Beta Testing?

(Andy_Smith) #1

I know it is early to see signs of a beta test open or closed, but i was wondering if anyone has heard of one and possibly how to get into it if there will be one?

(tokamak) #2

Get your gamespy subscription ready…:rolleyes:

(Andy_Smith) #3

ugh okay… i hate working though gamespy but i will

(Nail) #4

I doubt there will be an open beta

(tokamak) #5

And I doubt any of us will see a closed beta. Too much leaking and there was some ****ed up thing going on with ETQW’s alpha as well.

(Left4Lune) #6

I’d love to beta test this beauty.

(Paul) #7

We all do…

(SockDog) #8

:stroggtapir: Beta via Steam FTW! :stroggtapir:

That said, gamers these days are quick to criticise and slow to understand what a beta is. For the benefits it surely brings to balance and bugs that familiarity has hidden from the Dev team Beth/SD will surely be gambling on negative impressions if they release and actual real beta product and not a demo labeled as a beta.

(RoryGreen) #9

There is so much time to release now that it has been delayed, they will be able to have loads of internal tests to test how well it works out. I think that if they are having problems then they should put out a 1 map beta like bad company 2. The only reason the PS3 had a beta for that is because it wasn’t running perfectly on the PS3 so they thought they needed a beta. The Xbox version was running perfectly, so they didn’t. If they are having no problems, then there is no reason to have a Beta because they can test it themselves.

(alias) #10

yup they can abuse me for beta testing.

(Diablo85) #11

Hope SD has learned from ET:QW and don’t do a beta. Too many people judged it as final product. Just release a demo before release, that will do. :slight_smile:

(Paul) #12

True, beta’s give games bad reputation, because people expect more from the final game then. A demo is a hole thing different though!

(DarkangelUK) #13

I hope they don’t a PUBLIC beta… closed was fine. So i heard any way, didn’t even know there was a closed beta… oh look, a butterfly? runs

(SockDog) #14

Negatives aside didn’t the ETQW beta bring up some fair feedback and balance issues that SD had missed due to being so familiar to the game? Having the opportunity to fix and balance stuff before going gold would IMO be more valuable to polish the game than risking some imbalance getting blown out of proportion in the final build.

(Joe999) #15

imo you don’t need a public beta for that. you can do that in a limited closed one as well, given that you have dedicated people/clans for it who work together on improving the game instead of starting a competition already before the game has launched.

(mortis) #16

cough ahem cough

(GlobalWar) #17

I don’t think the open beta on QW really helped sales…A whole lot of whiners who thought the beta was somekind of demo and decided not to buy…If I was the boss I would stick to a (short) closed beta via Steam to iron out the probs you get when more people are playing and only invite people you know.

I played the Ruse Beta via Steam and worked very good.

(tokamak) #18

Well in their defense, ETQW was the worst BF game ever.

(SockDog) #19

Perhaps not but I’d be cautious about a closed, small, hand picked beta group too. A sizable closed beta would IMO be best. Then do the usual pre-release demo stuff on the consoles when the game is 99.9% done.

(Nail) #20

gee, I thought it was one of the better BattleFail games

:stroggtapir::stroggbanana: