Beta Invites

[LCinn]

Maybe try to pm him?

[SolidQ]

fun

[kronguard]

Got mine around 2 o'clock this morning (the e-mail, anyway). Naturally, I was out/asleep and didn't see it until when I just woke up. I'll start capping some of my gameplay for Youtube once I find a good software.

That would be really cool. Use Fraps is really good for recording games and I think MSI Afterburner does it also.

Fraps really doesn't have a whole lot of options and the damn thing recorded a 2 minute video at the size of 4 gigs.

And yet its the best,there is reason why 99% of gameplay videos are being recorded with fraps.

[katoki]

Hope i get a beta key ^^
I played torchlight after D2 and after D3 gave me hell (in the form of errors)
Im jumping ship pronto.

[mikidi]

Would love a beta invite, clocked quite a few hours in the first one.

[Calerco]

I love Diablo-like games. Finished D1, D2 with my husband and also TL1 at single. I would love to have a beta key for TL II so i can play with him again. He's already playing - i can just look =( Diablo 3 is too problematic and expensive. We'll probably pre-order TL2 and have basically the same fun together.

[projectingstars]

I'd like a beta invite please!

[Prayer]

I hope I get into full beta so I can quit D3 already, sooooo bored of the game.. was promised Esport PVP from D3 and yet they lied once again so now I am hoping that TL2 comes out with a PvP system to take over the Action RPG world!

[kievakula]

Pre order is already set, just waiting for a beta key so I get get a taste of what to expect, can't wait!

[TrockBronze]

I haven't noticed an exact answer yet, and I realize that beta keys are not guaranteed, however I have signed up, created an account on the forums as well as a general account linked and activated them and set it to receive mail. Do I have to have a pre-order as well to get into beta?(which I do have just not sure how it would be connected to the account here) Also since it was done after the beginning on the weekend do I have any chance at all of getting in?

Edit: The answer would be yes. Thanks

[Tekdrudge]

I haven't noticed an exact answer yet, and I realize that beta keys are not guaranteed, however I have signed up, created an account on the forums as well as a general account linked and activated them and set it to receive mail. Do I have to have a pre-order as well to get into beta?(which I do have just not sure how it would be connected to the account here) Also since it was done after the beginning on the weekend do I have any chance at all of getting in?

I'm the same boat as you. The problem I have, is that 3 of my friends signed up for the beta the same hour I did and they are already playing the game together. I keep getting texts from them mocking me. I'm curious about the beta selection process. Is it just random?

Edit: 20 mins after I typed this I got my key. It's Saturday evening and they are still cranking them out. Still curious about the beta selection process.

[AsusDan]

As someone who pre-ordered your game I find it very disappointing I had to even apply for a beta key. I find it even more disappointing that I only have beta access for the weekend. Please fix this. I have seen the forum post that says
"Please DO NOT EMAIL US ASKING FOR A KEY. YOU WILL NOT GET ONE BY DOING SO AND WE WILL NOT RESPOND TO THOSE EMAILS." which as a paying customer I find insulting.

[kievakula]

As someone who pre-ordered your game I find it very disappointing I had to even apply for a beta key. I find it even more disappointing that I only have beta access for the weekend. Please fix this. I have seen the forum post that says
"Please DO NOT EMAIL US ASKING FOR A KEY. YOU WILL NOT GET ONE BY DOING SO AND WE WILL NOT RESPOND TO THOSE EMAILS." which as a paying customer I find insulting.

I think that it is fine that they let everyone get the chance, I just feel stupid, because I thought preordering WOULD get me a key, so I didn't bother to enter all those giveaways on the run up to the beta. I would love to play before the beta test is over to wet my whistle, but I also want the game to do well, so having those players who are still deciding, get to play the game and decide to buy it because of the beta, will only make the game a bigger success and give me more people to play with online.

[kievakula]

I haven't noticed an exact answer yet, and I realize that beta keys are not guaranteed, however I have signed up, created an account on the forums as well as a general account linked and activated them and set it to receive mail. Do I have to have a pre-order as well to get into beta?(which I do have just not sure how it would be connected to the account here) Also since it was done after the beginning on the weekend do I have any chance at all of getting in?

I'm the same boat as you. The problem I have, is that 3 of my friends signed up for the beta the same hour I did and they are already playing the game together. I keep getting texts from them mocking me. I'm curious about the beta selection process. Is it just random?

Edit: 20 mins after I typed this I got my key. It's Saturday evening and they are still cranking them out. Still curious about the beta selection process.

It would help if you told us what time you joined to give us an idea of where they are at, thanks in advance.

[AsusDan]

As someone who pre-ordered your game I find it very disappointing I had to even apply for a beta key. I find it even more disappointing that I only have beta access for the weekend. Please fix this. I have seen the forum post that says
"Please DO NOT EMAIL US ASKING FOR A KEY. YOU WILL NOT GET ONE BY DOING SO AND WE WILL NOT RESPOND TO THOSE EMAILS." which as a paying customer I find insulting.

I think that it is fine that they let everyone get the chance, I just feel stupid, because I thought preordering WOULD get me a key, so I didn't bother to enter all those giveaways on the run up to the beta. I would love to play before the beta test is over to wet my whistle, but I also want the game to do well, so having those players who are still deciding, get to play the game and decide to buy it because of the beta, will only make the game a bigger success and give me more people to play with online.

I think that it is fine that they let everyone get the chance too, however I think people who pre-order the game should simply get beta access automatically since they already paid for the game.

I registered my account around the 16th or so.

[kievakula]

As someone who pre-ordered your game I find it very disappointing I had to even apply for a beta key. I find it even more disappointing that I only have beta access for the weekend. Please fix this. I have seen the forum post that says
"Please DO NOT EMAIL US ASKING FOR A KEY. YOU WILL NOT GET ONE BY DOING SO AND WE WILL NOT RESPOND TO THOSE EMAILS." which as a paying customer I find insulting.

I think that it is fine that they let everyone get the chance, I just feel stupid, because I thought preordering WOULD get me a key, so I didn't bother to enter all those giveaways on the run up to the beta. I would love to play before the beta test is over to wet my whistle, but I also want the game to do well, so having those players who are still deciding, get to play the game and decide to buy it because of the beta, will only make the game a bigger success and give me more people to play with online.

I think that it is fine that they let everyone get the chance too, however I think people who pre-order the game should simply get beta access automatically since they already paid for the game.

I registered my account around the 16th or so.

They did explain it somewhere in a thread, something about Steam not giving out emails and details, and that they wanted certain amount of people and that those who preordered would be a huge group. Can't find the thread, but if you search you might be able to find it. They did give a very detailed explanation and apologized about it.

edit here is one of the posts........

Our original plans for the beta were for it to be to be just a very small group of friends and family, but we discovered after we started that we needed to get more load on our servers. Pre-orders have been going really well for us, so there's a lot of people right there. And, while we'd love to give beta access to everyone who pre-ordered (even though there was never any guarantee that pre-orders would get beta access), we only have the ability to give new things to everyone who pre-ordered through Steam or no one who pre-ordered. Valve respects your privacy and won't give us your email addresses -- and you should thank them for that!

The problem is that -- if we opened the floodgates on people who pre-ordered -- we would have no ability to stagger the distribution of those keys. That sudden, giant influx of people is not something that what we would want at this stage in our testing. You guys have to keep in mind that the purpose of this beta is to test our systems so that things will be ready for release. I hope I've articulated the issue for you in a way that didn't make your eyes gloss over.

I know you guys are waiting and are excited. We're excited too and we really do appreciate your support: it means the world to us. We don't want to make you wait any longer than we have to.

tl;dr: sorry for the mess; it wasn't intentional.

[AsusDan]

Found a reply:

Hey, everyone. Just wanted to get you an answer on this. It's way too complicated to fit into a tweet.

Our original plans for the beta were for it to be to be just a very small group of friends and family, but we discovered after we started that we needed to get more load on our servers. Pre-orders have been going really well for us, so there's a lot of people right there. And, while we'd love to give beta access to everyone who pre-ordered (even though there was never any guarantee that pre-orders would get beta access), we only have the ability to give new things to everyone who pre-ordered through Steam or no one who pre-ordered. Valve respects your privacy and won't give us your email addresses -- and you should thank them for that!

The problem is that -- if we opened the floodgates on people who pre-ordered -- we would have no ability to stagger the distribution of those keys. That sudden, giant influx of people is not something that what we would want at this stage in our testing. You guys have to keep in mind that the purpose of this beta is to test our systems so that things will be ready for release. I hope I've articulated the issue for you in a way that didn't make your eyes gloss over.

I know you guys are waiting and are excited. We're excited too and we really do appreciate your support: it means the world to us. We don't want to make you wait any longer than we have to.

It is very easy to provide proper proof you pre-ordered.

If you opened up the floodgates on getting beta access to people who pre-ordered, you would have no ability to stagger key distribution however you would get a lot more money which can be spent on resources to make servers better and to patch bugs/balance issues.

[Vad3r]

Still no key, so much for my luck.

[kievakula]

Still no key, so much for my luck.

The worst part is seeing people on game forums selling and trading them

[theod]

i have multiple fire fall keys to give away trading for 1 full torchlight beta key