Legacy players protest to getting into 2.0 Beta!

GW2 is not my style *Slams door* :P

I understand what many of you guys are saying, but being a new player, I think it would be good to have a mix. Many of you have been here since the beginning. It makes sense you want special status, but SE needs a broad range of opinions, including the inexperienced.

It is wrong to think we are all WoW players, or even that all WoW players are "bad". I don't know, this seems very immature. I am an old starcraft and FF12 player. I do not want WoW, I would actually be content to keep playing 1.0. I did not know about 2.0 until last week.

edit: I hope the veterans get something.. Maybe a mini Ifrit pet? Haha.. I don't know if this is WoW-like. Are there pets in WoW? :confused:

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Originally Posted by JeanFrancois

I understand what many of you guys are saying, but being a new player, I think it would be good to have a mix. Many of you have been here since the beginning. It makes sense you want special status, but SE needs a broad range of opinions, including the inexperienced.

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Who said ONLY Legacy players get Beta?

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edit: I hope the veterans get something.. Maybe a mini Ifrit pet? Haha.. I don't know if this is WoW-like. Are there pets in WoW? :confused:

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We get a special chocobo + reduced price + 8 slots per server with up to 40 chars across servers + a name in the credits.

Starting with game conferences and the like seems sound. It's a quick way to get people who are interested in and often knowledgeable in a range of games relevant to FFXIV. Many may also carry the news to more people than, say, your average player when left to lottery. This helps both advertisement and feedback.

If Yoshi's looking for fresh views on the game as a whole, Legacy may not be the best base to go off of. Having some would be handy, but only enough to gauge the opinions of the crowd already paying for the game -- it's a matter of use, not entitlement.

An application system might be useful after that. -How helpful is your feedback?- And in that, perhaps factors like total playtime possible, and focuses and preferences for gaming.

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Originally Posted by Gospel

Wait a second! This scenario sounds like something I heard before when having to do with entitlement!

Let's replace Legacy members thinking that S/E is entitled to giving them priority for 2.0 beta because they pay them money and have faith in them with.... men thinking their girlfriend owes them sex because they give money and put faith in them! Eh!? Eh!!?!?

Moral of the story: S/E owes you NOTHING!!!!

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you should read the thread before you post. Most pple who mentioned a want for beta priority did acknowledge the idea that SE dont owe anything.

There should be another application for Beta, if you want in, apply. I would hope they would gather a variety of player types from different regions around the world, that way it would be a balanced test.

IF - there is a priority based on playtime and "dedication" as some put it, I don't think necessarily that Legacy Members (paying for 3 months of game play?) should get priority but those people who have played the game actively from the beginning. If there was a form of priority after the application process I would consider those to be dedicated players who deserve a priority.

I don't think there will be random invites but I cannot make up the minds of SE and regardless of their decision I am not going to /rage quit because of it. I consider myself lucky, my husband was in Alpha and I was in Closed Beta for FFXIV. I hope to be in again but, I wont be one to waste energy getting disgruntled over something I cannot change. So here is hoping for the best and YAY FOR OPEN BETA!!! :D

I do hope to be apart of it and present feedback. I am excited to see the way the game has transformed and looking forward to testing all its facets.

So when did they say there is only 2k beta slots?

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Originally Posted by Zumi

So when did they say there is only 2k beta slots?

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they didnt, someone made that up

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Originally Posted by Kaizlu

Good thing betas are the new demos/free trials.

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alot of games are doing this now, but ONLY with their open betas

closed betas for the most part are still true betas(but most companies open the open betas for months before launch to draw people in)

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Originally Posted by Nero

I'm against that.

Let new Players test it out and that is actually what SE is doing. They gave out Beta-Registrations at Japan-Expo, they are giving out this Weekend on a Cosplay-Event in Germany, they will give out at Gamescom and also on the Tokyo Gameshow.

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It should be a fine mixture of new and old players. Perhaps they will be willing to do a couple beta weekends so everyone gets a chance to try it out, Closed one is first stress test of new servers, Closed 2 will be increase in population and other elements and then obviously open beta (Which I wonder if that actually is referring to the free trial period since it is about the same time they said before)