Issue 16 Closed Beta Coming Soon
By
Amanita,
Posted on: 2009-07-20 16:27 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
*jumps up and down, waving arms violently*
PICK ME!
I figure closed beta starts near the beginning of August, and runs a month, followed by 2-4 weeks of open. Last time there was powerset proliferation the closed beta lasted quite a while, if I remember (though there were also two new ATs to test at that time).
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*checks e-mail*
*waits a few minutes*
*checks e-mail again*
*hits F5*
*hits F5*
*hits F5*
*hits F5*
*hits F5*
*sighs*
i know you want to invite me to closed beta... the wait to get that e-mail thou... invite me soon kthkbye
*hits F5*
sigh i guess i will just have to wait
... If we've been having issues with getting NC mail, what then? I have to wonder, because the only NC emails I've been getting are my bug reports and petitions in the live game. Nothing whatsoever other than those. 
Gosh this year has gone by so fast. 
This is just... so cool.
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You've seen people beg for closed beta access, but have you seen power customized begging? 
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Wooooo!!!! Pick me! Pick me!
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this.
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... If we've been having issues with getting NC mail, what then? I have to wonder, because the only NC emails I've been getting are my bug reports and petitions in the live game. Nothing whatsoever other than those.
Gosh this year has gone by so fast. This is just... so cool.
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Likewise. I haven't changed my email address since I started playing but it has been over a year since I last got any game email other than bug and petition report replies. I used to get NC Soft emails.
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... If we've been having issues with getting NC mail, what then? I have to wonder, because the only NC emails I've been getting are my bug reports and petitions in the live game. Nothing whatsoever other than those.
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Same here. I've checked my address with NCSoft and my e-mail filtering, too, and it doesn't seem to do anything. For all I know, I've been in every closed beta they've had since . . . whenever it was I stopped getting those things.
Therefore, if the devs want me in this closed beta, they'll need to send me a fruit basket to let me know. (No cheese or tomatoes, please.)
Seriously, I'd rather wait and see it live. I've done one closed beta (last wave of CoV), and it was frustrating and involved. And unproductive, since I never found anything that I felt needed correction or tweaking because I barely had time to get a feel for the game before it went open.
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The bad part is..the quicker they get to beta, the longer they stay in beta, and the more grief the have and have-nots go thru.
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This would probably be one of the few closed betas in which I would actually want to participate. That being said, there are some actual bugs that I've reported in-game using /bug (test and live) and they somehow never make it to a ticket. I know some of them do, and I've seen fixes make it into the release notes. Does this just mean Support isn't getting my report at all, or are they silently discarding it? I'm seeing the "Bug filed. Thanks!" text but I don't know if it really is reaching Support.
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This would probably be one of the few closed betas in which I would actually want to participate. That being said, there are some actual bugs that I've reported in-game using /bug (test and live) and they somehow never make it to a ticket. I know some of them do, and I've seen fixes make it into the release notes. Does this just mean Support isn't getting my report at all, or are they silently discarding it? I'm seeing the "Bug filed. Thanks!" text but I don't know if it really is reaching Support.
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No bug reports get personalized "thank you" letters, if that's what you mean. From what I've been told at cons, they DO look over every bug report. Whether they're high enough priority to do anything about, is really the question.
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You've seen people beg for closed beta access, but have you seen power customized begging?
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You deserve bonus closed beta entry points for your spot on imaginative request.
~MM
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You've seen people beg for closed beta access, but have you seen power customized begging?
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You deserve bonus closed beta entry points for your spot on imaginative request.
~MM
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Why thank you! Hopefully those bonus closed beta entry points are being put in a gift basket where the fine folks at Paragon Studios can see them.
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Looking forward to it. Hook me up
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ok im not a numbers guy but i am all about cosmetics... Ill test power customization for hours a day...
now PL MEH!! uhm.... I mean CLOSED BETA INVITE MEH!!11!
No one goes there anymore, it's too crowded...
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Is it too much to ask, that you EXTEND the time you keep this in closed beta (and also open beta) so that the bugs that get trapped get addressed before it goes Live?
cos there was a LOT of stuff in I14 that got flagged by the testers and yet the issue was rushed to market; then we had a devs-vs-players meltdown that lasted for well over two months and scared off a LOT of people, all because of MA exploits getting press / blog / game reviewer coverage.
You folks cannot afford to do that again, so soon after. So please, keep the emphasis on TESTING and not "check out the new shiny early".
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this is all taking place after the comicon right? Are any IHC Ambassadors going to attend the comicon? I'd be very interested in knowing how that pans out...
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... If we've been having issues with getting NC mail, what then? I have to wonder, because the only NC emails I've been getting are my bug reports and petitions in the live game. Nothing whatsoever other than those.
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I get some NCSoft emails, but not others; there doesn't seem to be a pattern in what I do get. Everytime I see people here talking about emails they're getting that I don't get, I double check my email address on file and of course it never has magically changed itself. 
I also go through my spam folder daily, scanning stuff before I delete it. Not that NCSoft emails should end up there since I have any known NCSoft email address on my white list.
But anyway, it doesn't really matter if you get a closed beta invite email or not. Once it starts, just try to log into the Test Server and see if you can get in. And then maybe once every few days after that, and especially if they announce that they're adding waves of testers (as they do sometimes).
If there were an actual NDA for these things, that had to be digitally signed (like the CoV closed beta NDA), then an invite email would be absolutely critical. All the invite email contains is, well, an invitation, and a friendly reminder not to talk about closed beta stuff. There's nothing in it that you *need* to have or to do to access the closed beta. If you can get past the character creator on the Test Server, then you're in the closed beta. It's that simple.
Great news
For those not recieving E-mails Follow the Ochos post here particiluarly step 5.
At some point it got set for me opting out of E-mails, I dont recall doing so, but making sure that box was checked sort my issue out.
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Will there be an EU closed beta as well? Like there was for i14? Pretty please?
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