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Diablo II Beta Sign-Up Monday
MimEnkode writes "Blizzard has announced the beta test for Diablo II. Only 1,000 beta testers will be picked. You'll be able to sign up here."
This is not first-come-first-served; sign up at any time on Monday, and you'll have the same chance as everyone else.
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Randy Ziskind
Snowflake Technologies
Na... you just have multiple personalities. but it's what makes you you! fuck off fuck head. fuck. fuck fuck.
No hoping necessary, this is Blizzard we are speaking of:P
damn, that felt good :)
Everyone uses Windows. It's because the vast silent majority of Slashdot readers couldn't care less about Linux. They like the idea. They think it's neat. They just dont care. They're completely indifferent. They come here for the now seldom wonderously interesting factoids and whatnot.
hahahaahah I love AC's.
Yeah they are! Everyone from Mexico who can run, jump or swim is already in the United States
if someone get in the beta program while subscribing only once ... :-) --fred
man i cant wait to sine up. i really liked daiblo 1 a lot. i think id do a pretty good job of BETA-testing , blizard if your reading this ;)
Please take my apologies. This person is also pretending to be me. I am truly sorry for what I said and I promise to never do it again.
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Snowflake Technologies
Ummm. now just how big are these tits?....my girlfriend wants to know
The site clearly states US and Canada only, not North America itself
Then we'll know for sure.
Nope, different troll. The other guy is just some humorless loser trying to spoil the fun. Why would I be doing that? It's pointless. IMHO an "ethical" troll puts on a character, runs it into the ground until somebody "spots" him, and then pulls the mask off and everybody (hopefully) has a good laugh about it. If you get too much into playing with people's heads and yanking them around, it's not fun for them any more. You don't reply to your own posts, either. That's real, real bad form.
-- the "real" (so to speak
The moderators are on drugs today...just like yesterday, the day before, the day beofer that...
Ahh.... true, but how many /. readers run Windows?
oh ok!
where my grits boy?
Exactly. I'd sign up with it, but I'm afraid i'd get picked. Then i'd have to wait for a huge file to download, and spend all that time looking at Microsoft Windows. Bummer. I think a better choice would be to try and get my Windows version of Quake 3 to work in Linux.
We want grits. We want grits
> Another developer, just converted like that.
I'm not really sure that the kind of developer that are needed for world-class SMP...
--fred
Don't forget the other _LATE_ game, Daikatana. I think it was announced three and a half years ago, and they haven't even started the beta test. Romero used to take shots at id and j.c all the time; been quiet lately hasn't he? Probably knows that the single player FPS genre is all but dead today.
You must remember that we live in a market economcy where money
If you tell me which "we" you're talking about, I'll see whether I remember something along those lines, but without that information your comment is meaningless.
I was a programmer,....they fired me after adding some code. They call it cheats....some of them were not found!!! When you get the beta...try this, type ~#4fr33 ........they following.....
eh?! I found this wacky arse website with "anti-linux" pics..http://www.polyester.net..Check this out..
Click to en-large the anti-linux movement.. erm. ok..
They got something called "geek satire" also..
Hackers suspected as Microsoft 747 explodes in mid-air due to blue screen of death.
Cisco integrates routing, switching and underwear drawer technology.
IBM plans to change the shampoo world.
Microsoft Unveils Plans for X-Brush tooth brushes.
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"When little kids attack."
:(
Don't pout
In a year or so, you'll be a teenager too!
And the least he could do while he's waiting is leave the adolescent bashing to those of us who have already been through puberty.
Children should be seen and not heard
http://linuxuserforum.cjb.net
Does your Mommy know that you use the "F" word?
FUCKYOU YOU FUCKING FUCKER,
YOU LITTLE FLYING FUCKFACE,
ITS FUCKHEADS LIKE YOU THAT MAKE SLASHDOT,
SO FUCKING FULL OF FUCKING ABUSIVE LANGUAGE.
I have very small penis.
sorry!!
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Randy Ziskind
Snowflake Technologies
You are very wise.
My penis is very small.
Please forgive me.
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Randy Ziskind
Snowflake Technologies
Why don't you try to be a productive non-member of the Open Source community by shutting up and let Open Source developers and people who CONTRIBUTE to it speak for Open Source. /. doesn't mean you contributed.
The only reason you talk smack about proprietary BS is because it doesn't benefit YOU. You don't care about anyone else.
Open Source is about the COMMUNITY, about everyone.
This goes for all you other Open Source / Linux Zealouts.
BTW, just because you posted stuff on
Thank you for your support.
Ok, so where are my favorite hot grits posts?
there is a type of humor that subverts stereotypes by play acting the amusing extremes it can very easily be taken to.
its not a terribly sophisticated form of humor, which is why it surprises me that you missed it.
LOL you are so dumb YOU REPLIED TO FLAMEBAIT .... hahahahahahaha ... think of it as evolution in action (apologies to Agent Smith)... anyone with sense leaves the continent (and your piddling lil islands off the coast of france) and where do they wind up ... why here of course ... leaving exactly what ... why YOU, loser boy :) ... buck up laddie, cheers :)
If you want a discussion about the violence in video games and "it's ability to corrupt the minds of the innocent," see your pastor, rabbi, bishop, whatever. I don't care to become wrapped up in it.
YOU brought it up, asshole, not me, okay? Imbecile. Witless cretin.
Nobody fucking said anything about fucking violence in fucking video games, okay, you mindless asshole?
You are a perfect example of the useless morons I'm complaining about: I say that video games are moronic, and you start whining and whimpering about violence. You are a robot. You have a programmed reaction when somebody criticizes video games: Whine about how the violence in games isn't harming anybody. Well listen up, shithead, I don't give a flying fuck about the fucking violence. If you were capable of parsing a simple sentence, you would understand that.
What I object to about video games is that they attract brainless fucking invertebrates like you. I don't object to the violence. I OBJECT TO THE MORONS.
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Snowflake Technologies
Thank You.
>My mom has huge tits and I don't even know who my dad is. BTW: Moderators suck!
Got any good pics?
Made my first contribution to a (non-game) open source project two weeks ago.
Congratufuckinglations.
Two whole weeks! You're a real elder fucking statesman, ain't ya?
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Randy Ziskind
Snowflake Technologies
If you can you do, if you can't you teach.
Knuth teaches. Obviously he's not up to your standards.
Or are you just an insecure jackass lashing out at people who know more than he does?
The latter, obviously. The only people who have a grudge against education are those who lack it.
you can't hardly write a sentence without a swear word in it. Watch teh language.
I'll fucking watch my fucking language if you fucking watch my fucking fist.
Fair enough?
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Randy Ziskind
Snowflake Technologies
Worse than that, there is so-called "development" done in Germany, and even *Mexico*! LOL!
The attempt to popularize the Free Software movement has been an unmitigated disaster.
Do we *really* want to popularize "Free Software"? Suppose you needed a delicate surgical intervention. Would you rather get it for free, or from a highly competent professional medical team?
We're no closer to ending proprietary software than we ever were, but now we've got through idiots who demand ever-more-bloated video drivers when serious, necessary features remain lacking.
Thanks to the market pressure of these mindless teenagers e've got a Voodoo3 driver, but we still don't have world-class SMP support.
That's only a problem if you stick to "free" software. If you do the honest thing and pay for your software instead of pirating it, then you can have Windows2000 for serious issues and Windows98 for games. Keep video drivers where they belong. If you use linux or other pirated shareware you get exactly what you pay for!
After one of these fucking morons spends one whole fucking week of his fucking life deciphering some godawful crap that some idiot like Eric Raymond foisted upon the world (I wish all Free Software developers had brains, but you know how it is . .
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Randy Ziskind
Snowflake Technologies
"Don't fucking fuck with me, fuckhead."
Well, I've been known to be somewhat BRAINDEAD on occassion. But the point stands, I'd actually have to type DOS into the lilo prompt, something I always regret doing....
say something funny and maybe somebody will care. the other randy is an asshole but at least he's funny. are you one of those idiots who does the hobbit shit? grow up already.
btw, that's congraDufuckinglations. With a D. lol...
Is that why you buy old englishe at 7-11 with nickels, go home, get drunk and beat them repeatedly while screaming 'in my country we have this thing called respect?'
hey dumbfuck, some of us enjoy hacking with opengl. Thanks to those gamers, I can do so very cheaply, compared to 4 years ago.
And lets not forget the starving 3d artists.
no they're not
Most of them.
jokes are usually funny right up until the time you explain them, thanks.
-Wah
(anonymously off-topic)
He posted stats about a year ago. Windows had 60%, but of course lots of people surf at work. However, since then, Slashdot has gotten much less pro-Linux -err-I-mean level-headed, so I would expect the Windows numbers to be even higher.
Of course, the average web log shows more hits from WebTV than from Linux, so 30%-40% is actually a pretty big number.
I'm not usually so rude, but my uncle Bob has been molesting me again and this always upsets me. I don't like to be reminded of my homosexual tendencies, because I'm afraid to become gay when I grow up.
Please forgive my former rudeness.
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Snowflake Technologies
Listen, you fucking fuckhead, I don't need this fucking shit.
Proprietary software is fucking garbage. I tried Windows once. It fucking crashed. I had a pretty good idea how it fucked up, so I went to have a look at the code.
No code.
NO FUCKING CODE?!
NO FUCKING CODE?!
Fuck that fucking shit. These morons want to charge me for the software, and then they won't even give me the fucking code?! What kind of a fucking joke is that?
Fucking BSD gives me the fucking code. Fucking Linux gives me the fucking code. This is called professional fucking ethics, okay asshole?
Listen, you fucking suited dogfucker from fucking marketing, I don't give a fucking flying fuck about your fucking crap.
Windows is a toy for playing video games, and only mindlessl assholes play video games. "The best US$69.00 solitaire game on the market", as the man said. Don't make me laugh about using it as a real OS, it's a fucking toy.
My problem with where Linux is going is the stupid fucking kids are trying to turn it into a useless flashy toy like Windows, and the quality will inevitably slip to the point where it's as fucked up as Windows is. BSD is safe, of course. The real hackers have stuck with BSD all along. We in the BSD community are maintaining three kernels, while the Linux crowd, with 1000 times as many users, can barely maintain one fucking kernel (and an unstable one at that). If that doesn't illustrate the relative technical merits of the Linux and BSD user communities, I'd really fucking love to hear what does.
If you use linux or other pirated shareware you get exactly what you pay for!
Linux isn't fucking shareware, you fucking moron, Linux is Free (as in speech, not as in beer) Software released under the GNU General Public License. It's not fucking pirated anything. Shareware is fucking Windows bullshit and I won't fucking touch it. Pirated software is fucking proprietary bullshit and I won't fucking touch it.
Linux is fucking teenage video-game-loser bullshit and I'll touch it if I fucking have to (because I respect Stallman and Torvalds) but I'll wash my fucking hands afterwards because I don't fucking care to keep the kind of fucking company that hangs out on fucking Slashdot.
read it. post to it.
because you want to, don't you? the glimmering URL becons you.
This is a clear measure of the decline in the Free Software community: There are no more developers than there were ten years ago, but now we're surrounded by ten million adolescent morons who obsess video games and don't even know C.
The attempt to popularize the Free Software movement has been an unmitigated disaster. We're no closer to ending proprietary software than we ever were, but now we've got through idiots who demand ever-more-bloated video drivers when serious, necessary features remain lacking.
Thanks to the market pressure of these mindless teenagers e've got a Voodoo3 driver, but we still don't have world-class SMP support.
Hey, kids: We don't need you. We don't want you. Go back to bothering Microsoft. They deserve you. We don't.
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Snowflake Technologies
They're in N. America too!
You must be running Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 5. Windows 2000 is not supported for the Diablo II Beta, but will be supported in the final product.
Finally, a true Windows-native game. I hope LokiSoft doesnt taint this wonderful game by porting it to Linux, which, knowing it's support for video cards, would certainly soil this masterpiece.
Hey, no problam. -anotherone (following Wah's lead)
I wonder if Malda can answer this question. Maybe we should ask Malda to release stats about who is visiting his site. That would be interesting. What do you think, people?
Don't fucking fuck with me, you fucking mindless fucking goddamn idiot.
Fuck off.
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Randy Ziskind
Snowflake Technologies
it aint a role playing game. Diablo is a action game in a fantasy setting with role playing elements.
Let's all remember, being a Beta-Tester is not a free copy of the game, or just an excuse to play. Could everyone who wants to sign up make sure they have the time to do so?
It's just some semi-evolved cocksucker, utterly lacking a brain or a spinal column, pretending to be me. Ignore it. It will go away.
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Randy Ziskind
Snowflake Technologies
Its funny. Steven D. DeMouro happens to have the same initials as Scooby Dooby Doo...
Exactly. Not having a linux version is a good thing.
you sad, sad bastard.
and no, i aint posting that as AC. - id i have a point to make, ill make it showing my face. unlike you.
Would be "When is the Linux version coming out?"
My first question to this was "is this some kind of a joke?", the first and last time i played Diablo was when i found myself going through the same changing-color landscape 20 times. Why would Blizzard randomly select beta-testers to test this piece of shit game.
Slappy
He did, and they weren't very interesting. Up until about a year ago, there were running stats on the browsers and operating systems that Slashdot users were using. Well over 80% were using Windows if I remember right. A whole 5% or something were using Linux. Then mysteriously the stats disappeared.
Oh the horror.
>You will have the same chance as everyone else, provided you live in the USA or Canada. The rest of the world will have to wait until the second phase beta.
A.K.A. 'release'
-RN
It was posted here, a bastion of Linuxdom. So I don't know that my odds went down that much. Especially since I would have overlooked it completely, were it not for slashdot, so I guess my odds went up quite a bit.
And further, how many Dual processor/Win2k users are gonna apply for the beta? Hopefully not too many.
"Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs." P.J. O'Rourke
Well, I don't know how many will apply, but none of them will be accepted.
From the signup page:
You must be running Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 5. Windows 2000 is not supported for the Diablo II Beta, but will be supported in the final product.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.
Read the post again and you'll see that he also has a point (he is using sarcasm to show it).
A lot of people have dual-booting systems.
Gamers know a lot more about technical stuff than normal users. Remember the gamers are the ones who usually run servers (for games), make maps, mods, etc.
I think your son will be really gratefull for that.
A bunch of aliens is hanging around mars, looking for a fight or something. They come across a capsule, open it, find a bunch of names and think: Hmm, yes. let's go kill those people.
good point. After two weeks, every open source developer should be congradufuckinglated. You need air.
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Yes and no. The beta is only for Windows. And I thought most of the people that go here are on Linux? Whatever.
I have written several windowmaker dockapps under the GPL, and I am currently working with a major Free game effort. So I do contribute. BTW, I admit that the comment was vaguely inflammatory, but I do think that /. should focus more on small Free projects. Let Blizzard do their own PR. As for why I believe all software should be free, well, see www.gnu.orr/philosophy. RMS can explain it much better than I can.
Become a FSF associate member before the low #s are used
Finally. After such a kick a$$ first game the wait for this one had better be worth it. Gonna sign up as soon as i can.
~Jester
"I have great faith in fools: Self confidence my friends call it." ~Edgar Allan Poe
But, how many of the slashdot readers who didn't already know by checking diabloii.net or blizzard.com every day since they told us it was going to be announced this past week are going to be signing up? I would think that most of the readers who want to beta test already knew...
Intolerant people should be shot.
The demo is most likely going to come out shortly after release, which of course means that almost no one is going to bother with it...
Intolerant people should be shot.
Maybe in two weeks time, we should have a poll of how many slashdot readers got in? 1) I'm in HAHAHAHA 2) Damn you people! I didn't get picked! 3) Uh, there was a beta sign up? 4) Uh, Dee-ab-lo?
Intolerant people should be shot.
Ok, just so long as I don't have to actually install or *use* AOL, I'm still game.
Intolerant people should be shot.
Yeah, they are ensuring a variety of machines and connections, but it will still be random. Unless you've got an incredibly unique setup, you're still very unlikely to get in.
Intolerant people should be shot.
Wouldn't it be in Blizzard's best interest to pick a good distribution of machine types, rather than picking everyone at random for testing purposes?
He says, hoping his absolute minimum spec computer will get him higher up the ladder...
No, it will support Windows 2000, also. There are other companies in the works attempting to work out poting deals. Either by Blizzard doing the work or by some other company with an agreement. In the beta test only 95/98/ and NT4 will be supported. A mac release is sure to come later on in the year. But I sure hope that they will work out a deal to port the game to BeOS. I mean if they can release a botched up nasto version of Diablo1 for Playstation. I mean geeze, that is totally a waste.
futang futang!
Whats with all the hype over this game? Diablo was a good game, but there were and are plently of other good role playing games. Try torment, I just beat it, and it was far better then Diablo ever was.
This game is never going to live upto the hype no matter how good it is.
6 months?
:>
I remember a long time ago seeing it scheduled for release in October of 1998!
Better late (and better) than crap or never
Heath
Back in my college days, I was addicting to MUDs and MUSHes. From what I understand, games like Diablo and Ultima Online are graphical, visceral extension of these type of worlds, and horribly addictive. So for me, not signing up for this beta test will be like avoiding a hallucinogenic drug. Then again...maybe I will anyway...:)
If you need a lesser-known web-based free email address and want to show off your geekitude, there's always
GeekLife Mail (2000 users small)
(Well, at least I won't be moderated down for being off-topic (oops, is that a challenge?))
Argh!
I was hoping /. wouldn't post this so that my chances of getting picked would be higher! Nooooooooo! =)
shameless self promotion - http://kibbles.org
hmmmmmmm the Ole "Slashdot Effect" again....
/. ?
Anybody wonder if we spun a story (or just commented on one) if we could affect a company's stock trading price? Has this ever happened from
What was it Andy Warhol said about everyone being famous for 15 minutes....?
Hey, they were 2 days late on it (no doubt they rejected between 300 and 400 submissions of this on the 15th when it was posted on blizzard.com), your wishes were not totally unrealistic ;)
Esperandi
Do a survey sometime, I would bet a very large majority of users don't use Linux. Slashdot COULD keep stats on this very easily by snooping headers, but its funny they don't isn't it? What would hapen is they found out that 1% of the Slashdot community is Linux users?
Esperandi
Looking at the comments posted it seems that this "stuff that matters" for most of the people reading this. Probably a cross section of groups "geeks" and "diablo players" would be rather large. Accept it and live with it or go someplace else if you don't like it.
PoC
As long as its not Amiga news, its OK to submit. :)
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Most of us have windows. Even if we use Linux for our daily routines, most of us have Windoze available. Personally, I keep windows for games. Not all game manufacturers are enlightened as yet to release games for linux too.
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Not true. Didn't you read that double entries will be disqualified?
I'd say it probably only decreases your chances about 500%
M
Sure, I have a thankless job. That's okay. I have a lot of (non
> It take years of ignorance, closed mindedness, > and lazyness to make a moron. Glad to see Slashdot is populated by highly trained people. Nicholas
disclaimer: opinions contained therein are not neccessarily those of my employer.
When are the playable demo's supposed to come out?
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
I signed up for the Star Trek: Armada Beta test that was held recently (last month) using a hotmail account. I was one of only 100 people selected to test, so I think knowledge of your own system and your system specs have more to do with it.
The comment I'm replying to shoulda been marked (Score 3,Troll) instead of -1 flamebait.- ------
I don't claim to be an old fart (check Jargon File) but I would guess this was a damn good troll.
I think from now on once someone gets moderator access big lights should flash on there screen explaining
1) what a troll is
2) many should be marked UP as Funny or Troll
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"If I can shoot rabbits then I can shoot fascists" -
I went through the trouble of setting up windows to play Diablo 1 when after 5 minutes into the game my guy was pkilled by some NAKED warrior guy with a trillion hacks and spells. Of course I figured, ok... everybody plays with hacks so I made a hacked charachter which didn't seem to hard to do since there were freaking programs with GUI's to generate them etc. even though the game was pretty new at the time. I got on and started on a dungeon and everybody seemed to be pretty cool. After we were deep in, everyone started turning on each other and ambushing and what not. The funny part is, every last person was hacked and nobody could do anything to each other so we pretty much stood around making faces for a while and playing the dozens so then the others said that they were leaving to find newbies to pick on. I surfed the web and it appears that there were like clubs of people who like are NOT cheaters and you can like join a club of people if you want to play the game through... My fun was already killed by this time though so I got some chips and by the time I was done with the bag we went in with unilimited stuff and beat Diablo and all.. Yay. I'm not wasting my time setting up winbloz again for this crud. I was a BIG fan of warcraft /starcraft but the first Diablo was not worth the time I spent installing it and downloading counter hacks. I was looking forward to like another Starcraft or something instead. I don't think I would even play this mess if it were for linux.
Its not one of the 1st thousand. Its supposed to be random from what I gather :-) so you just prolly gained realistically a good 50K competitors at least. Slashdot gets a good 450K hits / day I know I prolly come to main page about 4 times a day. post a few comments etc.
./ community seems to have windows at least for gaming ( I do ). Soo.. Its a good bet you are gonna have your chances decreased a lot actually :-)
So.. that knocks down the unique hits down prolly ( unless those are unique ) And anyhow You have some addicts (-:lots:-) who refresh many more times than me lol. And a good portion of the
Okay, but what is the ultimate benefit of all that "true" technology? If people like to play games, if it makes them feel better, is it so bad?
Computer games are by themselves a respectable technology, and shouldn't be dismissed with words like "anything except games".
What, and have 3 000 people say they got in?
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Sigmenation fault.
Finally it's coming out, how late is it? 6 months I think?
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I find it humorous that I may be the only person here who gets this as a joke. You see, if I may explain it, this person (WAH) wants less people to sign up, so [s]he's saying that you need to sign a NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement), remove Linux from your HD, and sign up for AOL to be considered, hoping that people would then decide not to sign up and leave more open slots. You see, it's not hard to understand if you take some time. And to whichever moderator gave this +1: interesting: see this post.
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Does anyone know why this is USA and Canada only? As a UK resident I would more than happy to help with the beta, but for some strange reason I seem to be excluded. Personally I feel this is an unnecessary restriction, and a bit of a slap in the face for us non American existing customers
.. Darn. I was hoping this wouldn't get posted until about 1 am on 3/20. now I have to compete with an even Larger group of people to be within the 1st 1000!!
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Nasa occasionally has programs that allow you to submit your or your childs name to be sent into space on a probe. My sons name will be on mars, and On a comet!
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just a side note
technology growth != inovation. In the game industry, the goal is to get a product out as cheaply and quickly as possible. There is not a lot of room for inovation.
Driving for faster clock speeds does not mean better computers. I would love to see Intel/AMD stop this clockspeed pissing war and start working on real bottlenecks in the home PC. But as long as the consumer is told by the game industry that they need faster processors, the real world problems won't go away.
How does that lead to new technology development?
if the game industry really drove technology, directX wouldn't be here , in it's current form, today.
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I have been told you can run Baldur's Gate with wine. do you think Diablo II will be?
errera hunamum ets
If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
So what? The games been delayed and overhauled more times than the Sistine Chapel cieling, and what are the chances of getting into the beta? Something like a thousand to one. This is just another step in the long, boring wait until the I tear that little plastic off of my CD (Well, the four CD's). Besides, the StarCraft beta took upwards of two months to complete. Personally, I'm looking forward to the open beta more, everyone can download that.
It doesn't matter if the cup is half full or half empty. Whatever's inside it is evaporating either way.
I'm not talking about double entries. I'm talking about the sheer volume of Slashdot readers.
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Then we'll know for sure.
(unless you're the same troll, masqing your grits)
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DiabloII.net is a pretty decent source of info for this game. They give daily updates and they seem to be able to filter out the real insider info from bs hype.
I don't read it religiously, but it's nice when I need a "how's Diablo II doing" fix.
If someone can't configure their email or call the tech guys at their ISP to baby-step them through it, are they going to be much use in a beta test?
Intolerant people should be shot.
God I wish I could moderate you down. In case you've been asleep for the past umpteen years, ROB DOESNT SUBMIT THE ARTICLES
yeah, they're going to have you download a game that spans 4 CDs. I think I'm one of the few people on the planet who would actually deal with that download (if it was resumable).
/pub directory over a 56k connection.
There's a reason why they ask for your shipping address...
Esperandi
I swear I mirrored the entire ftp.etext.org
It doesn't say anywhere on Blizzards site that the selection will be random... it simply says you'll have a chance of getting in no matter how late... they may be doing it random, but I'd guess they're doing as you said and picking a good cross-section of machines and OS combinations and such and also looking for certain types of people to test it... like programmers and junk, they can help more in a test than just some guy who wants to play the game.
Esperandi
Well, most people chosen for beat tests are not chosen because they are Joe Q. User. Pointing out that you are a programmer and would be able to give comprehensive and detailed information about every fluke (for instance instead of trying to explain to them what it looked like when their collision test failed while you were up against a wall, you can tell them exactly that. even if its not right, its easier to decrypt than "I went up to this wall and then half the screen was a yellow-ish purple and somethin that looked like a rock was in the middle, my computer seems slower now, do you think it was a virus?!?!?").
Altho I think the real reason they want to do this is so that you can't signup a million times. I could have shipping addresses to a PO box, my home, all my relatives homes, my friends homes, my college box, my friends college boxes, etc, etc, etc and a free email address for every single one... but getting that many legit addresses is jus too much effort for most people to cheat to get in.
Plus, if you fuck with them like giving copies to all your friends, they can find out who you are.
Esperandi
The magic minute will be: 10:37 AM PST. Have fun /.ers!
It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
From the release it looks like it will be Win95/98 or NT4.0 only. This is going to be a good thing. I can't wait.
Bah! Pretty pictures and stereo music! Today's gamers grow soft and reliant on their mice! Back in my day, we all played Angband. Er, wait, we still do.
John
I read your post and I must admit I am very jealous. I would have given anything for this type Of open sourse envoroment when I was a teen ager, which seeams like it was a billion years ago.
Being a first generation computer gamer I can honestly say that people aren't morons just because they game. It take years of ignorance, closed mindedness, and lazyness to make a moron.
No one is born a moron, there just trained that way.
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Perhaps I will quell your fears about the future by saying that I love video games, and I also know C/C++. Imagine that! (And to make things worse, yes, I own a Voodoo3 3500). While I support the FreeSoftware community, I also realize (as an amatuer game programmer) that games support 70, if not 80% of the driving force behind the technology growth that we enjoy today. And it could not be possible without monetary input from said parties to the gaming industry and computer manufacturers. FreeSoftware should be used for things like OSs and Email clients, but the entertainment industry should remain within the capital market where it's so firmly seated. (Now, a price drop would be nice... but if you build it, they will come). If you want a discussion about the violence in video games and "it's ability to corrupt the minds of the innocent," see your pastor, rabbi, bishop, whatever. I don't care to become wrapped up in it.
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There goes my only chance at getting into the Beta Test. I figured, as long as Slashdot doesn't find out I might get in. But with only a 1,000 slots, oh well. If you make it in instead of me - please don't email me just to flaunt it.
Joseph Elwell.
...But now since the story was submitted and posted on Slashdot, the actual CHANCES you will get picked have decreased by 800,000%.
Good Luck!
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(If you can't figure out how to E-Mail me, Don't.
(umm, you want LESS people to sign-up, duh!)
For those of you that don't know, you must sign a NDA, remove Linux from your HD, and sign up for AOL to even *begin* to be considered for the beta. So it's not worth your while, move along please.
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A copy of StarCraft ended up aboard the shuttle, orbiting earth 153 times. Now everyone Blizzard thanked for being a beta tester in their manual has had their name in space.
The same might happen with Diablo 2...Or (if StarCraft went to space), is there a more appropriate location to take a copy of Diablo 2 (think double hockey sticks)...
From the Diablo 2 beta signup page: "You must have a valid e-mail address" This sounds straight forward, but in reality this statement is a bit deceptive. When most websites with beta tests say this, what they really mean is that you must have a non-anonymous email account. This means that accounts on hotmail, yahoo, rocketmail etc. are not honored. I think for most of the people reading these comments, this will not be a problem. However, I know a lot of people who don't know how to configure their outlook express or whatever client their using to get the pop3 account their local ISP provides. Because of this lack of technical knowledge, many are forced to turn to services like hotmail. I know your all probably pretty tech savvy, but I think that you should still know this before you sign up for this beta, as well as beta tests in general. One solution to this is to get an email account online at a lesser known place. A great example of this is http://www.hushmail.com This will give a free email account with 128 bit encryption (hence the name). Well there are countless other places you can turn if you have this problem, but I just wanted to inform everyone so that you can all have the best chance of making it into the Diablo 2 beta!!!
You will have the same chance as everyone else, provided you live in the USA or Canada. The rest of the world will have to wait until the second phase beta.
Phobos - Greek word for fear or flight