News: PC Gamer April Issue with Beta Key

[NivexQ]

Originally Posted by Hmr85

Higby, are you still sporting the beard or have you cut it off?

Also, any chance on a Legendary Higby beard we can buy in the Market?

This must be known!! As the 3picness of it would be to much.

http://www.vat19.com/dvds/beardo-original-beard-hat.cfm

[SniperSteve]

Originally Posted by Higby

dang dude this thread is cray

Just make sure everyone on PSU gets into the first round of beta and no-one will get hurt.

[Higby]

Originally Posted by Hmr85

Higby, are you still sporting the beard or have you cut it off?

Gone, but never forgotten.

[Hmr85]

Originally Posted by Firefly

http://broodr.com/product/257/Knitted_Beard-_Brown

I win.

/thread

Originally Posted by NivexQ

http://www.vat19.com/dvds/beardo-original-beard-hat.cfm

Aight, those are both pretty good. I think I like the 2nd one the best tho.

[SniperSteve]

dude, the first one looks so fluffy.

[polywomple]

higby one more question

Are you intentionally making the new conglomerate the coolest looking faction?

[Sirisian]

Originally Posted by Hmr85

Aight, those are both pretty good. I think I like the 2nd one the best tho.

[DayOne]

Originally Posted by Sirisian

http://www.beardski.com/store/beards...-ski-mask.html

Damn I should've gotten one of those last year

[Sirisian]

Originally Posted by DayOne

Damn I should've gotten one of those last year

I linked the wrong one. This thread is expanding quickly.

[Hmr85]

Originally Posted by Sirisian

Amazon.com: Beardski Prospector Ski Mask: Clothing

HAHA, Now that is awesome. I will be buying one for my trip out west this winter. I do a lot of snowboarding and that would be awesome.

[DayOne]

Originally Posted by Sirisian

I linked the wrong one. This thread is expanding quickly.

I prefer the other one. For comedic purposes.

[Hmr85]

Originally Posted by Higby

Gone, but never forgotten.

The Beard shall forever be remembered as... The Higbeard of Awesomeness. With a stat level of 1337

[Gargamol]

Originally Posted by RadarX

I wanted to drop in and clarify Beta access for former PlanetSide 1 players. As stated players will receive priority access. This means they will receive access early in the Beta process. This does not mean every former PlanetSide 1 player will get in before anyone else. All we can do is ensure those folks will get in before most others.

Argggh, I knew I was right when I suspected 'priority access' was a pool they would use to pull beta invites from in waves. So yeah, meh on being put on equal playing ground with people who buy a single mag over my early beta ps1 and hundreds (if not thousdands) of planetside 1 access since 2004.

So, having played ps1 beta, and from launch, and yes 'I did wish to pre-order core combat', and have an subscription to this day (soe all access)... my beta access is valued LESS than someone that buys a $15 magazine this month... I am a pissed.

Like I said before, if we all got in at the same time, I have no beef. But that quote means some PCGamer codes will be getting beta before ps1 some vets (however you define it) - which I think is most untriumphent /BSPrestonEsquire

Access to beta really should be Long Time & current subs > current subs > ever subs = PSG codes > website signups > other non PSG publicity invites > open beta.

They can bunch up the first 3 for all care in the first wave, but I take offense and combining them (and thus inviting PSG codes before current & long time vets) like they are OBVOUSLY doing!

To put it simply, it SHOULD be:
Beta 1 = ALL PS1 vets and All/some PCGamer codes
Beta 2 = Above + other special promos + some website signups
Beta 3 = Open Beta

Not the current setup
Beta 1 = Mix of some PS1 vets and some PCGamer codes
Beta 2 = All ps1 vets and all PCGamer codes
Beta 3 = Open Beta

Whatever, I'll get over it but I'll have nightmares tonight about some D-bag getting his PSG mag and saying 'what is planetside' getting the first wave while the guy who intentionally kept his sub for the past year (after the beta access teaser was mentioned) active because he was so pumped about it.

Higby can hide around his wording 'among the first to get access' rather than 'the first to get access' like he skillfully used at the time, but I will forever hate him for it.

[stordito]

i don't get why a massive multiplayer online game is basically advertised on a niche,old format,,unupdated media wich is the already-considered-dead paper magazine.

I think getting a beta access would be better for the mag itself than for soe because they managed to piss off the veterans, and plus PS2 is still mostly unknown...
SOE you should have handed the beta keys to mainstream websites like kotaku,RPS...THIS...or via twitter...you would have access to a major crowd of non-casual gamer.
Who buys those papyrus in 2012 anyway?

Playing since 2003...and very diasappointed

[Vancha]

Considering the amount of views this thread has, it embarrasses me that this is the first glimpse some people saw of Planetside's community. Hopefully not many people made it far enough through the thread to see it...

Originally Posted by stordito

i don't get why a massive multiplayer online game is basically advertised on a niche,old format,,unupdated media wich is the already-considered-dead paper magazine.

I think getting a beta access would be better for the mag itself than for soe because they managed to piss off the veterans, and plus PS2 is still mostly unknown...
SOE you should have handed the beta keys to mainstream websites like kotaku,RPS...THIS...or via twitter...you would have access to a major crowd of non-casual gamer.
Who buys those papyrus in 2012 anyway?

Playing since 2003...and very diasappointed

Yeah, why should SOE show any gratitude to PCGamer, who've supported and advertised Planetside for years? Why strike up a mutually beneficial deal with people that possibly gave Planetside more exposure than anyone else? It's unfathomable, really it is.

RPS has been good to us too, but think about the kind of people who subscribe to a PCGaming magazine...They're going to be gamers. Gamey, gaming gamers who play, and when I say play, I mean play play.

Edit: Also, people subscribed to a gaming magazine are more likely to have been gaming long enough to know what Planetside is and what it's about.