beta emails friday?

[afex]

think about the past week for a little bit.

monday:
gamespot preview + screenshots + MOVIES
hamma screenshots

tuesday:
day to chomp on the massive amount of shit from yesterday and recuperate

wednesday:
ign preview + screenshots

thursday:
gamespy preview + screenshots

friday:
???????????????????


think about it. all these previews and releases. all THIS week. all leading up to.........beta?

i'm getting all goose-nipply.

[TeamR]

Afex!!

Well, im on vacation now, so it would make for a great start to the weekend

One can only hope...

[xuur]

let us pray

*kneels*

[Hamma]

[Zarparchior]

Good luck with teh beta guys.

[MrVicchio]

Think about this, in the IGN preview, theymention the beta comming up "soon". That, atleast in my desperate mind says before Christmas.

[Unregistered]

I doubt anything will happen before the new year. Beta will take a lot of support, and people that are in the frame of mind to do some work.

So with Christmas and New Years right around the corner and people taking time off it really seems unlikely that they will start it before then.

[BLuE_ZeRO]

Originally posted by Hamma

I agree completely Hamma. You raise some excellent points there.

[TeamR]

Well, if the release date doesnt get pushed back anymore, i'd imagine they'd try to at least get the cd's mailed before the end of the year. How much real testing can be done in two phases between january and march?

[BLuE_ZeRO]

Thought it was coming out in Feb... they don't need to do alot of testing mainly stress testing servers and what not. Shouldn't take that long to work out any other smaller kinks in the game.

[MrVicchio]

I expect emails by 19 Dec, and the CD's 1st week of January with the servers firing up 2 nd week of Januarary. But thats an IMHO

[afex]

Originally posted by MrVicchio
I expect emails by 19 Dec, and the CD's 1st week of January with the servers firing up 2 nd week of Januarary. But thats an IMHO

that wouldn't make much sense considering they are now aiming for a feb release

[Unregistered]

That sounds reasonable.

[TeamR]

Originally posted by BLuE_ZeRO
Thought it was coming out in Feb... they don't need to do alot of testing mainly stress testing servers and what not. Shouldn't take that long to work out any other smaller kinks in the game.

Well if its Feb, then thats even better

But nobody knows how much testing they need to do, not even the devs. Thats the whole point of testing! Companies should do as much testing as possible to prevent launches like WW2 Online.

[Hamma]

Id imagine the testing period of a FPS baseed MMO would not be nearly as long as an RPG based one.

Just a guess