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On February 24 2010 05:21 asdfTT123 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 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.
Did you read the part where he said there'll be more than 10,000 people getting in?
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I'm gonna jizz my pants the second I get a beta key.
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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
My guess is a lot of them are going to be WoW players that don't even know what SC2 is T_T
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On February 24 2010 05:21 asdfTT123 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 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.
The thing is, 10000 was number given by some poster on bnet, Blizz representative (as already mentioned) told that this will be a lot more than 10000, so he didn't mention any number - whether will it be 1 million or everyone that opted in.
He also mentioned that they are limiting the number of people because they want to steadily increase number of testers - because they test hardware as well.
So you can expect that Blizzard makes sure that as many people as possible are in beta (weird, no? company wants to have as many testers as possible...) and in the end probably everyone will be let in. They just can't let everyone in because they have to test servers as well
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It really depends I guess. Sometimes the creators make a completely open beta, and i think blizzard is really the only company that does the whole beta key thing. But I mean what can you do, blizzard makes up for it i suppose.
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On February 24 2010 04:50 Amber[LighT] wrote:Show nested quote +On February 24 2010 04:47 NB wrote: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?
Actually the company I am working for generally test our games with about 5.000 users before we scale up to a 1.000.000 users. It is fairly easy to make scalable applications nowadays. But you generally don't want to add a significant number of new testers before the detected issues have been taken care of.
If they do as we do, they probably want to have at least a certain (say 2000) number of online and active testers each day during the first week. So if the number of active testers decrease, they willl send out more keys to counter it. After a week of testing they might batch out another 10.000 keys (another wave) to reach another level of active testers. And then another 20.000 keys or more.... They need to test Battle.net for the onslaught of people that are going to start playing when the game is released. So I am fairly sure most people who opt-in will get a key eventually.
But I might be totally wrong of course :D I don't know how they work. I am glad as long as I don't have to relive the pain when the WoW servers crashed at least once every day the first month after it was released. So hopefully they will send out loads of beta keys to test it properly.
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Tef u really made my day and gave me hope again! ^^'
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^ I really really hope you're right.
On the other hand, not having beta is doing wonders for keeping me on track to finish my MA thesis.
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hopefully all these wow dudes are too addicted to wow to play too much beta ;d, and Tef is right
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I just want to mention that near the end of testing for WotLK every single person I knew that played wow and opted in got into the beta.
I think SC2 will be the same.
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On February 24 2010 06:19 HuskyTheHusky wrote:
I just want to mention that near the end of testing for WotLK every single person I knew that played wow and opted in got into the beta.
I think SC2 will be the same.
We can only hope. However... I hope they don't pull one of the moves they did with WOW's original beta testing. I am near certain that it was a closed beta for quite some time until they decided to do a short stress test. A lot of the stress testing was done by more invites sent out and people who could "buy" a way in though a subscription though gamespy or fileshack (cant remember what it was at the time). After all that was done the game went into open beta.
Will Blizzard try and cash in at any point on some people unlucky to get into early stages of the beta? Who knows!
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I received my Blizzcon 2008 key in email last night. My Bnet account was unchanged until I received and entered the key. I registered my code from 2008 on the 17th or 18th iirc.
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Yeah, Tef is probably right.
I was just thinking: why would they keep the key away from people who want to help them test everything out? It makes no sense. The only explanation is that they are taking it step by step which of course makes perfect sense. I expect my key within 40 days, tops!
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well i did make a thread but it got locked =[
I know the person who received the invite personally, he was an opt-in, not a blizzcon attendee. He received his at 3:21 PST, hopefully more are coming tonight because I want mine since hes going to be playing his non-stop since hes fat and only eats and plays video games.
Source: http://starcraftpros.com/
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On February 24 2010 10:29 BigMasterX44 wrote:well i did make a thread but it got locked =[ I know the person who received the invite personally, he was an opt-in, not a blizzcon attendee. He received his at 3:21 PST, hopefully more are coming tonight because I want mine since hes going to be playing his non-stop since hes fat and only eats and plays video games. Source: http://starcraftpros.com/
you guys are spamming TL now?
mods just fyi we had a big problem with this very site on our board and had to ban the user for lying about key giveaways. i have to imagine this would be the same person or group.
man another wave, no invite still  ! well here's to wave 3!!!!
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On February 23 2010 11:50 Vexki wrote:
I just got my invite, however I didn't go to blizzcon, nor did I even opt in for beta. They gave me my key because I have WC3, Diablo 2, SC and WoW tied to my bnet account. Blizzard fanatacism ftw?
Wtf I have 2 wow accounts SC D2 WC3 WC2 on my bnet
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On February 24 2010 11:44 Sworn wrote:Show nested quote +On February 23 2010 11:50 Vexki wrote:
I just got my invite, however I didn't go to blizzcon, nor did I even opt in for beta. They gave me my key because I have WC3, Diablo 2, SC and WoW tied to my bnet account. Blizzard fanatacism ftw? Wtf I have 2 wow accounts SC D2 WC3 WC2 on my bnet
Why do you need multiple WoW accounts?
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I JUST CHECKED MY EMAIL AND GUESS WHAT??!?!
+ Show Spoiler +nah who am i kidding ... *back to the dark corner and cry girly tears*
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On February 24 2010 06:00 Schismotive wrote:
It really depends I guess. Sometimes the creators make a completely open beta, and i think blizzard is really the only company that does the whole beta key thing. But I mean what can you do, blizzard makes up for it i suppose.
Blizzard hands out Beta keys to employees to sell on ebay for "bonuses", just like they own all the Diablo Duping sites and most Wow gold sites.
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