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On May 15 2009 05:43 Whalecore wrote:
Blizzard probably have 50 high-tech computers just like yours. For a large company like Blizzard, it's much easier to aquire the latest hardware than it is to build PCs of 2 year old hardware.
This. If anything, having great hardware is probably not an advantage. How do you think they take those screenshots/make those battlereports? They're going to do it on the best possible machine. What they probably want to know is a) what is the typical computer like (they probably already have a sense) and b) how does it run on that.
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On May 15 2009 03:57 iCCup.CoLd wrote:
hmmm
750 gb hd
i7 quad core 2.67 ghz
3 gb ddr3 ram
3x nvidia GTX 260 w/ SLI
1200 watt power supply
shouldnt that like guarentee me a 2nd key?
Holy cow that's smoking high-tech. How much did a rig like that cost you? Do any games actually support and improve with a triple SLI?
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Lots of things support triple SLI, but you get SERIOUSLY diminishing returns once you get past dual SLI. Probably a 1-2% increase in framerate over the dual SLI. It's like that for ATI cards as well, once you hit two, you've pretty much maxed out your fps.
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My boner is still popped, any advice?
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lol i wish having a fast machine would guarantee me a beta key. Nonetheless i'm sooo excited for this.
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what kind of numbers were in BW and WC3 betas?
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I'm not sure about SC/BW, but the original War3 beta didn't have that many players. In fact, they allowed each CD key to hold 5 people on it, instead of one, to increase the players (people stopped playing). In the TFT beta, however, there were 10's and 10's of thousands of players.
They've already been using the term "wave", so expect maybe like 5000 at first, then another 5000, then another 10000, etc...
Who knows for sure though.
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I just hope they don't rush through the beta or any other part of development just to release it this year. Hopefully, they will take the beta as seriously as they have the rest of the dev time.
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On May 15 2009 19:06 CharlieMurphy wrote:
My boner is still popped, any advice?
icee cold waterr
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hey so ....... my friend went to blizzcon last year but doesnt know how to get the beta key. i think u go to blizzcon.com/beta ? but that directs you to a WoW beta page... and the key he has on the back of his pass isnt the key...... so.....how does he get the key for sc2?
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On May 16 2009 02:21 Bowdz wrote:
I just hope they don't rush through the beta or any other part of development just to release it this year. Hopefully, they will take the beta as seriously as they have the rest of the dev time.
I doubt they'd rush it, but don't expect the balance to be perfect upon release.
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On May 16 2009 02:46 x89titan wrote:
hey so ....... my friend went to blizzcon last year but doesnt know how to get the beta key. i think u go to blizzcon.com/beta ? but that directs you to a WoW beta page... and the key he has on the back of his pass isnt the key...... so.....how does he get the key for sc2?
just paste the code he got from the blizzcon card on the wow page
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On May 16 2009 02:59 SoleSteeler wrote:Show nested quote +On May 16 2009 02:21 Bowdz wrote:
I just hope they don't rush through the beta or any other part of development just to release it this year. Hopefully, they will take the beta as seriously as they have the rest of the dev time. I doubt they'd rush it, but don't expect the balance to be perfect upon release.
To be honest I doubt blanace will be perfect until the third part of the trilogy.
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On May 29 2009 03:30 cava wrote:Show nested quote +On May 16 2009 02:59 SoleSteeler wrote:On May 16 2009 02:21 Bowdz wrote:
I just hope they don't rush through the beta or any other part of development just to release it this year. Hopefully, they will take the beta as seriously as they have the rest of the dev time. I doubt they'd rush it, but don't expect the balance to be perfect upon release. To be honest I doubt blanace will be perfect until the third part of the trilogy.
I doubt it will be perfect then, either. But it'll be close the whole way throughout  Even War3, which people think is imbalanced, never had much more than a ~4ish% higher win ratio (54% to 46%) for one race over another. I think we can expect numbers similar to that; however, there will always whiners who blame imbalance over their own lack of skill.
And of course the metagame will be developing rapidly. "Impossible to beat" strategies will form, then its counters, then counter-counters etc... Personally, I like those times, because there's usually a lot of room for creativity!
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Wasn't sure where to post this, and I didn't feel it warranted its own thread, but Europe now has their own version of the new Battle.net accounts.
http://eu.battle.net/
So yeah, more opt-ins incoming. It might not mean much for the start of the North American beta, but it is progress!
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On May 29 2009 09:40 SoleSteeler wrote:Wasn't sure where to post this, and I didn't feel it warranted its own thread, but Europe now has their own version of the new Battle.net accounts. http://eu.battle.net/So yeah, more opt-ins incoming. It might not mean much for the start of the North American beta, but it is progress!
to my knowledge, that site has existed for a few months now
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Yeah you're right, I misread the news. The quote is they are now "completely live", whatever that means. My bad.
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On May 29 2009 09:49 SoleSteeler wrote:
Yeah you're right, I misread the news. The quote is they are now "completely live", whatever that means. My bad.
Isn't it that WOW account mergers are available for Europe? And I think it was stated that this would before beta.
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Hopefully the game will be out during Xmas ...
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hopefully being a mac user pays off for this beta
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