Diablo 3 will be available for all this weekend in an open beta stress test. So if you wanted to preview the game to decide whether or not to get it, you can try it starting in about a half hour, going through until Monday morning.
We’ll get some straight dope co-op games going I’m sure - if you want to get into my games, the best way to contact me is through steam (same name). I’m sure we’ll be playing a decent bit over the weekend.
Thanks for the heads-up! Will be nice to get a free preview.
Thanks very much for the heads up SenorBeef!
"E=SenorBeef;14984557]Diablo 3 will be available for all this weekend in an open beta stress test. So if you wanted to preview the game to decide whether or not to get it, you can try it starting in about a half hour, going through until Monday morning.
We’ll get some straight dope co-op games going I’m sure - if you want to get into my games, the best way to contact me is through steam (same name). I’m sure we’ll be playing a decent bit over the weekend.
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The time for the beta to open is 12:01PM PDT. Half an hour from the timestamp of your post would have been 00:00 PDT - so there’s another 8 and a bit hours until the beta opens from now.
I’ve just downloaded the client, and it’s saying I don’t have a valid Diablo III account, so it looks like I won’t be playing until tomorrow morning my time.
I was in the private beta, and I don’t believe there was any co-op (unless I completley missed it!). Is this open beta different?
Ugh, I don’t know how I screwed up the quote that badly. But regardless.
I am having the same issue.
Edit : Never mind. Senor Beef posted 12 hours too early - it’s not open until noon Pacific.
Joe
My bad, didn’t read the timestamp correctly, and it’s not uncommon for stuff to start at midnight.
You need to have a battle.net account, but they’re free to create.
The description says you can “team up with friends” so I assume there’s coop.
Downloading now…I only played Diablo II a bit, never beat it, and never did any multiplayer, but what the Hell, I’ll try this out…
Uh oh…might have to take a long lunch to run home and start the download. Just to be clarify, I can go ahead and download, just not play until noon Pacific?
Yeah, download is available now.
Tell my wife and kids that I loved them.
When they say valid Bnet account, do they mean an account with WoW or something more recent than D2? I haven’t logged into D2 for years, and I’ve never had a WoW or SC account.
I guess I could try installing D2 to create a new up-to-date account (in case my old account was just deleted for inactivity), but I’d rather not go through that if it’s not gonna work.
So by “valid Bnet account” do they mean a newer Bnet account, or would an old-school account work?
When they relaunched Battle.net a few years ago, all of their games (including WoW) had to be under a battle.net account. I doubt the D2 account would work. Just follow the link on the page linked in the OP to create one.
I want to hate this game. I mean I really really want to hate it. 12% downloaded and I can already feel the quivery sickly feeling of the withdrawal that will have to come if this turns out to be a life-consuming game.
It didn’t install right for me…some weird error, it sent a bug report to Blizzard…I might try to re-download and try again later.
I just tried to log on. “ERROR. The servers are busy at this time. Please try again later.” Figures.
Servers are exploding like star trek consoles as 4 billion people attempt to login at once.
Same result here! Worth it to retry, retry, retry, or just pop back every 15 minutes or so?
Try later. Reports are that 1.5m people logged in simultaneously and things are pretty hammered, may not be up for a while.
They should’ve released it in a staggered way or at least not told everyone the exact minute it started, so that the load would be spread out a bit.
Then again, I guess this is the best possible stress test.