Beta Forum Updates and Images, Images Confirm FAQ; Beta Emails

Written by Gifted  | Tuesday, 16 February 2010 07:23

News - StarCraft II

The login to the new forums has been found and visually seems to be ready for use.   This is a great sign of progress and on behalf of the StarCraft community we extend a congratulations to Blizzard on one more task removed from the list. You can see the login page here. Please remember that we don't have active Battle.net 2.0 accounts yet and should not be able to log in at this time. 

The above page will become a staple place to visit for beta testers.  Zhydaris has returned to elaborate in the English forums that plans have been updated and individuals will now receive emails the day that beta is planned to be released.

Hello!
The actual and updated plan is like this:
Everyone that is in the first wave of invites will get an email when the Beta will start, not sooner.
Yes, we're going to send out multiple waves of invites, so don't get your hopes down if you're not in the first wave!

StarCraft: Legacy has received images from two separate trusted sources to alleviate some speculation that is happening across the community. Information last night suggested that the Beta FAQ had been leaked out and the images we have access to support that as factual. This should not come as a surprise to those aware that the Polish StarCraft II Beta Forum was open to public viewing and included a placeholder post stating that the beta FAQ would be coming soon. Below is an image of Avarius' post lending credibility that this seems to be factual and not a rumor.  The origin of the image is in the English language StarCraft II Beta Forums which are currently showing as "Under Maintenance" if accessed externally.  Click the thumbnail below to see our combined thread image.

A new member to our community decided to share images regarding the previously unreachable Beta forums.  This member confirmed that he was not doing anything intentional and simply is able to browse them.  Information I've obtained seem to imply that this security issue has been resolved since.  In the images below, it's important to note that the Forum Guidelines are identical to the Guidelines on other Blizzard Forums. Another point of note is that the final image showing a test post resided on the German Forums while the others were on the English Forums. 

There are also other images showing internal testing and updates on their progress. They have BBC code and HTML code up and running. While the skin for the forum login seems to be correct, they are still working on all aspects of the log-in as you get a World of WarCraft themed log-in page when you attempt to reply to a post as seen below.  As shown from yesterday and today, it seems that they are making good progress in implementing the Battle.net naming convention into their forums and potentially intent to not have blue posters showing anything but their singular identifiable name.  

While we have not been provided an image, there are translations in-progress as we speak.  At the time of posting, we have been informed that the German and Spanish translations of the FAQ seems to be complete or nearly so among other languages. This leaves work to be completed on translating the French, Polish, Russian and Italian FAQs.

Any further updates regarding this will be posted as we receive them.  It's also important to remember that while this shows progress on the beta forums, we advise against using this information to speculate of Beta's impending release.  It is one of many projects they are working on to bring beta testing to reality and our patience should extend a small amount further.

If you have any thoughts on this, we recommend posting them in our newly implemented comment system below. 

Sources:
Image - Beta FAQ (English Forum)
Battle.net (English) - Beta Log-in Page
Battle.net - Can a blue clarify Zhydaris' Q&A
Beta Forum Still Evolving; Message Posting Confirmed
SC:L Site Update - News Headers and Comments