36 replies to this topic

[Proteaus]

One thing I thought I would mention is I hope they dont do same thing that happened
when warhammer released. Within a hour servers were full and the majority of players
couldnt log in because of that .It wont be good to have thousands of founder pack
players not able to get into the game because the servers are full.Nothing makes
people more upset than paying for something they dont get.
Only reason I am bringing this up is as close to the early start as it is. there seems
to be a hardware shortage ? Other betas I participated in by this point they were having
massive stress tests this close to open beta.

[Strisk]

How do you know there is a hardware shortage?

And I've never played a release that didn't have big lag/queue issues at release, even big paid titles with subscription fees.

[Xantars]

well it dose seam weird that they only have 4000+ people in closed beta I mean what kinda stress test is that they going to have what maybe 1,000 player on at anygiven time max if that. I hardly call that a stress test

[CoffiNail]

Yeah but those other companies did not have Kyle working for them

[Strisk]

Xantars, on 11 June 2012 - 09:16 AM, said:

well it dose seam weird that they only have 4000+ people in closed beta I mean what kinda stress test is that they going to have what maybe 1,000 player on at anygiven time max if that. I hardly call that a stress test

Since when was closed beta intended to be a stress test? Is it not usual to have a closed beta before an open beta/final stress test?

[Lucius Prospero]

I don't think that will be quite as much of a problem for MWO, because it's not an MMO where all the players log in and play together. It just hosts many discrete games of 12 on 12 that happen to have some meta tacked onto it. It'll launch quietly in the middle of the night and we'll have some fun.

[Jukebox1986]

As long as we dont get the mystical "Error 37", im fine...

[Sychodemus]

There is nothing unusual about MWO's beta-process. Know how I know? Because every company does it their own way and at their own pace to meet their own standards. Though most do slap a NDA on the testers so they don't get nit-picked over how they chose to do it.

[Hawkkw]

I was in the closed beta for world of tanks and there was about 20,000+ people playing before it went to open beta!!!!

[Proteaus]

Strisk, on 11 June 2012 - 09:17 AM, said:

Since when was closed beta intended to be a stress test? Is it not usual to have a closed beta before an open beta/final stress test?

With the amount of people that are already signed up the amount in beta does seem to be very low considering how the zerg is going
to hit these servers when open beta starts.Imagine paying for the founders pack and not even getting into the early start because
servers are constantly full.

[Hawkkw]

Yep sounds like a train crash waiting to happen!!!

[Lt muffins]

Janus Wealth, on 11 June 2012 - 09:22 AM, said:

As long as we dont get the mystical "Error 37", im fine...

you will get the error "404" servers not found

but don't threat they will have this guy handling server problems.

Edited by Lt muffins, 11 June 2012 - 09:28 AM.

[Bitslizer]

Lucius Prospero, on 11 June 2012 - 09:20 AM, said:

I don't think that will be quite as much of a problem for MWO, because it's not an MMO where all the players log in and play together. It just hosts many discrete games of 12 on 12 that happen to have some meta tacked onto it. It'll launch quietly in the middle of the night and we'll have some fun.

You have obviously not yet seen the Diablo 3 launch fiasco, go google that up, its interesting read, and frustrating for players especially when everybody paid $60 or $100 to buy the game to begin with. Login server crapped out, can't create discrete game due to sever capacity issue, list go on and on

[Xantars]

Im just saying 4000+ isnt enough to find all the bugs Most games that I have beta tested had between 25,000 and 50,000+ and they still had missed bugs. and when they went to stress tests they doubled there numbers. because lets face it when it hits open beta very few will actualy be testing they will be Playing to get a heads up on the game for live launch. That part has always happned and always will happen

[Nairdowell]

Patience folks.... The Devs seem to have a schedule and a plan.... and it appears to be working so far... If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

[Eximar]

A network cable is unplugged...

[McDuff]

Let's just hope they will offer more beta keys to se if all the servers are working.

[Lt muffins]

Eximar, on 11 June 2012 - 09:31 AM, said:

A network cable is unplugged...

I cried a bit inside at that image, poor network engineer.

[Proteaus]

Xantars, on 11 June 2012 - 09:29 AM, said:

Im just saying 4000+ isnt enough to find all the bugs Most games that I have beta tested had between 25,000 and 50,000+ and they still had missed bugs. and when they went to stress tests they doubled there numbers. because lets face it when it hits open beta very few will actualy be testing they will be Playing to get a heads up on the game for live launch. That part has always happned and always will happen

Also you have to figure scince its free to play the number of people that signed up may double for open beta.All them little
kids are going to want to drive a mech.

[Attalward]

CoffiNail, on 11 June 2012 - 09:17 AM, said:

Yeah but those other companies did not have Kyle working for them

Who is Kyle?