Starcraft 2 Time Counters on Popular Websites - Page 13

On April 01 2009 15:18 lowlypawn wrote:
I just noticed a counter on the top on Team Liquid's page saying 9 days, 21 hours 42 mins.

Am I blind or is this new? And what is it for?

EDIT, I also sent "DieMotherFucker!" 300 times to sc2beta@gmail.com, I hope they pick me I don't see how they can't.

On April 01 2009 14:25 Pufftrees wrote:
I typed out something fast and sent to that gmail and instantly received this in my mailbox. I'm not getting my hopes up or anything because I have a blizzcon key anyways.. but thought some should know. Being April first doesn't instill any confidence in said site. Seems mildly legit though.


-----Inline Attachment Follows-----

Thank you for your submission! This e-mail confirms that you have
submitted for the FSP StarCraft 2 beta opt-in. Please check your
e-mail at 10:00 p.m. (PST) tonight, April 1, 2009, for further
updates.

On April 01 2009 15:39 LilClinkin wrote:


You're an idiot.

On April 01 2009 19:02 Kadoka wrote:
SC was actually released March 31st 1998, the fansite message says April 1st 1996. Hmmmm. Mistake, or hint? The email is just gmail, it's not even a blizzard email. Anyone could be behind that email address. No evidence that blizzard is involved.

You bet I sent in an "application". Still, I'm not so sure about this.

On April 01 2009 19:02 Kadoka wrote:
SC was actually released March 31st 1998, the fansite message says April 1st 1996. Hmmmm. Mistake, or hint? The email is just gmail, it's not even a blizzard email. Anyone could be behind that email address. No evidence that blizzard is involved.

You bet I sent in an "application". Still, I'm not so sure about this.

On April 01 2009 22:18 Sanity. wrote:

i kinda feel like an idiot for applying now, i hope its real :p

On April 01 2009 19:02 Kadoka wrote:
SC was actually released March 31st 1998, the fansite message says April 1st 1996. Hmmmm. Mistake, or hint? The email is just gmail, it's not even a blizzard email. Anyone could be behind that email address. No evidence that blizzard is involved.

You bet I sent in an "application". Still, I'm not so sure about this.

To give you guys an update, the Battle Report is still in localization and needs to be ready in all supported regions before it will go up. Many times this adds to the development timeline, but it allows everyone worldwide to be able to experience Blizzard updates at the same time, so no particular region feels neglected.

In regards to beta, I'm seeing many websites and hoaxes messing with people's expectations. These are not official announcements, and when that time comes, the official announcement will be written by a blue or posted up on official websites like battle.net and StarCraft2.com.

The developers are hard at work in getting StarCraft II to a beta phase. With each of the Q&As, you can see the types of updates they are working on. More and more, we are trying to include 'behind the scenes' type content in the Q&As (localized in all regions as well), which unfortunately adds a little bit to the production timeline of Q&As as well, but gives the community something to 'see' in addition to what they 'read.' Comparing Q&A 49 & 50, they have changed drastically from say Q&A 1 & 2. In order to get more content out there as well, we have begun soliciting questions from fansites a part of our fan site program, so stay on the look out for those when they get answered.

We have a habit of holding things back at Blizzard to make sure when we finally show everyone, it will be up to par - we want to make sure it will our products are something both the community will love to play and something that we too can be very proud of.