of posts or more!!!!! Oh well it's fun to dream... | ||
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emucxg
Finland4559 Posts
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inReacH
Sweden1612 Posts
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Drowsy
United States4876 Posts
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sqwert
United States781 Posts
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[Rag]Genesis
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cgrinker
United States3824 Posts
 I bet you we are all going to wake up and its going to be like "SCII comes out tomorrow gogogogo!" and the wool will have been pulled over our eyes | ||
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-orb-
United States5770 Posts
On October 26 2008 07:35 Drowsy wrote: I remember for WC3:TFT beta people just set up pvpgn servers so that everyone who didn't get a key but was interested could play. It was really laggy, but worked out surprisingly well. They had the same bnet technology from war3->tft, which made it easy to do. Still, I wonder if something like this could happen for sc2 beta. I know those homos aren't gonna give me a key and shelling 200 on one would be inconvenient. I made a profit off of buying my key and selling the mount back on ebay. Even if your mount didn't sell that well, you still wouldn't end up paying 200 bucks just for the key. | ||
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prOxi.swAMi
Australia3091 Posts
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BluzMan
Russian Federation4235 Posts
To be honest, I'm 100% sure that this is not the last cycle (and not even the major) of giving out beta keys. Why? It makes no sense commercial-wise. 3 or 4 years ago, competetive SC didn't even exist in the US on a large scale, historically, it was one of the last country to jump on that train. The thing is that when you're hosting a betatest, you want the player base to be as inquirive as possible, you're spending money to make people to adequate tests of your product. WoW junkies are not nearly a productive fanbase. Other people are really hard to attract to such an event due to travel difficulties - getting an US visa is extremely complicated and just buying the plance tickets costs about my monthly salary, that's before you figure the entry fee and living expenses. Heck, even a Europe-hosted event is quite costly to attend for people from the east. So it makes zero sense to make it the major stage to get beta participants. Yes, you get a fair share of competetive players from the hosting country (US in this case), but that's it. The only question there is how much freedom they will offer the outside communities like TL in spreading the beta. For WC3 they have a rough mechanism of ranking competetive players (which is the ladder, a somewhat reflective tool), but not for SC whose ladder is completely meaningless. The only other instrument they have (and will probably use) is the blizzard account which has information on games owned per person. I have little doubt they will use that tool to reward dedicated people who own a lot of their games (in fact, I own all of their titles that can be registered via that service), but it's still very limited, so I'm positive they will have to use the communities. Said communites are mainly comprised by iCCup, GG.net and TL.net which are all quite well-tied together, along with the distanced Bnet community. There are also asian communities that don't intersect with us due to the language barrier, so they're out of the question. I'd say that with the TSL stuff and the amount of coverage we do we have the best odds of all three to be the mediator, but who knows, I personally think that Blizzard understands well that Bnet community is much much weaker, but since they are their homegrown thing, they're bound to receive some kind of a preferential treatment. Maybe it's the time to make a push and offer some kind of a service to Blizzard in maintaining the beta key spread? With rather strict moderation and traditions TL could do it, there are plenty of people here who know what SC is made of. | ||
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