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Diablo III Open Beta This Weekend, Free for All

Unread postby News Portal » 20 Apr 12, 3:08 pm

If you've been waiting for your beta key but it hasn't showed up, you're in luck: you can play for free this weekend to help Blizzard stress-test their servers in time for the May 15 launch. From Saturday, April 21 at 5:01 AM AEST until Tuesday, April 24 at 3:00 AM AEST, the servers will be open and running. Hit up battle.net and begin downloading the client now!

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Re: Diablo III Open Beta This Weekend, Free for All

Unread postby Pearl » 20 Apr 12, 3:11 pm

Oh whats this game? oh ok, havnt heard much about it, ill try out the beta i suppose...
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Unread postby sh0v0r » 20 Apr 12, 3:13 pm

15.1 Giggly Bytes!
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Unread postby Pearl » 20 Apr 12, 3:17 pm

sh0v0r wrote:15.1 Giggly Bytes!


So your saying its a small game then?
EDIT: Off topic; i rage at your game man, its insanely hard lol
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Unread postby Disco LT » 20 Apr 12, 3:24 pm

Downloading between 250 and 500kb/s at the moment, gunna take a while.
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Unread postby Mythor » 20 Apr 12, 3:27 pm

It's a little under 4GB to download. Can play all the characters through to level 13. Pretty good with the full release just around the corner.

Was going to try Tera over the weekend but that might not happen now... :dodgy:
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Unread postby Disco LT » 20 Apr 12, 3:32 pm

I'm really undecided about D3, so this is a nice opportunity to give it a go anyway.
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Re: Diablo III Open Beta This Weekend, Free for All

Unread postby sh0v0r » 20 Apr 12, 3:51 pm

Pearl wrote:
sh0v0r wrote:15.1 Giggly Bytes!


So your saying its a small game then?
EDIT: Off topic; i rage at your game man, its insanely hard lol


Keep practising, learn to master the Velocity Vector. Use an xbox 360 controller! :)
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Re: Diablo III Open Beta This Weekend, Free for All

Unread postby sh0v0r » 20 Apr 12, 3:52 pm

Mythor wrote:It's a little under 4GB to download. Can play all the characters through to level 13. Pretty good with the full release just around the corner.

Was going to try Tera over the weekend but that might not happen now... :dodgy:


Why does the client say its 15.1gb?
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Re: Diablo III Open Beta This Weekend, Free for All

Unread postby hellbender » 20 Apr 12, 4:00 pm

sh0v0r wrote:
Mythor wrote:It's a little under 4GB to download. Can play all the characters through to level 13. Pretty good with the full release just around the corner.

Was going to try Tera over the weekend but that might not happen now... :dodgy:


Why does the client say its 15.1gb?

I suspect thats for the entire game. I think for the beta its only 4GB. From memory you can start playing with only 1GB downloaded while it downloads the rest.
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Re: Diablo III Open Beta This Weekend, Free for All

Unread postby a3gis » 20 Apr 12, 4:04 pm

sh0v0r wrote:
Pearl wrote:
sh0v0r wrote:15.1 Giggly Bytes!


So your saying its a small game then?
EDIT: Off topic; i rage at your game man, its insanely hard lol


Keep practising, learn to master the Velocity Vector. Use an xbox 360 controller! :)


but.. but... the moon missions were before Xboxes! :P
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Re: Diablo III Open Beta This Weekend, Free for All

Unread postby dinofreak » 20 Apr 12, 4:20 pm

sh0v0r wrote:Use an xbox 360 controller! :)


Don't say things like that in a Diablo thread, scared the **** out of me.
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Re: Diablo III Open Beta This Weekend, Free for All

Unread postby WishMaster » 20 Apr 12, 4:26 pm

Is the client going to be on Nodes file server?
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Re: Diablo III Open Beta This Weekend, Free for All

Unread postby Sathias » 20 Apr 12, 4:28 pm

Might avoid this... been in the Beta for a while and this sounds like it will be a stress testing lag fest :P
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Re: Diablo III Open Beta This Weekend, Free for All

Unread postby Tera » 20 Apr 12, 4:35 pm

Don't even have 4GB of quota left this month - anything you can do hosting wise Node?
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