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Hello everyone,

I was just visiting the "Warcraft III USA-1" channel on USWest to meet the beta testers. I was first logged in with Diablo II. I joined with the nick "F@g-Detector". The second I entered, Shlonglor said "F : D, can you detect yourself ?".

I was not amused. He also told me "I would not hang about with that name, you might be banned.". The joke's on you Shlonglor, that's just my joke name. I don't even play on USWest for starters. I just logged in that time to see the beta testers. I chatted for a while and noticed some Warcraft III testers were just logging off. I found this quite odd. Then, my memory told me the story. I remembered seeing a message on the Battle.net forums about a bug that when people with other clients than Warcraft III beta logged into the channel, anyone in the channel might have their client or whole computer jammed. I found that hilarious. Until my own game jammed. At that point, I decided to log in with Starcraft. The first thing I noticed upon joining is that the proper War III icons were appearing. I never saw them before. With Diablo II, it would just detect it as "Unknown Client" with a cloaked character. I chatted for a while, asking questions such as "Did they really put that ally-lock feature ? That would put a stop to my backstabbing glory." Of course, the fact that they own the beta got up to their heads. They must think they are too good to respond to a regular Starcraft / Diablo II player since they ignored about 50% of my questions. I was going to hang around longer to enjoy the moment since Blizzard will most likely ban all clients other than Warcraft III Beta from that channel. But Shlonglor stepped in and simply banned me and all other non-Warcraft III clients out of the channel. I will be back.

I wish I could of posted some pictures I took of this little story but that feature seems removed from the forums. I will post them of my site tommorow to show them.

Note : If you want to see pictures of Warcraft III beta, I recommend this site. It has every picture you might want from the look of the CD, the letter that comes with it, Battle.net's appearance and more....
 
Whoa that looks pretty wicked, cept the graphics don't look, i dunno, as good as they could be i guess, but i was looking at screen shots, so that could skew my decision.
 
They will probably restrict the channel to beta users only... not because of this supposed bug but because they don't want the channel to fill up with people who don't have the beta.


There are only maybe 70-100 who have the beta so far, and they are still trying to figure out how it works. So they don't have much time to conduct interviews :)

When I get my cd (hopefully tomorrow) I'll try to share the knowledge™


P.S. the attach file feature of the forum is working fine -- there is a size limit though....
 
I believe the graphics depend on the person's system specs. The shots from Blizzard look crisper. Either that or they dumbed it down for the beta. (Don't ask why....)
 
Actually I suggest you be careful, because they can not only ban a character they can also ban an account, and they not only can ban an account but they can ban a CD-key. You are definately playing with fire.

In the Diablo beta they had one channel that was restricted to beta testers only and another channel where beta testers could chat with non beta testers and answer their questions. You might be surprised how many testers wanted to talk about the test.

I would assume that Warcraft III USA-1 is not the beta testers problems and discussion channel.
 
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