Beta?

**Elmar Bijlsma** · 08-25-2007, 01:02

If the questioner meant should there be a beta test by a select few customers: hell yeah! There's nothing a programmer can code that twenty odd customers can't break. As such, ETW would no doubt be greatly improved by having a select few members of the public test things and give a more user based impression of it.

Would I myself want to be part of it? Meh.
Testing can be very rewarding and fun at times. Often though it will bore you to tears and/or frustrate you to the point of shoving a keyboard through the monitor with some force. It's definitely not playing a game for free and early, as some here seem to think.

**Husar** · 08-25-2007, 08:47

Originally Posted by Elmar Bijlsma

Would I myself want to be part of it? Meh.
Testing can be very rewarding and fun at times. Often though it will bore you to tears and/or frustrate you to the point of shoving a keyboard through the monitor with some force. It's definitely not playing a game for free and early, as some here seem to think.

You haven't tested the World in Conflict Beta then, it had almost no noticeable bugs.

While that may be ideal, I'd also test a buggier beta to make the final product better.

**CBR** · 08-25-2007, 12:09

CA always sends out a beta. That is version 1.0 and you have to pay for it

CBR

**pevergreen** · 08-25-2007, 12:14

Nearly sig-worthy.

**Chuffy** · 08-25-2007, 12:16

CA have always done in-house testing for their games with...less than satisfactory results. Maybe their testers aren't very good? Maybe they are all yes-men who don't want to say anything negative? Maybe they are only human and overlook things...

Whatever the reason, ETW is a good opportunity for this to change. CA should really think about doing a closed beta sign-up (and maybe later an open beta), not just bringing in a few guys from the surrounding area and then saying their finished product is properly tested!

**NagatsukaShumi** · 08-25-2007, 15:12

Originally Posted by Chuffy

CA have always done in-house testing for their games with...less than satisfactory results. Maybe their testers aren't very good? Maybe they are all yes-men who don't want to say anything negative? Maybe they are only human and overlook things...

Whatever the reason, ETW is a good opportunity for this to change. CA should really think about doing a closed beta sign-up (and maybe later an open beta), not just bringing in a few guys from the surrounding area and then saying their finished product is properly tested!

STW was balanced just fine, and MTW only had one killer bug in it and that was the 56 years old bug.

ALL PC games have bugs, thats because companies know they can patch them whilst with console games it is more necessary to do far more in-depth testing, games are not the same as other businesses, which isn't unfair as nobody makes anybody buy them.

**The Spartan (Returns)** · 08-25-2007, 16:05

Yea, betas can only help the game, what fool would not want a beta?

**trickydicky** · 08-25-2007, 16:14

Why anyone wouldn't want a Beta is beyond me.

So come on you three so far, own up. Why don't you want a Beta?

Would love to hear your reasons.

**Chuffy** · 08-25-2007, 19:47

Originally Posted by NagatsukaShumi

STW was balanced just fine, and MTW only had one killer bug in it and that was the 56 years old bug.

ALL PC games have bugs, thats because companies know they can patch them whilst with console games it is more necessary to do far more in-depth testing, games are not the same as other businesses, which isn't unfair as nobody makes anybody buy them.

I was talking more about RTW and M2.