How the Closed Beta is going so far

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AMightyFlash wrote:

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Faustgeist wrote:

Having an 'event', advertising new content and hyping all the new stuff - just to deny folks any interaction with it is a real turn off.

So many of my personal friends were interested in the game - and now - learning they cannot play new content for months is having them walk away. Not temporarily, but permanently. It's the culture of how they perceive themselves being treated which is mattering here.

A *quiet* beta test with exciting leaks of new content to come and THEN the big event being open to all would have been a much more friendly course.

Sigh.

Called it.

With all the QQ about not being invited to the beta being slung around, it's kind of funny that people are losing sight of the fact that this is precisely the problem with this CBT event, and what will end up mattering the most in the long run. This entire debacle isn't really about testing, it's quite clearly an advertising gimmick. But as magworld stated, it's timed so poorly that it's going to end up hurting this game far more than it will help it.

On a semi-related note, it was mentioned before by another poster but I'll say it again. The term "beta," especially in PoE community, has been slung around so flippantly by both devs and players that it has essentially lost it's original meaning. To the average player betas are no longer about testing, they're about VIP access to content. You have Minecraft to thank for that, btw.

I can't honestly think of how GGG could've handled their CBT any worse. It's mind-boggling.

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Cambob wrote:

Oh for God's sake...
I'm sitting here watching ZiggyD stream and my girlfriend walks by.

"Who's that?" she asks. I start to explain the game and streaming and the beta testing situation. Then she says "Don't care, but damn he's cute."

Thanks GGG.

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Jaxom wrote:

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Chairnick wrote:

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Darkfyre wrote:

Here's some detection methods for you:
Joined on: April x, 2015
Characters: 0
Posts: 0

There are dozens like this getting in consistently, despite the claim of blocking 99.5% of them. If you really are blocking that percentage of shill accounts, then judging by the number of obvious shill accounts that are still getting through, the number must be in the 1000's (of shill accounts).

I don't post, and I'm not a fake account.

You also joined in 2011 not in April 2015. I dont post a lot either but you can clearly see I have a ton of characters played, with achievements, like yourself. It's not the same as to what they are talking about.

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Darkfyre wrote:

Ya? and you also have characters so you don't meet the profile of a shill account according to these methods either.

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sx777 wrote:

I love how Kripp got plus 5 keys to give away on his stream, because he is a REALLY ACTIVE PoE streamer...yea tue dat.

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verkodiablo wrote:

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sx777 wrote:

I love how Kripp got plus 5 keys to give away on his stream, because he is a REALLY ACTIVE PoE streamer...yea tue dat.

Well thnx to him lots of ppl including myself playing POE for years tho. He is by far the best streamer who gains new players in POE. Sucks he is not active anymore but hey he played 2 day and 20k ppl watched it...