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On February 24 2010 03:15 Lz wrote:you guys think its unfair you didnt get a key?? i have played a million games of scbw traveled across the country playing in WCG's and tournaments Sponsored by Team EG (www.myeg.net) and i still dont have a key... only person on EG.SC who doesnt have key.. wanna talk about how life is not fair... I could probably write the book on it  ^___________^
If Stuart gets a Key you will probably get it LZ so dont worry about it ;D
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On February 24 2010 03:26 mcJ wrote:
Guess im gonna have to wait till lucky wave 3!
(any info on the next wave btw?)
we dont even have info for wave 2...
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On February 24 2010 03:39 R4ptur3d wrote:Show nested quote +On February 24 2010 03:15 Lz wrote:you guys think its unfair you didnt get a key?? i have played a million games of scbw traveled across the country playing in WCG's and tournaments Sponsored by Team EG (www.myeg.net) and i still dont have a key... only person on EG.SC who doesnt have key.. wanna talk about how life is not fair... I could probably write the book on it ^___________^ If Stuart gets a Key you will probably get it LZ so dont worry about it ;D
I told stuart to get me a key for a month (including this morning)~ lol so im obviously not relying on that any more.
i'm not worryed just think its silly
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I animal-like f5 the site, but I didn't get a key.
Ho blizzard how unfair can you be 
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why doesn't anyone read the SC2 beta FAQ from Blizzard:
adding additional games to your Battle.net account does NOT increase your chances of receiving a beta
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On February 24 2010 04:11 Zelniq wrote:
why doesn't anyone read the SC2 beta FAQ from Blizzard:
adding additional games to your Battle.net account does NOT increase your chances of receiving a beta
Stop taking away our dreams. I want to pretend I have an edge over everyone else. jerk.
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Does anyone know how many waves there will be?
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 Blizzard dont fail me
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There can be from 2 to 1000 or more. There's no set amount, unless you work at blizzard and know specifically how many of testers they want in. It totally depends on blizzard. If they want to stress test their servers, if they want to add by small amounts (more or less 500 people?) on a weekly basis or if they want to do big waves of 2-3K+ every month.
I think I remember WC3 having "bigger waves" while now in SC2, it seems the 2nd wave is going on now, so at least for now it seems to be "weekly" waves.
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http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=23393189966&sid=3000
There are a lot more than 10.000 people getting into this beta. Just a quick explanation on why this process works the way it does, a beta is not only there to test the balance and see how players like the game, it is also to test the infrastructure of the game. Inviting players in waves makes sure that the infrastructure is able to handle the first load before inviting more players, gradually increasing the numbers. This helps our IT teams make sure everything runs smoothly and or catch any problems and fix them before having a large load on the infastructure.
This is definitely not to make you guys suffer or anything - it is just a necessity of beta testing for us.
RTS Community Team
Blizzard Europe
- Xordiah
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On February 24 2010 04:34 Undisputed- wrote:http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=23393189966&sid=3000There are a lot more than 10.000 people getting into this beta. Just a quick explanation on why this process works the way it does, a beta is not only there to test the balance and see how players like the game, it is also to test the infrastructure of the game. Inviting players in waves makes sure that the infrastructure is able to handle the first load before inviting more players, gradually increasing the numbers. This helps our IT teams make sure everything runs smoothly and or catch any problems and fix them before having a large load on the infastructure.
This is definitely not to make you guys suffer or anything - it is just a necessity of beta testing for us.
RTS Community Team
Blizzard Europe- Xordiah
that is not an excuse for IT people... Im in computer science and there is no such thing as inviting by waves with the 2nd wave smaller than the 1st
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On February 24 2010 04:34 Undisputed- wrote:http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=23393189966&sid=3000There are a lot more than 10.000 people getting into this beta. Just a quick explanation on why this process works the way it does, a beta is not only there to test the balance and see how players like the game, it is also to test the infrastructure of the game. Inviting players in waves makes sure that the infrastructure is able to handle the first load before inviting more players, gradually increasing the numbers. This helps our IT teams make sure everything runs smoothly and or catch any problems and fix them before having a large load on the infastructure.
This is definitely not to make you guys suffer or anything - it is just a necessity of beta testing for us.
RTS Community Team
Blizzard Europe- Xordiah
Needs to be quoted in the OP, imo...
Before it gets buried in countless pages of useless spam.
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On February 24 2010 04:47 NB wrote:Show nested quote +On February 24 2010 04:34 Undisputed- wrote:http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=23393189966&sid=3000There are a lot more than 10.000 people getting into this beta. Just a quick explanation on why this process works the way it does, a beta is not only there to test the balance and see how players like the game, it is also to test the infrastructure of the game. Inviting players in waves makes sure that the infrastructure is able to handle the first load before inviting more players, gradually increasing the numbers. This helps our IT teams make sure everything runs smoothly and or catch any problems and fix them before having a large load on the infastructure.
This is definitely not to make you guys suffer or anything - it is just a necessity of beta testing for us.
RTS Community Team
Blizzard Europe- Xordiah that is not an excuse for IT people... Im in computer science and there is no such thing as inviting by waves with the 2nd wave smaller than the 1st
If inviting 5000 people in the first wave met expectations, but with a few hiccups, would you invite an additional 10000 players or an additional 2500 players to test the limits on the next wave?
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I'll just make a new thread and update the OP with blue posts I find
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On February 24 2010 04:34 Undisputed- wrote:http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=23393189966&sid=3000There are a lot more than 10.000 people getting into this beta. Just a quick explanation on why this process works the way it does, a beta is not only there to test the balance and see how players like the game, it is also to test the infrastructure of the game. Inviting players in waves makes sure that the infrastructure is able to handle the first load before inviting more players, gradually increasing the numbers. This helps our IT teams make sure everything runs smoothly and or catch any problems and fix them before having a large load on the infastructure.
This is definitely not to make you guys suffer or anything - it is just a necessity of beta testing for us.
RTS Community Team
Blizzard Europe- Xordiah
As much as this seems to be good news, 10,000 people is not a large number for beta of this scope. Seeing how there are millions of Starcraft players, a good number for Diablo/Warcraft, and even more WoW players that express interest in Blizzard games and have a battle.net account, Ten thousand represents a very small fraction of those who opted in. Furthermore, there's a lot of media about this beta so many individuals are opting in by the minute.
I don't know about Blizzard's anticipated number of beta invitees (or even if they have one), but there's no doubt that 10,000 is small. To put things in perspective, I was online this morning around 8:30 am EST, and there were approximately 1,800 individuals playing on the beta at that time. The 1,800 represents the number of people online as there are surely more than 1,800 individuals who were supplied a key.
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I just opted in now, think I have a hope?
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Remember, Blizzard doesn't really care about the time you opt in, just trust a bit in your luck XD. I'm sure crossing my fingers. But with my crap graphics card, it's gonna be a tough road XD.
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how do you know u're in?
do u login to battle.net account or wait for mail to arrive?
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Remember, Blizzard doesn't really care about the time you opt in, just trust a bit in your luck XD. I'm sure crossing my fingers. But with my crap graphics card, it's gonna be a tough road XD.
I read that they are taking people into the beta with a really wide range of computer specs to see how the game runs with different types of computers. dont lose hope =P
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On February 24 2010 04:11 Zelniq wrote:
why doesn't anyone read the SC2 beta FAQ from Blizzard:
adding additional games to your Battle.net account does NOT increase your chances of receiving a beta
too late hahaha
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