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[Poundcake]

Hey Devs this isnt meant to be a flame just some insite from a fan of your game.

Like many here Im excited and googley eyed over the prosepcts of this game but to be honest this whole Beta thing is starting to put a damper on my experience. I cant help but feel slighted every time I see that hundreds of invites went out just to open my email to nothing, or log in to see the insanity of the PENDING flag as if it were burned into my screen mocking me.

Why are hundreds of others privledged enough to participate while I am not? I am no better or no worse than any other person interested in your game. No qualifications have ever been posted for the Beta, so I have to assume everyone that can run the game qualifies. This is not the way to welcome the community to your game, this is anything BUT welcoming. Its incredibly annoying actually.

This is like opening an ice cream store, inviting everyone in and then giving some free ice cream while the others who didnt get any have to sit and watch. The funny part is then you ask those that were made to sit and watch others get preferential treatment to buy the product.

To be honest, I wanted to buy the product, I planned to buy the product, but after weeks of being snubbed and having to witness hundreds of others receive a priviledge that apperently Im not entitled to Im sure you can understand why Im justifiably put off.

In my opinion you should look to those that were invited to the Beta to buy your Founders Packages. If Im not good enough for your beta then perhaps the Founders Package is too good for me also.

I suppose some will respond that this is the nature of a Beta, which my response would be wake up and smell the coffee. Times have changed. There are F2P games, and crazy good ones, around every corner. The smart ones don't upset the customers just before launch..especially if they want them to buy. I've been part of both the World of Warplanes Alpha, AND Guild Wars 2 Beta. Did I just get "lucky"? Or are there ways to run Betas so that its clear cut who gets in and why ...not some random sillyness that serves to upset people and went out with WOW subscriptions.

Thanks for your time.

[Freyar]

Someone else who's upset for no reason.

[Atlai]

Freyar, on 13 June 2012 - 06:22 PM, said:

Someone else who's upset for no reason.

Its pending fever, its very deadly,

[abetterpilot]

yeah man theres 170,000 signed on this site and only 1000 betas and they didnt all go out at once. plus if they are seriously trying to give them out to a varitey of people with different levels of pc power, battletech lore, and location,ect ect you need to be realistic about your number coming up. i would be shocked if any one i know got a key. i am sure i know at least a few hundred people here. also what a way to create buzz

Edited by abetterpilot, 13 June 2012 - 06:33 PM.

[Poundcake]

fluffycommunist, on 13 June 2012 - 06:29 PM, said:

I can't even play other games I'm so excited about this game. Yet I'm not going to curse the heavens for my bad luck. I will eat some ice cream and shove on until I eventually get into the game. One way or another....

You dont get any ice cream buddy, you just get to watch others eat the ice cream ...thats the point.

[Tyra]

It's random, based on system specs. All the names of people with the specs they're looking for go into a digital hat and 500 names pop out.

When will people understand this?

[Reported for Inappropriate Name]

not that i particularly care, but I thought I'd put on the yellow ring here for a moment;

Spoiler

do you ever wonder how many of these go out to people who haven't logged on to the website in months and have otherwise completely forgotten about the game? or how many of these go out to alternate accounts that people then try to sell or trade off?

[Aokarasu]

I sense someone with entitlement issues.

[laru]

Dude i got out my joystick and cleaned it off .. oh that sounds bad.. I took my joystick out of the box and cleaned it because it was dirty.. no that isnt any better.. arg

Edited by laru, 13 June 2012 - 06:41 PM.

[Brent Brianson]

i know i know.. this is a dumb question but.... why the **** would they have you fill out all your info for your cpu spec, F2P games previousley played , and gaming experience if everything is 100% random? i know that random is one of the only ways to get it done but why fill out the info?

[WalkingDeathBot]

To be fair I've been waiting for beta access too

World of Warplanes
Planetside 2
and MWO (which is the only one I really want)

I've been waiting for each for well over a month now, such is life though........look at the statistics they just can't give everyone one. Would you prefer they not do a closed beta and go right into open beta?

Hang in there guy this thing will be released shortly

Edited by WalkingDeathBot, 13 June 2012 - 06:43 PM.

[Abrahms]

Why post this OP? You will only be trolled... heck even the developers are now posting "troll" posts to troll people like you.

I agree with parts, and disagree with others.

I do not like the closed beta as is, but I dont own PGI. Most games run Alpha, and then go to public beta, OR closed beta for pre-orders. I think they all make more sense then this "pending-hushhush-trollfest."

[Skadi]

But seriously, Get over it.

[JP Josh]

dude its called self trolling fever just dont just check your emial when ya get a key youll also get a email. trust me i just put tape over that friekn button to stop it.

[Paewen]

A couple of things.

Fewer than 5k beta invites out of a community of almost 200k, comes out to roughly 2.5% (these are very rough numbers as I haven't gone back and added up the number of invites given out so far)

What are your computer specs, have you completed the beta profile, both of these areas will be discriminators.

While they haven't said it, I would guess age would be a factor. Since you sign a NDA once in the Beta, that would mean you would need to be over 18 years old, because until you are 18 you can't sign a legally binding contract in the United States (Not sure what the rules are in Canada)

a beta invite in this game happens to be luck of the draw. Don't feel entitled, because you aren't any better than any one else waiting. Why should you get in before other experienced beta testers.

do you truly want to test or just play the game, if it is just to play the game early? Most of the whiners just want to play the game early.

Why don't you sit back, relax, and enjoy the anticipation.....

[Mims]

Random is a fair as it gets, even if people are makeing 10 accounts. (accounts newer than the initial beta release should not be able to be picked for this reason)



Somehow i feel like the last 3 days of keys have been an elaborate troll fest from paul. dont get discouraged just suck it up and play somthing else for a while.

Edited by Mims, 13 June 2012 - 06:47 PM.

[Stonewall]

Koerner, on 13 June 2012 - 06:42 PM, said:

i know i know.. this is a dumb question but.... why the **** would they have you fill out all your info for your cpu spec, F2P games previousley played , and gaming experience if everything is 100% random? i know that random is one of the only ways to get it done but why fill out the info?

So in case you have issues they can trouble shoot better? But seriously guys its a game. One that we will all be playing in around a month. I've been waiting for a decade another month is nothing.

[Donner]

Well, they are putting hard work in each day making this game, and they ask for nothing in return except for patience. Just wait until you get approved.

[LLOTH]

@Poundcake

i no how you feel i too have done alpha and beta testing of 10 diff games and in fact i also no 3 ppl who got into beta (no they did not tell me i no them in RL and walked in on them when they where playing.) 1 of them got his key 2 days after i told him to sign up.

so i do no how you feel but i can't hold it agasint any of the dev's or the game.
the fact is if u made some new what ever thing you would choose some of your freiands and family to try it NOT ALL but some i no this when i was wrighting novels so i also understand where they are coming from.

we just have to hang in there may be get a key may be not and if not then when it comes time to think do i want to buy this think about every thing they have showen us the vids the pics and NOT the beta as that should little to no impact on your decison.

[Poundcake]

Tyra, on 13 June 2012 - 06:38 PM, said:

It's random, based on system specs. All the names of people with the specs they're looking for go into a digital hat and 500 names pop out.

When will people understand this?

This seems to be a popular theory. Maybe its true I dunno ...but if it IS true it doesnt make sense because you assume they are picking people with elite specs whereas I am sure they have gone to GREAT lengths to attempt to make this game playable by a variety of specs .

I think they would be more interested on how the game performs on an average system, wouldnt they want to know that too? It just makes sense. Therefore really almost anyone should qualify and that nonselnse that you have to have an elite system to qualify is hogwash.