Poundcake, on 13 June 2012 - 06:19 PM, said:
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.
You keeping that name if you play? Im sure Im not the only one wondering. As for your Ice Cream place ,lol new places 86 stuff all the time because they run out of it or they dont seat people because they dont have the room. as far as Ive noticed from the released keys only what,
less than five percent have keys so we are in the majority. Heaven help the 95%+ dont start to portray themselves like this.
Edited by Arafinar, 13 June 2012 - 08:38 PM.