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[Jun Watarase]

[13:14] <Guybrarian> Is it bad that I'd pay money for the beta?
[13:14] <azurelao> no
[13:15] <Cheung-KHFF> Yes.
[13:15] <Guybrarian> Like, not a lot of money, but I would pay money.
[13:16] <Cheung-KHFF> I'll give them three fiddy.
[13:16] <Cheung-KHFF> Like, I will go up to the receptionist
[13:16] <Cheung-KHFF> and give her three fifty
[13:16] <Cheung-KHFF> and she'll be "what the ****"
[13:17] * Neko-Question slaps Cheung-KHFF around a bit with LiaoScot
[13:18] <Cheung-KHFF> and I'll be all
[13:18] <Cheung-KHFF> please give me mwo beta access
[13:18] <Cheung-KHFF> and she'll be "what"
[13:18] <Cheung-KHFF> have money please mwo beta give money please game
[13:18] <Cheung-KHFF> and spaghetti, etc.
[13:19] <Von_Blucher> And then you go I WILL PLAY YOU THE SONG OF MY PEOPLE
[13:19] <Von_Blucher> and reenact the opening scene of Mechwarrior 2 with associated pew pew and boom phsuuu sounds, and of course stomping around like a Vulture and Mad Cat

[GrizzlyViking]

*UPDATE: PLEASE BE SURE TO SEE THE RESPONSE POST BY Bryan Ekman IN THE THREAD HERE ON PAGE 1*


Does anyone get passed over, screened out, denied, for a BETA invite? According to the response from Dev, Russ Bullock, to the post below, the answer is "no."

Xendojo, on 27 May 2012 - 06:55 PM, said:

Can we get a Denied button if we get passed up? I would like to know if I was out of the selection process.

Just saw a post mention a Rejected button, guess i should be glad i'm still pending then ^^

Just went to verify and nope, no rejected or denied status button... so its back to waiting

Russ Bullock, on 27 May 2012 - 06:57 PM, said:

you dont get passed up like that...we just add them in batches.

Edited by GrizzlyViking, 28 May 2012 - 10:54 AM.

[Redshift2k5]

If they are selecting based on certain criteria, then you may not be eligible to join the beta yet, but the criteria should change as it goes on. They have also implied that they want a broad range of players with different levels of experience.

With the exception of the questions relating to being able to sign the NDA, there are not any 'wrong answers' in the beta application, so they would have no reason to say 'nope, you're denied'.

[Xaks]

plus, since they're going to be adding to the number of folks invited to the current beta, why ever change it to something negative, which might turn someone off and cause them to not check back?

leave it 'pending' until it can get changed to something positive (accepted, or invited, or whatever) and you get the same result without risking a customer feeling bad and leaving.

[pursang]

You answered your own question GrizzlyViking. Do you for some reason not believe the developers?

[GrizzlyViking]

pursang, on 28 May 2012 - 05:27 AM, said:

You answered your own question GrizzlyViking. Do you for some reason not believe the developers?

My apologies. It is a rhetorical question for the purpose of generating topic interest. Probably too much marketing mindedness in my thoughts. This is an informative post, not actually a question.

Edited by GrizzlyViking, 28 May 2012 - 05:32 AM.

[Sesambrot]

Dude, I dunno, but I think you may be going a little overboard about this whole beta-thing.
I've seen someone else mention that jokingly in another topic of yours, and I understand there are a lot of questions, but why not sit back and chillax for once?
It doesn't seem like we're going to get more info than we have, and there is really no point in going crazy about this whole buisiness if all you can really do is wait...

[Dead Winter Dead]

Well we won't all be getting an invite so in a sense, yes, those not invited were essentially passed over. As far as criteria goes who knows. They may review your application and decide not to invite. It also seems if you pester them ie: PM 'Pretty Please!' they probably will not invite you.

[GrizzlyViking]

Sesambrot, on 28 May 2012 - 05:43 AM, said:

Dude, I dunno, but I think you may be going a little overboard about this whole beta-thing.
I've seen someone else mention that jokingly in another topic of yours, and I understand there are a lot of questions, but why not sit back and chillax for once?
It doesn't seem like we're going to get more info than we have, and there is really no point in going crazy about this whole buisiness if all you can really do is wait...

I am not sure if it occurred to you, but you are free not to read my posts. I am sure you can find other things to do with your time besides reading my posts and coposing responses complaining about them.

Dead Winter Dead, on 28 May 2012 - 05:52 AM, said:

Well we won't all be getting an invite so in a sense, yes, those not invited were essentially passed over. As far as criteria goes who knows. They may review your application and decide not to invite. It also seems if you pester them ie: PM 'Pretty Please!' they probably will not invite you.

I don't know about that. I think what Russ is saying is that they are not any rejections. It appears from his staement that they are simply picking in batches as they become ready to add more players.

[Sesambrot]

Oh, come on, just messin' with ya!

Still don't think it's worth, or healthy to worry too much about the whole situation...
I also thought it might be worth suggesting a rejected-button, but then you could as well just ignore the pending sign until it turns to accepted, in which case;
good for you!

Edited by Sesambrot, 28 May 2012 - 06:12 AM.

[Madog]

GrizzlyViking, on 28 May 2012 - 05:12 AM, said:

Does anyone get passed over, screened out, denied, for a BETA invite? According to the response from Dev, Russ Bullock, to the post below, the answer is "no."

My guess is that they set some criteria for the first round of beta testers. Probably people with similar PCs, since they want to iron out technical bugs first. Probably with similar playing and testing experience. The actual testers are probably randomly selected from within the group of people who meet the criteria.

As the beta expands, they'll want to add people with a variety of PC configurations. Both low end and high end, different processors, OS versions, graphics cards, etc. To make sure the game will run smoothly for everyone at launch.

Once the technical side is ironed out they'll probably want people with a variety of experience playing games like this, and different levels of experience with battletech. This is for play testing and some balancing.

The last step will be an open beta for load testing on the servers, catching last minute bugs and balancing issues.

[GrizzlyViking]

Sesambrot, on 28 May 2012 - 06:11 AM, said:

Oh, come on, just messin' with ya!

Still don't think it's worth, or healthy to worry too much about the whole situation...
I also thought it might be worth suggesting a rejected-button, but then you could as well just ignore the pending sign until it turns to accepted, in which case;
good for you!

I was mainly just trying to reassure some of those folks that are worrying about it. I try not to worry about anything. No sense in worrying about the things we have no control over. I ran across Russ' quote this morning and figured it was something that most people have not read and thought would be encouraging for some.

Edited by GrizzlyViking, 28 May 2012 - 06:19 AM.

[SilentSooYun]

I probably won't get an invite simply because Norton reacts to their System Profiler as if it were a virus.
I know I can bypass it easily, but I reckon it's only a couple months until Gold so I'm not too arsed about it.
Besides, buying into one of their Founders packages might change their mind

[GrizzlyViking]

SilentSooYun, on 28 May 2012 - 06:26 AM, said:

I probably won't get an invite simply because Norton reacts to their System Profiler as if it were a virus.
I know I can bypass it easily, but I reckon it's only a couple months until Gold so I'm not too arsed about it.
Besides, buying into one of their Founders packages might change their mind

That's an easy problem to solve. I have Norton too. All you have to do is right click the Norton Icon in your system tray and select "Disable Anti-Virus Auto-Protect." Disable it for 15 minutes and run the System Profiler, then enable it after.

[Bryan Ekman]

• Yes, we have criteria.
  
• Yes, you are added in batches based on those criteria.
  
• No, I can't tell you the criteria being used for obvious reasons.
  
• No, you ill never see a rejected button. Jeeez that's just mean.
  
• Yes, everyone is a potential beta tester.
  
• Selections are 100% random if you meet the criteria.

[Gremlich Johns]

Bryan Ekman, on 28 May 2012 - 06:48 AM, said:

• Yes, we have criteria.
  
• Yes, you are added in batches based on those criteria.
  
• No, I can't tell you the criteria being used for obvious reasons.
  
• No, you ill never see a rejected button. Jeeez that's just mean.
  
• Yes, everyone is a potential beta tester.
  
• Selections are 100% random if you meet the criteria.

See, method to the madness. just say "serenity now" and be glad for those who are being selected. Not too much longer we will all be playing.

Edited by Gremlich Johns, 28 May 2012 - 06:50 AM.

[Carl Wrede]

Its rather tiring with all these threads with people pleading/begging/whining about getting into Beta.

[Redshift2k5]

Bryan Ekman, on 28 May 2012 - 06:48 AM, said:

• Yes, we have criteria.
  
• Yes, you are added in batches based on those criteria.
  
• No, I can't tell you the criteria being used for obvious reasons.
  
• No, you ill never see a rejected button. Jeeez that's just mean.
  
• Yes, everyone is a potential beta tester.
  
• Selections are 100% random if you meet the criteria.

Great clarification, thanks Bryan

[GrizzlyViking]

Bryan Ekman, on 28 May 2012 - 06:48 AM, said:

• Yes, we have criteria.
  
• Yes, you are added in batches based on those criteria.
  
• No, I can't tell you the criteria being used for obvious reasons.
  
• No, you ill never see a rejected button. Jeeez that's just mean.
  
• Yes, everyone is a potential beta tester.
  
• Selections are 100% random if you meet the criteria.

Thanks for the clarification Bryan.

[Stringar]

Disclaimer: I am not complaining. This is just an observation.

I was listening to an EVE Online podcast, and I heard that Mittani, probably the most famous EVE player and CEO of the most powerful corp in EVE had a beta key. That got me thinking they are probably sending keys to people like this first. It makes sense. People who arnt neccessarly part of the press, but people listen to.

The fact that Mittani was even talking about MW:O on a EVE podcast is a massive plus for the devs of MW:O. Now an entire set of people that may have never heard of MW:O now have, and on top of that they heard someone with a lot of "respect" saying how awesome it is.

It would make a whole lot of sense for them to be sending out keys to people like this first. Get the word out, get people excited.

I personally dont think there is anything wrong with this, but I also think people should know in case you are just an average joe, hitting refresh on you mailbox ever 30 seconds.

Discuss.