Thread: 2.0 beta?

Originally Posted by TheVedis

um, i think you misunderstand the reason for betas too

No, I know exactly what a beta is. The more people who touch XIV that never touched it before, especially during it's testing period is a lot better than people who have been playing it the past 2 years.

If the beta is polished, that can only mean the game itself will be which is why you'd tell your friends to keep an eye on a potentially good new MMO coming out.

Originally Posted by TheVedis

if its a closed beta, its not about polish though, which is what it sounds like is gonna be happening first

open beta is moreso the polish end of things

Open beta is almost always about stress testing the server and see how the load is distributed against the new engine(s).

Polish does come from feedback, but it's a part of the natural progression of what players want to talk about.

many players think 'Oh, they want me to tell them how they can make their game more fun. so i'll talk about that.'

and the feed back will go to the devs. but this feed back, if it is implemented, won't be seen for months. it has to be developed. tested internally. validated. and then released. Polish comes well after release, and well after beta.

what will be implemented is emergency fixes to the UI. or ground breaking bugs/oversights. "I can fish up 100 fish in an hour. turn them into a hat. and NPC the hat and make 2m gil an hour." or "If i move the minimap partway off the screen, it glitches out and doesn't refresh my position"

Sadly beta = early preview to this generation of MMO players because that's exactly what the companies consider their beta. They only use the term beta to cover their asses if their demo is broken in any way so the press won't hop on their ass about a broken game.

Originally Posted by Elexia

Sadly beta = early preview to this generation of MMO players because that's exactly what the companies consider their beta. They only use the term beta to cover their asses if their demo is broken in any way so the press won't hop on their ass about a broken game.

Well SE seems to do stress testing with it. But they ought to do more of that 'cause launch was a nightmare with all the crashing servers.

Originally Posted by TheVedis

There is more then 1 type of beta though, and alot of people dont know the difference


open betas are commonly used for that

but closed betas are not, closed betas are extremely limited and have that nasty NDA you gotta watch out for

Sadly Elexia is still accurate in her statement, a majority of people who do go into closed beta do it to "test" the game out, and then you wonder why an MMO falls under when it comes out. It's because out of the 5-10k they got to test it only 30 take the time to actually give input or work on posting bugs while the others just test the game out.

I would expect at the very least legacy accounts will all have access to the 2.0 beta and a high possibility of everyone with an account when the servers go down will get access.