Diablo 3 Beta Sooner Than Later?

[Dr. Doom]

I was suddenly alerted as I opened my WoW client and was about to login and to my surprise I saw, "BREAKING NEWS!" My first thought is, "oh great, more restarts or maintenance? downtime?" After a little bit of reading I had come to find out that I was being informed of Diablo 3 phishers by Blizzard Entertainment! This is purely speculation, but could that mean we might have our beta sooner than later? It could mean there is a huge increase of scam emails, but in all honesty, how much do you think Blizzard cares for your account integrity? The image shown here is what alarmed me, and made the immediate thought of, "BETA SOON?! NAO?!"

At this point, you have to choose what side of the bridge your going to cross. Do you want to be that crazy conspiracy theorist like Dr. Doom or do you want the FACTS and what we DO know? I would really like you guys to cross my side of the bridge, so I shall enlighten everyone with some information to back up my side of the bridge. No tinfoil hats needed.

Dr. Doom Side Possibilities:

- Blizzard could be watching out for our accounts well being and just posting to make the community aware of the situation. In Dr. Doom's mind, I'm thinking, "so there is an increase of phishing scams, does that mean someone knows something I don't?" Also, it could mean Blizzard wants us to keep an eye out for the REAL beta invites!

- Blizzard might be hinting to the community, and its in this little breaking news on the WoW login.

- Here is some more 'factual' information to help back my theory. This could be Blizzard bringing awareness that the Diablo 3 Beta is soon and that we should be watching our emails, because like their product slate says, it's coming out in Quarter 4, which would be in November. That is a reasonable amount of time for the beta to go on, and have a release of a product. I attended Blizzcon 2010 and they announced that their will be a release of Diablo 3 within the next year, hence it's 2011. Check out the Blizzard Product Slate that was leaked, for those of us who haven't already been enlightened by it.

That's all the information I have to back my side of the bridge, so you can go with Dr. Doom the nut job who likes to formulate his own speculations and creating excitement for others, or you can go with the facts and what's been announced side of the bridge. Which will probably just cause you stress and feeling of sadness! It is all up to you the reader, and I am more than welcoming all of you to walk with me on my side to the darkness of the Pits of Hell in Diablo 3 Beta awareness!

What is everyone's opinion on this? Do you think my speculation and conspiracies could be leading to something?! Or do you think I am going bonkers and losing a sense of reality? I'd love to hear anyone's opinion on whether or not they think this breaking news has anything to do with the actual Diablo 3 Beta, or if they have formulated their own speculations. Thank you loyal readers and I hope you enjoyed the article!

[cdmichaelb]

I've heard of some famous people getting beta invites, not sure if it was phishing, FnF invite, or if blizzard actually started waves.... but I do know for fact the phishers are out strong with fake D3 beta invites, they've even been sending in game mails to people.

[Dr. Doom]

Mhmm, it's getting pretty gnarly.

I am curious how hacked accounts will be handled since you can sell items for real money, etc.

[Sychotix]

I don't think the "real money" AH is going to actually be in the beta [at least not for REAL money]... that wouldn't make sense.

Also, Blizzard warning about D3 phishers probably just means that they are getting a large influx of reports on peoples accounts being hacked by them. Blizzard is probably putting a large amount of resources into restoring these accounts, so they are trying to limit that by warning people that play WoW about them.

[Dr. Doom]

I meant like in the future for the real money AH, cause people will have their accounts hacked even without being phished, etc. As for the "seriousness" of this article, I was having fun with it, while making it somewhat informational. Thanks for reading and giving your opinions

[cdmichaelb]

I meant like in the future for the real money AH, cause people will have their accounts hacked even without being phished, etc. As for the "seriousness" of this article, I was having fun with it, while making it somewhat informational. Thanks for reading and giving your opinions

Probably a strict no reimbursement policy. Maybe required authenticator to use real money AH?

[Dr. Doom]

That'd be a good idea cdmichaelb. The authenticator requirement, you could probably email support about it or something and maybe get some nice feedback from them or something :P

[Igzz]

I'm waiting for Diablo 3 key .

Going to see if maybe I could SE Blizzard into giving me one or more .

[Dr. Doom]

Haha if you get that extra one, you know who to hook up igzz

Thanks for reading!