by sctechie on 4/20/12, 4:50 PM
While not still in college myself, I was enjoying the tide of students crying because Blizz is having open beta weekend the week before a lot of people take finals. Made my morning. =)
by pilif on 4/20/12, 4:54 PM
Seeing a beta test with such a potentially big audience (I'd say that a game as anticipated as D3 would get quite a seizable amount of people participating in an open beta), I would be willing to bet my hat(…) on the fact that we'll see D3 go free to play very, very soon.
by scottjad on 4/20/12, 5:57 PM
With the game due out in three weeks, my guess is there's very little "beta" about this. Anyone have an educated guess when the game is sent to publishers for production? A day after beta ends? Already?
I think this is more like a demo or a way to get the game installed on millions of computers so that buying it is as easy as possible (a click away). I don't know about their publishing relationship but perhaps they get a better cut on electronic sales and this definitely helps increase those.
That said I'm downloading it now :)
by justjimmy on 4/20/12, 5:17 PM
This timing coincides with another open beta – TERA. An 'action' MMORPG that requires active dodging from the player and cursor targeting (instead of tab targeting like most traditional MMOs).
Diablo 3 beta will be easily completed in a day, all 5 classes, so TERA is a good second game to play around if you find yourself gobbling up the D3 beta too fast.
by jhuckestein on 4/20/12, 5:11 PM
They recently released a few developer diaries that are worth watching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYe_eNG5Cz0It's impressive how much effort is put into a game like that compared to the web/mobile apps I usually build. Tempting, really
by sirclueless on 4/20/12, 4:41 PM
And to think I was prepared to go to class today.
by zschallz on 4/20/12, 4:41 PM
Does a "valid battle.net account" mean you have to be paying for a battle.net service? I've got one, but not paying for WoW.
by nextparadigms on 4/20/12, 5:52 PM
I still can't get over the fact that Diablo 3 will require an Internet connection to play it in *single player".
by eyeface on 4/20/12, 5:08 PM
Is this really HN material?
by jasonlotito on 4/20/12, 5:33 PM
And this on a weekend filled with Ludum Dare 23 and the Philly Startup Weekend. Oh, such evil timing.