By Jim Rossignol on April 18th, 2012 at 1:29 pm.
UPDATE: Nah, looks like false alarm. Sorry!
A thread on the D3 forums seems to suggest that the Diablo 3 beta is appearing on a lot more Battlenet accounts. No official word from Blizzard yet, but there’s a lot of people confirming it now. (It was already on my Battlenet, so I can’t say!)
It doesn’t seem to available for everyone. Anyone else seeing this?
18/04/2012 at 13:36 Luciphear says:
Nope, not seeing a thing on my account, except for the regular stuff.
Edit: Reading the comments it does indeed seem so… Hm. Interesting.
18/04/2012 at 13:37 Yemala says:
Everyone and anyone is/was able to download the beta client and log in, regardless of whether they had a beta invite or not. The servers have just (last 10-15 minutes) gone down, allegedly for maintenance, although someone on reddit claimed to still be able to log in to an account with beta access.
Speculation on teamliquid (http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=330262) is that this is intended as a publicly released ‘starter edition’ (which was planned anyway), which will be heavily limited, but available immediately. This is reinforced by people without beta access having ‘upgrade’ buttons, and greyed-out button tooltips referencing the starter edition.
Whether this is an intentional release or a mistake remains to be seen.
18/04/2012 at 13:38 General Frags says:
Nothing for me, I’ve heard that its open to subscribers of WOW only though.
18/04/2012 at 13:38 reggiep says:
I was in the closed beta. Once Blizzard made D3 available for purchase on battle.net, I was locked out of the beta and forums. I’m betting that people that have pre-purchased the product from battle.net will have access to the beta. I pre-purchased from Amazon because I want a box. I suppose that Blizzard realized there was very little incentive to purchase directly from Battle.net so they’ve opened up the beta.
18/04/2012 at 13:38 Skeletor68 says:
Nothing on mine either. Not sure if I want to start playing it before I get my hands on the CE anyways as I’m guessing characters won’t transfer over?
18/04/2012 at 13:40 gschmidl says:
Nope.
18/04/2012 at 13:41 ado says:
Nothing here either. And to think that I got excited there for a second. Bad RPS, BAD!!!
18/04/2012 at 13:45 MrMud says:
They recently invited 275k people who had opted into the beta program on battle.net a little while ago. Might be those people.
18/04/2012 at 13:49 Bantros says:
Didn’t have it yesterday, logged in this morning after seeing the news and there it is, ‘Diablo 3 beta’.
Fantastic. Downloaded game client but hit by ‘server down for maintenance’ message.
18/04/2012 at 13:50 Was Neurotic says:
I didn’t even bother looking at my account, just copy/pasted the client dl link from the forum thread, and bingo. 44mb installer, 3.79 Gb client dl.
18/04/2012 at 13:52 Nim says:
Whenever I look at that picture, instead of seeing a human being I see an enraged baboon.
18/04/2012 at 14:26 frypiggy says:
“Nim says:
Whenever I look at that picture, instead of seeing a human being I see an enraged baboon.”
^ That may be true, but I bet his Mom still loves him.
18/04/2012 at 13:55 Lobotomist says:
I am trying for some time now.
Although on new created account, so maybe it only appears on older acounts..dont know
Anyway, no luck so far
18/04/2012 at 13:57 MordeaniisChaos says:
It’s on my account right now. But, I have no fucking bandwidth to download it, so no idea if I it’s accessible right this second. Thanks a lot, Witcher 2 updating on Steam after I told it not to!
18/04/2012 at 14:14 Blackcompany says:
This is precisely why I bought the game DRM free from gog.com. No Steam. No auto-updating. I chose to download the enormous path myself, from gog.com, and it was still done in less than 30 minutes on a Cable Internet connection.
Very convenient, but then, CDProjekt specializes in convenience for their players.
18/04/2012 at 15:55 HothMonster says:
Right click – pause update ?
18/04/2012 at 13:58 lhzr says:
apparently you don’t have to have it on your account. just dload the client from here: http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3724212521?page=3
and play (might have to set your region to US)
18/04/2012 at 14:00 wuwul says:
Login server down.
18/04/2012 at 14:05 Daryl says:
Mine is installing right now. Hopefully it will be up and running by the time the install is done.
18/04/2012 at 14:09 Ajh says:
I’ve been in the diablo 3 beta for awhile. Two of my WoW guildmates just got in there too last week. I figured they were opening up the beta to the WoW annual pass people. Hm…
18/04/2012 at 14:17 Nevard says:
Nothing for me and I have annual pass
I’m going to assume having open beta access for everyone is a bug until they make an official statement to the contrary and not bother downloading the beta client either, got a deadline I am going to struggle to hit tomorrow anyway so I can’t really afford to start battling demons ):
18/04/2012 at 14:40 apocraphyn says:
I thought the rumour was that anyone with a Battle.Net account can access it now, not that the D3 beta has to show up on their account? As absurd as that sounds.
18/04/2012 at 15:05 bglamb says:
None for me, though strangely though, I got a Dota 2 invite this morning.
I’ll settle for that!
18/04/2012 at 18:04 Vorphalack says:
I was in the middle of typing ”there is no middle finger big enough”.
Then I stopped to check my steam just in case.
I also has DOTA2 :D
Today is the best day.
18/04/2012 at 15:25 pkt-zer0 says:
Well, the main menu looks cool, at least. Gives a Battle.net is down for maintenance error on login, though.
18/04/2012 at 15:44 Syra says:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-04-18-the-diablo-3-beta-opens-up
It’s an error and they closed the beta to respond.
18/04/2012 at 17:15 Algirdyz says:
I was in the game without a beta on my account for like 10 minutes. Then servers went down.
It was a starter edition. You could see an upgrade button with all the options and so on.
18/04/2012 at 19:20 McTerry says:
Acutally never mind. It was a bug I guess.
18/04/2012 at 20:08 TML says:
Indeed, some 8-9 hours ago I was able to download and install the client, and ultimately able to login and play the game… it was flagged as the Starter edition.
I did not, and still do not, have beta access i.e. a D3 beta account in my Battle.net account.
Blizzard updating the status of things at 3pm PDT… ( http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/4489049301?page=1 )
18/04/2012 at 21:54 christianwins says:
Yes, a few days ago I received that beta key (same day as getting the ‘Tera’ beta key too). It was shortly after re-subscribing to wow.
19/04/2012 at 17:27 Greggh says:
Thank goodness I only saw this after the update.