StarCraft II Beta Ending; BlizzCon Tickets Soon
The StarCraft II beta is taking a break, giving fans enough time to crack open their wallets for BlizzCon 2010 tickets.
Monday Blizzard announced that the first phase of the StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty beta test will come to a close on Memorial Day, May 31, 2010. The beta will thus be closed for several weeks while the StarCraft II team makes hardware and software configuration changes in preparation for the second and final phase.
"We plan to bring the beta test back online for a couple of weeks prior to the game’s launch to complete our testing," Blizzard said. "We’ll have more details to share about when this final beta-testing phase will begin at a later date. We'd like to thank all of our beta-test participants for your enthusiasm, dedication, and valuable feedback during the beta test, and we look forward to hearing more of your thoughts on the StarCraft II beta test as the game’s July 27 launch approaches."
Tuesday Blizzard followed up with news that tickets to BlizzCon 2010 will go one sale in two waves: Wednesday, June 2 (7pm PST) and Saturday, June 5, 2010 (10am PST). The convention will take place on October 22 and 23 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Tickets will be priced at a hefty $150 USD per pop, however broke gamers with a DIRECTV subscription can watch from the sidelines via a $39.95 Pay Per View package. There will also be a $39.95 multi-channel Internet stream, allowing viewers to switch between coverage of multiple panels and activities during the show.
Fans interested in attending BlizzCon 2010 can purchase tickets via their Battle.net account. Blizzard said that the Internet stream is free to DIRECTV customers who purchased the Pay Per View package.
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Dirtman73 I find it ridiculous that anybody would pay $150 to go to BlizzCon. I find it even more ridiculous that anybody would pay $40 to watch in on their frickin television.Reply -
banthracis Well technically it's great idea to grab tickets if you can as they are worth so much more than $150 when sold online. Believe some tickets hit over $800 last year.Reply
Course it is also technically illegal... -
duk3 Yeah, the TV stream should be free.Reply
I am definitely not flying to California or paying 40$. -
avericia Nooooo I don't want SC2 beta to end i'm having so much fun; Oh well ive been waiting over 10 years whats another 2 more months :PReply -
skatt3rbrain banthracisWell technically it's great idea to grab tickets if you can as they are worth so much more than $150 when sold online. Believe some tickets hit over $800 last year. Course it is also technically illegal...Reply
People do it with concert tickets and sports tickets all the time. Can't tell you how many times I've had to look up concert tickets on web sites made for ticket resale. Is it a blizzard thing that makes it illegal? What if you can't go, is it illegal to sell the tickets then? -
tayb Surprising that they are ending the beta May 31st considering they haven't opened up testing to 3v3 or 4v4. The more people, the more issues. I figured they would have unlocked the 3v3 and 4v4 maps at let us test them for at least a couple of weeks. Very surprising.Reply
At least they finally made an attempt to put a stop to the ridiculous cannon rushing. Never seen something so stupid. -
FloKid taybAt least they finally made an attempt to put a stop to the ridiculous cannon rushing. Never seen something so stupid.Reply
LoL not if u six pool... -
Gin Fushicho Well that's nice, all my friends with the low end computers got to play Starcraft II Beta, and didn't even let me play.Reply
That's hardly fair. =( I wanna play.