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2011-07-24, 12:44 AM | [Ignore Me] #1 | ||
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Is there even a beta coming soon? Anyway kind of pointless to post as people will play it like its the real game anyway. That's why more MMO's are waiting until really late to do a open beta anymore. Sometimes only doing it on weekends to save costs. An pretty much treating like a demo/marketing tool.
Most of the testing will be done by professionals an small selected groups of outfits I imagine during closed beta. |
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2011-07-24, 12:48 AM | [Ignore Me] #2 | |||
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Smed has said current subscribers will be among the first into beta. suck it |
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2011-07-24, 01:46 AM | [Ignore Me] #4 | |||
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If you are talking about unit testing, then yes, it can be used to ensure that the code is correct before being checked in. But where I work, bugs are still identified by manual and automated scripts, and ad-hoc testing. I can't imagine any Test Team Leaders in our place trusting only unit tests to find bugs. But then, we do have 20 year old spaghetti code with a mish-mash of UI, business and data layers. |
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2011-07-24, 04:17 AM | [Ignore Me] #5 | |||
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I'll believe it when I see it. Did he say ALL subscribers would be the first into beta? Cause if not then I could still be right. That they will pick certain outfits an do most of the testing with them. I do see your point about it being hard to test large scale combat without thousands to actually slug it out. But that doesn't mean they will open the floodgates for a year or more of testing to every subscriber. Well if you had to stay subscribed then maybe since it would pretty much be a pay to play Beta then. |
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2011-07-24, 06:40 AM | [Ignore Me] #6 | ||
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In a game like planetside, it will need thousands of players to stress test it but also since the game is based around pvp, it will need alot of players to test the flow of a battle its game systems for capturing, and playing it like it would be played on live, and spending alot of time doing that, the developers cant spend that much time playing to test that shit. and im sure SOE dont want to pay extra people thousands of dollars to test that shit when they can get us to test it for free and look at the metrics.
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2011-07-24, 11:11 AM | [Ignore Me] #7 | |||
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2011-07-24, 01:48 PM | [Ignore Me] #8 | ||
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Patience is about the best quality of a beta tester. Its frustrating to play with bugs that can severely cripple your game experience, like crashes, bad framerates and other such things that can make the game nearly unplayable. Horrid balance issues and other such things are also frustrating. Keeping the cool head and being patient, hanging in there and playing it in spite of those issues helps a lot.
That said, you can be the best beta tester in the world but if the devs dont' listen to the feedback or do poor triage of bugs then there isn't much you can do. |
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2011-07-25, 12:46 AM | [Ignore Me] #9 | |||
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2011-07-24, 12:52 AM | [Ignore Me] #10 | |||
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