On April 19 2012 04:42 Shockk wrote:On April 19 2012 03:17 Gescom wrote:
[3] Blizzard has Europe specific beta servers and probably 30% of the total invites went out to Europe, what more can you want from a US-based company?
Those 30% certainly aren't the quota for non-NA gamers - it's much, much lower.
Of course it makes sense to have NA players be the prime audience for the beta - technical reasons, language issues etc. But then they should either clearly communicate that they'll grant the vast majority of their keys to NA, or they should make it NA exlusive from the start. Over the course of the Beta there have been several cases like the very last wave where 275.000 "world wide" keys went out but the majority of those landed back in NA, and that was after the same number of keys had been distributed NA-exclusively prior to that.
Throughout the D3 Beta EU gamers have been left waiting and hoping and it's become extremly frustrating. Especially compared to SC2's beta where pretty much everyone who wanted to got a chance at a first impression, or the Beta for the upcoming WoW addon, which again pretty much everyone who's interested gets to play, regardless of location. Everyone I know interested in SC2 in Germany/Europe played the Beta. Everyone of my friends into WoW currently tests MoP. Noone (!) of my european/german friends and contacts got into the D3 Beta.
I realize I'm in no way entitled to take part in the Beta test but somewhere - being the loyal fan and all and having seen quite a number of
"international beta invite waves" going out - I had expected to have a chance at a key, or at least have a friend of mine get one so I could play for an hour or two. Nada. Nothing.