Diablo2.com Beta opt-in?

Too short, at least if it is an actual beta with the intention to find errors and fix them afterwards, and not basically a time limited demo as many public betas recently have been.

Also as they told us on BlizzConline it is basically the same game with a new graphics/audio engine running on top of it, so the chance for game breaking bugs should be not that high, unless Multiplayer which integrates new Battle.net and therefore should need a lot more of code rewriting, prone to introducing new errors.

The release date might still be realistic, but I do not see a reason for for the long break between technical alpha and “multiplayer beta”.

As the game seems to be pretty stable as it is I see no reason why not to start the multiplayer alpha/beta whatever it will be called much earlier, maybe at the beginning of May. There is no real reason to hold it back and waste time, you also do not have to fix everything from one alpha/beta phase to the next, they are mainly to detect bugs. Known bugs have to be fixed for the release but not necessarily for the next testing stage.

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I guess MP Beta will start sooner than we think.

Let’s hope. My guess is MP Beta will start in a couple of days.

Release in Summer also possible.

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Yes, I also guess (and hope) that there aren’t too much things to fix due to the nature of D2R, so the next step could come quite soon.
Then I’m expecting a release on early September, but I would love to get it on summer start ^^
It will probably depend on how it works through Battle.net.

Anyone here remember the original stress test, where you could only get as far as blood raven ? (and you would play the login game more than the actual game , which stress test or not got worse on release :slight_smile: )

No, but I remember trying the old April fools joke of chasing a Rogue Encampment chicken to Blood Raven to get a SoJ. I was so gullible when I was young. :laughing:

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Hopefully they talk more about beta soon and let us know if we can actually opt in to it right now or if we are already opted in from the previous alpha opt in.

Hope on release for new retail ladder reset