Star Craft Beta Invite

[pinotnoir]

I just got invited to join the Star Craft Beta. I am downloading it now cannot wait to try it out. Anyone else get beta invites to Star Craft?

[Owltoid]

I thought that beta was over more than a month ago. Are they doing a second beta?

[MiRai]

I got 3 in the last 2 days on the accounts that I let run out as of 16 July. WTF Blizz?!

[F9thRet]

I got mine yesterday also. Sadly I'm getting the Download is not authorized every time I try it. <sigh> have an email in to Blizz.

Did all the normal stuff also, Run as admin, Checked the ports, restarted Modem, router, and PC. Nothing seems to have worked.

Oh and of course downloaded the uhm downloader like 3 times.

Stephen

[daviddoran]

I think it comes out in less than 2 weeks so maybe they are trying either one last build before release, or are trying to build up hype... I got one too.

[EaTCarbS]

I thought that beta was over more than a month ago. Are they doing a second beta?

I believe they pushed the release date back, so the beta is still live.

[Maxion]

I got an invite too, said it was for their last weekend of testing, so prolly sent out lots of invites to stress test servers or something.

[Multibocks]

I hope that thing leaves my account screen when beta is over. I'm OCD about it cluttering up my account management page, plus I got bored playing it after 30 mins.

[kate]

I just got both sc2 and cataclysm beta invites so this should be fun!

[Hivetyrant]

SC beta's are still being handed out for some reason, unfortunately if you look at the fine print you will see that the Beta ends today :( (or yesterday, can't remember which but by the time you download it, it will probably be over)

[Maxion]

I hope that thing leaves my account screen when beta is over. I'm OCD about it cluttering up my account management page, plus I got bored playing it after 30 mins.

I'll make sure to get it off my battle.net asap when i'm done with it to make sure i have room for the cata beta if i get it.

[jinkobi]

SC beta's are still being handed out for some reason, unfortunately if you look at the fine print you will see that the Beta ends today :( (or yesterday, can't remember which but by the time you download it, it will probably be over)

Yeah most BETA's do a load test at the very end so they send out mass invites to stress the system.

[Tdog]

i got a beta key like 3 months ago or something. the game looks good though, im looking forward to it.

[Maxion]

I played with it a bit, when concluded that I suck even more at it than I did on the first one, and uninstalled it.
Hoping the thing gets taken off my battle net soon so i'll have room for the potential cata beta.
Was good to get a look and feel for SC2 before it's released though, saves me from wasting money on a game I don't care to take the effort to get decent at.

[pinotnoir]

I played with it a bit, when concluded that I suck even more at it than I did on the first one, and uninstalled it.
Hoping the thing gets taken off my battle net soon so i'll have room for the potential cata beta.
Was good to get a look and feel for SC2 before it's released though, saves me from wasting money on a game I don't care to take the effort to get decent at.


I tried it last night and I suck at it too. I just cannot micro manage all the stuff going on fast enough.

[alcattle]

I tried it last night and I suck at it too. I just cannot micro manage all the stuff going on fast enough.
Guy at work said the same thing, looked ok but there's a buttload of stuff to do before it gets better(as a new player)

[Maxion]

Exactly, and I feel I get a lot more fun for my time in WoW.

[MiRai]

I tried it last night and I suck at it too. I just cannot micro manage all the stuff going on fast enough.
It's because you have to be Korean...

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[thefunk]

I never got the hang of RTS personally. Now I know why...

[pinotnoir]

It's because you have to be Korean...

YbpCLqryN-Q

Thats so insane how could it even be fun? Maybe everyone has to be on Meth to be good at these.

[jinkobi]

Never a big fan of RTS games either. Only strategy games that ever appealed to me were the ones where you take over a map country by country. You have all the time in the world in between moves too.

Games for me are to lose reality in them. Not that reality is bad it's just games allow you to do the impossible. Haven't seen any dragons around my neighborhood I looked!

SC2 and the like seem more like a job than fun. Neither would I want the severe arthritis and carpal tunnel these guys are going to have down the road.

[Lokked]

Turn based strategies are all I can handle. What happened to games like MOO 1 & 2?

[kadaan]

APM is a bunch of crap, imo. Who cares if you told your units to attack once, or 20 times in a second. Clicking to move to a spot over and over isn't doing anything but increasing your APM.

I got into Gold for 1v1 and had 2 teams in Plat in 2v2 in the beta, and my APM is usually only between 30 and 50.


I feel the same way about SC2 Ladder as I do about arenas. I'll do them a few times and to get achievements, but I don't find them fun. I'm more looking forward to SC2 single player, and all the custom maps.

[Hivetyrant]

Turn based strategies are all I can handle. What happened to games like MOO 1 & 2?
Oh man I love MOO, and number 2.

number 3..... not so much

[kate]

Oh man I love MOO, and number 2.

number 3..... not so much

They need to make Moo1 multi-player.

Moo2 required too much micromanagement. I hated that I couldn't just create one master queue and have all my planets just build from that as the things became available. With Moo1, while I couldn't set all planetary systems to missiles, population, production or ships with one click, I could at least just tab through all my systems and click to do it quick.

[outdrsyguy1]

holy crap, that guy was insane! No wonder I get my ass SMOKED at wc3 and starcraft lol!

[Tdog]

APM is a bunch of crap, imo. Who cares if you told your units to attack once, or 20 times in a second. Clicking to move to a spot over and over isn't doing anything but increasing your APM.

I got into Gold for 1v1 and had 2 teams in Plat in 2v2 in the beta, and my APM is usually only between 30 and 50.


I feel the same way about SC2 Ladder as I do about arenas. I'll do them a few times and to get achievements, but I don't find them fun. I'm more looking forward to SC2 single player, and all the custom maps. Agreed, if you watch the screen instead of his hands, he really wasn't going any faster than I was when I play and I sure as shit don't go ape shit on my keyboard like that...and while I'm not the best rts gamer there is or anything, I always did pretty decent without doing that crap...

[Maxion]

Oh well, beta ended and is off the battle net account. Room for cata beta now blizz, pretty please. :p