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Thread: Team Comments Community Manager/AP Kevin O'Hara

Trayson_Antilles
Mon Apr 12, 2004 6:06 am
#1

That's good info about the Beta.




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Trayson Santiles

Former TC Correspondent and now Retired player.
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Q-3PO
Mon Apr 12, 2004 3:47 pm
#2

Every other week, we have one of the team members write a letter to tell who they are, where they are from and what they are working on. This time I got the short straw.




I put a very small tid-bit about the Space Expansion beta in there to make it more exciting.


Enjoy!

Message Edited by Q-3PO on 04-12-2004 04:12 PM



Kevin "Q-3PO" O'Hara
SOE Associate Producer
Former SWG Community Relations Manager
Seomon
Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:18 pm
#3




Q-3PO wrote:


I put a very small tid-bit about the Space Expansion beta in there to make it more exciting.



/signs up for Beta




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Aracon
Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:22 pm
#4
Q, where's your goatee?!



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shotoyan
Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:24 pm
#5

Hey Q,


About the upcomingSE beta, my interpretation is that the beta will be a separate server entirely and not TC. If so, why not just make it available on TC? Simply a marketing reason (by making it separateitallows for new players to enter beta and get lured into game), or is there something else to it? The otherside of the marketing coin is that making it available on TC for all current subscribers will encourage more to buy the expansion, and would also encourage the return of many inactive players.



Thanks,
Lo'ric
Q-3PO
Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:34 pm
#6

shotoyan, the space expansion will have a lot of different code than the regular game until we are ready for final integration (- meaning, the purpose of TC is to test changes for the live game and adding the SE before it is live may invalidate some of the testing for live stuff). That isn't to say we may not do that in the final phase of beta testing; that is still to be determined.


The comments in my letter were for the first few stages of beta testing where we will have a limited number of slots. We need to build load over time. Opening the flood gates in the first external test isn't desirable.



Kevin "Q-3PO" O'Hara
SOE Associate Producer
Former SWG Community Relations Manager
Trayson_Antilles
Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:52 pm
#7

That's good info about the Beta.




Regards,
Trayson Santiles

Former TC Correspondent and now Retired player.
Call me when there's a game to be played.

Mackle
Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:56 pm
#8


I can let you know now that we will have a couple stages of beta later this year for the Space Expansion. Preference will be given to players who attend Fan Fest and then to our veteran community (those who have had active accounts for at least 6 months).


*starts a riot on the East Coast*







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Lonkley
Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:57 pm
#9

Does this mean you'll be able to subsidize really good food for the people who show up vs all the people who will sign up only to get into beta?






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Talyin
Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:00 pm
#10
Well thanks for the info i know you cant give a date to when this is all going down but if i ask really nice can you?And this is sad for all the east coast people and how are you going to determine who's a vet ive been here since launch but do you mean a vet on the forums or from launch in game?





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Shadowtrooper14
Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:03 pm
#11




Q, in your letter you say that people that attend the fan fest will be given priority to the space expansion beta, i think this is not fair to the loyal veterans who have struggled through the hard SWG days to stick around to today, i was originally part of phase 1 of the SWG:ED beta,i wish i could go to the fan fest, but i cant and thisbetatheory for the expansionmay seem un-fair to a few and a lot don't care, but oh well just voicing my opinion.




Preference will be given to players who attend Fan Fest and then to our veteran community (those who have had active accounts for at least 6 months)



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shotoyan
Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:08 pm
#12




Q-3PO wrote:


shotoyan, the space expansion will have a lot of different code than the regular game until we are ready for final integration (- meaning, the purpose of TC is to test changes for the live game and adding the SE before it is live may invalidate some of the testing for live stuff). That isn't to say we may not do that in the final phase of beta testing; that is still to be determined.


The comments in my letter were for the first few stages of beta testing where we will have a limited number of slots. We need to build load over time. Opening the flood gates in the first external test isn't desirable.






Good point. When I read your letter it did not occur to me that theres a lot to the SE that will take more than themonthlypublish-cycle time to test, and presumably the majority of it can be tested separate from the current game (i'm assuming at least the early phases of the beta will not have the on-planet play that the current game has). Funny how the obvious sometimes doesn't cross your mind


Well I'm really looking forward to it now. I was part of the SWG beta community, a part of TC, and I hope to be part of the SE beta community (understatement of the year:smileywink




Thanks,
Lo'ric
JediKozel
Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:11 pm
#13
Hmm, question. Is the SE release schedule flexible? Can it be postponed if needed? Or the date is fixed? Reason I'm asking is sorta obvious - the SWG was released with some of its systems completly broken or untested.



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