

Selected Elite Beta Testers
#1
Posted 21 February 2013 - 03:01 AM
#2
Posted 21 February 2013 - 03:07 AM
I would like to think that those people are being really lucky, but me being a Softwaretester myself i KNOW that they will be doing hard work. And in this case probably not getting anything out of it despite a hats-off by the dev team and maybe some special priviliges on their accounts.
maybe a few MC here and there, some mechbays.... stuff like this.
#3
Posted 21 February 2013 - 03:09 AM
Edited by Dagnome, 21 February 2013 - 03:10 AM.
#4
Posted 21 February 2013 - 03:10 AM
#5
Posted 21 February 2013 - 03:14 AM
#6
Posted 21 February 2013 - 03:17 AM
#7
Posted 21 February 2013 - 03:19 AM
The other beta testers are used to test things on wide scale, like a mob mentality.
Edited by Basch, 21 February 2013 - 03:19 AM.
#8
Posted 21 February 2013 - 03:19 AM
#9
Posted 21 February 2013 - 03:20 AM
it is well known that PGI test servers and have paid testers who's job it is to test things before they are pushed to production, but I've never once heard from a reliable source that there are any non-staff players have access to the test server (and even if they did, why would you really want that? nothing you do there would be replicated on to the live servers so it would be wasted effort from a cbills/XP point of view, and you would have no real input on anything - like they would take something out because a volunteer tester said "it sucks QQ", you would just be providing them with server data and bug reports)
Edited by Apoc1138, 21 February 2013 - 03:22 AM.
#10
Posted 21 February 2013 - 03:25 AM
They do it because they love this game and want to see it continue to grow.
Edited by Basch, 21 February 2013 - 03:25 AM.
#11
Posted 21 February 2013 - 03:29 AM
#12
Posted 21 February 2013 - 03:33 AM
Basch, on 21 February 2013 - 03:25 AM, said:
They do it because they love this game and want to see it continue to grow.
oh, I understand why there may well be some volunteer testers, however I'm not sure I understand why people might get huffy about it and start a thread demanding to know why they aren't one... granted that isn't what the OP actually said, but I can see this thread very quickly deteriorating in to that
#13
Posted 21 February 2013 - 03:36 AM
Elite = "actual testers"
Open Beta = "potential/paying customers"
Welcome to Free 2 Pay development model. Open beta is really soft launch. I experienced this already from Tribes Ascend.
That too had it's fair share of people in denial, right up until "launch" where they ran their special launch code patch:
StrReplace("open beta", "released");
#14
Posted 21 February 2013 - 03:36 AM
#15
Posted 21 February 2013 - 03:39 AM
I feel comfortable with the future of this game being In their hands.
#19
Posted 21 February 2013 - 03:49 AM
The open beta stress-tests the servers, measures game balance and what people want, and allows them to cash in on us a bit before the actual release.
Khobai, on 21 February 2013 - 03:29 AM, said:
hehe I lol'd
#20
Posted 21 February 2013 - 03:53 AM
Basch, on 21 February 2013 - 03:41 AM, said:
What about the people that were here since week 1 of CBT? Are we not beta testers?
If you use classic software development model (example, waterfall)
Alpha: initial drafts, very early stage development/testing of ideas etc entire features can come and go at this point
Beta: mostly feature complete, some changes and tweaks but no major overhaul (unless it's a catastrophic design failure, should not happen at this point)
Beta is usually "closed" but sometimes open for the public.
Release: at this point money and payments enter the equation.
So the key thing is that PGI is now accepting payments and has been for a while, actively selling things. It's released just with the cover of "open beta" to paper over the fact it's really still in alpha stages with major features incomplete/being changed and upcoming.
With a software development and business background myself spanning 15+ years I can understand the reasons for F2P model, they may not have been able to develop it otherwise and need money coming in as they develop it but let's not pretend about the state of affairs.
Personally I don't much care for F2P model; invariably it places more emphasis on how to make cash fast than anything else, but that's a topic for another day

Anyway as for your question, you were a tester in closed beta right up until they started selling it and accepting payments. After that you're a customer, no different to every other gamer who has yet to play MWO, with no special extras. Only you get to continue buying stuff if you want.
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