Prepurchase Beta Access

So you want to play an unbalanced, buggy game? Spending time playing, running into problems, trying to duplicate them and reporting them? That's a good attitude! That being said, the need for that type of activity is the WORST thing to be going during a marketing beta which is what pre-buyers/pre-order folks usually get.

"Real" beta - going through the game, finding bugs, imbalances, etc. Basically its kinda crappy. But you want to contribute to that, so that's good. Generally these have applications to fill out (demographics, computer specifications, etc) and NDAs to abide by. You might get invited if you play another game by the same company and meet whatever criteria the company has.

"Marketing" beta - the "almost, if not practically ready for release" beta that some folks think betas are like. These are the "pre-order now and get into beta!" betas that places like Gamestop use to get you to buy from them. Pretty much all the real work is done already, there's no NDA (or it's going to drop very soon), etc. Basically an open beta being used as a carrot for pre-orders.

Yep. Although I'm sure there are people who want in (not saying anyone here does) to try and stay ahead of exploit fixes and to find the next round of exploits for them to use on the live servers, too

Yea, but at the least there are those who find AND report them.

your forum name reminds me of miss south carolina.


also this thread is retarded

For the first time ever. This^

Will do, if she remembers ya.

It will be after the maintence window on the 17th. So guess somewhere around noon-2pm EST, barring some major issue with the update.

I was under the impression it was. Not sure why, but obviously I'm not the only one. Personally I don't care either way because I don't want to beta test and if I really wanted the info there are places to get it.

But if this many people are thinking they were supposed to get beta access, then that more than likely means there was a communication error at some point and it should be corrected by some official statement. To not clear this up and just have people keep starting threads means somebody(or more likely several people) isn't doing their job very well.

Yeah I realize preorder and prepurchase are different, but whoever is in charge of this stuff dropped the ball. And to not let people know exactly what is going on at this point is nothing short of pure incompetence on somebodies part.

Now I feel kind of dumb for asking this but... What exactly is the difference. How do I pre-order vs. pre-purchase? Does pre-order mean I need to go down to my local game store and reserve an ordered copy of Going Rogue? Was there a way to pre-order it over the NC store?
I feel stupid for asking but I'm serious, I'm having trouble seeing a difference.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

Basically prepurchase means you bought it and own it already. Like buying form teh NCSoft store. The code is applied to your account.

Pre-order is if you reserve a copy from Gamestop. You don't actually own the game until you get it on release day.

Thank you for clarifying that.

Depends, do you believe more in the Devs being fair, or in Gamestop's ability to monopolize exclusives from game developers to get people to buy from them?

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

Except it's not just gamestop >.>

Why would they wait till then to do that if it will be on store shelves on the morning of that Tuesday? That would make no sense at all. Is there someplace you can point me to with that information. It is just hard to believe they would do this on the day of a release so big to them and the community.

Possible delays?

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Fortunately, being wrong is free.

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Then where is my +rep?

Hmmm, I'm prolly skrood, then. 2/3 of my characters are villains, and all but maybe 1 or 2 of them are NOT headed for lolredemption when GR goes live.

Lol, especially after today's announcement. Stoney has a history... nevermind.