News: PC Gamer April Issue with Beta Key

[Princess Frosty]

Originally Posted by Zhane

You've got balls to talk about ego. You think that a PS1 player's opinion should be given more weight than the unwashed masses? That's the thought process I see here. A different feedback path? My God. You really think a lot of yourself. Self important dicks give forum communities a bad rap.

Everyone's feedback is equal. Because you played a decade old game has no bearing on your ability to properly test a new one. Your opinion matters exactly as much as everyone else who may spend money on PS2. They're doing you a favor and stroking your little ego by ensuring you get in along with everyone else. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake and you are no more qualified to test and give feedback than anyone else.

And that's coming from a PS1 vet, for the record.

This is rubbish, peoples experiences with the game are clearly different between vets and complete newbs, the game is going to mirror the original in a lot of ways so the vets are going to have a headstart when it comes to understanding the game mechanics.

The problem is that noobs who don't understand game mechanics are going to cry nerf/buff on things which aren't actually unbalanced they just don't understand the available counters.

Feedback should absolutely be classified by experience, personally I think every suggestion should be weighted with an importance/priority based on the total play time of the player involved.

Opinions on things like game direction should be are all equally valid, however that's decided before the game is built, once the game has passed out of alpha it becomes feature locked for beta testing and that's just bug hunting and balance tweaks essentially.

After launch if there's ongoing development adding new features and devs want feedback specifically on new features and general direction then all players should be considered equally.

Sorry but newbs are just that, newbs, they don't know how to play and cannot suggest balance changes which are meaningful for the game as a whole.

[Wakken]

All I want to know is if EU copies of PC gamer will have beta keys too... I'll be a sad panda if only US gets em T_T

[Traak]

Originally Posted by Wakken

All I want to know is if EU copies of PC gamer will have beta keys too... I'll be a sad panda if only US gets em T_T

ebay a us copy

[Wakken]

Originally Posted by Traak

ebay a us copy

Oh goodie, buying a magazine that has a beta key that have probably already been used from a stranger on the interwebz. Yes!

Cant you buy PC Gamer from amazon.com or something? Or any other place that ships internationally?

[General M]

Originally Posted by IDukeNukeml

MY MILKSHAKE BRINGS ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD, DAMN RIGHT, IT'S BETTER THAN YOURS, DAMN RIGHT, IT'S BETTER THAN YOURS.... I COULD TEACH YOU, BUT I'D HAVE TO CHARGE.

QFT.

[Princess Frosty]

Originally Posted by IDukeNukeml

MY MILKSHAKE BRINGS ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD, DAMN RIGHT, IT'S BETTER THAN YOURS, DAMN RIGHT, IT'S BETTER THAN YOURS.... I COULD TEACH YOU, BUT I'D HAVE TO CHARGE.

Intelligent, well thought out response backed with reason and evidence, you have my maximum respect and admiration.

[Rabb]

Originally Posted by IDukeNukeml

MY MILKSHAKE BRINGS ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD, DAMN RIGHT, IT'S BETTER THAN YOURS, DAMN RIGHT, IT'S BETTER THAN YOURS.... I COULD TEACH YOU, BUT I'D HAVE TO CHARGE.

Duke Shake

[Chefkoch]

Well a a longtime silent reader i finally registered to the forums.

First of all its good to see that Beta may be starting in the next 2-3 Month, but i wonder if it will be aviable only over launchpad for the beginning ?

I hope that the retail version will be aviable over Steam as the rest of SOE F2P Games are to catch a greater range of gamers.

Chef.

[FastAndFree]

Guys I just thought of something horrible...

What if all that PC GAMER will have is Higby making a trollface with the caption "APRIL FOOLS"

Originally Posted by Wakken

Oh goodie, buying a magazine that has a beta key that have probably already been used from a stranger on the interwebz. Yes!

Cant you buy PC Gamer from amazon.com or something? Or any other place that ships internationally?

Or just... you know, receive a key automatically on account of being a past PS subscriber?

[Hamma]

It is not April fools

[Reginald]

Then its settled, not an april fools joke. Nice!

....or

Hamma is in on the joke...

[Firefly]

Originally Posted by Reginald

Then its settled, not an april fools joke. Nice!

....or

Hamma is in on the joke...

The magazine comes out Feb 28th... which is a full month (plus some) from April 1st. You know... that whole month of March thing?

[Bags]

I thought it was a leap year~

[Firefly]

Let's not be pedantic here. It is - that doesn't mean there's an extra fucking month, it means there's an extra day: February 29th. It's been said that the magazine comes out on the 28th. Not the 29th. If I'd meant the fucking 29th, I would have said the fucking 29th. Instead, I said "a whole month and then some" to account for the extra days.

[Reginald]

Damn, well aware of my months dude. I was being facetious.