Diablo 3 open beta weekend starts today
After a false start earlier in the week, Diablo III will properly enter open beta this afternoon. It's only for stress-testing over the weekend, though, so get your robe and wizard hat laundered sharpish or you'll miss it.
After a false start earlier in the week, Diablo III will properly enter open beta this afternoon. It's only for stress-testing over the weekend, though, so get your robe and wizard hat laundered sharpish or you'll miss it.
The open beta weekend begins this afternoon at 12:01pm Pacific, then will run until 10:00am on Monday, Blizzard explains in a Diablo blog post. All you need to play is a Battle.net account. You can download the client in advance, so you don't miss a second.
The beta is relatively small, packing the first part of Diablo III's first act, but you will be playing Diablo III. Unlike proper closed beta testers, open beta players won't receive 'Beta Bucks' to spend in the auction house and cannot post in the beta forums.
Diablo III launches for PC and Mac on May 15. The closed beta test will wrap up on May 1.
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replyAlice O'Connor posted a new article, Diablo 3 open beta weekend starts today.
After a false start earlier in the week, Diablo III will properly enter open beta this afternoon. It's only for stress-testing over the weekend, though, so get your robe and wizard hat laundered sharpish or you'll miss it.-
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Finally the rest of the public get to enjoy the tiny amount of content in the beta. Despite having only about 1/3 of the first act, and a level 13, this beta has managed to occupy at least 50 hours of my time over the last few months. I will definitely be avoiding the servers this weekend though, going to be laggy as hell.
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Can you explain "sharpish" to me? Is it an adverb or an adjective? If the former, shouldn't it be "sharpishly"?
I don't speak your crazy space-English.-
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Nice. I like it!
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Did you hear her say "Nuclear launch detected"? I've been in luv ever since.
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Ah, you also have to have a BattleTag.
https://www.battle.net/account/management/battletag-create.html-
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Blizzard calls Stress Test a success! \o/
The open beta has begun and we've been extremely successful
... in that we've already managed to break a few things. We've capped the open beta concurrency until we can resolve some stability and service issues, and until it's resolved you will likely see an Error 37 when attempting to log in.
Error 12 - This is an error we're still investigating, but should only be appearing for Korean accounts which are not able to participate in the open beta. If you do not have a Korean account, we're still investigating this issue but suspect it may simply be due to the Battle.net Account services being slammed by the high volume of traffic or a communication issue between the game and account services.Error 3003 - Click Options, under Account change your region to The Americas. The open beta is only being held on US hardware.
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It's fun if you have ever enjoyed diablo, but in the middle of playing I feel like I'd rather go play an MMO. Wat does it mean Shack? :(
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I thought you could use a 360 controller for this?
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Dungeon Crawlers or ARPG's... you either like the genre or you don't, might explain your boredom after 15 mins. Also there is the fact that its the beta and about 000.1% of the full game.. and basically just a quick tutorial. Oh and also there is the fact that most RPGs that involve leveling and talents don't start to get good until about level 12+, pretty much a known fact.
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