Next wave speculation?

[TWD]

http://forums.battle.net/thread.html...=3000&pageNo=2

I wanted to provide an update for players that attended BlizzCon and redeemed their codes, but have yet to receive a beta key invite email. The first wave of invites have already been sent out and a majority of the invites were sent out to BlizzCon attendees. Unfortunately, due to the sheer number of BlizzCon attendees, we could not get everyone in with the first wave. Rest assured that if you did not get into the first wave, you will be included in a future wave, possibly within the next two weeks.

The timing of the next wave will be dependent upon the amount of players that are playing and the load capacity of the servers. Thank you for your understanding and patience through this process.

So I guess the big question I have right now is how many people do we have playing, and is that number going to stay fairly consistent the next two weeks? How do you think this affects when they setup the next wave, and how many people will be in it?

Granted it's all just wild speculation, but I got to have something to do.
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[Jabber Wookie]

Answer to first question - about 2,500 to 3,000 people are playing/have access. I think about 2,500 people are typically playing at any given time (excluding absurd hours in U.S. like 2:00 - 6:00 a.m.)

The number of people playing at any given time is definitely going to decrease over the next few weeks.

Many of the beta players have been playing non-stop since they received access; however, most of them presumably have jobs, school, wives, families, hunger, sleep deprivation, etc.... Those things will eventually kick back in and reduce the number of players at any given time.

Plus, some of the keyholders that did not play SC1 may become discouraged or simply dislike the game, so more will stop playing due to things of that nature.

My guess is next wave will happen in about a week

[mgcemir]

there were around 500 ppl playing the first night, 2500 last night, so it figures wow players have started to check their battlenet accounts. we can expect it to go up to 3k soon. now it all depends on weather or not wow players find it interesting to build pylons with gas or not .. i next wave will have only event keys faaar less opt-ins and nothing before monday atleast.

[Kaiser]

I hope we get another wave before the weekend hits.

[TheRabidDeer]

I hope we get another wave before the weekend hits.

Highly doubtful, blizzard doesnt like to give stuff out on fridays since they cant really be there for support until monday (unless they are working overtime for the beta).

[Hav0x]

Highly doubtful, blizzard doesnt like to give stuff out on fridays since they cant really be there for support until monday (unless they are working overtime for the beta).

They have released Betas on the weekend. If they do that I see no problems with them releasing some more invites.

Will it happen? No, they already said that it will be a couple weeks before more go out.

[TheRabidDeer]

They have released Betas on the weekend. If they do that I see no problems with them releasing some more invites.

Will it happen? No, they already said that it will be a couple weeks before more go out.

Have they? Which betas? The closest release to a weekend I have seen has been thursday, though I may be wrong (and I would honestly be glad that I am, since that would give me hope if I dont get in future waves)

[Jabber Wookie]

Have they? Which betas? The closest release to a weekend I have seen has been thursday, though I may be wrong (and I would honestly be glad that I am, since that would give me hope if I dont get in future waves)

A few Blizzard betas have gone out on a Sunday if I'm not mistaken (WotLK maybe?)... but unless you have a key, I'm pretty sure the next wave will be directed towards remaining key-holders only, and it probably won't happen until Monday at the earliest.

They're going to want to monitor this first wave for a few days at least before they just invite a few more thousand players.

[TheRabidDeer]

A few Blizzard betas have gone out on a Sunday if I'm not mistaken (WotLK maybe?)... but unless you have a key, I'm pretty sure the next wave will be directed towards remaining key-holders only, and it probably won't happen until Monday at the earliest.

They're going to want to monitor this first wave for a few days at least before they just invite a few more thousand players.

Nope, wotlk beta was a thursday. There is no doubt that there will be a chunk of time between this wave and the next though. The number of people that get in probably depends on how many people either
1) Dont use their beta invite from this wave
2) Stop playing the beta after a few days

The rest of the blizzcon people will probably have priority, but I expect there will be a sizable chunk of people that didnt attend blizzcon that get in.

Also, keep in mind that fansites probably still have some to give away too so keep an eye out for contests and the like.

[dreadmourn]

I hope they stop giving keys to the press and start giving keys to real starcraft fans who can really help out in polishing the game.

My only option atm is wait for keys via facebook or twitter or even worse I will just have to wait for the game itself to come out.