Diablo 3 Expansion: Beta Test Confirmed
Posted 21 January 2013 by FluxOkay, not exactly shocking news here, but it’s nothing to do with Jay Wilson (for a change) and it’s nice just to see the words in this tweet by 
Rob Pardo, in which he confirms that Blizzard has plans for a beta for the Diablo 3 expansion.
And any plans for Beta for Blizzard All-Stars and D3 DX1 ? not date but any plans for it? –MrPaNtsONhEaD
We will do betas for both for sure –RobPardo
We will do betas for both for sure –RobPardo
And there was great excitement! Start your calendars…
SOON!
soon(4 years later)
If the D3exp will have the same impact on D3 as D2exp had on D2. I will be a happy panda!
I could fap to that
My only regret is that I can give only a single +1.
You are not clicking fast enough
I am faster than you
Some people never learn. Today’s Blizzard sucks big time. That’s it. Stay away from their games and you’ll be happy panda.
People make games, not the ****ing company names.
They also missed one major fact and that is D2 was already a great game before any xpac.
Definitely agree with this statement. People talk about D2 like it was some kind of turd on release. D2 was already an “excellent” game by most accounts… nearly perfect by my own account and it generated nowhere near the hatred we see today with D3. D2X just made it an even better game knocking it firmly into the legendary category. D3X has quite a massive job ahead of it. I’m betting (hoping) it will make a below average game just excellent…. as legendary as D2X??? I’m not holding my breath on that one. The baseline is just way too screwed up especially with the auction house being a deal breaker for some. I’ll wait and see the community reaction first maybe give it a solid month before purchasing the xpac this time.
Seriously? It took around until 1.04 just to get stable. Amazing on release it was not.
Whether the D3 expansion has the same impact as the D2 expansion remains to be seen. Not expecting too much however, if it’s in beta soon it was probably in development at least as long as the game’s been released.
D2 and D3 launches both had glitches (as expected). For me the D3 authentication glitch preventing me from logging into the game for months was far more severe than anything I had with D2 out of the gate. Anyway… We all played D2 (and WoW if you want to consider that) right up until expansion. D3 every single one of my friends quit then eventually myself with a very long time to go still. Clear quality difference in my eyes. It is what it is.
I went back and played D2C for a few weeks towards the end of the D3 beta, just to remind myself of what the base game was like. And it was fun, but very limited and tedious and actually quite hard to advance into Hell, since there were very limited ways to get better gear and big damage weapons.
The only farming was act 4 (endlessly), there were no elite items, no uniques above normal gear, no way to upgrade items (socket adding quest was in d2x), no charms, no jewels, no runes, not a single viable set item, the best way to get a big weapon was to mule white items to a new char who could imbue them at level 25-29, players mercilessly exploited numerous bugs, WW barbs were wildly overpowered compared to all other builds (okay, that one’s a tradition), etc.
D2 was awesome out of the box, but that was by our very different 2000 standards. It would be considered unplayable if released today.
Most certainly agree that if launched today D2 would be garbage by the new standards (as it should be). I think the problem here is my friends and I wanted to go from D2 (excellent) to D2 Xpac (Legendary) to D3 (Legendary Plus). Instead we felt like we went from Excellent to Legendary to mediocre… but yeah that horse has been beaten a couple times here and the official forums. Hopefully two years from now the cycle will read Excellent–>Legendary—>Mediocre—>Legendary only time will tell I suppose. Our fate is in… whoever is the xpac lead dev’s hands I suppose.
But the company’s name sets the quality standard of the game those people are working on
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Like you don’t buy anything you own because of the brand. THe brand tells us that the item associated with the brand is usually higher quality. Blizz has earned that trust. Not one game has sucked yet coming from Blizz. Most have faith that they will right the ship with D3.
D3 XP will not and cannot save D3. It’s like trying to fix a leg laceration with a plaster. The only right thing to do would cut off the leg and grow a new one.
Making something awesome even MORE awesome? I’m up for that.
Very excited about BAS. A PvP game from scratch. That sure is something to look forward to.
Present day Dota games are way behind in engine and graphics.
Combine the graphics/engine of D3 with the PvP mechanics of a Dota game : dynamite.
A pity BAS is the reason for the lack of PvP options in D3.
You need balance in e-sports. D3 can never be balanced due to its gear system.
I agree with you there on the Dota thing, the original version with war3 was great, but Dota2 went backwards in graphics by like 10 years and it is heroes of newerth style terrible looking.
I played league of legends for well over a year, to me it is what Dota 2 should have been.
watch 1000 hours of work become redundant
I hope we get a beta on the whole expansion se the players can test everything. The release of Diablo 3 has proved that Blizzard can’t test the game by itself.
+100
Let all players in the beta. Only 50 hours if its too troublesome. But players need to see if its worth the time and money.
It’s a beta, not a demo.
I’m sure someone can correct this, but hasn’t Bliz been very open with WoW expansion beta slots? Like anyone who pre orders gets one, and they really throw out the invites widely?
For economic more than game testing reasons, I assume, since they want people to keep their subs active during the months before a new expansion, and to be excited about playing once the expansion goes live. Which might not be great news for D3, since we’re not paying a monthly sub, hence Bliz lacks the economic motivation.
10 years to do a “mediocre” game, now they are SLOWLY solving some superficial problems/issues/****. From v1.0 to 1.0.6 they did a GREAT job, but…It is in need of a GOOOOOOOOOOOD work with the expansion.
Please…dont you repeat the same beta mistakes…listen to the community…so many work to do…
“listen to the community…so many work to do…”
No, please don’t. Supposedly Blizzard removed elemental damage having on-hit effects because the community didn’t care — they just went for the highest DPS.
Listen does not mean obey.
That would be their internal testers, the same internal testers that thought the story and dialogue was fantastic, arena deathmatch wasn’t fun, couldn’t beat play in inferno, completely missed how broken IAS was, etc.
The community during beta actually clamored for useful elemental effects because it didn’t exist. So ya. Listen to the community for once.
Can’t wait to beta test it in the spring of ’15. Or is that too optimistic?
only if they cut the work on 1-2 classes and implement 1:1 class of WoW like Kung fu Panda or whatever including models / skills etc”.
“shhhh…h they’ll never notice !”
that will also give them the opportunity to release a new lore picture-book for only $40 or € in which they retcon the whole story
“and as you can see here on page 15. the Horadrim have been founded by Pandaren and have always been a cornerstone of the Lore of Sanctuary.”
I will not got the same road as D3 beta, since I got ¨pretty much burned. I waited for the invite every day since the start like many other, and nothing since ¨Blizzard kept it so small population. So this time, **** the beta.
Let’s keep two things in mind here:
1.) nobody said anything about public/external betas
2.) this info is older than 2 hours (if past D3 developement is any indication, the exact opposite is state of affairs by now).
And I hope you’ll realla listen to the feedback, Rob bro.