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This was posted on BlizzPlanet.com, dont know if there is another thread already (I did a search and didnt find anything)
Posted 15th Jun 2009 11:13 AM by Medievaldragon
Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime announced a few weeks ago at the Activision Blizzard Conference Call during E3 that StarCraft II Beta would start this summer. Today, the Gaming Press Sites awakened fans with the news that Blizzard has contacted all of them by email to alert them to set up their Battle.net account by Friday, June 19th (deadline). Does this mean beta starts this weekend? A week later?
The answer is not that simple. No date was provided to the press, but it is exciting to know it is gonna frag everyone any second after June 19th. It is interesting how the news got leaked today, which marks the last day of school classes throughout United States. Something fans should know is that, around last month, the media was invited to visit Blizzard Headquarters this June 22nd. The OCRegister Blizzard Blog among them.
StarCraft II Beta is imminent. Are you ready?
* Crave (CNET)
* Kotaku
Can it be only a week away??
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God I hope so so much that it will be out in a week. I want it with all my body especially my pee pee.
RAG
P.S. I can't wait to start yoga next year.
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Please be true I'm so bored!
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It probably won't be though -(
RAG
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The only thing that sucks is I dont have a beta key... and I really want to cast SC 2 games...
grrrrrrrrrrrrr
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On June 16 2009 03:11 HuskyTheHusky wrote:This was posted on BlizzPlanet.com, dont know if there is another thread already (I did a search and didnt find anything) Show nested quote +Posted 15th Jun 2009 11:13 AM by Medievaldragon
Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime announced a few weeks ago at the Activision Blizzard Conference Call during E3 that StarCraft II Beta would start this summer. Today, the Gaming Press Sites awakened fans with the news that Blizzard has contacted all of them by email to alert them to set up their Battle.net account by Friday, June 19th (deadline). Does this mean beta starts this weekend? A week later?
The answer is not that simple. No date was provided to the press, but it is exciting to know it is gonna frag everyone any second after June 19th. It is interesting how the news got leaked today, which marks the last day of school classes throughout United States. Something fans should know is that, around last month, the media was invited to visit Blizzard Headquarters this June 22nd. The OCRegister Blizzard Blog among them.
StarCraft II Beta is imminent. Are you ready?
* Crave (CNET)
* Kotaku Can it be only a week away??
there are still high schools that are open, at least in NJ. i doubt this is 100% but if it is ill be amazingly excited since summer is here to stay for a few months at least.
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So is this another site confirming the emails other than Kotaku or was that their source for it?
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OMG i cant wait 2 pwn u all lmaoz
lets get this beta started!!
-Zabestrial
Poll: Favorite SC Race
(Vote): Zerg
(Vote): Terran
(Vote): Protoss
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On June 16 2009 03:20 HuskyTheHusky wrote:
The only thing that sucks is I dont have a beta key... and I really want to cast SC 2 games...
grrrrrrrrrrrrr
focus on playing the game
then talk about it afterwards
if you know you're talking about it somehow becomes infinitely more interesting to listen to you
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On June 16 2009 03:42 IdrA wrote:Show nested quote +On June 16 2009 03:20 HuskyTheHusky wrote:
The only thing that sucks is I dont have a beta key... and I really want to cast SC 2 games...
grrrrrrrrrrrrr focus on playing the game then talk about it afterwards if you know you're talking about it somehow becomes infinitely more interesting to listen to you
Truth. But I cant do either without a beta key.
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Ugh i hope they start the ironman tournament soon, it would suck to win a beta key and be weeks late.
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beta opt in, you're my only hope T-T
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On June 16 2009 03:52 da_head wrote:
beta opt in, you're my only hope T-T
This. Well, at least I'll watch some homemade gameplay footage on YouTube.
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On June 16 2009 03:52 da_head wrote:
beta opt in, you're my only hope T-T
I'm still waiting for that e-mail invite to the beta blizz! c'monnn
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United States20661 Posts
I question the necessity of inviting so many unheard-of third-tier websites. Like how does Blizzard even find out about them? :x
Whatever. Waiting for a more official Blizzard announcement on this.
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did you not get a beta E-mail from opt in already? I guess you dont get one then ^^
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I don't know about you guys but I'm happy about this leak lol
EDIT: :o
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Wtf, there was a link for a 2nd page for this thread before 21 posts.
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On June 16 2009 04:07 Teejing wrote:
did you not get a beta E-mail from opt in already? I guess you dont get one then ^^
beta opt-in emails have NOT been sent out yet. The only ones sent were for well-known players (Nony, etc) or well-known community helpers (nazgul, chill), or big gaming websites (like the ones listed here).. All which say to send them their account name, so they can bypass the opt-in.
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holy crap, this is really interesting news. So, maybe on june 22nd we may get the beta?
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On June 16 2009 04:19 Skyze wrote:Show nested quote +On June 16 2009 04:07 Teejing wrote:
did you not get a beta E-mail from opt in already? I guess you dont get one then ^^ beta opt-in emails have NOT been sent out yet. The only ones sent were for well-known players (Nony, etc) or well-known community helpers (nazgul, chill), or big gaming websites (like the ones listed here).. All which say to send them their account name, so they can bypass the opt-in.
I think Nazgul would have to be considered a well-known player first and foremost  He was even in Korea for a while.
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On June 16 2009 04:21 FrozenArbiter wrote:Show nested quote +On June 16 2009 04:19 Skyze wrote:On June 16 2009 04:07 Teejing wrote:
did you not get a beta E-mail from opt in already? I guess you dont get one then ^^ beta opt-in emails have NOT been sent out yet. The only ones sent were for well-known players (Nony, etc) or well-known community helpers (nazgul, chill), or big gaming websites (like the ones listed here).. All which say to send them their account name, so they can bypass the opt-in. I think Nazgul would have to be considered a well-known player first and foremost He was even in Korea for a while.
Oh I know, but he hasnt done so much in the past 2-3 years, other than mainly helping out on here, which is why I included him there. I used to play with nazgul back in the Ladder Challenges days.
edit (i mean he hasnt done much on BW in the past 2-3 years to warrant a beta key, esp when other top players who have been active in the past 2-3 years didnt get invites, thats what i mean)
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Yeah, I see what you mean.
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we need a concrete list of all the top foreigners who got beta keys. im sure theres been more than just Nony and Incontrol
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wow so much exitement  I hope so much i get a beta key
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I remember reading somewhere that beta keys will be released for the US first. Wonder how long it will take to roll out in Europe.
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omg can't wait. 1 week. :D
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On June 16 2009 03:42 IdrA wrote:Show nested quote +On June 16 2009 03:20 HuskyTheHusky wrote:
The only thing that sucks is I dont have a beta key... and I really want to cast SC 2 games...
grrrrrrrrrrrrr focus on playing the game then talk about it afterwards if you know you're talking about it somehow becomes infinitely more interesting to listen to you
Zing!
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BTW.. This email is most likely fake, since Blazur (of bnet SC2GDF) is the one who apparently reported the email.. So yeh, dont believe it.. Damn, it would be nice if it was true which would mean beta soon, but since its fake its quite dissapointing =/
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Europe will be receiving Beta Keys after Korea. So expect 3 months after a US Release.
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not everyone who plays SC is in high school..
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wont be 3 months after, Europe will probably get it 2-3 weeks after US.
Damn fake emails from this idiot Blazur kid has to stop. esp Starcraftwire for keep on reporting info from him. its so lame.
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please wait 2 weeks, PLEASE!! haha shit, i have some schoolwork to do, if the beta comes out now, who knows, how much my school will suffer
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Yeah I dunno how reliable the source is... I really hope that its true though.
Edit:
We’ll be heading over to Blizzard’s Irvine campus Monday, June 22, to get a hands-on with the single-player campaign for “StarCraft II.” We’ll let you know how it looks and plays, and we’ll be sure to try to drag as much info as we can out of whoever gets to shepherd us around the building. (We’ve also been offered an interview or two with game creators, which may prove to be somewhat more fruitful.)
* BlizzPlanet’s interview with Christie Golden, author of the upcoming “StarCraft” novel, “The Dark Templar Saga: Twilight” went off without a hitch. Not only did they get fan-submitted questions answered, but they also got some new information on the game world. BlizzPlanet
Thats the text from the above link that someone posted.
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On June 16 2009 05:00 Mutaahh wrote:please wait 2 weeks, PLEASE!! haha shit, i have some schoolwork to do, if the beta comes out now, who knows, how much my school will suffer
I know - it will become non-existent.
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On June 16 2009 04:54 Skyze wrote:
wont be 3 months after, Europe will probably get it 2-3 weeks after US.
I know that Korea gets their invites a month and a half after the US and supposedly they are the 2nd wave. So where does Europe fit in this timeline?
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woo cant wait even tho i dont have beta key it will be nice to see the vods
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United States24678 Posts
I'm sure I will get a beta opt-in and the ability to dl it the day I am leaving for my cruise XD
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This was posted on SC2Armory.com.... it shows that there really hasnt been any confirmation yet.
Recently, several news sites have reported that Blizzard has sent an e-mail to several game writer, notifying them to register a Battle.net account by June 19th. One of the sources of this news is the gaming website Kotaku which had this to say:
Quote by Kotaku
Blizzard is starting to gear up for the StarCraft II Beta, the company said recently in an email sent out to game writers.
The email, which asks game writers to make sure they have a Battle.Net account set up and a request in, says that Blizzard has no date yet to announce for the start of the beta. The email ends, however, by saying that all Battle.net account login info for game writers needs to be sent to Blizzard by June 19.
Sounds like reason enough for me to start getting excited.
Other websites that have notified the public of the same thing are CNET and Gaming Shogun. However, due to a lack of an official confirmation, the possibility remains that the e-mail is an elaborate hoax. We will keep you updated on the matter.
Special thanks to Mr.Edgeworth, Darcy and Oin for discovering the news. Thanks also goes to Perfecttear for providing additional sources.
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Wow, are we gonna have a new thread every time someone at Blizzard farts?
It's coming soon, we already knew that.
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On June 16 2009 07:13 micronesia wrote:Oh my god it wasn't even fake: http://www.starcraft2.com/beta-faq.xml+ Show Spoiler +The date for the Starcraft 2 Beta his been confirmed. It will start for players who already have Beta keys on June 20. Beta Opt-In keys will be distributed on June 21.
Did you find that in the site because I don't see anything
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On June 16 2009 07:15 Mazar wrote: Did you find that in the site because I don't see anything
I was high-fiving Klive5ive.
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On June 16 2009 07:16 micronesia wrote:Show nested quote +On June 16 2009 07:15 Mazar wrote:On June 16 2009 07:13 micronesia wrote:Oh my god it wasn't even fake: http://www.starcraft2.com/beta-faq.xml+ Show Spoiler +The date for the Starcraft 2 Beta his been confirmed. It will start for players who already have Beta keys on June 20. Beta Opt-In keys will be distributed on June 21. Did you find that in the site because I don't see anything I was high-fiving Klive5ive.
rofl
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Com'on alrdy let it out....now!
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On June 16 2009 03:32 Zabestrial wrote:OMG i cant wait 2 pwn u all lmaoz lets get this beta started!! -Zabestrial + Show Spoiler +Poll: Favorite SC Race( Vote): Zerg ( Vote): Terran ( Vote): Protoss
A poll in an sc2 thread, yah! (although admittedly it's not a SC2 poll)
Also, you don't need to sign your posts on teamliquid. It says your name above your post. People generally think you're conceited when you do that. Welcome to the site.
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OMG! I hope it starts next week, and hope I get a key..
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More speculations please, we don't have enough already
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On June 16 2009 07:36 LonelyMargarita wrote:A poll in an sc2 thread, yah! (although admittedly it's not a SC2 poll) Also, you don't need to sign your posts on teamliquid. It says your name above your post. People generally think you're conceited when you do that. Welcome to the site.
lol i know sry it just fills me with pride to see the glorious name again! lol jk
WOOT the Zerg are pwning in da poll
and the poll got 100 something in the first day wow!
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On June 16 2009 07:13 micronesia wrote:Oh my god it wasn't even fake: http://www.starcraft2.com/beta-faq.xml+ Show Spoiler +The date for the Starcraft 2 Beta his been confirmed. It will start for players who already have Beta keys on June 20. Beta Opt-In keys will be distributed on June 21.
lies, damned lies
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On June 16 2009 07:13 micronesia wrote:Oh my god it wasn't even fake: http://www.starcraft2.com/beta-faq.xml+ Show Spoiler +The date for the Starcraft 2 Beta his been confirmed. It will start for players who already have Beta keys on June 20. Beta Opt-In keys will be distributed on June 21.
That was cruel :\
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June 22nd is my 22nd birthday this year. It'd be damn fun to have SCII beta started that day.
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On June 16 2009 08:17 Naib wrote:
June 22nd is my 22nd birthday this year. It'd be damn fun to have SCII beta started that day.
lmao tha'd be hilarious
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I think 22 June is too early for Beta.
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Why would Blizzard ask for people's account names when they could just send them beta keys in the email?
That doesn't really make sense.
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On June 16 2009 03:52 da_head wrote:
beta opt in, you're my only hope T-T
Me too... Damn brother won't share his, he just had to leave ~_~
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On June 16 2009 10:40 SearingShadow wrote:
Why would Blizzard ask for people's account names when they could just send them beta keys in the email?
That doesn't really make sense.
Blizzard is using a different system for the top of the top... they are skipping the beta opt in process that most of us have to use. I dont know the specifics but there were posts around the internet about how they want to streamline the process for the top sites/players.
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sup husky i saw ur youtube and im thinking of subscribing luv u!
I NEED A BETA
-Zabestrial
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I don't know, Kotaku is a pretty big site. I'm sure they would have found out if it was wrong information by now.
-Zebastriel
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IGN said they got it and they're signed up now.
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Kennigit
Canada19447 Posts
Why are you all denying science?
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Osaka27149 Posts
no ... esports is... is gone?
I hope he makes another comeback soon.
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On June 16 2009 14:58 Tsagacity wrote:
IGN said they got it and they're signed up now.
source?
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can we get some offical links? i cant find the IGN one.. and i prob could trust them getting this email.
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Sorry I should have seen that coming
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/48287/StarCraft-II-Beta-Starting-Up-Pretty-Soon
As mentioned around the interwebs Blizzard is getting the wheels rolling on the StarCraft II beta by getting the press signed up. I wasn't sure if it was kosher to mention the beta stuff, but the cat is pretty much out of the bag at this point. Oh, and yes, in case you're wondering -- we're all signed up and ready to go. There is no NDA for the beta once it launches, so expect tons of goodness to emerge once we begin.
What's ve3d? I never visit them but I assume this is still ign -_-
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god dammit i want a beta key!!!! If i don't get it someone will need to catapult my corpse into blizzard HQ.
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So bullshit I couldn't use my cd key for the opt in.
I said it was already used. But it's the same cd key I've been using on bnet for 3+ years.
Some low life took my key.
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On June 16 2009 17:16 Highways wrote:
So bullshit I couldn't use my cd key for the opt in.
I said it was already used. But it's the same cd key I've been using on bnet for 3+ years.
Some low life took my key.
My bad bro.
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There were a bunch of posts deleted from this thread speculating about the leak, is there some nudge nudge wink wink stuff going on here? Or should I keep quiet?
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I hate fake news that gets hype up for nothing
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There is still a battle report 3 to go, Once that is released there is probably a few weeks after that til beta. This thread pisses me off on multiple levels.
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I wonder what crappy content those gaming sites will provide. T____T
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On June 16 2009 17:40 CharlieMurphy wrote:
There is still a battle report 3 to go, Once that is released there is probably a few weeks after that til beta. This thread pisses me off on multiple levels.
No, it was a Korean blue that stated that BR3 was before beta, not a North American one. So technically the 3rd BR could fall after the North American/Australian beta and before the Korean.
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i bought a blizzcon beta key on ebay and the sinup worked fine for me. does this mean i will be part of the early american beta even though iam from germany(europe^^)? probably a stupid question but anyway :/
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You should be able to play on US server.
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I got all the SCL trivia questions right... luck of the draw =[
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On June 16 2009 03:11 HuskyTheHusky wrote:This was posted on BlizzPlanet.com, dont know if there is another thread already (I did a search and didnt find anything) Show nested quote +Posted 15th Jun 2009 11:13 AM by Medievaldragon
Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime announced a few weeks ago at the Activision Blizzard Conference Call during E3 that StarCraft II Beta would start this summer. Today, the Gaming Press Sites awakened fans with the news that Blizzard has contacted all of them by email to alert them to set up their Battle.net account by Friday, June 19th (deadline). Does this mean beta starts this weekend? A week later?
The answer is not that simple. No date was provided to the press, but it is exciting to know it is gonna frag everyone any second after June 19th. It is interesting how the news got leaked today, which marks the last day of school classes throughout United States. Something fans should know is that, around last month, the media was invited to visit Blizzard Headquarters this June 22nd. The OCRegister Blizzard Blog among them.
StarCraft II Beta is imminent. Are you ready?
* Crave (CNET)
* Kotaku Can it be only a week away??
So it's kind of a press conference? or what? did blizzard just invite the media over for some coffee?
So I guess in a couple of hours we will know what blizzard had to say so urgent.
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Well, it's 9:20 PM, Sunday night in California. So more than a couple of hours. Probably have full details by 3 PM their time.
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On June 22 2009 13:20 SoleSteeler wrote:Well, it's 9:20 PM, Sunday night in California. So more than a couple of hours. Probably have full details by 3 PM their time.
3pm the next day? as in in 18 hours or so?
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Yeah Blizzard has a big press conference with a bunch of gaming sites on Monday (tomorrow) it looks like. Its 10:30 pm Cali time as I post this, so expect some sort of news in about 16-18 hours... No telling what the news will be, but we'll see.
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Very very hard to say, the little sc2 beta picture seems kinda random and ugly why would they add it. But besides that the picture looks reallly there is seriously NOTHING that makes this picture look like a photoshop except that little ugly green beta picture in the corner I think. I'm totally not an expert at this =p. Also one of the repliers The_Earth from when i was a noob at battle.net forums is pretty trustful from what I read 0o.
AND also the fact that the site went down for maintenance + the press conference it all adds up. I wouldn't be surprised if beta would come this week.
ORRRRRRRRRRR
It is just a fake and I got my hopes up again but I don't care at all because i rather feel happy that beta could come tomorrow then the feeling i have to wait for another month.
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the only thing that looks possibly fake to me is that that t and a in beta are 0 pixels apart. the fact that the e and t are 0 pixels apart isn't out of the ordinary as many combinations of letters + t are 0 pixels apart on that page (the capital s and t in starcraft for example). still im leaning towards fake
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Yea, I noticed this on the battle.net forums earlier today. Interesting stuff, though whether it's real or not is a different story. Until I hear something from Blizzard themselves I'm not going to get my hopes up. There seems to be heaps of people on various forums posting "evidence" that it's a fake.
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How many hours for the press conference? :S
The beta forum is simply fake.
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Does anyone even know when the press conf. will be held?
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see .. there is no way blizzard is just now putting up a beta forum.. pre alpha beta has been up for like months.. so there has to be a legit forum they have been posting on.. just doesnt make any sense.
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lol.. unno this one sorda tells me its legit..
http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/7247/forumgmw.jpg
IM SO CONFUSED. IM trying to tell my self its not legit so i dont get my hopes up.. but god its so convincing
Edit: pretty sure the color of the font has been changed.. so pretty sure its a fake.
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On June 22 2009 19:19 iMate wrote:lol.. unno this one sorda tells me its legit.. http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/7247/forumgmw.jpgIM SO CONFUSED. IM trying to tell my self its not legit so i dont get my hopes up.. but god its so convincing Edit: pretty sure the color of the font has been changed.. so pretty sure its a fake.
just try the adress, to me its pretty false due to poor sc2 beta icon and someone didn't want us to see page title...
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Plus the blur.
If you want to show some proof, you don't want to use bad image quality.
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On June 22 2009 19:19 iMate wrote:lol.. unno this one sorda tells me its legit.. http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/7247/forumgmw.jpgIM SO CONFUSED. IM trying to tell my self its not legit so i dont get my hopes up.. but god its so convincing Edit: pretty sure the color of the font has been changed.. so pretty sure its a fake.
Yea looks fake. Forum ID 12209? Another Link said that the
Forum ID was 12024. I don't think these guys got their stories straight before posting this stuff.
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On June 22 2009 19:15 iMate wrote:
see .. there is no way blizzard is just now putting up a beta forum.. pre alpha beta has been up for like months.. so there has to be a legit forum they have been posting on.. just doesnt make any sense.
A Forum is always there, it's easier to lay out ground points, feedback and internal affairs on there for easier access then just have a bunch of notes to the meetings n such, also the friends and family beta people need a place to talk on, so a beta forum is always there.
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On June 22 2009 20:58 Lobbo wrote:
A Forum is always there, it's easier to lay out ground points, feedback and internal affairs on there for easier access then just have a bunch of notes to the meetings n such, also the friends and family beta people need a place to talk on, so a beta forum is always there.
wat
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This is a pretty convincing demonstration that it's a fake
"Ok I stayed up thirty minutes longer than I had wanted. I am 100% sure this is a fake and that the_earth, Searingshow, Babykrune, and Dr4goN (From SCWire) are in on it. This could provide evidence that some of these accounts are alts of each other. I can also tell you that it was faked using image editing and not through html/css.
To see why, you must understand a little bit about how the background for this page is generated and how it fits inside the boxes that contain the forum categories. The background is one image, approx 200x200 that has all the elements this background needs. Using css, they slice it up to create sub images of the little doodads you see along the borders. These are exactly the same image, repeated along the borders at a precise pixel interval.
Now, these boxes with the forums are on a separate layer and contain no background at all. The borders are made of four dom elements, one for each side. On the inside of these, you will see the background shown through because there is nothing on the layer above them to need its own background.
Proof 1) Measure the distance between the doodad on the right with 3 (and a small faint one on top to make 4) horizontal lines. It appears every 1.5 inches or so (depending on screen size). On the provided screenshot, it appears again on the added box, exactly the same way it appears from the third forum in the D2 section.
2) Now also notice that below that, there is a larger gap than usual to the next three line doodad. This is due to stretching the image vertically at that insertion point.
If you would like to see how the borders really change when you add or remove one of these elements, download firebug, go to the forum page and open firebug with the inspect tool. Click on a box, then in the firebug panel below delete one of the divs associated with a sub forum box. You can always do the same thing with the css on the right of the panel and increase the size, to see how they get shifted down. It does not match the behavior shown in the screenshot. "
http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=18031132994&postId=180294904390&sid=3000#34
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