Warcraft III: Reforged's Multiplayer Beta Begins This Week, WoW Classic Realm Labels

Warcraft III Reforged - First Multiplayer Beta Invite Wave
Some people are already reporting receiving their invite to the Warcraft III multiplayer beta starting this week!




Warcraft III: Reforged's Multiplayer Beta Begins This Week!
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)

The multiplayer beta for Warcraft III: Reforged begins this week* with limited access to the orc and human races within 1v1 and 2v2 matchmaking. The undead and night elf races, and more game modes will be added in the weeks ahead.

Invitations to the multiplayer beta will be sent out over the coming weeks. Initial invitations will go out in waves to those who have pre-purchased the Spoils of War edition of the game and subsequent waves of invitations will go to additional players, such as those who have pre-purchased the standard edition of Warcraft III: Reforged.

The Spoils of War Edition
In addition to access to the beta, owners of the Spoils of War edition get a few additional perks.

Beyond the Meat Wagon mount in World of Warcraft; Thrall, Anub’arak, Jaina and Tyrande in Heroes of the Storm, and the Third War card back in Hearthstone, the Spoils of War edition also contains:


Warcraft III: Reforged Skins–Champion of the Horde Thrall, Emerald Nightmare Cenarius, Fallen King Arthas, Daughter of the Seas Proudmoore


Overwatch
  • Player Icons: Human, Orc, Undead, Night Elf and Lich King
  • Animated Sprays: Footman, Grunt, Ghoul, and Archer


Diablo III: Mal’ganis pet


Starcraft II Console Skins


StarCraft: Remastered: Spoils of War Console


Charging Towards Battle
Learn more about Warcraft III: Reforged on our official site.

We’re looking forward to the clash of mighty armies, to hearing your reactions, and facing off with you online!

*Beta schedule may vary between regions.

WoW Classic - Realm List Populations Updated -- 28 October
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
A few minutes ago, we enacted a change to how the populations are calculated in the WoW Classic realm list. Since shortly after the launch of WoW Classic, the realm list population labels have indicated real-time population levels.

Now, the Low/Medium/High/Full labels are based on peak population over the last 7 days. We believe this provides a more-useful picture of a realm’s population to players who are making decisions about which realm to play on or transfer to.

The realms which have not yet moved to one layer will continue to be marked “Layered”.

BlizzCon 2019 Charity Auction Starts October 31st
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)

Add some epic artwork to your personal stash—all for a good cause!

Beginning Thursday, October 31 through Tuesday, November 5, we’re once again hosting our special online BlizzCon® Charity Auction via eBay. The auction features a variety of original Blizzard artwork, unique memorabilia, and other cool collectibles from our games. This is your chance to score awesome new loot for your collection, and the proceeds will directly benefit CHOC Children’s.

All auction items will also be on display at BlizzCon in Hall B. Check out some of the epic items below!


Arthas – Gray Cast
Preproduction prototype polyurethane casting, signed by artists


Special Edition World of Warcraft® 15th Anniversary Charity Server Blade
Engraved with developer signatures


Overwatch® Cinematic Triptych
Signed by the Blizzard Animation team


Original Johanna Marker Drawings
Framed and signed by Luke "Mr. Jack" Mancini


The Art of Hearthstone® Book
Signed by the Hearthstone team; also includes 3 signed mini prints


To participate in this year’s auction, you’ll need to set up an eBay account. Head to www.ebay.com/blizzardcharity now to get started. If you already have an account, check your contact and payment information before bidding.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Warcraft III: Reforged's Multiplayer Beta Begins This Week, WoW Classic Realm Labels started by chaud View original post
Published on 2019-10-29 09:47 PM
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  1. Queen of Hamsters's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by smitey View Post
    So much recycled content. Wheres the New Ideas and innovation?
    I hope you're joking...
  1. vitor210's Avatar
    I got an email saying I was invited to the beta, and I had bought Spoils since last year's Blizzcon.

    But on my battle net launcher it only shows a greyed "Install" button, no dropdown thingy or anything, how am I suposed to install this ?
  1. Mewhywhy's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by vitor210 View Post
    I got an email saying I was invited to the beta, and I had bought Spoils since last year's Blizzcon.

    But on my battle net launcher it only shows a greyed "Install" button, no dropdown thingy or anything, how am I suposed to install this ?
    Logout of your account on bnet launcher.

    Then close battle.net and CRTL ALT DEL click Taskmanager and in Processes find BLizzard Update Agent forcefully close that as well.
    Then just open battle.net launcher again and login and check if it's still greyed out then.
  1. Dziubla's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by vitor210 View Post
    I got an email saying I was invited to the beta, and I had bought Spoils since last year's Blizzcon.

    But on my battle net launcher it only shows a greyed "Install" button, no dropdown thingy or anything, how am I suposed to install this ?
    If what Mewhywhy said doesn't help, simply wait. Took me about 4 hours from mail arriving to beta appearing on the launcher, and I did all the logging out tricks and what have you.
  1. RoKPaNda's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Maljinwo View Post
    This is my first RTS beta, but still, I think a single player mode vs a bot would allow for more testing




    Have you updated your graphic drivers? It's reccomended to do so before playing
    They generally don't do the vs bot either, they want to test out the matchmaking and other things as well. RTS betas are always (I've done WarCraft, StarCraft, StarCraft 2, and the expansions) just competitive multi.
  1. Maljinwo's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by RoKPaNda View Post
    They generally don't do the vs bot either, they want to test out the matchmaking and other things as well. RTS betas are always (I've done WarCraft, StarCraft, StarCraft 2, and the expansions) just competitive multi.
    Hmmm interesting. Guess we'll get bot matches along the road
  1. Moozart's Avatar
    Blizzard wanting to hide how many people have already stopped playing classic by only showing the "Peak" average instead of players seeing just how few people are on during the non peak times.
  1. Low Hanging Fruit's Avatar
    Got into beta. I have to say it feels a lot rawer than I thought it would at this point. But the "feel" seems reasonable to the traditional units and such which is a good sign because the look has certainly been upgraded (subjectively, I do understand some like or dont like it).
  1. reacher's Avatar
    You're right, AoS was first made in SC. But the first dota-like map I played in WC3 was indeed called Aeon of Strife, named for the famous SC level. Later on I think it was renamed to Defense of the Ancients
  1. vitor210's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Mewhywhy View Post
    Logout of your account on bnet launcher.

    Then close battle.net and CRTL ALT DEL click Taskmanager and in Processes find BLizzard Update Agent forcefully close that as well.
    Then just open battle.net launcher again and login and check if it's still greyed out then.
    TY! This worked mate, woot
  1. ali725's Avatar
    How do i give feedback after playing?
  1. jayx10's Avatar
    Looks like another invite wave went out today. Just got beta access a few hours ago.
  1. FuxieDK's Avatar
    I had the option to install Wednesday at 5:30 (maybe earlier), but didn't get mail-invite until 15:00 same day.

    Anyway, tried to run the game, but never started a match itself, because the PvP part doesn't hold any interest for me.
    But the selection screen, looked like 20 years old VGA graphics... Wasn't the whole idea, to have a graphic revamp?
  1. Grmmppff's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by FuxieDK View Post
    I had the option to install Wednesday at 5:30 (maybe earlier), but didn't get mail-invite until 15:00 same day.

    Anyway, tried to run the game, but never started a match itself, because the PvP part doesn't hold any interest for me.
    But the selection screen, looked like 20 years old VGA graphics... Wasn't the whole idea, to have a graphic revamp?
    Totally agree on the selection screen. It's plain awful. If that's what they intend to go with, I'd be amazed.
  1. FuxieDK's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Grmmppff View Post
    Totally agree on the selection screen. It's plain awful. If that's what they intend to go with, I'd be amazed.
    There seem to have been an update, because the graphics is much nicer now.
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