If you applied to beta.....

[sandro113]

whats the chances of geting into open beta? i mean if u already signed up what are the chances of geting it? Web sites are having contests for open beta. Is'nt everyone going to get into open beta? When i tested for other games and the beta went into open they would let everyone in. I hope they let everyone who signed up get it the open beta

[Robot]

Open beta means that the NDA will eventually be lifted, and is more stress testing than bug squashing

PUBLIC beta means that everyone who signs up will get in. No word on if they'll have one

[sandro113]

Thanks for the info

[Euroclydon]

I guess I always thought public beta was exclusive and open beta (non-public would be internal beta).

I guess it just depends on the game company whether or not they think "open" means everyone, or "open" just means lots of people.

For sony, I can understand them not wanting to send a CD at their expense to every Tom, Dick, and Harry that wants one. Perhaps there's legal reasons why they can't charge for the beta too. *shrug*

[Robot]

Originally posted by Euroclydon
For sony, I can understand them not wanting to send a CD at their expense to every Tom, Dick, and Harry that wants one. Perhaps there's legal reasons why they can't charge for the beta too. *shrug*

There's no reason why they can't charge you for shipping (You'd be surprised how rediculous shipping costs to foreign countries are.) but they're nice guys, so they aren't

[FraBaktos]

They don't charge you. There is absolutely no charge for the shipping of the open beta discs as stated on the email. And I think the chances are high of getting in, because myself and a bunch of friends all got in on the same day

[LLMerc]

I've paid to be in beta before =) As far as I remember both UO beta and EQ beta you paid for shipping of the CD =)

[Euroclydon]

Well, they probably just don't want the clerical work of getting everybody's money then. However, setting up a system that takes credit card payment only probably wouldn't be too difficult if you were Sony I would imagine...