Ok, the beta will start in the months ahead... but we understand that it will start in north america first and in the other regions afterwards. Im from Europe and we are bored (well, americans are too). Why don't u release some other matches for us to watch? Dustin Browder said they were waiting for the "perfect game". Was the last battle report a perfect game in your opinion? And even if it was.... why dont share with us a game which isn't perfect? I'm sure we all won't mind it. It's just we'd like too see some other unit or how the game is evolving... what's the reason for not showing us some new random matches?

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Ok, the beta will start in the months ahead... but we understand that it will start in north america first and in the other regions afterwards. Im from Europe and we are bored (well, americans are too). Why don't u release some other matches for us to watch? Dustin Browder said they were waiting for the "perfect game". Was the last battle report a perfect game in your opinion? And even if it was.... why dont share with us a game which isn't perfect? I'm sure we all won't mind it. It's just we'd like too see some other unit or how the game is evolving... what's the reason for not showing us some new random matches?

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Here's how it works.

1) We find a good game. This may take hours or it may take a week or two. Depends on how lucky we get. We don't have thousands playing the game, just a few guys who are skilled enough, and they have other things they are doing, they aren't just playing 24/7.
2) We schedule time to record the voice-over. This may take days or a week before we can get into the booth. Our sound guys are busy.
3) We capture the game footage from a replay into a movie format. This takes a few hours. If any mistakes occur it takes longer. The guy who does this has another job of course, so he gets to it when he can.
4) The footage gets compressed. The people who do that are busy. It takes them a short time to do, but it may be a day or two before they get to it.
5) Once we have the footage, we go into the sound booth, we do the voice-over, then the voice gets edited and put back into the movie (a day or two).
6) Then the translators get involved and we do the text summaries for our non-English-speaking fans. That takes a couple of days once they get to it.
7) Then the web guys set everything up and it finally goes live.

So the whole thing takes a while. And in the middle of that we are all working on the actual game. When we are working towards something important (Beta) this whole battle-report thing takes a back seat. That's why you don't get them as often as we would all like. It's not something we are working on all the time. It's something various departments do after hours so you guys can see some cool stuff.

We aren't "withholding" battle reports to be mean. I swear. =)

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how do voice overs take a day or 2?

"Oh! and its looking like the tttzzzprotoss player is moving around hes able to get just enough shields back"

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Sorry, the voice over takes an hour, it's the editing and linking the audio back to the video that takes the time.