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StarCraft 2 beta signup opens today

By Justin Mann, TechSpot.com
Published: May 6, 2009, 3:33 PM EST
If you have been eagerly awaiting the pending release of StarCraft 2, here’s your chance to participate in the upcoming beta. The pseudo-public beta Blizzard has crafted has a few requirements before you can take part, including having a Battle.net profile. From there, they want you to specifically opt-in and provide them with your current system specs before granting you access. Once you opt-in, there's no guarantee you'll make it, as Blizzard will be selecting testers themselves. If you don't actually own any Blizzard games, know that you need to have at least one game attached to your Battle.net account before you can sign up.


To submit system specs, Blizzard is requiring users to download and run a program. The point, according to them, is to get the most diverse array of system hardware and software possible, so that the game can be tested in numerous environments. The beta itself won't open for a few months yet, and will be available first to people in North America.

This is a somewhat unusual and new method of selecting beta testers, and though some might have reservations about submitting system specs it does seem like a novel way to get a lot of different profiles tested quickly. If you're willing to put up with those requirements, you can sign up here.

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User Comments (3)

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Matthew
on May 7, 2009
5:09 AM
Might have been a fluke but I couldn't get the hardware info app to transfer data without running it as an admin on Windows 7. Either way, just a heads up if you're having issues .

Ego13
on May 7, 2009
8:38 PM
Actually quite a few betas have required either a dxdiag or just you entering in your system specs for the very same reason listed by Blizzard. When testing a new game and how it's going to run on low-end systems it's important to have them represented as a lab built low-end pc won't really perform as a normal home-used one will.

gobbybobby
on May 8, 2009
3:59 PM
Someone will leak it to torrent, crack ETC, so everyone will be able to partake in the Beta!

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