Beta Sign-Ups for WarCraft III

Alcachofo writes "Blizzard Entertainment has announced the long waited Beta Sign-Ups for their newest game: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. Individuals residing in the USA or Canada will be able to register for a chance to be one of the 5,000 players chosen. The beta signup is scheduled for a 24-hour period, beginning on January 7th at 11:00 p.m (GMT -8) and ending on January 8th at 11:00 p.m (GMT -8)." I couldn't even count the number of great hours of fun WC2 provided us back in the day. What an absolute classic. I wonder if WC3 will be reboot worthy.

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Re:Any news on system requirements?

[HalfFlat]

really though, when it comes to optimized code, great game play, and solid support, you know Blizzard will deliver, no need to even ask..

Clearly you haven't been playing much Diablo II.

Diablo II has been plagued with graphics slow downs - including obvious redundant overdraws! - that meant that it ran unsteadily even on top of the line hardware at release date.

Despite marketting it as an online game with secure servers, the servers in question were regularly overloaded and unstable. They were - and still are - not close net-wise to a large number of players, yet the gameplay is very intolerant of high latency connections to servers.

Play over a local network is plagued with inexplicable latency spikes.

It was (and with the expansion still is) a hugely popular game, yet promised continued support in the way of new runewords, cube recipies and the like have never materialised.

They changed gameplay rather than address underlying flaws in the graphics code of the game.

By all accounts, Starcraft is a well designed, well coded, and well supported game. Their more recent project - Diablo II - is good fun, but in spite of rather than because of the game's support and performance.

I am wary of Warcraft III. If it fulfills its promise it will be grand. I'll wait and see.