Warcfat3 beta specs up, tons of angry people

[Dark4ng3l]

beta
LOL people are begging blizzard to lower them min specs on the cpu and memory... minimum requirements are a joke, games are usualy unplayable with min reqs, even if blizzard lower them those people wont be able to run the game better... damn non techie people are dumb as hell.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

bump

 

[tweakmm]

heh, stupid people are funny
good thing I am well within specs for the sign-up

 

[Hossenfeffer]

<< Monday, January 07, 2002 2:07 PM
Monday, January 07, 2002 2:23 PM >>



You gotta be kidding me.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

<<

Registration for the Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Beta Test requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 or higher and a Microsoft Windows Operating System. Please make sure you comply with these requirements and try again.

>>



nice. :|

 

[Dark4ng3l]

they start at 11pm PST, so thats like in 9 hours or so?!?(hot sure)

 

[StageLeft]

Well since the game won't be out for another half decade it doesn't much matter!



<< Your computer must be at least a Pentium III 600 (or equivalent), with 128 MB RAM or more.
Your computer must have a mouse, 400 MB of available hard drive space, a 4X CD-ROM or faster, a 32 MB 3D accelerator card with Direct3D support, a DirectX compatible 16 bit sound card, a 28.8 modem (or better) with Internet connectivity, and DirectX 8.1.
You must be running Windows 98, 98SE, 2000 (running with local Administrator privileges), ME, or XP to play the Warcraft® III: Reign of Chaos? beta on your system.
Your Internet connection must be capable of running 32-bit Windows socket applications (such as Microsoft Internet Explorer).
You must have a valid e-mail address. >>



By the time this comes out those are entirely reasonable. Most people will have a 600 or faster CPU and even fairly low-cost systems have a 32 meg junker video card. These are perfectly reasonable. You want stupid - look at the new everquest expansion that recommends 512 megs. That's ridiculous.

 

[Ameesh]

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<<

Registration for the Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Beta Test requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 or higher and a Microsoft Windows Operating System. Please make sure you comply with these requirements and try again.

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nice. :| >>



what the hell did you expect support for linux and macs? you'll have to wait a few years for the chance to play. microsoft('s support for game developers) ownz jo0!

 

[Ameesh]

directx ownz jo0 too!

 

[kami]

<< In addition, please note that you will be prompted to download an ActiveX file during the registration process that will provide Blizzard with the system configuration of the computer from which you apply and intend to play the Warcraft® III: Reign of Chaos? beta. Specifically, Blizzard will only be recording CPU, RAM, operating system, video card, and sound card information from your computer. Your system configuration data will be linked with your personal registration data. The reason we are collecting this information is to make sure that we select users with a wide variety of hardware configurations that meet the minimum requirements to participate in the beta test. By submitting your application, you hereby acknowledge that the aforementioned data will be collected and grant Blizzard permission to collect such data. >>


Very nice. I like this approach...people can't lie about their specs then.

Skoorb, I doubt it'll be half a decade. i got to participate in the diablo 2 beta and the game came out shortly after the beta was done. Isn't it due in november? I know they've pushed it back before, but Blizzard's public betas are usually pretty solid.

 

[StageLeft]

<< directx ownz jo0 too! >>



LOL!

 

[arod]

those specs arent that high most everybody on AT should have at least that. Comnputers are dirt cheap right now.

 

[911paramedic]

Have you seen the space requirements for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon?


Drive Space - 1GB minimum hard drive space

 

[Dark4ng3l]

alot of ordinary users have alot slower computers 300-500 rnage mostly I guess. The people want them to lower the requirements, but damn they dont understand that it's probably barely playable with the min specs, even if they lower them the game wont run fast enough damn some people(well most actually) are stupid... and this is good for us... if 50% of the people are disqualified by their sucky compuyters we have abetter chance of getting in

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

ok so people bitch about the minimum requirements. and then people like us bitch when they arent high enough. no wonder developers are going to consoles. how do you expect them to put out better games on your piece of ass computer? suck it up, computer gaming is BIG ASS EXPENSIVE. it sucks that people cant afford to upgrade to the latest thing, but i also hate having games that dont push the limit because they have to be designed to run on your mothers p2 266. :|

if im going to dump hundreds of bucks every few months to upgrade my pc id like to have something that uses it's abilities.

 

[speg]

DOH! I got everthing except my 16MB Voodoo3

 

[Ameesh]

<< DOH! I got everthing except my 16MB Voodoo3 >>



time to upgrade buddy

 

[Azraele]

Diablo II was made with minimal requirements in mind. The quality complaints that blizzard got obviously made them think twice before doing that again.

 

[soccerbud34]

blizzard's website's down for me....

 

[JellyBaby]

At some point people must realize their POS P2-233s just don't cut it anymore at least for gaming. This group is holding us us back more than they should.

That said, Warcraft is by Blizzard. Their audience is the mass market (the P2-233 crowd). So I can understand why Joe Sixpack is complaining.

 

[trmiv]

<< Diablo II was made with minimal requirements in mind. The quality complaints that blizzard got obviously made them think twice before doing that again. >>



Exactly. Everyone bitched and moaned because Diablo II didn't look that great, now I bet the same people are bitching about the system requirements for Warcraft III. People need to realize that you can't have a great looking game with super AI that will work on grandma's Packard Bell with the P2 in it, plus satisfy all the gamers who demand the best. Like Bruno said, no wonder some developers are jumping at the chance to develop for consoles. They don't have to play the system requirement game, trying to please every freaking person out there because they bitch if a game doesn't work on their Pentium II 300 system with the Voodoo2.

 

[BDawg]

After the craptacular support of Diablo2, they can keep their future games, I won't be buying them.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

ive never had any problem whatsoever with d2 and ive had it since like 2 weeks after it was released..

 

[SUBxWRX]

it'll be out in warez within a couple days of it's release...

 

[Vortex22]

Can anyone get the the blizzard website right now?
It's down for me... NEED TO SIGN UP!!