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[Delta Red]

Threads over folks, topic was answered with the first couple posts. Move along, nothing to see here.

[TimberJon]

O good, an easy one to answer. Because that = Pay to Play.

[Der Zivilist]

The largest part of the Founders is in the beta a good two weeks before the promised date, with the rest likely getting in within the next few days.

And still these threads keep popping up. I just don't get it.


Still, on the upside, if certain people are just as "good" with designing and steering their Mechs ingame as they are with reading comprehension while spending money, at the very least we'll have a good number of easy targets to pick off...

[SlavKatyusha]

Der Zivilist, on 24 July 2012 - 06:40 AM, said:

The largest part of the Founders is in the beta a good two weeks before the promised date, with the rest likely getting in within the next few days.

And still these threads keep popping up. I just don't get it.


Still, on the upside, if certain people are just as "good" with designing and steering their Mechs ingame as they are with reading comprehension while spending money, at the very least we'll have a good number of easy targets to pick off...

That happened too on WoT, and on basically all MPs games i played so... yeah, easy meat.. err. metal >

[Major Tom]

Think of the founders as a gigantic pile of manure, now think of the beta as a garden a mile away. Now imagine that the beta invites are a 5 pound sack that has to transport the manure to the garden. Do you see the large building just beyond your pasture, that is PGI headquarters, and the laughing man in the third floor window is Paul, he stopped to watch your shove 10 pounds of **** into a 5 pound bag on his way to play the actual MWO beta.

Edited by Major Tom, 24 July 2012 - 06:45 AM.

[Deffias]

For the most part if the beta is to be successful, they need ppl who are actually going to "test" the game. Which is why you fill out a beta profile and they don't let just any knucklehead fan boi in. But with the way things are going they must be stress testing it to be letting floods of people in at this point. Which is good news, cause when you get the game it'll most likely be a stable client

[Toothman]

Outrider01, on 24 July 2012 - 06:27 AM, said:

cause its like this...

Launch day...

Person1: OMG! THIS SUCKS! I TOOK 3 DAYS OFF!
Person2: FFS! THE LOAD QUE IS INSANE!
Person3: THIS GAME SUCKS!!!!

So, instead of putting the full weight of everybody behind it you let a few in at a time. Never know, maybe next week they let in everyone early at once just because its going so well. And just for full information, its CLOSED BETA and in less then two weeks its OPEN BETA!!! as the game isn't even fully gold yet so PGI do not need everyone except for their descretion.

August 7 will still be closed beta

[Gabopentin]

Ther0, on 24 July 2012 - 06:26 AM, said:

I think that's this too.. but a friend of mine in the beta told me that there are 800\1000 players online at the time.. i know that probably they don't already have up and running a server capable of hold up and running 50000 players, but come on.. 800\1000 sounds low.

Not everybody who wants or can play will be able to 24/7/365. There is something called 'real life' that gets in the way. You know, working to earn money so they can do those strange things like paying the mortgage/rent, bills, eating etc.

[Bluey]

Dont forget guys beta players not playing much cause they know their stats will be wiped again in 7th august.
So why lose all the stuff everyone is just waiting and chilling till founders launched cause its final stats wipe.

[Breach]

The Beta process for any game is deliberate in this way, I imagine they are allowing groups to come in as they ramp up the servers to test stability. Founders are technically part of the Beta, just not until the 7th, not to say you won't get Beta access before that possibly.

[SlavKatyusha]

Bluey, on 24 July 2012 - 06:50 AM, said:

Dont forget guys beta players not playing much cause they know their stats will be wiped again in 7th august.
So why lose all the stuff everyone is just waiting and chilling till founders launched cause its final stats wipe.

Then why be on the beta? the point of closed betas is to play alot and report bugs and issues with the current game state, not be worried about a wipe...

[Tekkiller]

Number of available beta slots < number of founders

Pretty simple, don't you think?

[Jiri Starrider]

Bluey, on 24 July 2012 - 06:50 AM, said:

Dont forget guys beta players not playing much cause they know their stats will be wiped again in 7th august.
So why lose all the stuff everyone is just waiting and chilling till founders launched cause its final stats wipe.

Then those guys are in the wrong place. I know PGI has a ton of spare time on their hands, oh wait... [sarcasm]I know PGI has a ton of spare time on their hands[/sarcasm] but I wish they would yank people who do that, being in a beta is voluntary on both sides. If you are not helping, PGI should yank your account access till it's publicly available.

[MuffinTop]

Thorn Hallis, on 24 July 2012 - 06:21 AM, said:

They do. On August 7.

Nash, on 24 July 2012 - 06:21 AM, said:

07 August 2012

Dhimmi, on 24 July 2012 - 06:37 AM, said:

we will at 7th august

These people are the smart ones, heed their words and if you must play then go play outside its summer time for the love of Blake!

[Bluey]

Jiri Starrider, on 24 July 2012 - 06:57 AM, said:

Then those guys are in the wrong place. I know PGI has a ton of spare time on their hands, oh wait... [sarcasm]I know PGI has a ton of spare time on their hands[/sarcasm] but I wish they would yank people who do that, being in a beta is voluntary on both sides. If you are not helping, PGI should yank your account access till it's publicly available.

I cannot explain things as much as I wished so
I got no more answers for that.

[Ehvie]

I hope sooner !

[Fugu]

Bluey, on 24 July 2012 - 06:50 AM, said:

Dont forget guys beta players not playing much cause they know their stats will be wiped again in 7th august.
So why lose all the stuff everyone is just waiting and chilling till founders launched cause its final stats wipe.

Final wipe is at the start of the open beta and we don't know when that's going to start. So, there might as well be a wipe after 07.08.

[Pipinghot]

Beardybloke, on 24 July 2012 - 06:32 AM, said:

It's amazing how beta's have gone from a rare luxury for some outside users to test a game to almost a demanded free demo....
Just a thought

Well yes, but that's not because of any sense of entitlement among players, as your comment unsubtlely insinuates. Using the phrase "just a thought" doesn't make you clever or insightful.

When people are paying money, in advance, for a free-to-play game they do expect to participate in the beta, especially when the beta is not really a beta. A true beta test is supposed to involve ironing out the bugs in a finished game with all, or nearly all, of the the features already in place. When being a beta tester was a "rare luxury" the games were nearly complete, the beta testers were just helping to put the icing on the cake.

But in a lot of games these days (including this one) being a beta tester involves new features, and new bugs, being added to the game on a pretty frequent schedule. I'm not complaining, I'm happy to be here and like many people I've paid my money up front. But if we're going to pay money, in advance, for a free-to-play game that is still pretty early in the development process then yes, it is perfectly reasonable to expect to be part of the beta.

Edited by Pipinghot, 24 July 2012 - 07:28 AM.

[Drake Brimstone]

WE will all get in on Aug 8th... I know they said the 7th, but lets face it, the servers are going to crash ont he 7th due to excessive load and it will take till the next day to get it running smoothly and handeling everyone.

[Bluey]

Last stats wipe in 7th august no more wipe after that its written in Founders program main thread