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Warcraft 3 Expansion Beta Signups Announced

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the bring-out-yer-undead dept.

Clomer writes "Blizzard Entertainment has announced the signups for the beta testing of the upcoming expansion set to Warcraft 3 called The Frozen Throne. The beta will be online-only over battle.net, requires the full version of Warcraft 3, and is only open to US residents. Signups will be at battle.net starting on Friday, 14 February and will last a week."

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  1. new goodies that i never get to see by TheSam · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've signed up for betas for the last 4 products Blizzard has put out. I actually want to know how many people get into beta tests. So, /.'ers have you beta tested for Blizzard?

    1. Re:new goodies that i never get to see by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

      My father could have made the Diablo II beta, if he had read his mail :( Actually, I would probably have been the beta tester.

    2. Re:new goodies that i never get to see by incripshin · · Score: 2, Interesting
      I played in the War3 beta as well. I loved the game, but for some reason, I never bought it. Cheap bastard! ...wait, that's me. (My favorite part was when my ally, with only a single Tree of Life, ate his way through a large grove of trees to the middle, where he set up camp ... took a long time for them to find him.)

      I also signed up for the Diablo 2 beta both times and was accepted for the second one. I never did it cause I would've had to download 100MB over dial-up. Not for me.

      incripshin

  2. Re:Can I just submit a bug? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How about "Doesn't play nicely outside of the US?"

    (don't mind me - I'm just sore that I live in Australia - home of the "it's out in the US, so we'll get it in about 3 months")

  3. Single or Multi? by thinmac · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The important question here, at least for me, is: is the beta test single- or multi-player? Personally, I hold my own against the bots, but any attempt to even try out battlenet play, and I get completely stomped. The dregs of battlenet are far too good for me (and most other people I've talked to who've tried this).

    Are they using battlenet mearly as a way of letting people play the beta for a temporary period (keeping all of the maps and scenarios on the server), or are they letting people play battlenet games using the new units?

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  4. Re:Remember BNetD by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "... remember thier stance on open source and the use of DMCA to supress it."

    Also remember that they weren't against Open Source, they were specifically against it being used to allow pirated copies of their games to be played. While we're remembering stuff, let's also remember that it was Vivendi (Blizzard's parent company) that filed the complaint. Finally, let's also remember that it was not a DMCA case, it was plain old copyright.

    "Boycott blizzard, they deserve it. It would be easier if they didn't make such damn good games though. I will miss them."

    Boycotting Blizzard is probably the least effective way of getting your disapproval across to them. Exactly how are they supposed to know why you didn't buy the game? A drop off in sales will likely be explained by sagging economy and other factors affecting every single game company on the planet. Besides, it's Vivendi you're after. Send THEM a letter. Don't be a tard and give Blizzard reason to stop making those good games you like.

  5. Re:I disagree by Yorrike · · Score: 2, Interesting
    "It just doesn't make sense that the majority of bnetd users would be legitimate war3 CD owners. Why would you play on a small server instead of battle.net? The argument about lousy battle.net performance simply doesn't hold water these days."

    We run a bnetd server after hours here at work. You get to have a localised Starcraft ladder league, not use company internet bandwidth and boast to your fellow collegues about just how far behind they. It's great fun, and just so you know, we ALL own Starcraft & Broodwar.

    There will be some people out there who pirate games, and they always will. But bnetd did not hurt Blizzard in our case, in fact, it encouraged people here to buy SC/BW.

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  6. Re:Bah by cicatrix1 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How is stealing honest? You can set up LAN games. You can play on Battle.net with thousands of other players. There is not really 1 single good, legal use for bnetd, and you fucking know it.

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