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[zudukai]

pay the 60 bucks if you want to get into beta early, you'll also be supporting PGI! and yourself!

[GHQCommander]

Randalf Yorgen, on 14 June 2012 - 05:41 AM, said:

John Spartan, I had forgotten about that movie, thanks for reminding me, I think I might just go find a copy and watch it. Sandra was young in it but in apleasant way, very hot.

I also like the phrase "modify your behaviour"

[Murphy7]

zudukai, on 14 June 2012 - 08:03 AM, said:

pay the 60 bucks if you want to get into beta early, you'll also be supporting PGI! and yourself!

This.

We're only about a month out, not too much longer really.

[Teufel Hunden]

This is what we get from the generation where everyone gets a trophy for playing sports.

[Kenaris]

Poundcake, on 13 June 2012 - 06:19 PM, said:

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.

All i saw in this long and drawn out post was... '' I am Self Entilted and i think i Deserve a Beta Key i shouldn't have to wait like everyone else cause i am more important and obviously the best Beta choice and Beta Tester ever so i am going to cry about it now''

[pursang]

Teufel Hunden, on 14 June 2012 - 08:14 AM, said:

This is what we get from the generation where everyone gets a trophy for playing sports.

Back in my day we walked up-hill to and from school!

/Old codger

[Kenaris]

pursang, on 14 June 2012 - 07:48 AM, said:

Uh huh...

It will be called Stick People On-Line.... How dare you doubt him Sir!!

[proktor]

the knowledge that this year i can play a new mechwarrior game is good enough for me, and it should be good enough
for everybody else wether youre in beta or not, just keep youre patience a little bit longer.

hope to see you all on the battlefield

[Kasseopea]

pursang, on 14 June 2012 - 07:48 AM, said:

Uh huh...

Uhu

[Zephonarch II]

Yep, the biggest thing coming next is probably Battlemech 13. THE GAME sooner. ...sigh...
Back to the 98 DOS program for MechWarrior 3.

[Nexx Nisshoko]

Russ Bullock, on 13 June 2012 - 07:07 PM, said:

Would it be preferable if we do not announce each time we send out keys? I ask sincerely. Because there are many that deserve to be in beta that we just wont be able to invite in. We only have so much server space as we continue to beef up our back end making it capable of many thousands of concurrent players. Were getting there fast but we do have to pace ourselves.

I think its fun, keeping sending and notifying, it shows us that things are progressing. I would love to play now but I am happy to wait. The more important info for me is system specs, once i know what i need i will stop pulling my hair out. I tend to wonder if I’m even in the pool for invites due to my specs or if I need to go buy a new PC… but I understand we will know that info soon so hopefully I can rest easy shortly.

[Krigherren]

I can see where this guys coming from on the upsetness, but eh, I'm pretty damned certain I can run this game, even with the specs I've given. Problem is a lot of people are turning away from the game entirely because of the beta wait. Not I, though. I've been sitting around waiting on this since I originally heard of it's development. Just irritating that people that don't care about the game at all, and will never play again, have gotten keys, where as people who would play the game for days on end until they collapsed into a coma due to sleep deprivation, end up losing their minds to this 'pending-fever'. Don't see much point in getting overly worked up about it though, what I've heard about the game from who I know personally that's played it, hasn't been all that good right now anyway. I still want to play, but, I'm not going to cry about it. At least, I won't let you see!

[Spooky]

Poundcake, on 13 June 2012 - 06:49 PM, said:

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.

Of course they would want that, at least it's reasonable to assume that. But, once again, the amount of beta invites is limited and the players eligible for the beta (which you might be one of), are chosen at random, each time they invite another batch. Why did you even think in the first place, that you are "not priviledged"?

Edited by Spooky, 14 June 2012 - 01:05 PM.