StarCraft II Beta starts today

SpiritOne

If you signed up for it, check your battlenet account. Im in!

WORF

I'm not :(

Worf

A2597

I'm not yet.

There's a live stream on 1up.com

Lord Refa

Not in. Sob sob...

But then again.. I was in the closed beta for World of Warcraft.. But who wasnt?

Eclecticonaut

[QUOTE=Lord Refa;186908]Not in. Sob sob...

But then again.. I was in the closed beta for World of Warcraft.. But who wasnt?[/QUOTE]
The sane people.

WORF

Does that mean I'm sane? :(

Stingray

I didn't know there was a competition on who gets into which beta testing session. :D

The vicious cycle of releasing unfinished games is certainly not going to end if you keep jumping on those betas. Let the devs sit in their own sweat for a change... Imagine a beta testing session for a AAA title and nobody signs up?!

Biggles

A beta isn't a released game. A game is more likely to be released unfinished without one.

WORF

I would like to revise my first statement in this thread to "I am" :)

Worf

Stingray

[QUOTE=Biggles;186913]A beta isn't a released game. A game is more likely to be released unfinished without one.[/QUOTE]

In my experience there is no fine line between a beta and a released game. :D

I don't see any change in that policy, especially with patches coming out on or shortly after release date. You are still basically buying a broken product.

ShadowDancer

[QUOTE=WORF;186915]I would like to revise my first statement in this thread to "I am" :)

Worf[/QUOTE]
But definitely not the second statement! Because just being here clearly rules you out from being sane!

Random Chaos

What is this sane you speak of?

ShadowDancer

Nothing you need ever need worry about RC ;)

WORF

But I was never in the World of Warcraft beta...

Worf

Sanfam

[QUOTE=Stingray;186916]I don't see any change in that policy, especially with patches coming out on or shortly after release date. You are still basically buying a broken product.[/QUOTE]

The entire point of an accessible beta testing campaign (Open or Closed vs none at all) is to widen the range of users. bug testing adequately developed code and content. While many games do get rushed out without sufficient bug fixing, several others do.

The problem seems to be that the latest trend in large-scale open beta testing isn't really bringing in a fair number of users who actually understand the purpose and submit bug reports when they encounter issues. Example: Star Trek Online. Many users played the open beta and simply complained about the lack of content and presence of bugs, doing nothing about them. In my own case, I tagged at least 200 bugs with a detailed-enough report of my circumstances leading up to it, but I highly doubt it even occurred to many others to do similar things.

If a game goes from Open/Closed/Internal beta to buggy, the sources of this are either poor bug tagging or lazy/underfunded developers. I tend to lead toward the former.

Stingray

That's what I fear is happening, you get a lot of people trying out the game just for the sake of quenching their curiosity, but not to do any real testing and bug reporting.

SpiritOne

Thats exactly what is happening. No testing, just people rushing so they climb up the beta ladders. Im actually pretty frustrated because I am the guy who likes to test, and its not happening.

SpiritOne

Worf if you would like to do some testing, let me know, I think you can contact me in game SpiritOne.AQM

WORF

I will add you next time I start the game.

Just played three matches against the ai to try out the different races.