Let me guess, much like Blizzards new betas you can only get in if you're a dip shit on Twitch... bonus if you have tits?
Most of twitch streamers that were playing last weekend bought the founders pack, i guess this is the kind of beta that "sign in for a chance to beta invite" but they never send them, just buy the founders pack if u wanna play it basicly.
And this is the 2nd CBT not the 1st, unless the last one was considered a Alpha.
Well, some people at least have gotten keys just by signing up for the email newsletter -- I got one through earlier this evening. ofc the usual suspects will doubtless find a way to twist even this against NC -- "lol they didn't sell enough founderpacks to fill the beta, this game is a fail."
I still can't believe I'm like one of the only ones who thinks "Let me pay you to test your game" sounds stupid.
Well to be fair it is more like pre-order a bunch of cash shop credits to play. I don't like it either, but this is the new norm for MMO's. At least you don't have to buy a $500 space ship for a game that never get's released, so it could be worse....
Actually, you don't even have to pay that... so don't act dumb. $40 for everything the game offers and then some. At least attempt to do your research before bashing Star Citizen, eh? Not such a "smart" idea in my opinion.
I still can't believe I'm like one of the only ones who thinks "Let me pay you to test your game" sounds stupid.
Supply and Demand. Without people willing to do so, they wouldn't offer it as an option.
Pretty much this. The cynicism about game "beta tests" is on both sides -- publishers treating them as a marketing exercise, or in the case of cash-shop based games as a hook to pre-sell bundles of cash shop items / credits like the BnS "founder packs" before the game even launches, and players treating them as a free trial / preview for the game, or a way of gaining a competitive edge for when it launches, even to the point of keeping quiet about bugs they find if they think they can exploit them to their advantage.
ofc if a game *is* genuinely in a beta state at the time of its first "open beta" events, the mix of the clash of marketing and development imperatives on one side, and player cynicism on the other side (witness how common phrases like "the 'it's still beta' excuse" are on these boards), can hurt a game's launch prospects quite badly -- witness The Secret World.
I still can't believe I'm like one of the only ones who thinks "Let me pay you to test your game" sounds stupid.
Well to be fair it is more like pre-order a bunch of cash shop credits to play. I don't like it either, but this is the new norm for MMO's. At least you don't have to buy a $500 space ship for a game that never get's released, so it could be worse....
Actually, you don't even have to pay that... so don't act dumb. $40 for everything the game offers and then some. At least attempt to do your research before bashing Star Citizen, eh? Not such a "smart" idea in my opinion.
You're right - Go easy on him, he just didnt get the wording right - what he meant was "500 for a jpeg of a spaceship"...
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Pretty much this. The cynicism about game "beta tests" is on both sides -- publishers treating them as a marketing exercise, or in the case of cash-shop based games as a hook to pre-sell bundles of cash shop items / credits like the BnS "founder packs" before the game even launches, and players treating them as a free trial / preview for the game, or a way of gaining a competitive edge for when it launches, even to the point of keeping quiet about bugs they find if they think they can exploit them to their advantage.
ofc if a game *is* genuinely in a beta state at the time of its first "open beta" events, the mix of the clash of marketing and development imperatives on one side, and player cynicism on the other side (witness how common phrases like "the 'it's still beta' excuse" are on these boards), can hurt a game's launch prospects quite badly -- witness The Secret World.