Diablo III Open Beta Weekend [Apr 20, 2012, 08:19 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Following indications yesterday that more accounts were being granted access to the Diablo III beta test, the Diablo III Website announces the beta will indeed be opened this weekend to anyone with a Battle.net account for stress testing. The open portion of the beta will begin at 3:00 pm EDT today and will run through Monday at 1:00 pm EDT. The accompanying FAQ explains how this will operate, and notes that while Korean players cannot participate, they will be holding a separate invitation-only event in Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. The invitation only closed beta will continue as planned until May 1st. To get a head start, you can download the client now from Battle.net.
Finished the beta, and it took me some hours, because I destroyed every single destructible thing in the game. 
My opinion: THIS IS IT?! This took a decade to become what it is? The gameplay is dumbed down, the graphics are BLAND, and in addition to this the Ubisoft-like always online "protection" (which won't protect ANYTHING after a day, a week, or at max. a month)? Nope. Not giving you $60 or $50 for this, BlizzaVision. If this wasn't a BlizzaVision game, it would be criticised for horribly outdated graphics, generic gameplay, and a lot more. This would be a 65 to 70 points game on metacritic for sure. Blizzard is DEAD, long live BlizzaVision or ActiBlizz. Valve and the indies are all that's left to pc gamers after Blizz and Bioware were killed by their buyers just like e.g. Westwood before them. And now it's Apple "in talks" with Valve. Great. 
My opinion: THIS IS IT?! This took a decade to become what it is? The gameplay is dumbed down, the graphics are BLAND, and in addition to this the Ubisoft-like always online "protection" (which won't protect ANYTHING after a day, a week, or at max. a month)? Nope. Not giving you $60 or $50 for this, BlizzaVision. If this wasn't a BlizzaVision game, it would be criticised for horribly outdated graphics, generic gameplay, and a lot more. This would be a 65 to 70 points game on metacritic for sure. Blizzard is DEAD, long live BlizzaVision or ActiBlizz. Valve and the indies are all that's left to pc gamers after Blizz and Bioware were killed by their buyers just like e.g. Westwood before them. And now it's Apple "in talks" with Valve. Great.
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