Oblivion is referring to the fact that some people received an invite with no ability to download the beta client. Those that were not accidentally emailed already have the ability to download the client and have done so.
For the rest of us that were flagged in error, we wait anxiously to see how the mistake will be resolved.
I just downloaded the beta from the bnet launcher. However, we can’t get in until later today (4 pm PDT). My guess is they want to also test a lot of people logging in at the same time to see how that goes too.
For those experiencing this issue, make sure you don’t have one or more unused/inactive accounts that may have received the invite instead of your active one. Just a thought.
While I am frustrated by the situation (I have been playing since spring of '05), I understand that sometimes these things happen. Depending on how the system is set up, one extra numeral or even a misplaced comma can create an incredible amount of issues.
Blizzard has no intention of disenfranchising us, but they are also human. Also, technology does weird things sometimes and the best of preparation and checking will still allow issues to slip through the cracks.
My guess on this though is that there will be a post soon letting us know it was an error, with an apology, but we will still be watching through the fence.
If you’ve been playing this long, I wouldn’t think this would make you quit.
Mistakes happen, it sucks, but they’re not intentionally doing this stuff to piss people off. Depending on how many people they accidentally sent an invite to, I’d think the easiest solution woild just be to flag those accounts for stress test access.
You obviously can’t read or don’t understand. Many of us received an email saying we were in the stress test and there is absolutely no option to download it on bnet. Nothing. Nada. Nopes.
It’s a server side flag. Uninstalling the app would not resolve the issue. If it were solvable from the client side, simply restarting the app would fix it.