The funny thing is that as always happen, people pay for the "exclusive" beta and when the game is released to general public is all buggy. Whatever, if people want to throw their money it's their call. Watch some of these people that pre-order QQing later. I know many of these Beta testers that the only thing they do is to beta test, get their free month and never re-sub. Then come into the forums and start to QQ until the next game is ready for beta testing. I guess the devs realized there is a lot of money grab from these beta testers.
You could also look at it as a vested interest. If your willing to "gamble" money on a game with little to no REAL information, what you are buying is a vision. What SV did is give - 10000 testers a reason to try to help them make their game the best it can be. No game will get away from the QQ but perhaps this will motivate people enough to test and bug report and feedback for fear of a monetary loss upon themselves. Also, if you can sustain capital even DURING the beta cycle, there is a bit less incentive to rush a lauch of the game like we have seen so many developers do in recent years, especially since there will probably be no NDA. It might work ok, it might not. Time will tell.
The funny thing is that as always happen, people pay for the "exclusive" beta and when the game is released to general public is all buggy. Whatever, if people want to throw their money it's their call. Watch some of these people that pre-order QQing later. I know many of these Beta testers that the only thing they do is to beta test, get their free month and never re-sub. Then come into the forums and start to QQ until the next game is ready for beta testing. I guess the devs realized there is a lot of money grab from these beta testers.
You could also look at it as a vested interest. If your willing to "gamble" money on a game with little to no REAL information, what you are buying is a vision. What SV did is give - 10000 testers a reason to try to help them make their game the best it can be. No game will get away from the QQ but perhaps this will motivate people enough to test and bug report and feedback for fear of a monetary loss upon themselves. Also, if you can sustain capital even DURING the beta cycle, there is a bit less incentive to rush a lauch of the game like we have seen so many developers do in recent years, especially since there will probably be no NDA. It might work ok, it might not. Time will tell.
I do understand the whole "buy a vision" thing and $75 is not that much (although more than any other MMO out there) but I just cannot, in good conscience, spend $75 on a game which may or may not even make it out of alpha. It's just not a good value purchase in my opinion.
On the other hand, I could care either way if someone decided to pay $75 to beta test the game, if you find value in your purchase, more power to you. Personally, I would rather spend the $75 on beer then to test the character creator and the log-in server. Which is pretty much what the first batch of testers will be doing.
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You could also look at it as a vested interest. If your willing to "gamble" money on a game with little to no REAL information, what you are buying is a vision. What SV did is give - 10000 testers a reason to try to help them make their game the best it can be. No game will get away from the QQ but perhaps this will motivate people enough to test and bug report and feedback for fear of a monetary loss upon themselves. Also, if you can sustain capital even DURING the beta cycle, there is a bit less incentive to rush a lauch of the game like we have seen so many developers do in recent years, especially since there will probably be no NDA. It might work ok, it might not. Time will tell.
You could also look at it as a vested interest. If your willing to "gamble" money on a game with little to no REAL information, what you are buying is a vision. What SV did is give - 10000 testers a reason to try to help them make their game the best it can be. No game will get away from the QQ but perhaps this will motivate people enough to test and bug report and feedback for fear of a monetary loss upon themselves. Also, if you can sustain capital even DURING the beta cycle, there is a bit less incentive to rush a lauch of the game like we have seen so many developers do in recent years, especially since there will probably be no NDA. It might work ok, it might not. Time will tell.
I do understand the whole "buy a vision" thing and $75 is not that much (although more than any other MMO out there) but I just cannot, in good conscience, spend $75 on a game which may or may not even make it out of alpha. It's just not a good value purchase in my opinion.
On the other hand, I could care either way if someone decided to pay $75 to beta test the game, if you find value in your purchase, more power to you. Personally, I would rather spend the $75 on beer then to test the character creator and the log-in server. Which is pretty much what the first batch of testers will be doing.