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Something to keep in mind regarding beta tests.
kivech
Member Posts: 58
Hi all,
I've been reading most of the posts where people complain about performance in the beta. I have been in quite some beta's in the past, dating back to some of the very first big titles in MMORPG land.
Keep in mind, that with an open beta the purpose is to bring the servers to their knees. This will allow the devs to fine tune the servers to get them to perform at their best at launch. What you see now does not necessarily have to be representative for the final performance of the game when it goes live.
These guys want to find the bottle necks in their systems. They find those by overloading the system. This way they can determine how many players can play on one server and keep the game performing in an acceptable fashion. Most often then not in an open beta you will see terrible performance, and at launch the performance is a whole lot better.
Also, what I get from a lot of reports, is that most of the performance is latency related. Yes, your FPS can be related to latency issues as well. Granted, some seem to be a bit too enthousiastic with turning all graphics options to the max, which might not be the best for your system, overall, I would say that one can expect this game to perform better at launch.
It's true that in the past some great titles failed due to poorly decided release dates (I can make quite a list of the betas I was in that failed in the end due to hasty releases), but that doesn't mean that all are like that these days.
What I'm trying to say is: keep in mind that you are TESTING a game in development and not a final product. Of course you have no guarantee that it will be much better at launch, but at least hang on with making a completely negative judgement of the game until it is live. If the problems persist, yeah, then I will definately agree. But so far, all we know is that they are testing the performance of their systems for which they need to overload on their end to see what goes wrong with their stuff.
Let's just hope that once they go live they manage to have fine tuned it all and it will not all be that bad in the end. 
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Yeah, I don't understand why people are freaking out. The purpose of this OB is to stress test the servers, maybe that is part of their FPS issues. Honestly though, I am having no problems whatsoever (apparently that is very rare on these forums).
This game goes gold in about a week, do you truly think they are going to make miracle changes to the game between now and release? No, of course not, no game has ever had a miracle patch between open beta and release, so quit dreaming this game will, it just won't happen. The product we see now is the final product, SE had many many months to make serious changes to the performance of the game and to fix the UI and mouse related issues, and they only made slight improvements.
^ this.
There is no knowledge that is no power.
i think you also have to take into consideration the amount of people that are in open beta for free and how many of these same people wont be in the game at launch and paying for the game. i say that will have a pretty good impact on performance issues at that time.
^ This