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[80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie]

Include in large, bold red font when you try to sign in on your client

Warning! This game is still a work in progress, as many key features are incomplete. Thank you for joining the MechWarrior:Online Open Beta!


Ya know, just to curb the expectation that this is a finished game so new players aren't immediately dissapointed/confused with the state of the game? Too many people are pushed away expecting a "demo" like many other current FPS betas are. Not an actual beta game version...

Edited by mwhighlander, 05 November 2012 - 07:49 PM.

[Like a Sir]

mwhighlander, on 05 November 2012 - 07:46 PM, said:

Include in large, bold red font when you try to sign in on your client

Warning! This game is still a work in progress, as many key features are incomplete. Thank you for joining the MechWarrior:Online Closed Beta!


Ya know, just to curb the expectation that this is a finished game so new players aren't immediately dissapointed/confused with the state of the game? Too many people are pushed away expecting a "demo" like many other current FPS betas are. Not an actual beta game version...

Escept of the part, where it is no longer closed beta?

[80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie]

Like a Sir, on 05 November 2012 - 07:48 PM, said:

Escept of the part, where it is no longer closed beta?

lol whoops, thanks. Typo I guess...

[Like a Sir]

mwhighlander, on 05 November 2012 - 07:49 PM, said:

lol whoops, thanks. Typo I guess...

No problem, although I won't lie, I am raging about the heat sinks a little right now. But I have to give it to PGI, they have fixed and tuned a lot of the things that appeared beyond broken in closed beta. Hopefully this will be the case again.

[MCXL]

Lol. pretty big distinction.

[80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie]

MCXL, on 05 November 2012 - 07:53 PM, said:

Lol. pretty big distinction.

Yeah it is. By now they really should have had a majority of the bugs squashed and be focused on content and equipment balance. Fixing a lot of these glaring underlying game issues and bugs should have been taken cared of in Closed, not Open where content and balance should be the main concern.

[Tekerton]

no. I'm pretty sure the clear message that this is in open beta is enough. I do realize that the majority of the people who post on these forums don't even know what a beta is, that's not PGI's fault.

If you put it in 100 pitch, marquee, flashing, with shadows and shockwave animation with Busta Rhymes and Mystikal narrating the precise meaning, the message would still get lost.

[80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie]

Tekerton, on 05 November 2012 - 07:56 PM, said:

I'm pretty sure the clear message that this is in open beta is enough.

I wish it was, but I don't think that's the case.

[lsp]

Pretty sure it's already established as a open beta, don't know how people could fail to see that.

[aspect]

I actually like this suggestion. Maybe not quite so over the top, but a reminder each time you fire up the client would be nice. Could help us get back on track in terms of constructive feedback and general morale.

[80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie]

lsp, on 05 November 2012 - 07:58 PM, said:

Pretty sure it's already established as a open beta, don't know how people could fail to see that.

But the problem is people nowadays associate open beta = launch, when that isn't the case. Damn you Activision/EA!