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Posted: Jun 18th 2009 9:40AM (Unverified) said

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Going to pre-order tomorrow! Looking forward to testing the game.

Posted: Jun 18th 2009 10:25AM (Unverified) said

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Do they have a beta sign up? Or are they hand selecting participants? Couldn't find any beta sign up at their site.

Posted: Jun 18th 2009 3:43PM brookep said

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You are guaranteed beta access if you pre-order the game.
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Posted: Jun 18th 2009 9:16PM (Unverified) said

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Thanks, put in my pre-order just now.
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Posted: Jun 18th 2009 10:37AM TheJackman said

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Really people, Betas not are preview releases of games they got bugs and you do not can take your process to live. Its like a bad spoiler and you have a change that you gonna hate the game like you are playing a beta that is far from final still.

I never ever will pay or pre order anything for can play a crappy beta version! You will have a much better xp when you wait till it go live and the first patches are out of the door....

Posted: Jun 18th 2009 1:17PM Anatidae said

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I still don't get this beta process. It seems to me like a hype machine, and I only say that as the game has been live in China for months, and before that Korea. It stands to reason that the typical beta use of finding show stopping bugs and testing balance does not really apply here.

Posted: Jun 18th 2009 3:53PM Russell Clarke said

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Any software change, no matter how small, needs proper testing. And when you get a lot of little changes, the effect is compounded.

Also it's not just about the software. I'd assume that there's a bunch of new infrastructure in place that needs a good shake-down, and the beta's a good way of giving it a good thrashing, for load and stress testing purposes. There's only so much you can do using load simulators.
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