It seems that the majority of people already in the beta has received a friend-invite.. did Blizzard just potentially double the player-base or did I miss something?

Kiante

Australia7069 Posts

March 18 2010 14:11 GMT

#364

I think they just woke up to account sharing. the overall player hours might not increase as much as you'd think.

Bebop07

United States291 Posts

March 18 2010 14:11 GMT

#365

If it makes any of you people without a beta feel better..I can only play the damn game on 'low' settings. Maybe wouldn't matter to everyone but blah..it really looks like poop on it

To me it'd be 5x as fun on ultra.

DiTH

Greece116 Posts

March 18 2010 14:12 GMT

#366

I got also a friend invite.And now 2 of my friends are endlessly spamming me to give it to one and not the other.GJ blizzard to make my head burst.

siNdreAd

United States40 Posts

March 18 2010 14:13 GMT

#367

Has anyone had trouble with their friend-invite key? Mine repeatedly gives the error "not valid".

whiterabbit

2675 Posts

March 18 2010 14:14 GMT

#368

Good news for all the people who did Opt-in and didn't get key yet.

http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=23767640678

Kapeselus
Blizzard Poster

You require more friendSSSSSS!

But on a serious note - yes, we will keep inviting people, who opted-in, don't worry

A bit of a hope...

whiterabbit

2675 Posts

March 18 2010 14:15 GMT

#369

On March 18 2010 23:13 siNdreAd wrote:
Has anyone had trouble with their friend-invite key? Mine repeatedly gives the error "not valid".

If you readt last few pages... YES!
http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=23767160461&sid=3000

MasterFischer

Denmark836 Posts

March 18 2010 14:15 GMT

#370

I never fail to laugh about the fact that a fair majority of the beta-test player base will probaly not contribute a damn thing, let alone submit any actual balance/feedback. They will play a few games, like the flavour of the month game, they treat SC2 as, and then go play something retarded mobile Iphone game.

The entire opt-in scenario is flawed, mainly because there is no differientiation of users other than system specs, in order to filter out the people who actually contribute feedback and useful balance changes, and the people who couldn't give less of a shit about anything.

Seeing long-term Starcraft fans, and even previous useful beta-testers getting the shaft, when they could actually be supplying Blizzard with vital feedback on their newest popular game, brings somewhat a tear or two to my eyes.

And now the said people with keys, will get another one to throw away at their useless friends or sell them at market price on ebay. In the meantime, people, like myself, who are ready to give an honest look at the beta and contribute some much needed testing and feedback gets left in the dust.

yea yea, I get all that with the "we'll just add more keys" bullcrap, and we need serverload testing, but seriously, stop pretending people like WoW dudes, actually contribute anything other than one more spot the rest of us won't be putting to some good use.

//rant over

Congrats to all who got their keys tho :D!

cyoz

Germany17 Posts

March 18 2010 14:19 GMT

#371

You do realize that Blizzard knows that and intentionally does that?

They want the Feedback that a large player-base provides. They want to test their servers, look at bugs, look at the game-statistics and if just 1 in 100 players provide written feedback, it's more than they can read.

Jyo

United States10 Posts

March 18 2010 14:23 GMT

#372

The problem with your point fischer, is that you assume the only point of the beta is to get people to provide written accounts of what they have seen. While those are important, they need to test things like battle.net stress levels, as well as getting valuable statistics for winning races etc. Also while they want sc2 to be enjoyable at a pro gaming level, they also want it to be very accessible as a 'my first rts' game as well, and just because something is balanced for progammers doesn't mean it will be for the rest of us.

Whalecore

Norway1110 Posts

March 18 2010 14:26 GMT

#373

Woho. Account is fixed! Friend invited me!

It says "This Battle.net account does not include an associated copy of StarCraft II....". Do I have to wait a bit or do I need to download my own client?

whiterabbit

2675 Posts

March 18 2010 14:31 GMT

#374

On March 18 2010 23:26 Whalecore wrote:
Woho. Account is fixed! Friend invited me!

It says "This Battle.net account does not include an associated copy of StarCraft II....". Do I have to wait a bit or do I need to download my own client?

Be sure you downloaded client for right region.

Whalecore

Norway1110 Posts

March 18 2010 14:33 GMT

#375

Yeah I've already played on my friend's account. It was EU client. I have EU battle.net account as well! =)

whiterabbit

2675 Posts

March 18 2010 14:36 GMT

#376

Well did you use that key friend gave you on YOUR battle.net account and are you loggin' in with ur username/pass? Kinda stupid, but you might forgot to add that key to ur acc.