It's understandable that between all the April Fools "beta counters" and all the talk of beta being close that fans would be restless and a little testy on the Battle.net forums. Karune posted recently to let fans know that the second Battle Report and the beta test are both coming along as planned.
Read what Karune had to say after the jump.
To give you guys an update, the Battle Report is still in localization and needs to be ready in all supported regions before it will go up. Many times this adds to the development timeline, but it allows everyone worldwide to be able to experience Blizzard updates at the same time, so no particular region feels neglected. Once that is done in all regions, we will be good to go.
In regards to beta, I'm seeing many websites and hoaxes messing with people's expectations. These are not official announcements, and when that time comes, the official announcement will be written by a blue or posted up on official websites like battle.net and StarCraft2.com.
The developers are hard at work in getting StarCraft II to a beta phase. With each of the Q&As, you can see the types of updates they are working on. More and more, we are trying to include 'behind the scenes' type content in the Q&As (localized in all regions as well), which unfortunately adds a little bit to the production timeline of Q&As as well, but gives the community something to 'see' in addition to what they 'read.' Comparing Q&A 49 & 50, they have changed drastically from say Q&A 1 & 2. In order to get more content out there as well, we have begun soliciting questions from fansites a part of our fan site program, so stay on the look out for those when they get answered.Honestly, I feel you guys - though in actuality, there is little the community doesn't already know about in terms of gameplay with StarCraft II. Battle.net and Single Player will be rolled out in their own spotlight features in the future, because there is much to talk about in those areas.
Hang in there, I think the Fan Q&As will be good, and Battle Report #2 shouldn't be too far down the road.
We have a habit of holding things back at Blizzard to make sure when we finally show everyone, it will be up to par - we want to make sure it will our products are something both the community will love to play and something that we too can be very proud of.-Karune
In all honesty I think Blizzard does a fantastic job with keeping its fans up to speed on the development of their games. No other publisher on Earth carries on back-and-forth conversations with their fans as much as Blizzard does and is transparent and up front about what goes on behind their headquarter's doors. For God's sake, they hold their own massive convention every year now to showcase their work and get their fans involved as much as possible. I understand we're all restless for this beta and for the full release, but we should all be grateful for Blizzard's dedication to us, the fans.
For a new 15 question Q&A check back Saturday.
