StarCraft 2 Beta Rumors

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There's been a lot of proverbial dirt flying around the StarCraft fansite arena this week. First there was a rumor tossed around by ThisIsGame.com (a Korean site) claiming the upcoming investor meeting would announce the StarCraft 2 beta. Then an unnamed fansite *cough* TheWarCenter.net *cough* leaked an entire e-mail from Blizzard. It all came to a head earlier this week and then one of our members brought our attention to a tidbit he and his friends gleaned from a blue post.


According to Bashiok Blizzard had a visit from internet personality and self-proclaimed "best gamer ever" Jace Hall. Bashiok said the visit was "recent" which means (through elementary detective work, Watson, since Blizzard takes almost all over December off) that it must have occurred sometime in January. In any case, Mr. Hall has published a preview of the third season of his show on YouTube. Where it gets real interesting is an almost invisible clip at 2:16 where a meeting of Blizzard employees including Chris Sigaty and Dustin Browder are having some beers celebrating something. What would they be celebrating? Well the giant projection of a StarCraft 2 menu stating "Welcome to the StarCraft 2 Beta" might just be an oopsie. Oopsie!

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Not to downplay all this but, frankly, it all means nothing. That being said, we thought it was something everyone should be aware of just in case February 10th turns out to be D-day. Wouldn't want anyone to be surprised now. So take a look, come up with your own theories, and then blame it on the government, or the aliens, or whatever you need to. We'll continue to sift for the truth.


By the way, Bashiok, I'm loving your hilarity at 1:02. Wave off the camera, buddy. Next time might want a sheet over the board when you've got a rogue on campus! "Are you filming our design board?!" Classic. Also, if you're a Diablo III fan you might want to check out 0:58 when he actually records the design board. It means nothing to me, but it might make someone's day!



Sources: Battle.net
DeckardLee, XbillehX, Vandal

 

P.S. - Anyone interested in D3 should notice there is a reference to "Cow Level" at the bottom of the shot!

 

Hahaha they've got some pretty funny stuff there. But I don't think anyone's this desperate to care about games to think of these snapshots as trustworthy sources.

 

... what? oh, sorry.. I got distracted with that chick flashing her enormous boobs.

This is good stuff btw xD thanks for the find jon

 

My fortune cookie was right!

 

Thanks for the credit and the full topic. I wanted to change the name of the other topic since the topic quickly changed Alas, I could not. This should help future conversation and keep things more orderly.

But, back on topic, good news guys. I have a good feeling about this February. I've never once had a good feeling about the beta. Even whenhey were so sure they'd make it in the summer, I still had a feeling they wouldn't. So, this is a personal first for me and has gotten my pretty hype. Clearly, this means something great is going to happen given my almighty clairvoyant powers are never wrong. You might want to file this under 1200% confirmed!

 

so u are a mentalist....thats great...i'll inform uri geller

 

That's a joke on how I seem to be the one of the only people left on SCLegacy that still believes a February beta is possible. It still very possibly could be later. I don't know. I'm just kidding around. It's how I stay sane in times like these.

 

DeckardLee it's people like you that make these times in waiting so livable. You give us hope. Hope for the beta where everyone else has lost faith in Blizzard you have not. And it's nice to know at least someone thinks these recent rumours might translate into a beta.

 

Hallelujah! My lonely soul hath found companionship!

Believers unite! Kill the heathens!

 

the only thing that I found worth in the vid is, that they all drinking Stella Artois! It's of my favorite beers!

15 days left... Cheers!!

 

Surely ye jest!

 

http://digg.com/pc_games/Starcraft_2_developers_celebrating_Starcraft_2_beta
and we have this info posted by our jon on digg! Cept its not on on forums but on starfeed. Not sure how that works but aw well.

Hmm anyway good to see some updates on the homepage, and interesting info. One can always hope, I really want my hand on the beta before my exams. I'm already addicted to a game that I haven't bought yet >_<. Woo go me

 

For clarification: neither I nor Jon found this information. xbillehx did.

I sent a message to Lipton the news poster.

 

I gave Lipton permission to use the article. He's just giving credit to our site as a whole since that's where he got the news. Billeh gets his credit . Keep on topic boys.

 

Well, not that I care, but he did say that you specifically found the youtube video.

 

ah okay, awesome. Sry to go off topic just was curious
Well not sure if this is also going off topic but what do you think will be in the beta?
Battlenet multiplayer? Matchmaking tests (the ranking stuff)? A blizzard style teaser with the campaign?
And the answer to how they'll handle the lan but online thing?

 

Are the green bottles Stella Artois ? It's from Belgium, where I live I should have been sent to them too.

 

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Jace-Hall-Show/50039850491

So, apparently, Jace Hall got an exclusive scoop on something. The first two episodes are Blizzard related. How much you wanna bet it's something related to StarCraft 2 that we'll all enjoy

 

the beta is gunna include pretty much the entirety of B.Net 2.0

the beta has 2 purposes - test SC2 and test B.Net. I believe they plan on throwing in a limited map editor as well. nothing single-player related. and no tourney's i believe just matchmaking and custom maps if the editor is in there