Is Blizzard happy with the direction of the beta?

In an interesting post on the Battle.net forums yesterday, someone asked how Blizzard felt the direction of the beta was headed. The concern was that everyone seems to be saying everything is overpowered, so it has to be really hard to sort the serious imbalance issues with the “I just lost, so my opponent must have been playing an overpowered race” issues.  This was Blizzard’s response:

We’re quite satisfied with the beta test so far. Of course players will have disagreements on balance, but this provides us the perfect opportunity to really stress test the game using a much larger sample audience than we could internally. As you’ve seen from the first two patches, we’ve already made several adjustments that, prior to the beta test, might not have been fully considered.

Any competitive game will bring about a number of conflicting opinions or reports on how the game is currently balanced. This is still a very important part of the process and those testing are providing us with a very important number of statistics, reports, complaints, and everything else we need to take into consideration to make StarCraft II the most fun game possible.

As far as sifting through the forums goes, it’s always helpful to read some passionate posts detailing accounts of potential issues with game balance, but when it comes to the beta test, there are a number of other tools we have for reviewing trends and statistics which are invaluable to us. You can expect to see more changes trickle in as the beta test continues and more testers are summoned to join in on the fun!

I like the last sentence of that quote the best. Maybe I’ll get lucky in the next round of beta summons. One can only hope