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Listen up. From noon on Friday, April 20 (Pacific) until 10:00am (Pacific) on Monday, April 23, Diablo III will be in open beta. Meaning anyone with a valid Battle.net account can get in on the action.
To download the client now ahead of time, click here. Once downloaded and once the weekend rolls around, you’ll be able to play all five classes up to level 13.
If you don’t have a Battle.net account from WoW or StarCraft II, it’s free. You can get that process started here.
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Noon on 20 April (PST) is 6am on 21 April (Australian east-coast time).
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/pacific-time/
Actually I might be wrong. Someone else has told me 5am because of daylight time over in the US (I looked up PST but they’re on PDT).
You might be looking a the retail client, my beta folder is 7gig and the download is around 4.2 g
Great… the one weekend when I am up at a farm with no PC and no internet connection… well fuck.
Great… The one weekend where my girlfriend is away and I’m home alone the entire time with a PC & an Internet Connection… Oh wait 😀
Already had a mate in the US give me his beta key. I have to say that I surprised myself by how quickly I was bored with the beta. Haven’t logged in since, but I’m getting fidgety waiting for the 15th of May >:)
I thought everyone hated Activision, blah blah, never play another Acti game blah blah?
Hmm just as I thought….
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this isnt Activision, this is Blizzard. Yes I am aware about the merger. But the companies are apparently seperate, despite Activisions influences.
When you get bored of your character…just think…what would Limp Bizkit do?
KEEP RE-ROLLING ROLLING ROLLING ROLLING!
KEEP RE-ROLLING ROLLING ROLLING ROLLING!
I just realised there are actually a couple of very high-profile StarCraft 2 tournaments (MLG, Dreamhack) this weekend. Could a Blizzard server overload affect those tournaments? I thought maybe it could, since there is cross-communication between StarCraft and WoW servers so Diablo might share some server…things? I don’t really know what I’m talking about =(
“If you don’t have a Battle.net account from WoW or StarCraft II, it’s free.”
Um, or a battle.net account from Diablo 2? Am I old?
I believe they upgraded battle.net a couple of years ago, the old Diablo/D2 accounts aren’t valid anymore.
3003 means wrong server, only americas is up.
Options->Account->Region -> Set to Americas.
Now you get error 37, full servers 😛
You peeps are in for a rude surprise, half the people who downloaded the client (me included) have found it doesn’t work and Blizzard havent found a fix yet
I assume you’re talking about the Error 3003/3008/whatever? It’s not a bug. The whole point of this “open beta” weekend is that they are stress-testing their servers. The reason for these errors is that too many people are logged on at once.
Before anyone whinges about that, this is a stress-test. Overloading their servers to see how it handles is pretty much the whole point of the test.
Been playing for this morning.
It’s exactly the same game as Diablo 2. If you liked that then it’s fine.
If you found it really boring waste of time just clicking on stuff (like I did) then you prb won’t be blown away from it.
Look, my time’s valuable and games like this just suck time away and flush it down the toilet. I’m sure it’ll still get ratings of 90%+ but I can’t see why. It’s boring and ZERO skill is required, just time put in.
I find it slightly amusing that you found Diablo 2 “really boring waste of time just clicking on stuff” yet you went ahead and checked out Diablo 3. Good on you for giving the sequel a chance at changing what you didn’t like, but I am a little surprised you expected a very different formula. Diablo and Diablo 2 are revered. The whole point of Diablo 3 is to follow that legacy.
It was well done, but not worth all these years of wait and trailers and teasers. Wasn’t impressed by the graphics either. I still prefer Diablo 2 much more fun memories. I don’t see my friends and I enjoying this in the same way we did with D2.
FFFFFFFUUUUUUUU
I’m at work for this weekend and back on Tuesday when the Beta finishes =(
The way they added necromancer as a mini boss just pisses me off ==”. WHY DID BLIZZARD REPLACED HIM FOR THE @!#@%#$ WITCH DOCTOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got in without too much trouble, and it was glorious.
I had to stop playing for RL stuff, and later couldn’t get on. I finally got on and was enjoying it again and then I started getting a latency of 1300 and it became completely unplayable.
So it is looking like an amazing game, but with crippling connection problems. There is no reason at all for lag in a singleplayer game.
I hope this is just “stress test” stuff. I can’t imagine Blizzard shipping the game with this sort of connection problem, so fingers crossed.
What I’ve seen, I’ve loved.
Finished the beta multiple times single player, multi player and with different character classes. no problems here. loads of fun if you liked the previous games, although would have been nice to have some control over skill development. and no cutscenes which was strange for Blizzard…
Wow, loved it.
No issues and played multiple times with different classes with mates.
Would be great if they would just get some Australian servers.
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