Fake the Beta Profile Specs?

[xNotta]

I was able to fake my system specs using Virtual Machine, but those specs are horrible, like 800x600 resolution bad.

Does anyone know how to fake the System Specifications that are recorded in the Beta Profile program?

[Fisher]

I don't really but why would you wanna do that? Back in cataclysm I had something like 512 ram and gforce 4, I still got the beta in one of the first waves lol, they won't pick you faster if you fake it

[ev0]

In theory, yes it can be faked.

I ran the whole thing through fiddler, this is the output: https://i.imgur.com/YFq352n.png

Basically it sends it to that to the server. You can emulate it, to fake your shit i guess.

POST /account/systemsurvey/submit.xml?purpose=sc2beta HTTP/1.1 

Sends it via POST, so you can https://i.imgur.com/1txLG5J.png execute it on that URL. yay

[Fisher]

In theory, yes it can be faked.

I ran the whole thing through fiddler, this is the output: https://i.imgur.com/YFq352n.png

Basically it sends it to that to the server. You can emulate it, to fake your shit i guess.

POST /account/systemsurvey/submit.xml?purpose=sc2beta HTTP/1.1 

Sends it via POST, so you can https://i.imgur.com/1txLG5J.png execute it on that URL. yay

Nice catch didn't see that one =)

[xNotta]

In theory, yes it can be faked.

I ran the whole thing through fiddler, this is the output: https://i.imgur.com/YFq352n.png

Basically it sends it to that to the server. You can emulate it, to fake your shit i guess.

POST /account/systemsurvey/submit.xml?purpose=sc2beta HTTP/1.1 

Sends it via POST, so you can https://i.imgur.com/1txLG5J.png execute it on that URL. yay

Very cool.
Thank you for for doing all of that.
I'm going to go play around with Fiddler now.
Thanks again Picklesworth.

[Anonie]

To be honest, it is the crap systems like yours that they want to beta test the games and stuff on. They KNOW that the games will work on the shiny new hardware, because that's what they have in house, it is the older systems where they need performance data and feedback on.

[Fisher]

To be honest, it is the crap systems like yours that they want to beta test the games and stuff on. They KNOW that the games will work on the shiny new hardware, because that's what they have in house, it is the older systems where they need performance data and feedback on.

Thats true, hearthstone works perfect on my pc but fails miserably on my 3 years old laptop with no graphics card ^^ when I got cataclysm beta, it was on a terrible pc as well.. But the account I used on a brand new pc with insane specs never got any beta access.

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[lordnaomasax]

Is the reason people are trying to fake these things so they can get picked in beta potentially faster?

[Castseven]

Is the reason people are trying to fake these things so they can get picked in beta potentially faster?

The only reason I can imagine doing it is if their specs are below some kind of minimums. Otherwise, I don't see the point. They're going to take a random sampling across various types of computer hardware - assuming you can increase your chances of getting in a beta by having "higher" or "lower" specs is probably folley.

Yes, I'm sure some guy knows a guy who has a powerful system and "gets in all the betas", but that's anecdotal. Ultimately, no one outside Blizzard dev / testing (including your brother's cousin's friend's roomate who knows a guy who knows a GM) has the data to know either way. That said, when you work in software development or testing, not only do you not go after the 'jesus machine' first, you generally test on it as rarely as you do the barely-min spec machine.