Beta info. (Pictures on Jace Hall Show)

[Sydarm]

Atleast we got another useless tweet!

# Take a look at this incredible piece of #StarCraft2 artwork from Pixelcharlie! http://bit.ly/bcLERQ about 2 hours ago from CoTweet



AW YES SO GOOD

[ego]

Yes it is but its only speculations until somthing actually happens.

Absolutely. Could be they are testing new forums, but that they won't be available for days / weeks.

Live in hope, die in dispair.

"I choose hope!"

[Gifted]

Well, they don't often take down most of their forums... This is unusual.

Just the way I like it.

ALSO, it's not always that they open up 2 forums (Italian/Polish) with the knowledge that a third one for Russian is being maintained/updated as well.

There is a good chance that all this updating is regarding those three forums. Just another thought to remember.

[Gifted]

Absolutely. Could be they are testing new forums, but that they won't be available for days / weeks.

Live in hope, die in dispair.

"I choose hope!"

Actually, if they were testing new forums, they'd do that on an internal trunk or have it setup on a dummy server. The transfer of data is rather smooth and fast, especially for a forum that would be locally in the building. All they'd truly need to do is swap a variable to include it on the list when it's ready and change a few permissions from internally based to public domain... this would not incorporate a downtime of this stature.

Now.. maintaining forums that could be remotely based halfway across the world could also be something to consider as well.

[Domi87]

ALSO, it's not always that they open up 2 forums (Italian/Polish) with the knowledge that a third one for Russian is being maintained/updated as well.

There is a good chance that all this updating is regarding those three forums. Just another thought to remember.

If they are doing maintenance on european forums, arnt they separated? Like they have eu.battle.net and a us version so cant they do maintenance on 1 while retaining the other? They're taking them all down for some reason.

[Domi87]

forum is back up, nothing new, this is terrible news

[rcp181]

We know of a rumor and yet another rumor about the significance of January 26-28 -- which by the way is not the start of Starcraft II beta, just another, let's say: internal milestone toward that.

That's from an admin over at incgamers. This seems to corroborate with Gifted's comment that there's stuff going on but it's not quite beta.

[Domi87]

That's from an admin over at incgamers. This seems to corroborate with Gifted's comment that there's stuff going on but it's not quite beta.

Isnt that just referring to the beta invites given out to global media, pro gamers, and fansites that are due Jan 26, 27, 28th.

The rumor currently is referring to the 29th.

[rcp181]

I think that rumor of the 29th is based off the press stuff on the 28th, combined with Jace Hall right?

[Domi87]

I think that rumor of the 29th is based off the press stuff on the 28th, combined with Jace Hall right?

pretty much, yeah. And some assumptions they would release the beta BEFORE the press conference.