I'm disappointed.
Oh well, I can do other things until then.
Maybe I am wrong on this, But isn't the first round of invite the lightest. SO only the a trusted few get in the first week. Then it ramps up.
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Maybe I am wrong on this, But isn't the first round of invite the lightest. SO only the a trusted few get in the first week. Then it ramps up.
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(I got invited to the Closed Beta for... Issue 13, I think... while my account was briefly inactive. It got me to re-sub a few days earlier than I'd planned to.
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Originally Posted by Hellguard_NA
If the first round really was "a trusted few," it probably wouldn't include those who haven't had active accounts in quite some time.
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(I don't kneel in front of baby Jesus' statue, so no beta enticement can make me
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And I have been here since the first day of launch. If I get in a closed beta, I enjoy it, if not, then not. Being here a long time is not really that special, there are a lot of us around, more than they can probably use for the beginning part of a closed beta. The only time long time subscribers have gotten rewarded for that is COV Beta (And I was like the 3rd wave invited into that) and GR when its beta starts. Otherwise, we do not know the criteria for getting invited, they will not tell us. (Except for some obvious ones like Arcanaville. Not having her in a closed beta with power changes would be sub-optimal. |
Originally Posted by Dynamix
Pardon my repost. I am glad to hear that exclusivity wasn't extended to those that attended comicon. However, I do have an issue with inclusitivioty not being extended to 60 month vets. I've been with the game since one month after it's launch, and it's been a heckuva ride since then! I've enjoyed it. But now we are about to embark on a new issue that really makes changes to how you start the game, and Veterans aren't a part of that? (or at least my beta invitation got lost in the mail?)
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)So just play the game, if you get an invite, go test, if not, have fun on live.
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Originally Posted by Dynamix
Pardon my repost. I am glad to hear that exclusivity wasn't extended to those that attended comicon. However, I do have an issue with inclusitivioty not being extended to 60 month vets. I've been with the game since one month after it's launch, and it's been a heckuva ride since then! I've enjoyed it. But now we are about to embark on a new issue that really makes changes to how you start the game, and Veterans aren't a part of that? (or at least my beta invitation got lost in the mail?)
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Many forumites didn't see this announcement because it was released during the forum transition, but I for one am excited
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Here's the thing - the initial betas of any software product are not happy wanderings through meadows of pretty flowers and well-polished experiences. They're buggy. They crash. Things don't work as expected. Servers go down. Dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria! Ok, it's not usually mass hysteria.|
Originally Posted by Dynamix
Pardon my repost. I am glad to hear that exclusivity wasn't extended to those that attended comicon. However, I do have an issue with inclusitivioty not being extended to 60 month vets. I've been with the game since one month after it's launch, and it's been a heckuva ride since then! I've enjoyed it. But now we are about to embark on a new issue that really makes changes to how you start the game, and Veterans aren't a part of that? (or at least my beta invitation got lost in the mail?)
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The whole point of a limited beta is to give the developers the feedback they want - it's not done to provide a perk for the testers. In order to achive that goal, you restrict the exposure of the software to people you reasonably expect to test it (sometimes in a very directed way), and not be unhappy that things aren't "done" yet. By their very nature, they're supposed to be "exclusive", both in the nature of the people they ask to test, and the number of people they want testing it.
I'm not in the beta - I've been here since day one, and I'm entirely confident that once they're reasonably sure that if they send it out into the cold, cruel world that it won't blow up in their face, they'll let us all play with the pretty new toys.
It's possible that they'll broaden the audience of the beta once things get closer to "live" - they've done so in the past, but I think they've always started with smaller, closed betas first, and then expanded the pool later, if they felt it would help before putting it on test.
In the meantime, we'll just have to wait. It'll go on the test server before it hits live, which will give everyone a chance to see and comment on it before it's real.
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How do you think we (The EU community) feel... why where never even considered in the first place. Never mind vet status and dedication in one way or another. >.>
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If you want into a beta test for being a loyal customer, stick around for Going Rogue.
Many forumites didn't see this announcement because it was released during the forum transition, but I for one am excited |
Outstanding! I had not seen this -- thanks, Obsidius.
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Originally Posted by Ecliptix
And a hearty LOL at whoever gave me negative board reputation and called me a liar... I guess direct quotes from Posi and BAB aren't good enough.
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Originally Posted by Dark_Forgiven
I'm not sure if this means what you think it means. It sounds like this means that it currently only allows closed beta people and they're fixing that. Though that doesn't seem likely.... I'm hoping my interpretation is correct :/
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Though I can't help but giggle at the people who read the original statement and automatically apply a negative interpretation. It was a poorly-worded statement that could be read either way.
Silly pessimists. You're all like someone who'd complain about getting too much change back because you don't have enough room in your pocket.
Where to find me after the end:
The Secret World - Arcadia - Shinzo
Rift - Faeblight - Bloodspeaker
LotRO - Gladden - Aranelion
STO - Holodeck - @Captain_Thiraas
Obviously, I don't care about NCSoft's forum rules, now.
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It's almost always missed.
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Rift - Faeblight - Bloodspeaker
LotRO - Gladden - Aranelion
STO - Holodeck - @Captain_Thiraas
Obviously, I don't care about NCSoft's forum rules, now.
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Originally Posted by Bloodspeaker
Though I can't help but giggle at the people who read the original statement and automatically apply a negative interpretation. It was a poorly-worded statement that could be read either way.
Silly pessimists. You're all like someone who'd complain about getting too much change back because you don't have enough room in your pocket. |
At least, that's better for my blood pressure.
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He saw it http://twitter.com/CoHBABs/status/2934221897
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Originally Posted by Hellguard_NA
Lol, BAB tweeted about my article on MMOsite (here) about why CoH should be worried about CO. It appears he missed the previous article on why I think CoH will hold its own just fine though (linked in my signature).
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Better to read it tentatively negative at first and be happily proven wrong, than to read it positively, go nuts, and then face the inevitable crash and doomcrying.
At least, that's better for my blood pressure. |
Where to find me after the end:
The Secret World - Arcadia - Shinzo
Rift - Faeblight - Bloodspeaker
LotRO - Gladden - Aranelion
STO - Holodeck - @Captain_Thiraas
Obviously, I don't care about NCSoft's forum rules, now.
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Originally Posted by FightingCanadian
Ya know, I think us 60+ monthers deserve closed beta slots. I've been around for nearly 63 months, and I've yet to get a single invite to a closed bet. That 'other' game gave me one...but the game I have been so loyal to the past 5 years? Something seems backwards there:P
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Maybe I shouldn't have called States a ravening lunatic when the whole "let's try to sneak in ED" thing blew up...
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Any clue if we can mix and match animations? I would love MA/ with a mix of old and new... that sweeping kick makes me giggles...how can a sweeping kick NOT cause knockup?!
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The powers effects themselves can be recolored.
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Originally Posted by Shadow_Wail
Any clue if we can mix and match animations? I would love MA/ with a mix of old and new... that sweeping kick makes me giggles...how can a sweeping kick NOT cause knockup?!
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Posting something completely unrelated. Thanks to being linked to BaBs twitter page, I now know he plays Civ4. I just want to make a quick comment, civ4 is evil and fun. I played a game on Noble as the Japanese (Tokugawa) in a Huge map intent on winning by conquering the world in the era of the samurai. I ended up winning in 1990 something by getting to Alpha Centuri first. Ahh, how you can change history.
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heh. You're in good company. I too haven't been involved in any of the closed betas other than COV in the beginning. Back when pet controls for Masterminds were a nightmare, what with your pets running off and trying to "smack" everything in sight.. ohh those were the days. Still. BaB did send me a PM telling me that there are "a ton of 60 month vets" in the closed beta. My point wasn't that there aren't any in there, my point was that as 60 month vets, we've been with the game the longest and have seen the good AND the bad. I would think we were in a unique position to give excellent feedback. Ah but by my own hand, I have kept silent. From now on, I am going to be a LOT more vocal on the boards and in game with feedback to keep CoH/CoV in the flavor of awesome that it is right now!
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Originally Posted by Turgenev
Hear, hear. I just figure I'm on a "do not invite" list.
Maybe I shouldn't have called States a ravening lunatic when the whole "let's try to sneak in ED" thing blew up... |
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Since all of the Dark sets are becoming customizable; can that actualization of that customization be ported to the Dark Shield in the Shield Defense set?
Currently; no matter what you do with the color settings of the 'Dark' Shield; it remains a purplish-black mass.
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Originally Posted by Hellguard_NA
Lol, BAB tweeted about my article on MMOsite (here) about why CoH should be worried about CO. It appears he missed the previous article on why I think CoH will hold its own just fine though (linked in my signature).
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Yay for entitlement issues and not knowing what a closed beta is about!!
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Originally Posted by Dynamix
Pardon my repost. I am glad to hear that exclusivity wasn't extended to those that attended comicon. However, I do have an issue with inclusitivioty not being extended to 60 month vets. I've been with the game since one month after it's launch, and it's been a heckuva ride since then! I've enjoyed it. But now we are about to embark on a new issue that really makes changes to how you start the game, and Veterans aren't a part of that? (or at least my beta invitation got lost in the mail?)
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We get to go in closed beta for Going Rogue...and that will actually have content to it (I suppose at least
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