Diablo III - Open beta weekend

[Ohio Joe]

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/4963739/Diablo%C2%AE_III_Open_Beta_Weekend-4_19_2012#blog

You will need to create a Battlenet account if you do not have one. Once this is done go to "My Account" and find the "Download Game Clients" link on the right, you will have to confirm your birth date (long form birth certificate required ).

[Occulus]

1. There goes all my free time this weekend.

Thanks. Thanks awfully.

[Whisp]

2. What? am I understanding correctly?

Joe, this means I don't have to own a copy it's a freebie for the weekend to Everyone?

say it's so! say it's so!

*pen poised on calendar to cancel weekend commitments

[Occulus]

3. I'm downloading the client now

It is so.



And it just went to a playable state and I have to go to work.

Evil, pure evil.

[Ohio Joe]

4. That is correct

Just create your Battlenet account here:

https://us.battle.net/account/creation/tos.html

Then log in here:

https://us.battle.net/login/en/?ref=http%3A%2F%2Fus.battle.net%2Fd3%2Fen%2Findex&app=com-d3

Then follow the instructions in the OP to download (if I recall, the client is only a few meg... 15 or 30 but the game itself is around 15 gig).

[Whisp]

5. thanks, Joe! I might have missed this if not for your notice.

oboyoboyoboyoboy.

made an account and downloading now

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

3.5 Hours to wait.

[Neoma]

6. Oh my god!

[Neoma]

7. Hey guys....

It says to back up your hard drive before you download it. Might wanna do that.

[Whisp]

8. anybody get in yet?

been trying for about 3 hours and so far no go with busy busy busy. I know a couple people who are in but they aren't responding to ichat now.

[Neoma]

9. Do you think this will be pay to play?

I can't get a straight answer. All they talk about is how you can earn monies in the game.

[Whisp]

11. as far I understand, no.

but there will be premium shops to pay for stuff with real money - that's the way now.

[eShirl]

12. premium shops? I thought it was player auctions only (seller chooses whether for game $ or real $)

with nothing auctioned by Blizzard?

[Whisp]

13. you could be right, I'm not sure.

that would be a different way of doing things with real money then.

[Neoma]

10. Nevermind, I think the answer is basically here:

http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?792619-Diablo-3-pay-to-play&p=7809734&viewfull=1#post7809734

[Neoma]

14. Beta is not the full copy of Diablo 3.

Argh.

[eShirl]

15. No; a "beta" is for helping find software glitches

so they can be fixed before the full version is released.

[Neoma]

17. That doesn't happen with every beta.

[eShirl]

18. er...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle#Beta

[Neoma]

20. I'm talking about them giving the full version for beta users.

[Ohio Joe]

16. Well... I never got the thing to download...

I got about 3/4 of the way through and then it just sat... I tried re-starting a few times but it just got stuck in the same place each time. I'm not sure what the problem was.

Did anyone get in for some play time?

[Occulus]

19. I did.

The beta caused random BSODs for me. And more than half the time it wouldn't even let me start the game.

What I saw of it looked pretty polished, though. It was classic Diablo gameplay; there wasn't any real need to use the keyboard, although the skill switching was a little bit clunky when I wanted to change between poison dart (I was playing as a witch doctor) and other skills. The visuals were very beautiful, but many of the more interesting visual effects (destruction of environmental stuff for the most part) depend exclusively on PhysX.

This game WILL push your system to its limit, that much I can tell you.