Clans invited to play beta early! [Unconstructive whining will be deleted]

[NewSith]

Originally Posted by Mechzz

This thread would definitely get my vote for troll of the year if it turns out to be so.

Even if it's not, I like how people feel about it, really. Like: "OMG there's already a beta stage, but I'm not in, wtf?" If it keeps up like that, I predict a strict NDA just to prevent people from rioting and spamming devs with "I'm good take me in!" messages through whatever communication method.


*Sorry for big font, but I really want people to notice my advice.

[Akrasjel Lanate]

Yea -_-

[Goku]

Originally Posted by Mechzz

I agree on the approach, but I don't think 2 clans coming on this thread and bickering about what they're up to and who can do the best gal drops was part of the plan?

Basically this. There is a need for both small nit group and large group outfits for this testing. Lets keep this kind of bickering out, it doesn't help anything.

[Nobel]

Originally Posted by Saifoda

but you're only a "sergeant" you can't know that much!

trollolol

Some of us prefer to post only when we can present something useful to the conversation. :P

[Anderz]

Originally Posted by Nobel

Some of us prefer to post only when we can present something useful to the conversation. :P

Well, you don't appear to have posted on the beta forums yet. Nothing to add to that conversation either?

[Saifoda]

Originally Posted by Nobel

Some of us prefer to post only when we can present something useful to the conversation. :P

Some of us don't smell like a big butt! <3 lol I'm sorry, I didn't sleep well, I'm not being very useful on here today.

[Mechzz]

Originally Posted by Anderz

Well, you don't appear to have posted on the beta forums yet. Nothing to add to that conversation either?

Now, now, this thread is a big dark pool of kerosene, don't go tossing matches

[Figment]

Originally Posted by elfailo

This is how it should be done. First invite the better clans, then open the floodgates to the public.

Aye, besides, regardless if they're in first or not, we've already had more of a chance than most gamers elsewhere to influence and see alpha. I hope SOE picks up this interaction with community format for development of other, future games too.

Think a lot of dev cycles (incl. cost) and potential annoyances have already been avoided thanks to PSU debates. Take the killcam for instance, now the first one we'll see is already "virtually perfect" pre-beta and can be fine tuned, rather than redeveloped a few times.

The early group should give an added impulse since they're under NDA, whoever they are and wherever they're from.

[Tigersmith]

No comment. i just wish i could play

[Timey]

Balancing an mmo with not that many people sounds like a very shit idea to me tbh. Hoping they are just stress testing the server(s) or something.

[Lorgarn]

Originally Posted by Xaine

I hate that there aren't any 'serious' EU outfits.

Originally Posted by diLLa

I might decide to start one if nothing is around.

I'd definitely be up for this as well. I usually create a friends guild/clan/outfit in most online games for me and my friends to hang out it. I wouldn't mind doing something a bit more serious for PS2.

/Offtopic (Kind of..)

This is interesting indeed, and I'm not against it, not by any means at all. It's a good thing and should be done more often. Sometimes developers just go with what they "believe" is fun instead of asking the future players of their game. Although we've been proven time and time again that SOE with PS2 aren't like that at all. It's good though, nonetheless! *ramble ramble*

[ringring]

TBH I think everyone (so far) has taken the news that some have received invites and not them pretty well.

Personally I always expected to be in a later group.

[Pella]

Originally Posted by Jownzorz

No offense to any of those outfits, but they're more zergfit than anything. SOE extended these invites to outfits that had a very organized base and moderate numbers. For example, my outfit had about 15 active guys. All use vent, all were 8+ year vets, all signed up for beta. I figured someone would catch on sooner or later. Best of luck, mates.

You have no community influence. So in other words a nobody.

[Malorn]

Just consider this a moment...

You're a developer of a hot new MMO, and you're on the verge of starting a closed beta. You've just gotten great press from E3, lot of interest in the game. Do you open the game up to the masses straight away out of that experience? Immediately doing so would be a poor idea. Going from in-house to 100's, maybe even 1000 players may show scaling issues. Do you really want to risk unveiling your game into closed beta with tons of rabid fans and having server crashes, login issues, and broken forums? That would be quite a disaster.

No, you want a pilot program first. You want to test out your invite system, your beta forums, login system, and how the server handles a larger amount than your in-house testing but not the thousand or more you might have in a closed beta. Doesn't mean you have this pilot for months, but it might be a few weeks long while they iron out any issues they find and get early outside feedback.

Once they've ironed out any scaling issues and bugs with their login/invite/forums, and fixed any issues that might cause any significant amount of folks to be jaded, they'll scale it up.

The pilot program for PS2 looks like this First Platoon program. Makes sense to me not to open the flood gates straight away. There is inevitable upset players but you're going to have that as long as you don't invite everyone and they can't so it's just something they (and us) have to deal with.

So then the question is who do they let in first? I guess we'll find out soon enough.

[Greeniegriz]

Originally Posted by ringring

TBH I think everyone (so far) has taken the news that some have received invites and not them pretty well.

Just wait. Sadly I fear the rage storm is coming....

Cheers....

GG


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