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YAH!!! Downloading now, I am pretty much done, but by lunch when I can play it will be good to go. That's awesome D3 this weekend, GW2 next!

Oh wow, just found a hint on the blizz forums.

I was downloading at 300kb/s. Which is hella slow. So I googled and found a trick. Un-tick the automatically detect settings under lan in the internet settings in internet explorer. I am current getting anywhere from 3.5mb/s to 4.5mb/s on my 32mbit connection.

SchWING! Downloading as I type this - curiousity factor, admittedly (I'm more a StarCraft/StarCraft II person - I found the original Diablo and D2 meh, to be honest). If they have improved it, I may have to find a place in my game rotation for it.

Diablo III Open Beta Begins Soon

Finally Blizzard opens Diablo up to the masses.

Tired of hearing people brag about being in the Diablo III beta? Well you can finally try it for yourself this weekend. Starting on April 20 at 12:01 p.m. PST and running until April 23 until 10:00 a.m. PST, you'll be able to play all of the five classes up to level 13. All of the content can be played alone or with friends over battle.net.

To learn more about how to participate (and download the clientright now), check out the official post on Blizzard's site.

Diablo III Open Beta Begins Soon

Finally Blizzard opens Diablo up to the masses.

Tired of hearing people brag about being in the Diablo III beta? Well you can finally try it for yourself this weekend. Starting on April 20 at 12:01 p.m. PST and running until April 23 until 10:00 a.m. PST, you'll be able to play all of the five classes up to level 13. All of the content can be played alone or with friends over battle.net.

To learn more about how to participate (and download the clientright now), check out the official post on Blizzard's site.

Dude, come on, we know. Look at all the posts above you on this page, rather than your post count..

No kidding.

Still, you have to wait until 3:01PM Eastern Daylight Time/8:01 PM GMT/Zulu (2:01PM EST/CDT, and 12:01PM PDT/11:01 AM PST) to play - though you CAN download the game now.

I find it funny how I uninstalled the game from the Starter Edition mishap from the other day just last night, and now BLAMO open beta :D

It's ok though, I was getting near 8 Mb/s when I redownloaded it earlier. Took like, no time at all really :p

I find it funny how I uninstalled the game from the Starter Edition mishap from the other day just last night, and now BLAMO open beta :D

It's ok though, I was getting near 8 Mb/s when I redownloaded it earlier. Took like, no time at all really :p

That happened to me too, downloading the beta twice. But with really slow speeds (~19 kb/s), it ****es me off.

That happened to me too, downloading the beta twice. But with really slow speeds (~19 kb/s), it ****es me off.

Is that your internet speed? If not try this:

1. Un-check use P2P Downloading

2. In the Internet Options (internet explorer -> settings)

-> Go to the Connections tab

-> Click on LAN Settings

-> UnCheck automatically detect settings

I did the above I went from 180kb/s to 3.5->4.5mb/s

Sadly there are already a crap ton of bots playing the game so I see myself only playing through single player or with close friends when I play. Last night I was playing and EVERY person in my group was a bot :(

Sadly there are already a crap ton of bots playing the game so I see myself only playing through single player or with close friends when I play. Last night I was playing and EVERY person in my group was a bot :(

The bots are just for farming stuff? Or?

And seriously.. wtf. Bots can get into beta but I can't?!?

The bots are just for farming stuff? Or?

And seriously.. wtf. Bots can get into beta but I can't?!?

I am assuming that folks that are in the beta sold/traded their account to someone so that they could test the bots out prior to the game coming out. These bots were all able to do things that I could not (very fast attacks) as well as all having High level armor/weapons that were magical. they were also all max level. (13)

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