The Closed Beta of The Awakening is live!

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Aewena wrote:

I don't have a ton of posts (5 actually, well 6 now) and I don't see why the number of forum posts is important. I read the posts regularly, as well as other portions of the POE site, and I keep up with th info and news.
I'm a small time supporter, and a regularly player, just not a power player. I find it interesting that some people are judging other players based on this criteria, or that criteria. Maybe all that GGG wants is a nice general mix of folk. Some power players, some leisure players, some occasional players, as well as the people who will advertise for them like the streamers. I signed up, but I'm not expecting an invite. There are just so many people out there that the odds seem against just a regular person.
But dissing people because of the number of forum posts they have seems a little petty.

Aewena

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MeBugULongTime wrote:

omfg people. I complain at these statements (-) and give my response (--)

-beta keys for streamers = bad publicity. --you forget that the streamers provide invaluable feedback, not just from them, but the people who watch. and visual confirmation of issues.

-beta keys for multi accounts. -- ggg said they would not allow this:

"Additional accounts will not be eligible. People trying to game the system will be removed."
---Posted by Chris on April 12, 2015 9:43 PM

-0 posts = waste of key, because those people won't provide feedback. --posts mean nothing about future feedback, it is the comments IN GAME that count. you can be damn skippy that they chats are monitored in game for comments/issues. Why waste the time minimizing the game and typing in the forum when one can just tell in real time, as. they. play. the. game.

-low rate of beta key dispersal. -- this:
"Why run a Closed Beta? Why not let everyone in?

We need the ability to get fresh impressions, clean feedback and data from sets of users who haven't yet played The Awakening. By staggering entry into the Closed Beta, we can ensure that there are always new users who we can get good data from. That way we have fewer users when we need early general impressions and more users when we need detailed balance feedback.

Controlling the population of the Closed Beta allows us to test various systems in a precise way. In addition, the Beta content is likely to be incomplete and buggy. We'd rather have most people join it later when it's closer to release."
---Posted by Chris on April 12, 2015 9:43 PM

and

"We'll be speeding up the timer over time and implementing additional ways for people to get access (fan giveaways, maybe some in-game stuff, etc)."
---Posted by Chris on April 19, 2015 5:32 PM

Remember this is a separate server, likely less "powerful". They cannot risk stressing the server too much, lest data gets messed up.

You people are acting like D3 kids. ugh.

Edit: last visited date only means last time logged in. look at me, last visit is 4-16, BUT I'M HERE TYPING THIS STUFF.

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paulmicky wrote:

still waiting for beta keys...