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You see... simply the fact that you can't understand how that is "gambling" should also mean that you shouldn't have enough money to own a computer. Unfortunately the world isn't fair and people don't get what they deserve.

You make it sound like it's so simple: Oh, just disable Arenas, disable deck purchases. Then what's left to test? If the game runs properly? Well they can just do that internally or in USA. At this point in time testing different payment methods, fixing the laws, making sure they won't get sued by some nutjobs like Germany suing Valve. If you really want to complain, write a letter to your congress or whatever the hell we have in our european countries (since it's called something else from one to the other) or  to the EU council and tell them they have retarded laws. 

At this time due to how retarded the legislation is they would probably have to make (or just completely remove) anything related to real money. Not grey out, make another version of the game without them entirely. Oh the delicious drama of them releasing the game without Arenas or the option to purchase decks. I'd rather wait even tho I have a partnered Youtube channel and this could have quite a bit of a cash return for me.

Look at this moron.  He is angry because his section of the world doesn't get a CHANCE to MAYBE be able to TEST an INCOMPLETE game FIRST.

Everything you said, Crusader2010, does not make sense. If Blizzard really did everything you suggest, the non-English speaking world would be in an uproar (guess what, that's LARGER by at least 1 billion than the English-speaking), they would still have legal troubles no matter how they set it up (even if they could get around stuff, it would still be crappy than what they want), and whether or not you believe it, this game is legally defined as gambling in a few jurisdictions even if it doesn't seem to be. Hell, if it weren't for the card play in Arena, Canada would have to answer a math question in order to obtain the Arena awards.

So no, none of what Blizzard is/was doing is stupid. I highly doubt you know more than what Blizzard knows, and this always seems to be the problem when people complain.

I am kinda curious why EU doesn't have a beta going yet, considering that there are very excellent gamers across the pond. Is it something to do with localizations?

Thanks, Mascotte.

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I am kinda curious why EU doesn't have a beta going yet, considering that there are very excellent gamers across the pond. Is it something to do with localizations?

Most common accepted reason is there are legal/payment problems in certain EU countries.

The whole cardpack aspect might be seen as 'gambling' in certain parts since the results differ greatly.

Localization stuff in the form of languages has been done for over a week already according to Gamescom visitors so its highly unlikely that was the sole reason.

What I would like to know is, why is Localization a problem? Everyone in EU learns English in school, or at least they should. As for the gambling part, why aren't they just allowing EU players in certain countries that they know it will be legal while they work on the other countries.

Because Blizzard isn't ready yet.

That's the simplest and best explanation why.

We can speculate as to the reasons why but at the end of the day none of us work for Blizzard so we have no earthly clue what's involved in getting the beta set up in the EU region so there's really no point in pretending we know the reasons why and attempting to refute them.