Septem Mortuus
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.07.24 01:58:00 -
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Garrett Blacknova wrote:
We're not PLAYING a game. We're TESTING a BETA. The problems that make the beta not fun are (mostly) the things we need to point out to the developers we're testing for. They're NOT a reason to "quit" the game over. THEY'RE THE REASON WE'RE HERE.
A lot of people aren't really understanding what this means.
I work in the area and have led UAT teams in testing etc for software and get the premise, but I'm in finance, so our software is NEVER fun, even when it's finished and working perfectly.
Seems like CCP could do themselves a favour and explain the system to people a bit better so they can stop the useless bitching and make useful comments.
I'm not having a crack at people - but from a development perspective:
REMOVE RE's YOU *****ing *******'s!!!! - This is of no use AT ALL and you have just wasted your time, and the DEVS time reading it.
Whereras:
RE's are being mainly used as a "Uber-Grenade" in most matches to the extent that grenades are for the most part a secondary choice to use as an actual grenade for many players, is this the intent? - This gives the Devs an idea of what the issue is, and why you are raising it. (And even then, this is FEEDBACK, not a bug. The REALLY useful stuff for the Devs are the bug reports, hit-detection issues, Draw-distance problems, immobile spawns etc - and you'll note that for the most part the Devs have acknowledged the issue and promised a fix, albeit Soon(tm) - Immobile spawns for example are an actual bug in the code and were never meant to be immobile from what I hear.)
As well, some explanation of the purpose of the various phases would probably help some people. For example, for a lot of us, this has VERY obviously been a large-scale vehicle test build.
For others it has been an "OMG, TOO MANY VEHICLES - GAME = DOOMED!!!!1!"
Which isn't the case since throwing Free vehicles into a single map that just happens to be almost perfect for vehicles IS NOT a good game-play idea. But it's freaking awesome if you want to test large amounts of vehicles and Anti-vehicle combat throug 1 stage of testing, which is what we are seeing here.
While I understand this is quite a fun game to play, fun isn't actually the point of a Beta, it's just a nice bonus (and also the reason they don't have to pay us!) |