Diablo 3: Starter Edition (Public Access) - Page 4

On April 19 2012 03:20 nam nam wrote:
If 30 % reflect their market demographic that's fine. But it being a US-based company is pretty irrelevant.

On April 19 2012 04:42 Shockk wrote:


Those 30% certainly aren't the quota for non-NA gamers - it's much, much lower.

Of course it makes sense to have NA players be the prime audience for the beta - technical reasons, language issues etc. But then they should either clearly communicate that they'll grant the vast majority of their keys to NA, or they should make it NA exlusive from the start. Over the course of the Beta there have been several cases like the very last wave where 275.000 "world wide" keys went out but the majority of those landed back in NA, and that was after the same number of keys had been distributed NA-exclusively prior to that.

Throughout the D3 Beta EU gamers have been left waiting and hoping and it's become extremly frustrating. Especially compared to SC2's beta where pretty much everyone who wanted to got a chance at a first impression, or the Beta for the upcoming WoW addon, which again pretty much everyone who's interested gets to play, regardless of location. Everyone I know interested in SC2 in Germany/Europe played the Beta. Everyone of my friends into WoW currently tests MoP. Noone (!) of my european/german friends and contacts got into the D3 Beta.

I realize I'm in no way entitled to take part in the Beta test but somewhere - being the loyal fan and all and having seen quite a number of "international beta invite waves" going out - I had expected to have a chance at a key, or at least have a friend of mine get one so I could play for an hour or two. Nada. Nothing.

On April 19 2012 05:13 Tobberoth wrote:

Agreed, it seems EU got WAY too few invites... out of all my friends, only one actually got the beta, in the last EU wave. That's a group of about 10 loyal blizzard fans, and one only got the beta. That doesn't seem all that reasonable compared to most betas. It's up to blizzard obviously, but it seems pretty much everyone in the US who were signed for the beta from the start got it, at least a big proportion.

On April 19 2012 03:23 Gescom wrote:

If 85% of their manpower is in California, then I imagine it is easiest for them to set up their initial deployment of beta servers there..