Commando Archive

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Latenighter wrote:
Can I assume Garvin, Nick and the Alpha team are howling in the "alpha forums" since there isn't going to be an alpha and they were repeatedly misled for 6 months by SOE?

I would assume so.

Can this be part of the reason that the rifleman and swordsman correspondents both resigned today? Or is this going to be the "six month term limit" reasoning this time?

I saw that and was thinking if they got pissedoff and quit, but who knows . . .

Bad show SOE. I don't know why I expected more.

Me neither, but I'm still gonna stick around to see how it goes through TC and live in ONE MONTH???

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WHAT THE BLOODY HELL!!(sorry about caps, im pissed) that pisses me off that SOE would lie about the sandbox tester not being able to test it before beta, that pissses me off

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StarNick wrote:

As Im sure, everyone here has read Blair's Blog. Although, I must admit...I was a bit surprised that we'll be jumping into Beta testing rather than Alpha Testing (with our Teams)....

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I guess you can call it that, but its going straight to TC, so . . .

I believe the only thing that is getting an official beta test is ROTW.

But then again, what doI know.

Since when does the word "lie" include S O E?

I mean, I get the E.....

Starnick, the beta is still planned to be a closed beta right? Im hearing rumors that it will be open beta where they just put it on TC like normal and anyone can go in. Not that I would not like everyone access to it, but if its open beta I can just imagine the mayhem with the servers full and laggy and testing will suffer because of it.

Sorry didn't mean to Hi-Jack the thread, but hearing about kind of set my buttons off to spread the word kind of thing. However both concern the CU so I thought it was valid and they seem err kind of linked almost...

Message Edited by StarNick on 03-29-2005 05:48 PM

Well TC might not be as good as Beta since then ya get the little Kiddies who don't understand concepts like balance and universe is not yours idea. However there are just as many silly Adults doing the same things so being 18 doesn't mean a whole lot, though it is better.

Only plus to having a Beta is more confined Testing. However I think the Devs maybe did make a smart move. No Players to influence testing to un-balance it. From the Blair's Log and severall annoucements they have been building the CU themselves and testing it to prevent imbalances. However they are listening to our feedback I think. This is a good move. I also doubt there could be any serious inbalance since they've been doing this for months now.

Yet leaving the Sandbox Testers and lying to the Corrs is extremely rude. I don't care if they ran out of time that is just down right terrible. Should of had you guys in there sooner. Also while for the most part everything may work, the Dev's ideas aren't all gold. It's hard to say how well they have things down.

Also such small testing doesn't allow them to properly see things as a whole and make sure they didn't miss anything vital. That's what scares me. Because we all know Beta and TC are really just Bug eliminations. Either they got it right or we are screwed though I imagine that's basicaly how it would be anyways.

But had we a chance ealier and if they weren't so damn set on Marketing we may have been able to help save it. We're at the point where we can count the days now.

I seriously doubt if I'll buy another SOE game, probably won't. They are just to ignorant of too many things, and the fact that their customers should overall be happy, and not just enough to pay up. Course Money, Marketing is all they think about it. Many games are becomign this way. Who cares about quality just get people to buy it now! Man for just once I'd like to say hey now this is a well thought out and properly made Game. There will always be Bugs duh! But as long as their fixed no biggy! But so many haven't...

Also which ever one of those lazies came up with Snappy Movement... (Sorry it angers me!) needs to be examined. One of the best things about the game was it's realism. Not just another lets shoot em up quick game. Something that made you seem part of a world! Now I feel like A God with little wings on my feet as I can zip here and there so in-humanly fast. Ya know I didn't see anyone in the movies so much as instantly start and stop running. I mean Han almost ran head first into STs by accident.

But Devs. No too lazy to figure out how to make movements like natrual with Characters took the easy way and just speed up all characters to "Crack Speed" so they don't need to have movements with work combat. Nope no more realistic delays or anything to bind us. Instead of making our movements go with Combat and getting rid of delays and stupid problems we have now like not firing at targets they just make characters so fast that they'll react so fast we won't see anything like that. Well lets just magically fly everywhere!

YAAAGGGG!

Am I angry... Yes, yes I am. Forgive me for being a Pessimist.

The devs are backsliding. They are falling back into their old habits of blatant lying, which Tyrant had broken. They are losing my trust yet again, which I find pathetic. It's really not that hard not to lie. Most people live every day not telling one blatant lie, yet SOE, who has to clear the lies, finds it so difficult.