Diablo 3 General/Gameplay Discussion

[Silent Remorse]

Originally Posted by purehybrid

The entire game has been developed around online co-op play. If the internet was as developed during the days of d1 or d2, you can be pretty sure those games would have the same focus.

Bang on. The first person in the thread to truly understand the point of the game.

Just like SC2, they wanted the entire experience to be dynamic.

[sir_bazz]

So have any aussies received a beta invite yet?

Just wondering if the selection process is currently based on geographical location.

[hosh0]

Originally Posted by sir_bazz

So have any aussies received a beta invite yet?

Just wondering if the selection process is currently based on geographical location.

Silent Remorse got in. Atm it's pretty much media invites going out.

[Silent Remorse]

Originally Posted by sir_bazz

So have any aussies received a beta invite yet?

Just wondering if the selection process is currently based on geographical location.

I think I'm one of a few people in this thread and throughout the world who got a key - certain games media get allocated keys to all Blizzard betas for previews/beta coverage.

In terms of rollout - Judging from what I've read and some people I've talked to, this seems to be the play:

The rollout of keys will be in stages, each bigger then the next, to monitor server load.

- Family and Friends (DONE)
- Press and Media (CURRENT)
- Wave 1 Random Account Activation
- Wave 2 Random Account Activation
- Giveaways, Promotions and Buddy Keys
- Possibly Open Beta (wouldn't hold your breath though)

So don't worry, there's a still a ways to go.

[remi.]

Hmmmm currently my system stats are my PC, wondering if its worth changing them to my iMac for a better chance of getting in

[d.Mac]

Originally Posted by remi.

Hmmmm currently my system stats are my PC, wondering if its worth changing them to my iMac for a better chance of getting in

thats exactly what i did lol.

[Sc316]

Originally Posted by sir_bazz

So have any aussies received a beta invite yet?

Just wondering if the selection process is currently based on geographical location.

if you really want a invite go upload a few gaming vids to youtube then call yourself Press and Media

[Silent Remorse]

Originally Posted by Sc316

if you really want a invite go upload a few gaming vids to youtube then call yourself Press and Media

Yeah that's not how it works ;p You need to be more like TotalBiscuit or Husky before Blizzard starts dropping beta keys on you.

[Autti]

Originally Posted by remi.

Hmmmm currently my system stats are my PC, wondering if its worth changing them to my iMac for a better chance of getting in

You know i've been debating this a lot and my current conclusion is that PC would be more likely for the following reasons.

Client stability. This would favour PC for a simple reason, there are far more combinations of hardware than a Mac. A Mac will have around 30-50 different systems that could play D3 (i.e not PowerPC) tops. It would be very very easy to stability on these systems. Couple that with the fact they want a broad category of hardware, there will be thousands with the exact same, why bother hand out lots of keys to what will acheive the same result.

Put it this way, if i was running the beta i could evaluate the entire Mac problems with 100 keys. PC on the other hand would require thousands upon thousands.

[jET_M@X]

Blizz could be targeting gamers who play d3 on the go. There's a video of some press guy playing the d3 beta on a macbook air. Just
do what another ocau'er did and register 2 battlenet accounts - 1 with the pc specs and 1 with the mac. Can't hurt to have more chances right?

[flinchy]

Originally Posted by jET_M@X

Blizz could be targeting gamers who play d3 on the go. There's a video of some press guy playing the d3 beta on a macbook air. Just
do what another ocau'er did and register 2 battlenet accounts - 1 with the pc specs and 1 with the mac. Can't hurt to have more chances right?

you can only register for the beta if you have a game activated on the acct.

[remi.]

Originally Posted by Autti

You know i've been debating this a lot and my current conclusion is that PC would be more likely for the following reasons.

That does make sense. Hmmmm probably just take my chances with mac 'cos my PC parts are pretty common

Originally Posted by jET_M@X

Blizz could be targeting gamers who play d3 on the go. There's a video of some press guy playing the d3 beta on a macbook air.

Good news I've update my stats with my MBA!

Waiting for my key Blizz

[sir_bazz]

Originally Posted by Silent Remorse

- Family and Friends (DONE)
- Press and Media (CURRENT)
- Wave 1 Random Account Activation
- Wave 2 Random Account Activation
- Giveaways, Promotions and Buddy Keys
- Possibly Open Beta (wouldn't hold your breath though)

Thats the sort of info I was after.

Thanks muchly.

[tlai]

See the leak about the 2012 release on the blog site... makes me sad

http://s3.imgimg.de/uploads/d35e867c28jpg.jpg

[r8response]

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/3552...9_23_2011#blog