Issue 16 Closed Beta Coming Soon
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Amanita,
Posted on: 2009-07-20 16:27 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
Thanks for the announcement of this great news. I'm looking forward to trying out the new I16 content whenever I get the chance to play with it. 
But as far as the timing of this closed/open beta cycle goes I'm really surprised more people don't seem to have a clue what's prompting it. Clearly with this testing schedule there's going to be a reasonable chance that I16 will be ready to go live on or around September 1st. *nudge nudge wink wink*
As far as marketing strategy goes I think it's the most sensible maneuver for this game to make. 
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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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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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All of the bug reports I've filed that actually make it to a ticket do get a canned ham Support response saying "we've filed this as a bug report, it'll get fixed eventually". However, some of the reports I've filed don't even get to that point, which has made me wonder if some of my in-game bug reports aren't even showing up.
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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".
[/ QUOTE ]I get what your saying but I dont see many exploits coming from powers being recolored or from powersets getting ported so I dont think we will have anything remotely close to that unless for some reason we get new content thats a TF/SF or something.
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You've seen people beg for closed beta access, but have you seen power customized begging?
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Issue 14 had a shelf date to release by. Outside of an "erase your hard drive" bug, that thing was coming out on time.
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Thanks for the announcement of this great news. I'm looking forward to trying out the new I16 content whenever I get the chance to play with it.
But as far as the timing of this closed/open beta cycle goes I'm really surprised more people don't seem to have a clue what's prompting it. Clearly with this testing schedule there's going to be a reasonable chance that I16 will be ready to go live on or around September 1st. *nudge nudge wink wink*
As far as marketing strategy goes I think it's the most sensible maneuver for this game to make.
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I agree. It's pretty obvious and that's ok. It's the logical, aggressive thing to do and I applaud them for it. I love competing games. Equals more stuff for us, especially those who plan to play both games. 
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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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All of the above.
PLEASE FIX YOUR [WARNING EXPLICIT LYRICS]-UP EMAIL SYSTEM!!!
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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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Been there, done that.
Doesn't cut it.
I have done every possible thing I can do on my end.... multiple times. The problem is on their end, not ours... and has been for almost 2 years now.
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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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Already pointed this out: did that, twice. Still getting nothing, which is why I updated a post on that thread. It didn't work.
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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".
[/ QUOTE ]I get what your saying but I dont see many exploits coming from powers being recolored or from powersets getting ported so I dont think we will have anything remotely close to that unless for some reason we get new content thats a TF/SF or something.
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Proliferation could have issues with decimal errors, table look-ups, incorrect values in general.
We could have some issues leveling up.
Who knows what specter may raise it's head as the ghost in the machine.
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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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I've never gotten those supposed Newsletters one of the rednames mentioned a while back.
I don't care if I get in or not as long as they pick good beta testers so this thing get get to live quickly.
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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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Already pointed this out: did that, twice. Still getting nothing, which is why I updated a post on that thread. It didn't work.
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Same here. The box is checked for me to receive NCSoft emails, which I've checked in the past but checked again just now to make sure.
Something's screwy with the email thing on NCSoft's end, not on mine and probably most of the others that are not getting these things.
You gotta let me into this Closed Beta! This issue was MADE for me!
Issue 16 made me feel like this.
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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".
[/ QUOTE ]I get what your saying but I dont see many exploits coming from powers being recolored or from powersets getting ported so I dont think we will have anything remotely close to that unless for some reason we get new content thats a TF/SF or something.
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Proliferation could have issues with decimal errors, table look-ups, incorrect values in general.
We could have some issues leveling up.
Who knows what specter may raise it's head as the ghost in the machine.
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Colours being reset back to their defaults at X level.
Using a temp power cossie change [like the arachnos one in faultline] takes all colours/animations back to normal.
Certain colours on certain powersets cost X amount more influence to change than other colours.
Some colours dont show at all.
I remember in i14 closed beta that when i leveled a new character it let you slot inspirations with enhancements. They soon fixed that bug 
I didn't expect "soon" to be so soon. WOOOOT!
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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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All of the bug reports I've filed that actually make it to a ticket do get a canned ham Support response saying "we've filed this as a bug report, it'll get fixed eventually". However, some of the reports I've filed don't even get to that point, which has made me wonder if some of my in-game bug reports aren't even showing up.
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Generally, if it is something that is already on the list of known bugs, I get the canned response. If it isn't on the list, I get no response.
Also, before anything actually gets to the Devs it goes through QA. If it is not something that they can reproduce, it likely doesn't get passed up the line and you probably wouldn't get an email about it either.
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I wonder why I never get picked for beta... I've been with the game since like Issue 2 and I've never been in a closed beta for an Issue before. w/e, if I'm not picked for this one, I'll just wait for open beta.
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