Hello guys, I just received the starcraft 2 beta in my battle.net account I will download it in a few hours. However first I have question hopefully you can help me. Im living at the moment in the UK and I plan to download the beta to my laptop here, but in a couple of months Ill be returning to my home country Spain and I would like to download the beta again from my battle.net account to my desktop computer. Will this be possible? or you're only allowed one download for the beta? or you can only run it from one authorized computer? (Once in Spain I only plan to play it in the desktop computer) Thanks in advance.
You can download it on any PC, you just have to login to your battle.net account to play so it doesnt matter how many computers have the beta you cant play it unless your battle.net account is activated in the beta.
thank you for the reply. I see now. But this makes me think, for example, if a person manages to install the starcraft 2 beta without having "won" the beta through battle.net and steals the username and password of person will this person be able to use it?
Installing a cracked SC2 and accessing battle.net is something else entirely. I'm sure the people with the cracked SC2 till now be able to register their SC2 usermanes for Battle.net. But also what about if your username in beta carries over to the retail version? Then basically the lucky few will get their choice of username. And if you have to wail till retail to play the game then you have a good chance of your username already being taken if it's a popular one. I hope Blizzard deletes all the SC2 beta usernames when retail comes out. So everyone has a fair chance to get a good name.
OK I understand. What I want to do is download the beta here in London to my laptop and play it here for a while, but at the same time give my brother my details so he can download it too from battle.net and install the beta in our desktop computer in Spain, and when im not playing it online here in london, he can play it as well there. I understand there wont be any problem from what you have told me, right?
Yes that should be ok. As long as neither of you are logged in at the same time. Because you would be using the same battle.net account as each other. If one tries to long at the same time as the other Blizzard might think it's a hacker or something, not knowing it's your brother and they might take action. So just make 100% sure you both use it at different times. And you should be ok. Mind you you'd both be sharing the one player ranking as well.
Thank you again! Yeah it doesn't matter. We just want to play the new game He'll create his own account once we get the retail version. In the meantime we'll just share.
This makes me think, what is stopping someone from letting another person borrow the bnet account to play the beta? I'd assume they are watching the locations the logins are occurring and making sure they are not moving too much.
Well say hypothetically you take your laptop to a mates place and use his wireless internet on your own computer to play SC2. Then you'd be logging with a different IP and going if what you say Blizzard should red flag that. But in reality it's still the same person playing SC2. I agree with you but it'd have to just be a general thing.
I meant like someone in another country/another state. I'm not sure if they could even tell, but yeah....I'm not saying people should be doing this or what not, I was just curious about the policy if anything.
My curiosity is not about Beta Key players, but Opt-In's - like my self. My theory is the specs on your computer play a key roll in them picking you out of the other opt-ins, so if I have a second computer in my room, used by my brother...wouldn't that be a bad thing to allow him to access/use my account on a different computer? I haven't done so, it just crossed my mind when I read this thread. For those wanting to imply I just let him play on my computer if he want's to play beta - I respond with it is my computer and I may want to use it when he wants to play sc2 beta, and while I could tell him to tough it out....it's a question all the same if Blizzard would be discouraged/angry to see opt-in's share that beta sc2 account on 2 computers even if they are under the same household.
