News: Beta Redemption on Official Site

[Magpie]

Originally Posted by SuperMorto

Guys I think your timing are out by a long shot, I think we will see beta in the next 2/3 months, as we still have not even seen the VS Rexo, NC Rexo, and of the max units. They will hype the shit out of this before beta.

The hype started pretty much a year ago with a pic of a vanguard, they can't keep the hype going much longer before people Start to get bored of waiting

Its like showing kids pictures of disneyland and telling them u have to wait 2 years and giving them updates along the way

[Talek Krell]

Originally Posted by SuperMorto

They will hype the shit out of this before beta.

That might depend on whether they intend to be use the beta for testing or advertising. >_>

[Atheosim]

Originally Posted by Magpie

The hype started pretty much a year ago with a pic of a vanguard, they can't keep the hype going much longer before people Start to get bored of waiting

Its like showing kids pictures of disneyland and telling them u have to wait 2 years and giving them updates along the way

I really don't think that the game is in the stage of development that allows for large scale beta testing. How many base types have we seen? Two? We've seen very little of the VS as of yet, and based on discussions with higby and various other devs it sounds like they are still largely in a very loose stage of development where varying ideas can still be considered and toyed with.

[Coreldan]

Holy hell.

Scary.

But we still havnt seen max suits or all heavy armors

[FastAndFree]

So apparently some people have PS2 shown as Active on their station account, whole some have it Inactive.

How come?

[AncientVanu]

IMO this Beta code redemption form is a sign that the beta will soon start, if I'm to guess in less than a month. There is no point in it suddenly appearing if we were still months away from beta launch.

[Dorest0rm]

Somewhere at SOE, Higby is hunting down a WebDev for putting the page live a few months earlier than planned.

[Tikuto]

Must.... has..... PlanetSide2.

[basti]

Originally Posted by Magpie

The hype started pretty much a year ago with a pic of a vanguard, they can't keep the hype going much longer before people Start to get bored of waiting

Its like showing kids pictures of disneyland and telling them u have to wait 2 years and giving them updates along the way

Your both rather wrong.


There is no hype. We, former and current planetside players, are exited because the game we love is getting a Sequel, with a new powerful engine, new toys, etc.
But the rest of the world? Well, there are a few non PS players lurking around, but there is no hype yet.
That one will start as soon as they are ready for a hype. For this, they first need the game polished, and their core mechanics tested within a proper enviorment. Remember, Planetside didnt have the lattience system at the beginning, they added that during beta to prevent backhacks. Exactly the same stuff will happen with the Planetside 2 beta: We find something, break it apart, rape it, torture it for weeks, before the devs kick in the door, gun us down, and change the system that we broke.
They need to be sure a system works before advertising it. Otherwise you end up saying A, but doing B. Happend often enough, never ended good.

Besides that, for building a hype, your need screenshots and footage. Now, the key selling point of Planetside 2i s the thousands of players. To do videos, screenshots etc showing exactly that, you actually need thousands of players.

Therefore, i predict tha beta starts in March, after GDC. The focus will be on testing the core mechanics, and adjusting them if nessesary. Once done, they start generating the hype by showing the thousands of players fighting each other, once they know how much people exactly can fight in the same area.



Well, anyway, thats at least the theory. Now to the facts: Gotta set up a alarm system, that starts if any SOE email adress sends me a mail containing the word "beta" in the text. It should then ring my phone, start a rather loud alarm in my room (hearable within 5km), and propaby starts a few rockets for visual signals.

To work!

[Sabrak]

Oh my...

I can't wait!

It'd be so cool to have some people in a first closed beta to show the game at GDC!
Actually, I think it'd be stupid to go at GDC, tell everyone "hey, there will be huge battles going on in here", and just show 5 guys running around.

SOE, you know you wanna show big-time battles to impress everyone at GDC!
Let us help you out

[Gortha]

Omg, i am getting WET

- Old Station-Acc from Exclusive-PS1-Beta still the current. DONE.
- Station-Account up-to-date. DONE.
- Subscribed to Planetside. DONE. (since 1 week but i am enjoying it, even with 120 to 140 Ping)

Let´s hope and pray

Beta INCOMING! Soon

[Qwan]

yeaaaa well this is a big step forward, ill start my closed beta for tera this friday and then by the time ive maxed out my tera character hopefully they will have some solid beta dates. This year in gaming is turning out gggggrrreeeaaattt (copy write tony the tiger frosted flakes cereal inc)

[Mastachief]

Perhaps this is in prep for march and maybe the friends and family beta

[colorpilot]

[DxC]

Well, anyway, thats at least the theory. Now to the facts: Gotta set up a alarm system, that starts if any SOE email adress sends me a mail containing the word "beta" in the text. It should then ring my phone, start a rather loud alarm in my room (hearable within 5km), and propaby starts a few rockets for visual signals.

To work!

Best of luck with that Alarm system if I read that and was evil and worked at SOE - Id just send you a e-mail with the words Beta in it *muhwahhahaa*

Also I'm curious to know if the beta is for USA or EU or both? and if by some chance I did get a invite (I hope so) Would live streaming be aloud Probably should e-mail them