Whats with file planet starting a rumor about them hosting a 50 - 60K player beta - starting mid april ?
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/enemy-territory-quake-wars/777833p2.html
For gamers dying to check out Quake Wars themselves, the good news is that a limited public beta (maybe 50,000-60,000 people) is scheduled to come to Fileplanet in mid-April. There’s no word on what maps might be included, but we’re guessing “Valley” will be in there somewhere, and possibly a second map if we’re lucky.
I remember seeing some FilePlanet ad some time ago which said “Apply for beta tester now, become a plus member!” with a fine print like “No guarantees to be member of this particular beta test”.
most likely will be just before the main public beta.
you normally have stages for stress testing, at the moment they seem to have around 1000 and then as the game gets closer to gold you add more and more, especially with the fact they need to test the auth system.
I’d guess, they’ll gradually add more and more beta testers till they reach the 60k number kevin cloud mentioned then open to full open beta
methinks only paying members of FilePlanet will get an opportunity through them, could be wrong though.
I’m willing to offer up our server for “noob” testing if they need it
:lol:
They should let in people who post in this thread.
Charging for a beta is the lowest of the low.
Generally its Fileplanet Subscribers for first week then they open it up for the rest.
fileplanet’s policy is really intelligent, they actually managed to let people pay for a commercial :roll:
i used to think along these same lines.
but really its the best way to release a limited beta.
They should also let in people who pre-ordered the game, well actually they should let preorders to receive it even before fileplanet.
Maybe that italian webshop has it right then :o
Edit: not filecloud, fileplanet (=gamespy, left hand of evil ea btw :o )
I could subscribe for 1 month if it would be guaranteed, but with my luck i’m not getting key. Teh suckage.
i used to think along these same lines.
but really its the best way to release a limited beta.[/quote]
I dont think so… those people usually just want to play the game, they dont want to send in bug reports or something, cuz they already payed for playing it, why should they spend their expensive time for helping the developers ?
I bet only 20-30 % of the testers at fp are really going to take this as a betatest, and all others just take it as a payed demo they can play before all others can.
best way is imho to ask mod developers, mappers and high ranked clans/players, because they really care about the game and have the experience to talk about important stuff.
the fp betatest is probably just a commercial or a final hardware test to see if there are any hardware/driver bugs, at least I hope so, because I dont think the fp testers are quallified for serious gameplay suggestions.
I believe this large “beta test” (50-60K people) is really more of a stress test for the stats and ranking system. You wouldn’t necessarily want that many people in a beta test for bug finding reasons anyway.
Stress testing of game ranking system aside, they’d sure want to test it on a wide variety of hardware, and 50-60k is a reasonable number for that.
i used to think along these same lines.
but really its the best way to release a limited beta.[/quote]
I dont think so… those people usually just want to play the game, they dont want to send in bug reports or something, cuz they already payed for playing it, why should they spend their expensive time for helping the developers ?
I bet only 20-30 % of the testers at fp are really going to take this as a betatest, and all others just take it as a payed demo they can play before all others can.
best way is imho to ask mod developers, mappers and high ranked clans/players, because they really care about the game and have the experience to talk about important stuff.
the fp betatest is probably just a commercial or a final hardware test to see if there are any hardware/driver bugs, at least I hope so, because I dont think the fp testers are quallified for serious gameplay suggestions.[/quote]
yeah, we aren’t testing to find bugs. thats been done.
we’re going to test server strength and tracking systems.
oh and ‘expensive time’ is only $7 for the whole month.
thats going to work out to be like .20 per hour played.
As I’ve said in the other thread, $7 is nothing to play this game for a short while, It’s just over the price of a pint or so, I can definetly live without it.