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Age of Conan Minisite on Fileplanet...Open Beta looming?
AmazingAvery
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Launched not long ago here: http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/ageofconan/
Anyone taking bets they will have something to do with beta?
Or a special weekend try out even ?? :P
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Not really "open" if it will only be for premium FP subscribers.
I may not even buy the game if AoC wont give open beta it's true open-ness.
Still mixed views on the game in my eyes ATM.
seems abit much for Fileplanet to wip up such a page with all that?, feel maybe soemthing special & novel maybe on its way....Wooohoo.
Well i wouldn't be surprised if they try that beta for subscribers thing. Potbs did that on fileplanet and right after they opened it to subscribers they opened to everyone and all you had to do is register. Really pissed off alot of people who subscribed just to try out the game. This game has alot more people waiting to try it though so I doubt that will happen here but I'll keep checking just in case.
WAR is doing exactly the same thing. Meaning a Beta with limited space where you have to register and get approved for a key. So it seems to be not so uncommon.
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Ok? This is not something new and strange thing to do, launching open beta through fileplanet, you know.
I'm so broke. I can't even pay attention.
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looks a lot like fileplanet subscribers will again get a beta access before the real open beta (if there will be any real open beta), happened in so many MMOs in the last years so nothing really big.
I was in quite a few betas in the past and sometimes pre FP stage sometimes after when the open beta gates were opened. And from my personal experiences I question the usefullness of these Fileplanet testers for bug finding. Most of them just download the beta and see it as a trial many of them probably won't even look at the forums and post any bugs or feedback.
But i guess the game companies see it more as a stresstest before going real open beta (to see if the servers are ready from stability point).
Anyway i personally think selecting a big group thats active in the game community would probably produce more bug reports. On the feedback its a bit mixed, too many fanboys that just praise the devs and attack anyone that gives negative feedback can hurt a game a lot too (see vanguard).
in closed vg beta there were times when aprox 90% of beta population did not log in anymore, but on forums everyone that posted anything about the game not being fun was getting attacked by the Vanboys ( everything Brad does is great... you can see that now). I think the beta survey they devs did when they noticed that many beta people were not even logging in or bothering to post on forums saved vanguard from being much more a failure (but the changes came too late when they did not have enough time and money anymore).
Fileplanet ? LOL
Would be worst idea ever Funcom. Torrent is the way to go.
Open Beta is nothing but hype and extra money. The game has to be ready for open beta. There is no testing anymore. The hype of WoW was so ridiculous that the open beta keys where sold for 100+ Euro on ebay.
The only company who did it right was Turbine. They sold the trial for 1.50 Euro on DVD in ths shops.
Ok? This is not something new and strange thing to do, launching open beta through fileplanet, you know.
I know, but then it'd only be for fileplanet subscribers.
So not exactly open. Just for people with fileplanet subscriptions.
Its a high probability hence the minisite Fileplanet looks to get some more webtraffic for some reason and if they can hook the open beta exclusive beta keys they can grab a heft amount of subscriptions just for the early access.
Age of Conan is gonna be awesome game, but its only gonna hold me over for Darkfall really
fileplanet subscribers.......... dont pay for a beta
I don't know if this is breaking a NDA but there was a lot of talk about open beta opening on May 1st.
Hmm... I'm not sure, aren't open betas usually around two weeks before launch?
That's interesting to hear.
lol speculation is not breaking an NDA rofl..
Anyway yea it's coming soon. I think before May 1 st myself.
Like 23rd of Apr. (speculation based on it going gold sooner than thought).
so, quite a while then...
Ok? This is not something new and strange thing to do, launching open beta through fileplanet, you know.
I know, but then it'd only be for fileplanet subscribers.
So not exactly open. Just for people with fileplanet subscriptions.
Gaute and Erling I believe have both said the "open beta" was not going to be what conjurs up in the mind when most people hear the words. They stated yeah, it may have tens of thousands of people, but is not going to be a click a button for and cd key, d/l and go play open to everyone under the sun. It may suck that you and others have that expectation from maybe missing those pr releasesand/or vids, but they have been fairly clear about it for a few months now.
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everyone seems to think that is on may first but when devs are asked directly they say "no comment", I don't know where the rumor on the beta forums started or if it is true though. I hope open beta starts on june first with AoC launching in august so it doesn't flop =x