Diablo III Open Beta Starts Now: Updated
Posted 20 April 2012 by Nizaris
As a note: please make sure you’ve used the beta client and not the full client for the game. You will be unable to log in with anything but the beta client. If you can’t get in, don’t worry. They’re working on it. Many people think that the beta is broken currently, but they actually have hundreds of thousands of people in and playing right now; they’re just working on expanding that limit.
Update: Beta is live!
Update 2: Tip for those using non-US clients. Change your region to “Americas.”
Update 3: From Bashiok on “No License Error.”
Update 4: From Bashiok on capped concurrency and errors.
- Error 12 – This is an error we’re still investigating, but should only be appearing for Korean accounts which are not able to participate in the open beta. If you do not have a Korean account, we’re still investigating this issue but suspect it may simply be due to the Battle.net Account services being slammed by the high volume of traffic.
- Error 3003- Click Options, under Account change your region to The Americas. The open beta is only being held on US hardware.[...] We have a ton of people in-game and playing right now. We’re just working on trying to get a ton more in.
Many people have been met with “Error 3005″ along with “Player Disconnected” messages. According to a recent blue, this error is intended. One poster explains that they were actually able to log in after repeated attempts, but the servers are actually down for maintenance that should conclude in about 13 or so minutes as was posted in a tweet by 
Bashiok.
Vasadan said the following:
A tweet a few minutes ago popped up from Bashiok on the same matter:
I’m sure the “crosses fingers” part is in the hopes that nothing goes wrong in the maintenance necessary before the servers are flooded with beta participants. Bashiok posted this about 10 minutes ago, so we should see servers up and running in about 10 to 15 minutes.
Good luck with the tidal wave that is sure to come! Thanks Ady for reporting this.
Image credit: vxhelix
Yayyyyyyy for everyoneeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
o.0 umm we already knew its starting in 8 mins.. Should just wait 8 mins and say ITS LIVE
I was wondering, should I pick ‘The Americas’ as the region, or can I pick any?
Just leave it on The Americas. Beta doesn’t have regional servers, only US. Shouldn’t matter though, what you pick.
Thanks, I do get very different error messages though when I try to login. 3003 for Europe / 3005 for The Americas.
gonna level every freaking class to lvl 13 !
if i manage!
You’ll probably get bored :p 9-13 takes really long time …
Nothing better to come as close to 12:00am on May 15th than opening the flood gates to everyone and their mom! As is intended, hopefully this works out any major issues now instead of release night.
I give the servers 10 seconds. Then they’ll explode.
I just got back from picking up the pills at the pharmacy. Grandma and I are taking off our orthopedic shoes and large UV-blocking sunglasses. We’re logging on to the AOL computer machine… ready to play!
10 seconds? Dude, it didn’t even get off the ground.
This better translate into a stable release, lol. Has anyone actually managed to log in?
I am getting error 3003 not error 3005 or ‘disconnected’. Someone please tell me if that’s OK too?
My prediction?
“The servers are busy at this time. Please try again later. (Error 37)”
All weekend long, for 9 out of 10 of us trying to play the damn demo.