News: Planetside 2 beta plans

[Jamini]

Well, confirmation is nice. Thank you Higby.

[Deathwalker]

Wow... After all this wait, I left town today for a week and this news comes out, just my luck

On the bright side... BOUT DAMN TIME! K

[Shadowrath]

Thanks so much for this post!

[1Shotwonder]

Nice info on the beta plans appreciate that higby ! Can't wait to see the testing begin

[eebster]

with all due respect to Diablo and LoL, but my finger itches for some planetside!! it's been YEARS (back when I was young and the ladies swarmed around me, lady bugs that is).

Although as in all Betas, you will get those who want to help and WILL help, and you will get those who will jump on your throats and create "I hate ps2" blogs because of expected server lag, crashes, shutdown, queues...etc

I may not have confidence in SOE, but I do have confidence in the team you put together there Matt and co.

[helioN]

You guys can't read?

THE EU SERVER IS UP, NA PLAYERS GET IN FIRST ANYWAY.

[getembees]

Well spoken Matt. I was in PS1 beta and am looking forward to PS2!

[Nerro]

Im excited

[Mackenzie]

Cool

[snwbpn]

THANK YOU!

[DanCommm]

lets do this

[Doxy]

Great! Thanks for update!

[DarkChiron]

So it is written. So it shall be done.

[TerranRoughneck]

Good stuff! Much needed clarity, thanks.

[Rivenshield]

Originally Posted by Higby

Our priority invitees are those of you who are PlanetSide vets, and those who have priority beta keys (i.e. keys from the PC Gamer magazines), as well as those who received keys from members of the dev teams or at E3. Just so I'm 100% clear, we're not going to be opening the floodgates by inviting all of the thousands of PlanetSide veterans on day 1, but you are still the highest priority to get invites as we expand the testing circle out.

4 - PlanetSide vets do not need a beta key, their accounts will be flagged for beta and they will receive an email letting them know – if you are a PlanetSide veteran, make sure your station account email is up to date.

I'm certain we'll have no trouble jumping through whatever hoops you have set up for us, if it helps polish and refine every component of the game until they fit together as neatly as stones in a *****-rock wall.

We've waited for almost a decade. We've borne the limitations of old graphics and archaic netcode. Seeing a brand-new technicolor Auraxis was something we've all hoped for, but never expected. We can wait a little longer and bear any burden. They will be light on our shoulders.

Thank you for keeping faith with us. Thank you, a thousand times.