DnL Confusion

hahanoob

Allow me to clear somethings up for you readers out there.

There are remarks made on both the positive and negative aspects of DnL. All is good to hear both sides. However, the criteria used to make a informed judgement and the level of experiance per reporting person needs to be considered with a huge point of that persons mentality.

There are two kinds of people in DnL for example, the "Testers" and the "Players"

Testers are the people that have experiance and have tested other games, software and such and keep an open mind and report on the factual information that they experiance while testing a product that is in BETA or development stage.

Players have higher expectations and want all the features and options to test immeadiatly. In short, want to play a game for free and not look for bugs, glitches, graphic errors and have the misunderstanding that they themselves are a part of a development team and are priviledged to be a part of such team and that they were allowed in with the agreement and understanding that all information of all types were to be kept secret per the NDA.

Players, in a beta staged game cause more problems than compentent testers and thats why you will hear more from dissatisifed "players" than people with actualy working knowledge, and feel slighted or cheated and then feel free to toss away the oath or promise to keep secret the infomation of the game.

The spirit of a tester is to have faith, an open mind and an ability to honor the NDA signed by that person, players, posting how they hate the "game" and how it sucks, how it will fail are all "Players" and are of that "sad" bunch of irresponsible, oath breaking, dishonorable sorts that wants their game to be now and free.

So, in short, congratulations to the testers for maintaining your composure and honor, and the players..well..you played yourself in the corner of disrepect and dislike.

If you feel offended by this, I will apologize to you here, but I will stand on my ground that only a player will feel offended by this post.

Wotann

I would say that there is a good number of people in between these two categories. - The people who spend much time playing the game and reporting bugs, but who grow bored after long periods of no new content. Many of these people are often lured back when there are new things to test. - I'm speaking with my own experience here. I've tested a couple of games in the past and have some 30 months of beta testing in total behind me.

Jackdog

I thinkl what is important is not what shape the game is at the moment, obviously from all the indications it is not in any shape for the public to see at the moment. But more importantly is the company bound and determined to release a game that should still be in beta come November? If so shame on them.