News: Beta Producers Letter and free PlanetSide 1 Game Time!

[TheRagingGerbil]

Originally Posted by Sturmhardt

Yes, Im a doctor, I always need new patients!


@topic:
Those "news" are practically all bad. They pretty much say that they are in the internal beta (what everybody already knew) and that its gonna take a while till closed beta. Normally I would apreciate the information, but I dont like it because they had this strange "announcement" last week and I was actually looking forward to good news. Now I got bad news.

An announcement of upcoming news is good if you have GOOD news, if you have bad news, just dont say anything before spreading them, okay? That way, everyone is disappointed.

Free 30days of PS1 and news of escalating beta is not good? Wow...

[Ieyasu]

I always hate it when these guys say things to the effect of "we're doing this for the fans"

no you arent. you are doing it for a profit and to make money. If you were doing it for fans you wouldnt even have microtransactions everything would just be free.


hopefully this wasnt the announcement Smed was talking about. Weve already heard "soon" plenty of times.

though I must admit the 30 days of ps1 playtime is newsworthy.

[McWrath]

I didn't get the computer-spec. survey that was supposed to show up when you sign in to SOE (I had already entered a beta key weeks ago). I was originally using chrome, and switched to IE, and it worked. I hope that helps those having issues.

[TacosWLove]

So it was an beta announcement about future announcements about beta...


BUT the PS1 free 30days totally makes up for it!!! PS day here we come Been getting sick of Tanks anyways and Eves been alil slow..

[NewSith]

Originally Posted by Raven Wolf

1.) Will how long someone has subscribed play a factor in who gets in to beta first? The reason I ask that I have heard some hostility from people who are 6 + year subscribers and are upset about sabers being given to people with less than a year played and nothing for 7, 8 or 9th year merit.

I don't think people, with that type of thinking actually deserve to be amongst the CBT vanguard.

Originally Posted by Raven Wolf

2.) When I signed up for beta I do not ever remember submitting my PC specs and the producers note says they will be going off those where do we submit those or update them?

Search this thread for "mozilla".

[ThermalReaper]

Alright, final post on this thread. Everyone be patient, I'm sorry for that stupid last post, beta is coming, have fun with planetside 1.

[Xyntech]

Originally Posted by SztEltviz

What if i got two computers that i can use?
Anyway, i entered the lower specs, maybe that brings me faster into beta, as everybody else has nuclear plants as gaming machine

I haven't gotten my new build yet (waiting for beta to see how real world specs measure up), so I entered my honest, current, sub par specs as well. I'm sincerely hoping it doesn't delay me getting in too much. They gotta test out some older hardware as well, right?

[Sephirex]

Originally Posted by TacosWLove

So it was an beta announcement about future announcements about beta...


BUT the PS1 free 30days totally makes up for it!!! PS day here we come Been getting sick of Tanks anyways and Eves been alil slow..

There pretty much will be no future announcements about Beta from what I can tell.

That WAS the beta announcement.

Invites will be coming but they will be private and under NDA.

[Goku]

Originally Posted by Xyntech

I haven't gotten my new build yet (waiting for beta to see how real world specs measure up), so I entered my honest, current, sub par specs as well. I'm sincerely hoping it doesn't delay me getting in too much. They gotta test out some older hardware as well, right?

I would assume SOE wants low end to high end rigs to actually see how all this performs to get proper feedback. Just have rigs with a six core i7 and sli GTX 680 really isn't the best way to test a game.

[BillyBob]

Sounds good to me, thanks Hamma for posting!

/BB

[Greeniegriz]

Thanks for the announcement and the free time guys!

Cheers,

GG

[rTekku]

Originally Posted by roguy

Dice didn't give out a date for BF3's actual closed beta... The BF3 "Beta" you're refering too was more of a pre-release promotional demo. Guild wars 2 "Beta week-ends for pre-orders" (DEMO) had a date, their closed beta didn't. The secret world didnt' have a date for their closed beta aswell.

Regardless of what you think it was, it was a beta according to DICE.

No point in you naming what games didn't have a beta. I can name just as many that did have betas with specific dates being announced. There are plenty of games out there on both PC and Consoles that have scheduled beta tests.

[Crazyduckling]

Its really disappointing to see so many people whine about this. Its not a big deal.

Why do people think they deserve more?

[neonlazer]

Originally Posted by Ieyasu

I always hate it when these guys say things to the effect of "we're doing this for the fans"

no you arent. you are doing it for a profit and to make money. If you were doing it for fans you wouldnt even have microtransactions everything would just be free.

Ok, join the dev team and make them do everything free..and don't complain about not having a paid job. Use common sense people!

[MrBloodworth]

What was the cut off date to be considered a "Vet" for reasons of auto-beta invite?

I knew it, then forgot.