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Blizzard's World of Warcraft Beta Goes Live
craenor writes "Perhaps the most anticipated entry into the increasingly crowded PC MMORPG market, Blizzard's World of Warcraft, has just reached the live Beta stage, for those select players lucky enough to be picked. In a distinct change from the existing trend in Beta tests, they are not going to require NDAs for participating players, and everyone will have read access to the official Beta forums while testing takes place." The WoW site includes a basic game FAQ for beginners, and BitTorrent is now live as Blizzard's Beta distribution method of choice, as the mentioned earlier on Slashdot Games.
So now Blizzard likes open source software, since it's going to save them some costs. I say they can go fuck themselves. I'll think I'll pirate their software over BitTorrent just to balance out the cosmos.
They are the ones who shut down FreeCraft and Bnetd, two software projects I was using regularly! Up until that point I had purchased WarCraft II, the WCII expansion, StarCraft and it's expansion and Diablo II. I think they should pay for their own hosting costs to hock their games. Sure, cease & desist whatever you don't like and embrace what will further your profits.
This is still the little arm of Vivendi - you may remember them as the company that used the DMCA to kill bnetd and tried to kill freecraft?
Yeah, but their games are good, so no-one cares. If their games were buggy and sucked, then people would be screaming injustice everytime Blizzard made a move.
Thier bad business model isn't a valid reason to remove my rights.
but Blizzard has a flawless record.
I'm sorry, but those of us that liked Warcraft II, Diablo I, and Starcraft tend to hate Warcraft III. Diablo II was absolutely nothing new and was so damn buggy it was pathetic.
Replay value on their single player games are horrible too. No PvP. The game is going to be a single player game with chat.
you're new here aren't you.
Please provide me a link to this place you speak. Because the /. I know isn't full of people that think differently, if it was the moderation system would not be used to attack 'wrong' thoughts.