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[Karyudo ds]

Xantars, on 03 June 2012 - 10:58 AM, said:

Id realy love to try beta out so i know if its worth putting down $60.00 on the founders pack. I dont want to pay $60.00 and find out I hate the game. chances are im going to love it but i realy want in to beta to see first. who with me on this ??

You must have missed the Free to Play announcement. You'll be able to play the game as much as you want before giving them money. If you really want the Founder package though buy it when it comes out.

Perhaps you're new to this beta thing but a beta is not a demo for the game. It's usually to test game features. That's not he point.

[MadBoris]

domokun, on 03 June 2012 - 11:53 AM, said:

Open beta is usually mostly about marketing

I agree. The techies often dig into it after release.
That is the primary active roll of the player now, not like years ago.
Now you pay to be in a beta for their purposes, one will be tell your friends soon.

Sure the feedback is filtered through but they have statistical approaches now to identify balance issues as well as one of their primary goals for beta is balancing/tuning the network code for the online only games.

[MadBoris]

Gremlich Johns, on 03 June 2012 - 11:58 AM, said:

$60 is not that much of a gamble, considering what we have already seen. It's not like it is a Kickstarter experiment, now, is it.

I guess that statement strikes me as over-trivializing.
Well, it's the biggest gamble you can make in games, it's the highest price going.
People that don't really know the odds or the payoff usually don't gamble.

Funny, I spent decades not having to gamble and it worked real well, the best developers were usually keen on showing off demos of the quality of their work and earning customers, well, when quality came before gambling.

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How many of us know a guy who plunked down $60 plus tax for a game only to find out he did not care for it and said "Oh, well>" and moved on to the next game.

With only so much pie, the quality developers that really have the minds, talent, drive, skill, that eat, sleep, breath it for years are not compensated appropriately, under your system. That is why gaming has become a joke on what is selling, more people buying lies everyday, and more people are ok with it too. It's always easier to manipulate and lie to people, it goes farther in the systems of today.

Edited by MadBoris, 03 June 2012 - 12:12 PM.

[jlbdeath]

60 dallars in todays economy is the difference between rent and no rent eating not eating thats why they had to go with FTP. not everyone has 60 bucks thats easy to lose. I being one of those. I am trying to get a new job where 60 bucks is chump change but as right now I dont have it. so If I get to try out the beta and test it out give good reports on it then cool and if it rocks then ok i'll scrape up 60 for it. and yes i have tested games and yes I know its a working progress and its going to be glitchy but if it has potential then it will be worth the 60. if i dont get to try the beta i hope they have a trial version at release. not everyone thinks 60 bucks is pocket change I know I dont.

[Talon Thorn]

I'd like a pony and a plastic rocket.

[Lucan]

is there a way to buy the founde's pack after you've applied for the beta?

[Karyudo ds]

Lucan, on 03 June 2012 - 07:40 PM, said:

is there a way to buy the founde's pack after you've applied for the beta?

Go to store, click buy. (once it's out to buy of course).

[LordDeathStrike]

Xantars, on 03 June 2012 - 10:58 AM, said:

Id realy love to try beta out so i know if its worth putting down $60.00 on the founders pack. I dont want to pay $60.00 and find out I hate the game. chances are im going to love it but i realy want in to beta to see first. who with me on this ??

play mech 2 3 and 4, to get an idea of how mechs and their weapons feel.

play world of tanks to get a feel for the lobby lab system and matchmaking.

world of tanks is sit and snipe game play cause you cant hit **** while moving and mechwarrior you can hit things fine on the move so theres differences there, but wot gives you a feel for the setup of how youll get matches and team play aspect.

ps, beta isn a free sample, the game will be free to play though so you can try before you buy, but the founders packs might not be on sale for long after the open beta kicks up so dont dawdle.

Edited by LordDeathStrike, 03 June 2012 - 08:16 PM.

[Paul Inouye]

Then you sit in queue like everyone else and if you get picked for Beta, you can make your decision then.