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Newnoise
Sweden44 Posts
"This summer we will be opening up external beta testing, and while we haven't announced a release date yet, this phase will also signal the final stretch [of development on the game]," said Morhaime during today's Activision Blizzard conference call. This game is coming out this year for sure! source: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/58536 
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Renaissance
Canada273 Posts
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AcrossFiveJulys
United States3612 Posts
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CongoJack
Canada417 Posts
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Sayara
Finland42 Posts
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inReacH
Sweden1612 Posts
On May 08 2009 07:31 Renaissance wrote: first bye | ||
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Itachii
Poland12466 Posts
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Dewis
Finland344 Posts
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djdolber
Sweden85 Posts
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Pufftrees
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On May 08 2009 07:40 Itachii wrote: Due to greenhouse effect this summer will last from June to May. | ||
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Racenilatr
United States2756 Posts
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Newnoise
Sweden44 Posts
On May 08 2009 07:43 djdolber wrote: im not sure it means it will be done this year though... sorry but some pessimism was needed for this thread... Well this is how I think about it, look at the length of Blizzards earlier betas: Starcraft beta: < 4 months Brood War beta: < 2 months Diablo II beta: 3 months Diablo II: LoD beta: 2 months Warcraft III beta: 4 months Warcraft III TFT beta: 4 months WoW beta: 5 months (8 months in North America) WoW TBC beta: 2 months WoW Wotlk beta: 4 months So I guess the beta is going to be < 4-5 months long. Then I think it would be perfect to release it before the holidays in november-december, or even earlier if they start in the early summer. | ||
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Renaissance
Canada273 Posts
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SoleSteeler
Canada5411 Posts
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fishyjoes
Germany644 Posts
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djdolber
Sweden85 Posts
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liger13
United States1060 Posts
its about time  | ||
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7mk
Germany10157 Posts
On May 08 2009 07:57 Renaissance wrote: by first I mean I'm happy I was the first to know D: fu** that This is great news, everybody should go register on battle.net to sign up for the beta and hope to get lucky | ||
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paper
13196 Posts
must leech off LR >:D | ||
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Jortikka
Finland16 Posts
by the end of the year i will have enough money to update my hardware and maybe even buy the game xDand i hope the beta leaks ASAP :D | ||
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ZoW
United States3983 Posts
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Trozz
Canada3454 Posts
Looks pretty legit to me. Still, I don't buy it. | ||
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Mastermind
Canada7096 Posts
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uglymoose89
United States671 Posts
atleast we get to see alot of player vods and content when they do release the beta! | ||
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CursOr
United States6335 Posts
On May 08 2009 07:50 Newnoise wrote: Well this is how I think about it, look at the length of Blizzards earlier betas: Starcraft beta: < 4 months Brood War beta: < 2 months Diablo II beta: 3 months Diablo II: LoD beta: 2 months Warcraft III beta: 4 months Warcraft III TFT beta: 4 months WoW beta: 5 months WoW TBC beta: 2 months WoW Wotlk beta: 4 months So I guess the beta is going to be < 4-5 months long. Then I think it would be perfect to release it before the holidays in november-december, or even earlier if they start in the early summer. best post ever. assuming you didnt make all that up. ty ty | ||
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Meta
United States6225 Posts
On May 08 2009 07:57 Renaissance wrote: by first I mean I'm happy I was the first to know D: well you fail, because the OP was the first to know. if anything you should have said second. and either way you should have just not posted. I can't wait for the beta, I opted in with my friend's kick ass computer so hopefully that ups my chances | ||
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Daniri
387 Posts
On May 08 2009 07:50 Newnoise wrote: WoW beta: 5 months 8 months. | ||
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SoleSteeler
Canada5411 Posts
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keV.
United States3214 Posts
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DeCoup
Australia1933 Posts
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SoleSteeler
Canada5411 Posts
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DeCoup
Australia1933 Posts
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DeCoup
Australia1933 Posts
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Grommit
United States162 Posts
On May 08 2009 10:11 DeCoup wrote: They start summer half way through a month? wtf... lol Summer goes from June 21st (the summer solstice) to September 21 (the autumnal equinox) They'll probably arrange the beta so the game will be ready for release during the holiday season. | ||
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iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
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chobopeon
United States7342 Posts
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Chuiu
3470 Posts
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keV.
United States3214 Posts
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Chuiu
3470 Posts
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iG.Aura
Poland686 Posts
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Last Romantic
United States20661 Posts
On May 08 2009 08:40 paper wrote: cool O_O;; must leech off LR >:D aren't you in socal >:D | ||
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wrags
United States379 Posts
take that as you will | ||
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Chuiu
3470 Posts
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paper
13196 Posts
wat? >:D | ||
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nataziel
Australia1455 Posts
I want this so bad. | ||
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Amber[LighT]
United States5078 Posts
 .Excited for the Beta can't wait to see everything in action. Those with beta keys better get lots of video streaming etc etc!! | ||
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Ideas
United States8075 Posts
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deathgod6
United States5064 Posts
Archon now?! I thought u were terran. I hope I get chosen to participate in the beta. :D | ||
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chobopeon
United States7342 Posts
On May 08 2009 10:32 keV. wrote: If anyone thinks Blizzard is aiming for the holidays you are totally wrong. They are well beyond the need for "Black Fridays" and Christmas sales. I would suspect another "when its done" release date. the idea is that the average length of blizzard beta sets them right up for a holiday release. that's why. it's not about black friday and christmas and single day sales - its about video game sales shooting through the roof during the entire season. | ||
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Quanticfograw
United States2053 Posts
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Aurra
United States469 Posts
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latent
United States428 Posts
They know how important SC2 is going to be. I really wouldn't be surprised to see them cut the 1st beta short and then have a 2nd longer one later. | ||
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Newnoise
Sweden44 Posts
On May 08 2009 09:33 SoleSteeler wrote: The original WoW beta went from March till November, which is 8 months. It wasn't 5. TBC also went from September till December or January, which is longer than 2 months. But MMO's are a lot different, beta-wise. Well that depends how you see it, I live in Europe so the european beta for WoW started in september-october in 2004, and game released in february. Thats 5 months! The north-american closed beta of WoW started in march 2004, and the game was released in november in North America. So march -> november is about 8 months yes. So I will add northarmerican beta release to my original post. | ||
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Newnoise
Sweden44 Posts
On May 08 2009 15:38 latent wrote: Here's my take on it: just because the beta will be over a few months after its release doesn't mean Blizzard won't take the game back in and proceed with more development. Blizzard isn't worried about the "holiday release" factor with Starcraft. For them the quality of the game has always been more important than when it's released, as a lot of their games experience sales over an extremely long period of time rather just on the day of release like with a Gears of War or Zelda. They know how important SC2 is going to be. I really wouldn't be surprised to see them cut the 1st beta short and then have a 2nd longer one later. Wow, you surely know alot about how Blizzard thinks. I think they really want this game out before the holidays. Its kinda time now, they divided the game into 3 parts so they can get it out faster. Thats sets the pressure on them now I believe. | ||
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latent
United States428 Posts
Also I definitely don't know what they're thinking. I'm just guessing about the beta. It could just as easily be a quick and simple beta and release during the holidays. But I'm putting my money on a release next year. | ||
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Newnoise
Sweden44 Posts
On May 08 2009 15:47 latent wrote: They divided it into 3 parts so they could flesh out the campaign and story for each race. Apparently the fact that they're not trying to gouge people didn't get fully communicated to everyone. Also I definitely don't know what they're thinking. I'm just guessing about the beta. It could just as easily be a quick and simple beta and release during the holidays. But I'm putting my money on a release next year. Its true what you saying, but they also divided it in 3 parts so they could get the game out faster. Or else the game would be years away... Well in your first post you kinda said that you knew exactly how Blizzard was thinking... | ||
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-orb-
United States5770 Posts
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maybenexttime
Poland5496 Posts
On May 08 2009 16:36 Newnoise wrote: Its true what you saying, but they also divided it in 3 parts so they could get the game out faster. Or else the game would be years away... Well in your first post you kinda said that you knew exactly how Blizzard was thinking... Not, the latter two part are not unlike their previous RTS expansions. It's just that instead of spreading the contant among all three races they decided to make each release dedicated to one particular race. It's still: vanilla - couple dozen missions, core game, bnet, etc. 2nd release - couple dozen missions, some extra units/buildings/upgrades/whatever, some improvements to bnet 3rd release - ditto Maybe the two expansions will get slightly more content than TFT. | ||
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Xith
Sweden104 Posts
On May 08 2009 16:36 Newnoise wrote: Its true what you saying, but they also divided it in 3 parts so they could get the game out faster. Or else the game would be years away... Well in your first post you kinda said that you knew exactly how Blizzard was thinking... If they decided to just release one SC2 all three campaigns would be as long as one will be now, so it wouldn't really take any longer. latent: I don't agree with the way you're thinking. Blizzard knows SC2 is important, but they wouldn't announce a beta to later close it without releasing the game, unless something unexpected comes up during the beta testing. If they'd pull the beta in it would just be bad marketing, adding more fuel to the stupid, but in many peoples eyes valid, argument against "It's done when it's done". I don't think Blizzard is stupid enough to release a game for beta that they've been working on for this long if they're not satisfied with it. If I recall correctly Blizzard has also stated that their aim is to release one game a year, and with the latest wow expansion being their latest 'game' in November last year I'm guessing for a SC2 release this year. | ||
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SaftKalasEmil
Sweden213 Posts
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Mutaahh
Netherlands859 Posts
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HiOT
Sweden1000 Posts
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liger13
United States1060 Posts
On May 08 2009 21:38 Lobbo wrote: Didnt Blizzard say that the Zerg race was the most none complete? like way way behind Protoss and Terran? How can they release a beta with a incomplete vanilla race? its a beta | ||
Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
On May 08 2009 21:38 Lobbo wrote: Didnt Blizzard say that the Zerg race was the most none complete? like way way behind Protoss and Terran? How can they release a beta with a incomplete vanilla race? Way behind like 6 months ago maybe ? | ||
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Kennelie
United States2296 Posts
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DeCoup
Australia1933 Posts
On May 08 2009 21:38 Lobbo wrote: Didnt Blizzard say that the Zerg race was the most none complete? like way way behind Protoss and Terran? How can they release a beta with a incomplete vanilla race? Yes they said that... months ago | ||
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konadora
Singapore66145 Posts
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e4e5nf3
Canada599 Posts
On May 08 2009 12:48 Ideas wrote: hopefully a good amount of skilled people get the beta and not just countless hordes of people who don't know how to play at all. There was a big announcement about it on the World of Warcraft game launcher (the window that pops up right before you log on into your game account). So expect to see a LOT of WoW players opting in. | ||
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Railxp
Hong Kong1313 Posts
Now finally i might have a chance to actually beat someone =p (assuming i get into beta) | ||
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Tom Phoenix
1114 Posts
I seriously doubt not even a single person out of the 11.5 million people that play WoW has no experience in RTS games. Infact, I think there are a few people on TL that are WoW players, not sure. | ||
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Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
On May 09 2009 01:46 konadora wrote: Let's hope their definition of 'summer' is 'Around June'. It's probably going to be August. tt | ||
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liger13
United States1060 Posts
On May 09 2009 01:55 Railxp wrote: WOW is a huge market, so you cant really blame them for trying to pull wow users in. Now finally i might have a chance to actually beat someone =p (assuming i get into beta) lolol.. this will be fun | ||
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forgotten0ne
United States951 Posts
On May 08 2009 07:50 Newnoise wrote: Starcraft beta: < 4 months Brood War beta: < 2 months Diablo II beta: 3 months Diablo II: LoD beta: 2 months Warcraft III beta: 4 months Warcraft III TFT beta: 4 months WoW beta: 5 months (8 months in North America) WoW TBC beta: 2 months WoW Wotlk beta: 4 months Uhhh... WC3 beta lasted like an entire year... | ||
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SaharaDrac
United States76 Posts
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Tom Phoenix
1114 Posts
On May 09 2009 06:12 forgotten0ne wrote: Uhhh... WC3 beta lasted like an entire year... Actually, it lasted 5 months. StarCraft: January 1998-March 1998 (3 months) Diablo 2: April 2000-June 2000 (3 months) Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction: April 2001-June 2001 (3 months) WarCraft III Reign of Chaos: February 2002-June 2002 (5 months) WarCraft III Frozen Throne: February 2003-May 2003 (4 months) World of WarCraft: March 2004-November 2004 (9 months) World of WarCraft The Burning Crusade: October 2006-January 2007 (4 months) World of WarCraft Wrath of the Lich King: July 2008-November 2008 (5 months) | ||
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latent
United States428 Posts
I don't think Blizzard is stupid enough to release a game for beta that they've been working on for this long if they're not satisfied with it. If I recall correctly Blizzard has also stated that their aim is to release one game a year, and with the latest wow expansion being their latest 'game' in November last year I'm guessing for a SC2 release this year. I don't...think they have to be "satisfied" with a game to go into beta with it, since beta's where they really balance it out and polish it. They've never been worried about release dates before, and I don't think they'll start now with SC2. Seriously, they don't care about people's opinion of their "it's ready when it's ready" mantra. From an interview: Bob Colayco -- There’s no schedule that dictates how much time can or can’t pass between chapters of the trilogy. We’ll take as long as we need to in order to make each chapter feel just as epic and exciting as the last one. The point of this decision was to go big with each campaign, delivering more cutscenes (both in-game and pre-rendered), more interactive sets to explore, more characters to interact with, more meaningful choices in missions and technology, more everything than would have been possible otherwise. We’re going to make sure each chapter hits all the right notes and delivers the epic and awesome experience that is expected from a StarCraft game. | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
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AdunToridas
Germany380 Posts
The Comic Contest ends in August: From the "Vespene Laughs Comic Contest" rules BlizzCON lasts from the 21 'til 22. of August in 2009.[...] the Contest beginning October 15, 2008 through August 31, 2009 [...] And the Beta will release in August. I think they'll put it all together at BlizzCON. | ||
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yobifox
Korea (South)4 Posts
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Latham
9558 Posts
Edit: Fuck yeah, Fbat =D !!! | ||
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Error Ash
Germany177 Posts
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maybenexttime
Poland5496 Posts
On May 09 2009 21:29 Error Ash wrote: lol that stupid opt-in tool lists my harddisk as 12GB and totally disregards the other ~700GB partitions.... I hope this won't filter me out for Beta participation... Move it to the partition/HD you have more free space on. | ||
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Motiva
United States1774 Posts
Finally some information ! | ||
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ZhenMiChan
Netherlands1181 Posts
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DeCoup
Australia1933 Posts
The difference between SC and SC2 is not as big (both balance and mechanics wise). I'm hoping for a 4 month beta personally so they can get it out by December. I just noticed that on 8th May sims3 went gold (which means its being produced/distrubited) for its 2nd June release. So looks like they need to be ready by the end of November for a release anytime this year. edit:spelling | ||
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Klapdout
United States282 Posts
On May 09 2009 21:29 Error Ash wrote: lol that stupid opt-in tool lists my harddisk as 12GB and totally disregards the other ~700GB partitions.... I hope this won't filter me out for Beta participation... I had the same problem and checked bnet's forums. I don't think it will affect anyone's chances of getting the beta. -Xordiah, Blizzard rep from Bnet forums "Don't worry about this, there will be a lot of people in the same situation. I'll make sure that the development team is aware of this (though I am quite sure they know already)." via http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=16903634489&sid=3000&pageNo=4 | ||
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LuckyFool
United States9015 Posts
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deathgod6
United States5064 Posts
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Singapore6164 Posts
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freelander
Hungary4707 Posts
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Biff The Understudy
France7857 Posts
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jhNz
Germany2762 Posts
i want this game soooo bad now :D | ||
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Misrah
United States1695 Posts
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Spartan
United States2030 Posts
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Coldlogic
United States116 Posts
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? | ||
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Whalecore
Norway1110 Posts
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Coldlogic
United States116 Posts
not many ppl have this high end of a comp | ||
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SoleSteeler
Canada5411 Posts
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Teejing
Germany1360 Posts
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Whalecore
Norway1110 Posts
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naventus
United States1337 Posts
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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latent
United States428 Posts
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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Aarnog
Canada6 Posts
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
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ghermination
United States2851 Posts
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Woyn
United Kingdom1628 Posts
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SoleSteeler
Canada5411 Posts
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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Bowdz
United States202 Posts
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Gray[FH
152 Posts
On May 15 2009 19:06 CharlieMurphy wrote: My boner is still popped, any advice? icee cold waterr | ||
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x89titan
Philippines1130 Posts
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SoleSteeler
Canada5411 Posts
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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zeox
Norway314 Posts
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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cava
United States1035 Posts
On May 16 2009 02:59 SoleSteeler wrote: 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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SoleSteeler
Canada5411 Posts
On May 29 2009 03:30 cava wrote: 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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SoleSteeler
Canada5411 Posts
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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da_head
Canada3350 Posts
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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SoleSteeler
Canada5411 Posts
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Tsagacity
United States2124 Posts
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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nayumi
Australia6499 Posts
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BloodyC0bbler
Canada7875 Posts
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Whalecore
Norway1110 Posts
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Klogon
MURICA15980 Posts
On May 29 2009 14:04 BloodyC0bbler wrote: hopefully being a mac user pays off for this beta this will help for sure. | ||
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Tritanis
Poland344 Posts
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Whalecore
Norway1110 Posts
Let's hope! | ||
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StalkerSC
Canada378 Posts
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imperator-xy
Germany1366 Posts
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Mastermind
Canada7096 Posts
On May 29 2009 19:05 Whalecore wrote: June 1st is Monday. Let's hope! what does that have to do with anything?? They said SUMMER. Check a calendar if you dont know when summer starts. | ||
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BloodyC0bbler
Canada7875 Posts
I seriously hope thats true. I know both sides have to test it out, and theres a lower mac base to pull from. So hopefully I have a higher chance to get in. + I want to play sc2, as I haven't been able to play it at any of the special events. | ||
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