Have MERCY!!!!! I can not take the pain anymore... You must give me BETA phase 2 NOW!!! I CAN'T HANDLE IT ANYMORE!!!

The agony is immense... 3 sleepless nights now! I can't stop thinking about Starcraft 2 ><. The shaking, the twisting and turning, the circles have returned to my eyes I CAN'T SLEEP!!!!!!!!!!

I CAN'T EVEN FIND A WORTHY SUBSTITUTE FOR THE TIME!!! First I watched countless hours of Husky and HD videos and it was good Enough. But 2 days ago it isn't good enough!! I am dieing a little bit each day now.

But nonetheless in my search I looked into the starcraft 2 forums. The trolls brought me laughter but only to the point where the zerg in me was becoming angry at everyone's nonsense!!!! NOW ITS NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!!! GIVE ME STARCRAFT II!!!!!!

I have even traversed the old starcraft... It is not... the same... i play.. i beat people... just not the same... ITS JUST NOT THE SAME!!!!!

I have crashed... Even now I am furiously clicking my starcraft 2 beta tab in hopes that, this time... It will be online... THIS TIME!!! But to no avail... The circling blue stroke of light is mindless... hypnotic... will ever go away?? It stays there... in my vision just circling... and circling... it is.. unrelenting... will it ever make way... to wonder of starcraft 2? Wait a min... maybe this time...! Deceiving and heartless is the circle... IT WILL NOT GIVE ME THE LIGHT!!!!! and even though i know it will never go away... still i stay... staring at the circling blue stroke of light... maybe in just a few seconds it will... no not this time... maybe in a minute... no. One more time... connect... still to no avail... it will in the next few seconds... IT HAS TO IN THE NEXT FEW SECONDS!!!!

OMG HELP ME!!!!

It sounds like you need a hug.

/hug

Second phase of beta will be coming in all due time. (Sometimes referred to as Soon™ )

We know everyone is anxious to get back in and play, but we're not far off of launch either. If you stand on your tippy toes and squint a bit, you can almost see it off in the distance.

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Only thing is, when I do see release.. will I rejoice or will my eyes bleed?

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Flights of angels will sing you to glory...



Hopefully you will rejoice. I hope you all are keeping your eyes on the mini-site for the unlocks as well. We have something special planned for that as well as we go.


And yes, it will be this year. Unless you're traveling in a time machine. Then, it could be any year really.

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Mmm, thankfully the recent iPhone launch has kept me nicely distracted but now, especially after reading this, I'm starting to feel the return of that gut-wrenching yearn for Starcraft 2.


Quite excited to see what comes of the mini-site unlocks, too :)

And Nethaera popping in to keep us company is nice. Are you going to be switching to a SC2 mod or just stopping by?

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I'll be on all of our forums as will the rest of the team. So you'll see me in WoW, here, and eventually more in Diablo although Bashiok has been hold the for there pretty well.

I too am looking forward to the release. I love that new game smell and yet at the same time as it being new and "shiny" comes the comfort level of old memories made fresh and new within it.

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What If I'm a midget that just happened to have his toes cut off last year?? :(

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:( I tend to get out a step stool when I can't reach something. (Which is more often than I'd like.)

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hmm nethaera is awfully active today, btw what blizz mod runs the face book page and the dominion page or is it a team effort?

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Team effort. We bounce ideas off of each other and collaborate on a lot of things as a team.

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Since we are talking blue missions, is it also you who filter and sum up the forum discussion to the devs ? If so, what's exactly the form of the feedback, do you summarise the views players have on a given topic, quote parts of the discussion? Both ?

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It's a variety of things. We tend to try to focus in on what are the most discussed topics and concerns that we see here and in other locations as well as our own play experiences we can draw on. The developers also have their own data that they see and take a look at whether or not what we're seeing is meshing with the data and if it's not meshing, try to figure out why (something missing, information we need to share to give better perspective and more.) We meet face to face as often as we can or feel we need to since emails or reports don't always convey sentiment in either direction in the most effective way.