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MrVicchio
2003-04-03, 05:20 PM
Author Topic: Devs please dont pull a shadowbane
landrin
Station Member
Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-03-2003 07:58 AM user search report post
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In shadowbane beta, who got accepted and who did (during the large closed beta...called open beta in planetside) was completely random, not done on a first signup, first get email basis...
That IMHO was insulting to the shadowbane followers who have been following this game for over a year.

I feel so sad when i hear about "my roomie signed upo yesterday and got in and i signed up 5 months ago and did"

PLLLEEEASSEEE dont do that to us...


.... I hate living in Maine...

SmokeJumperPS
Station Admin
Registered: Sep 2001 posted 04-03-2003 01:32 PM user search report post
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We'll have 11,000 "exclusive" beta testers by the end of this week.
When we launch Open Beta (soon), we'll be adding something like 20,000 *more* testers.

Most folks will be in the game...but we simply don't have the manpower to weed through each and every application to hand-pick entries. We did that until we had about 1700 players...but it's all been batch sorting since then.

We look at system specs, geographic locations, etc. as a basis for letting folks in...not how long they've been following the game.

http://boards.station.sony.com/ubb/planetside/Forum2/HTML/004886.html