is it just me, or are these forums pretty crappy compared to the other ones blizzard has up?

i mean, the WoW forums and the Starcraft 2 forums (not the SC2 forums here, but the ones at http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/) are awesome.

And does everyone else have to input a cd-key EVERY TIME THEY WANT TO POST?? im getting annoyed by that.

if there is a better way, please let me know!

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d3 forums coming when beta is released apparently.

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Sooner. Like. Real soon.

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p.s. jk, does this mean forums before beta perhaps?!

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Most indubitably. They'll require an active WoW or SC2 license to post, though, since there won't be a Diablo III beta license yet.

We won't allow "classic" Battle.net keys. I think that was probably obvious, though.

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Why wouldn't you put in a restriction on just having a B.net ID?
Why require other games?

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We have a concept of high-level Battle.net accounts, but there's no such thing as an account-wide ID, so to allow people to post we have to have some kind of attachment to a product.

One, because we want there to be some way to actually have a punishment mean something if they're suspended/banned from the forums they can't just make a new Battle.net account and keep breaking whatever rules they want to, but second so we actually have an identity to display which they create in either StarCraft II or World of Warcraft.

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How about when the beta is finally out. Will you then lock it down to D3 Beta users only?

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No, because there's only a limited number of people that are going to get into the beta and we want people to be able to talk about the game assuming they won't have a game license until they can buy it.

We will have specific beta forums where only people with beta licenses can post, though.

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awesome so i have been playing d2 since release
in fact i have a game open right now
i iwll be getting d3 at release but because i do not like starcraft or wow i can't post just awesome !

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We're planning to leave this forum open until release of the game for those that don't own WoW or SC2.

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Right, that's what I was referring to.
I meant New B.Net2.0.

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But we still don't have Battle.net-wide ID's even on the new Battle.net system (something we'd like to address at some point). We have a login, which is generally an email address.

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Well, this is true, but I'm sure your networking guys are as good as I am and can lock out IPs/Mac addresses, if they want to go through all the work to spoof both to troll on the forums, let em ;)

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Well, no, if you're banned from the WoW of SC2 forums (or D3 forums for that matter) you'd need to buy the game again and make a new account to post again. We ban on the license level, not IP.