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GW2 Beta Events or lack there of a sign of anything?
Wmjohn
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We recently finished our first closed beta test, and we’re now ready to hold progressively larger events. In February we’ll invite select press to participate in beta testing, and in March and April we’ll aggressively ramp up the size of our beta test events so that many of you will have a chance to participate. And of course, this all leads to the release of Guild Wars 2 later this year.~Mike O'Brian
OK this satement was made in Late Januarty from this blog http://www.arena.net/blog/dragon
Do you think they have "ramped up beta events for March and Apil? No we can all se if anything they have come to a screeching hault...what does this mean about the developement of the game and it's state? Did we pre-purchase too soon?
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The first open BWE was a huge ramp up for them. I think you are reading a bit too much to an old annoncement here, pick one of the more recent ones please
As almost anyone here that played the game can tell you people are very satisfied on current state of the game.
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2 Large Scale press betas, 2 stress tests and 1 public beta isnt enough beta for you? Not sure what you were expecting, but that is pretty ramped up if you ask me
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This is my OP and I have presented the topic as I feel fit and if you would like to add a link with updates made by the originally quoted person then feel free to do so. If they are twitter updates and facebook I am not interested as I do not go there to get my news..I go to the Offcial Arena Net Blogs TY. You are assuming you know how I voted in the poll and you do not so please do not start a troll fest on here.
In March and April they had ONE BWE and have postponed May's for technical difficulties.....so paid customers have experienced one BWE and one Stress test...is that "ramped up in your opinion"? In a Factual world compared to Febuary beta press events which were closed to public please state the "ramped up" events dates and times so we can have an honest dialogue.
I don't think so. What would be the point of having beta's all the time if you don't have new clients/servers to test?
My guess is that the hardware upscaling and/or clientchanges they want to implement since laste BWE took them more time then expected. Their confirmation that there wasn't going to be a 2nd BWE last weekend of May was quite late. So I expect that there will be a new BWE quite soon (1 or 2 weeks).
They said they were going to ramp up the beta events, not BWEs.
And well these are the dates of the beta events:
Closed Beta Event, invitation only, december 16, 2011
Closed Beta Event, invitation only, february 17, 2012
Closed Beta Event, press and invitation from the pool of people registered, March 23, 2012
Then after pre-purchases:
First stress test, invitation from the pool of people registered, April 13th, 2012
BWE1, Open to prepurchasers and whoever got beta keys from other sources, April 27th, 2012
Second stress test, Open to prepurchasers, May 14th, 2012
Source: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Beta
(note, I'm not counting the on-going closed beta)
So, basically they went from 3 tests in 4 months (december-march) to 3 (including the stress tests) in 2 months (April - May) with the notice that BWE2 was delayed to deploy extra hardware and the intent to do 1 a month, subject to change as it did this time. In my opininon, it looks like it's starting to ramp up.
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Futhermore the 2 that you list from pre-purchase on one was closed and one was NOT announced and occured on a work day when not many people could have possible participated further negating your premise that there have actually been more....LOL. Again fact ONE announced open BWE's......since April 10th almost 2 months ago.
ramp up
.. and since you want to only include the betas that pre-purchased could participate (no such distintion on the "ramp up" announcement), they went from 0 in january-march (since you're using since the announcement was made) to 2 in april-may (1 beta, 1 stress)... looking it from that point view, again, looks ramped up to me (as in, more frequent)..
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Reread the original post from ANet. It says nothing about having MORE BWEs or betas. It says only that they will increase the SIZE of the betas, meaning... More people invited to the BWEs (or betas), not more BWEs. And that is exactly what they have done.
I don't know that it's a sign of anything, but I do wish they'd do pre-purchases ONLY when they are very close to release. Usually, when a company does pre-purchase it's about a month away, it's kind of a misleading step to take, imo.
I can patiently wait til it's done myself though. I'm playing GW1 for the HoM perks. The longer GW2 takes, the more crap I get in the HoM.
What happens when you log off your characters????.....
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Excellent and wonderful response by a realistic fan like myself. TY
Exactly, so many disputes over poor reading comprehension.
It specificly says they intend to ramp up the size so that many can participate, nothing at all about ramping up the amount of events in that sentence.
The only danger I see here is the possiblity of reading too much into small delay.
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Very good point and I am affriad of that as well....I am also affriad of massive diehard fans turning new comers away or making people feel affriad to be a part fo something that they can not critisize or be told they can't read or they are stupid basically....the reality is implication is there that the paid customers would be able to play more ..however you want to defend it..it is not happneing thus far.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pugsvos4y5g this is a prime example of grown ups giving honest cool feedback and not bashing the game ...becuase these people are fans just like me....and customers.
Do people need to "reread " everything until they then see it how you see it? Becuase your interpretation is all that matters right?
First - they never promised a BWE every month. They always said they aim for that, but it may be longer or shorter time in between the events depending on feedback. Even long months before pre purchase became a thing, they always said that their schedule is built around feedback and everything depends on how ready they feel they are with the game.
Second - They said they are setting up new hardware. Would you rather have the repeat of first hours of first BWE? Where loads of people couldn't connect at all for hours and servers were going up and down all the time? Don't think so. Be patient. It's a beta, an actual beta, where things get tested, things go wrong and things are fixed.
Third - reading comprehension " March and April we’ll aggressively ramp up the size " - means that they increase the size of beta events. From friends&family, to press and lucky invites from pool to all pre-purchase. If you don't consider increasing the size from ~100, thorugh ~500-1k to ~100k agressive ramp up in size then I don't know what you expect.
Are you serious?
You do know we don't just get to decide what a sentence says based on what we want to see, right? It's a firmly defined sentiment. There's no room for interpretation.
Does this mean you've been going through your whole life thinking that's how it works?
And no, you shouldn't have to reread anything, read what's written once - the meaning doesn't change depending on how many times you read it unless you misread at some point.
Edit (read this a few times and you'll see that the meaning never changes):'' and in March and April we’ll aggressively ramp up the size of our beta test events''
The whole idea to beta and stress test is to improve the game
From the last beta weekend event they had if you have closely read through the beta forums you have noticed that there were over 1000 dev comments to player feedbacks.
I read there were lot of issues that needs to be fixed.Nothing ground breaking.
There was so much feedback just about memsers and thief class that needed skill correction.
What is the use of having 1 more beta weekend this week if they still have not finsihed working on Beta feedback form the 1st event.
I can say that for fact in the 1st beta weekend event for the 1st 2 days we were plagued with login issues and player rants were all over the forums.
in the last stress test I was sceptical they might have fixed the issue so soon but, I was suprised that I was able to login in with no issue , change my home world and relogin within 40 seconds and play world versus world without any lag nor disconnects for the whole time.
If the out come of these tests shows they need to invest in more servers then they need more time thats it.
We all are disappointed that there is no event this week but we dont have to read too much into that .
Patience my friend.
i don't think they gave their word in the first place funny how in our culture where honor* is almost laughed at people dust off concepts like giving your word only to stir up needless controversy, that requires the splitting of hairs to what ramping up exactly means in the first place.
* not saying honor doesn't exist anymore it means a great deal to many people just saying its frequently mocked ....
"We" pre-purchased an unfinished product knowing it was an unfinished product. "We" knew there was no release date yet set or at least announced. "We" knew there was more work to be done.
What it says is this........ they have gotten a lot of data and feedback and that want to use that data and feedback to improve the game.
As far as pre-purchasing to early.......... when is it not to early to PRE-purchase an unfinished game?
The very idea of pre-purchasing is purchasing before it's ready to be purchased............
I guess I'm just not understanding what you are trying to ask.
That is the whole feeling I get is that people just do not have to honor their words or what the say anymore becuase" well this came up or that came up" and no one holds any accontability anymore...especially in this genre. I was issued a warning for making this blog ...........a prime example of how you can not speak your mind anymore about anything....it is turning into a very Communitic feeling society and makes me really worried about the future of our nation when everything is so censored and moderated these days. I came here from Russia about 10 years ago to escape this sort of censorship and internet monitoring and it is really sad to see it is worse here then in Russia.
I like how you cut the parts you wanted out of the original text...the sentecne goes on to say to include the PUBLIC into the world for the first time.......so do not twist the words to fit your arguement.
I again hate that I have to defend myself for a legitimate stance on something that is so obviouse...I mean I am invested in the game almost 200.00....I am not trying to make any negative statement here would the trolls please stop the flaming on a topic I created for adult mature conversation please?? TY.