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Half a million beta regs 6months before lauching and less than 2months after official beta reg.
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Half a million beta regs 6months before lauching and less than 2months after official beta reg.
http://www.funcom.com/news/over_500000_registered_for_the_secret_world_beta
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Thats pretty sad really, only half a mil, and are they crazy, they going to release it in april, thats around the time GW2, is coming out.
With there track record on perivous releases the folks are not gonna jump off the cliff any longer. Alot will wait and see and if there smart wait a month or 2 before paying a monthly fee.
MAGA
I think TSW devs have turned a lot of people that was interested off with the Cash shop, Do you really want to be playing a pay to win game with subs? I sure dont.
I'm also expecting a possible worst launch of 2012 award coming with this game.
I have a feeling they'd have more signed up if their first few days of beta sign-up hadn't been such an unholy mess.
It'll still probably pick up, but half a million this far out is still very good.
I don't think its all that bad really. ToR's hype is going to over shadow every other game until it launches. The hype is strong and has been going on for awhile now. TSW may never be a huge game with millions and millions of players and thats ok. You dont need to be huge to be profitable or enjoyable.
I think Secret World will do well. Beta signatures rarely means anything, remember how many were in beta for AoC or WAR?
BUT, with the World of Darkness MMO put on the Backburner by CCP, this is left largely alone as Urban Fantasy MMO goes.
"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime"
Funcom have a terrible track record.
they could 2 million accounts what matters is how many are left when game gose live putting in a cash shop killed it for me
maybe end of 2012 would be better to brush up the game, especially the graphics and animation.
RIP Orc Choppa
Please correct me if I'm wrong but beta applications have been open way longer, no? I remember that this test of which of the faction suits you the most already had a beta application thingy at the end. That was quite some time ago. Definitely way longer than 2 months
It's gone on long enough that I'm not really keeping track of it any longer. I'm perfectly happy to participate, but there's a limit to how long you can ask people to join in, and then give them nothing to do. Right now, participation consists of asking for friends on Facebook.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
You can't believe a word Funcom says, according to this article the closed beta has been running for several months and the open beta starts before Xmas. It's just different information all the time, needless to say I am on to customer support to demand my Closed Beta access. Who will probably state no beta is running.
*My bad, it doesn't say the open beta will be running before Xmas it states it will not be running before Xmas. But the Closed Beta has been running for several months.
It's a long beta process, which gives me hope they're going to end the Funcom 'buggiest release ever' double curse they've incurred. I already know I'm going to preorder this, while swearing to myself that if it's a miserable excuse for an MMO, I'm done with the genre entirely. Assuming GW2 releases before this does, anyway. At least one of them has to be worth a damn, right?
If not, I'm moving on to FPS games. Be warned, all my future teamates, you poor things, and pray I choose a game that doesn't feature team kill (it's not that I have bad aim so much as really bad timing).
Anyway, if the open beta is fairly long, they should catch and fix whatever closed beta doesn't, and no one has a right to complain at that point, because open beta is still beta. Yes, even if you 'paid for it' with a preorder or similar. Actually, that would probably be a smart move on their part. A month or more of beta access with preorder would encourage preorders (and who doesn't love those?) while ensuring the game gets thoroughly tested and polished before its official release.
I hope that's what they end up doing, and of course that has nothing at all to do with the fact that waiting until late April to play is agonizing. Or extremely annoying, anyway.
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I wouldn't count on it Mad, AoC's beta was going for longer than i was in it and i was in that for just under a year. Hopefully the devs listen to the testers more this time around as during the AoC one they tended to answer the feedback with statements which amounted to "Thanks for your feedback but i'm not changing it because my vision is flawless".
I don't believe the game is in any sort of beta at the moment closed or otherwise. I have asked for some evidence not only from Funcom, but from this site, that a beta exists and an NDA agreement is in place. Lets just say nobody is providing me with any answers. All in all I think there is an illusion of a beta running, I think most other game firms would just term it as development.
I have heard of people being invited to the beta, and posted a link, but I got an NDA warning and the post was edited to remove the link. I don't know if Funcom is enforcing the NDA stuff, but this site certainly is.
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Incorrect.
There's a small scale closed beta going on since May.
If you chose not to believe that for whatever reason this time... well, let's just say I wouldn't be surprised at all, in fact I wouldn't expect anything else.
The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums:
Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
I can't judge by AoC because it really wasn't my thing, I got a couple months out of it when it went free to play and went on my way, and I missed by close to a year the bug-infested madness that was AO's launch, while enjoying AO itself for a very long time.
I didn't know AoC's beta ran that long, though. Still, I think TSW is going to release in good shape. I will happily return to this part of the forum to endure all forms of mockery and giggling if I'm wrong, because no one will be more annoyed than me in that case.
But really? Three bad launches out of three? They've got to know better than to do that. I have faith in the ability of human beings to learn from their mistakes, damn it!
Oh wait, no I don't...but I'm still going to risk it. If only because if it does bomb, I won't be buying any more MMOs, ever. (I feel that last part should really come with some sort of emphatic musical flourish.)
I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.
~Albert Einstein
We never use to call internal testing a beta, how things change.
Who's this 'we'? You, yourself and you?
They're doing a smallscale closed beta with other people than just the inhouse testers, so I don't see why they shouldn't be calling it a smallscale closed beta.
The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums:
Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
Me and the software development company I use to work for, though it wasn't games. Perhaps with games these days you need ten different betas, perhaps that add's up to one good beta from the old days.
They are inviting people who are not involved in the development to test the game. The game is in a 'beta' state according to the developer. That's a Closed Beta Test.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
Well they are not inviting me and I am suppose to have guaranteed 'Closed Beta' access. Is anybody willing to stand up and state 'I am Spartacus' - I have been given access to the Closed Beta and I am not associated to Funcom in any way. Because I generally don't believe the game is in a beta of any sort.
You should check if it say closed beta ore beta. I have the same guarante and mine say beta access, nothing about a closed beta access.