Beta Starcraft 2?

Yeah, might be good that I don't know how much time i've invested in their games... I'd probably cry blood.

 

But it's not like I had something else to do at that time.

 

Is a beta version a demo of the game ???









Get ready to die from the wrath of protoss - Protoss Kills Infinitely

 

I say that Blizzard should give us Starcraft 2: Beta version.
I want this 'cause I wanna experience Starcraft 2 RITE NAO (censored)

 

no. just no.

 

Why not?

 

I bet thousands maybe even millions are waiting to try starcraft 2 so why can't they just at least release it :upset: :upset: :upset:

 

ElemenTT!! Why can't you agree with him and me?

 

I think a beta would pwn especially since ign already said they suspect that there will be one at the end of the year sometime...

 

A beta is a limited release of the game to a select number of people before the game is completely finished. The point of it is to find any bugs and fix imbalances. Demos are released after the game is done and is a sneak peak of the retail game.

 

They were going for something similiar with WoW: Burning Crusade last Blizzcon. Only attendees would receive one. Yet i got a key in the mail to the beta even though i didn't attend. It may be something similiar with SC2, i dunno... although since WoW is a subscribing game, it's less likely that any of us would receive the key in the mail since that would require of you to not only subscribe to Blizzard's mail or some sh1t, but also hold an interest in SC, which everybody doesn't

Anyways, they'll figure something out. And if they don't, well then at least we will play the game on release day.

Yeah that's true, most people just want to play the beta because they want to have fun, i realized this when i played on WoW: BC beta, everybody was demanding something of Blizzard in return for playing the beta, like giving them free stuff on their beta characters or transferring the characters to retail. They just didn't realize that the beta was a privelege, not a job. I'm going to quote something a guy said on the BC beta forums that i found very amusing, and true:

 

Maybe they'll give one to super awesome people like myself.
Or they will give a few keys to various fan sites (such as this one) then our awesome admin will pass them along.

 

ya or you can expect to find some on ebay perhaps

 

Very likely.

 

Yeah you can find just about anything on ebay... if only I could find a good car for under $2000............

 

I could probably find Jimmy Hoffa on Ebay if i just bothered looking. *grin*

 

Or Jesus.
Or even starcraft 2.... some scam.

 

I think that there is a high possibility that beta will be released sometime near the end of the year.

 

Elemen probably just means that he'd like the beta to just be ready when it's ready. Blizzard never rushes anything. They are in alpha, then they gotta do serious in house testing, and then a highly closed beta, and then maybe some of us will get to play a beta. Then they may do a limited open beta/bnet stress test. That's what they did with Diablo II.

 

In my experience a beta is either a very select group of people in the hundreds or thousands that check for bugs. After that they might, just might, depending on their server capacity, do a stress test beta that almost anyone can join. You download essentially a demo of the game and play it online just to make sure Bnet can handle it.