Beta Character Retention

[GTGD]

I was wondering what the situation was going to be like this time around when the Beta ends. I know that there was a complete character wipe last time.

But I was thinking it would be really cool if the characters were just reset, and not deleted. That way if you made a character with a name, you can keep it. Also, now that they have implemented the merit system (and I can't see that going away), it would also be awesome if there was a special merit for Beta players. I know I loved having my veteran merits from before server merges.

That would also allow outfits to maintain their members (wipe the stats and whatnot) and it would get everything moving very quickly. Maybe let them have something that shows that the outfit was in existence since the Beta.

[Huma]

Sounds good to me

[MrVicchio]

They always, every game, deletes your toons.

[DashRev]

Originally Posted by MrVicchio

They always, every game, deletes your toons.

Not always, but close to it.

[Duddy]

I'm not sure what this obsession people have about wanting something special from being in Beta (I'm aware this thread doesn't pertain exactly to that, but it does follow the theme).

Can't people be happy that they were able to experience the game ahead of time?

No of course not, they need some way to say "Hey look, I'm better than you!"

Ridiculous.

[opticalshadow]

well things that would be nice from ebta would be having are names outfits and all already set up, its not a ton of work but its that much less.

[Hamma]

I would suspect if anything pre-orders would get early access or something. I highly doubt anything would be carried over from beta often times things just can't be carried over due to changes.

[WarChimp130]

I wonder if some people will go ahead on day one and use their extra character spots to make characters named dogtag and GODJOEY and Ash and all those other guys of yore. Hell somebody could probably just go ahead and be a dick and name them after people they just know are going to be coming back just to spite them.

[Zulthus]

I hope they have some sort of system in place that reserves your character names tied to your account.

[MasterChief096]

It would be nice to have reserved names and outfit rosters. Thats all that really matters to me.

[PsychoXR-20]

Originally Posted by Hamma

I would suspect if anything pre-orders would get early access or something. I highly doubt anything would be carried over from beta often times things just can't be carried over due to changes.

I'm not sure if early access would be a good thing for this game, considering for the first few days you would only be playing with a tiny tiny fraction of the total potential population. In a standard MMO it works, but I don't think it would in PS2.

[SKYeXile]

Originally Posted by MrVicchio

They always, every game, deletes your toons.

except for Hellgate London and dragons nest, but other than those games off the top of my head, EVERY GAME!

[Hamma]

Originally Posted by PsychoXR-20

I'm not sure if early access would be a good thing for this game, considering for the first few days you would only be playing with a tiny tiny fraction of the total potential population. In a standard MMO it works, but I don't think it would in PS2.

Yea it probably wouldn't work, but I can't see them doing much more than that other than maybe giving some customization to pre-orders or beta users.

[Goku]

Either your idea or just do a name retention. Though either way its the same thing lol.

[CutterJohn]

If they have the merits a beta merit might be nice, for those that care about such things.

Hopefully they'll let you keep names as well. But few ever bother with mine.