Beta in 2011

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Nacho

Nacho

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Dec 22, 2008
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Here's a software engineer's (and amateur game developer) perspective:

Usually your best feedback comes from outsiders, because they come with a different perspective. That being said, you will get useful information from just about every type of beta tester. Diversity is the key. The biggest mistake anyone can make with anything other than a marketing beta (which really isn't a beta at all) is to limit the participants to only a select few types of players. Notice that a release that is primarily for testing (bug squashing) is also different than a beta. Those require a very select group.
 
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Rahabib

FNG / Fresh Meat
Dec 14, 2010
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personally, I can see why they want to bring in other people into the closed beta for feedback. The problem I have seen in all the other betas I have participated in was that the players coming from the previous versions all complained about how the game was different from the previous version. While you need that input as well, you also dont want to make the game only for the people who previously played it but open it up to other types of gamers.

The downside to this approach is that the older players feel rejected and can cause old time players to leave. From what I have seen, this game seems quite a bit different in approach and new mechanics. From my perspective, its all seems positive. But from the more vet Osfront players it may not be seen as such.

I think a good range of perspectives are good. I hope they just open the private beta up for both types instead of just one type (which I am sure they will). If they don't until the closed beta, it may already be too late to make major changes.
 
/Sven\

/Sven\

FNG / Fresh Meat
Dec 2, 2010
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Hello everyone ... I would like to express my opinion: I saw that ro is not widely known as other Fps, I think the beta can be a good advertising ...Then maybe let it download to anyone, asking to create accounts on the forums ....
 
EchoJ7

EchoJ7

FNG / Fresh Meat
Jan 5, 2010
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The North
Throwing in my 2 pence here, a large scale beta for pre-order's would be an amazing way to garner interest, without going to a overly long detailed reason why (They was another thread a while ago about this...) one only needs to look at the success of Minecraft, Natural Selection 2 and dare it be said, Bad Company 2. The strength of these pre-order based beta's is it free publicity (after all there pre-ordering) and it's a good way to stress test; what large beta's lack is clarity in bug fighting but this is what small, closed beta's are for.

So please have a pre-order beta!
 
Knighted

Knighted

FNG / Fresh Meat
Oct 1, 2010
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Well as far as I know the beta structure will work as follows:

Initial Small closed beta with a select number of invited persons involved.

If they stick with their current mindset this will shift into a larger marketing based open beta with preorders as one way to get in(likely fileplanet as well.)
 
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