Thread: 2.0 Beta Character Usage

i'd definitely advise knocking out as many crafts as possible now, just because there are appears to be a 'material boom' if you will, due to the heavy harvesting/relic weapon activity. not to say it won't be just as easy when 2.0 starts, but it's really easy now and cheap. this is coming from someone who hated crafting.

Originally Posted by Takeshi_Eiketsu

There is so much information on 2.0 right now I don't know where to begin, so Im going to ask and hope someone can answer or make an educated speculation:

Will our current characters be usable in beta? (I hear people say most likely no, but then this brings the question of... Do we have to pay the monthly fee then? Because we are playing beta characters that will most likely get wiped and replaced with our current characters.)

I love the game and have played and subscribed since day one, but I may temporarily stop my subscription during beta if it means I am paying to "test" a game, rather wait for the excitement of discovering on my permanent character.

Anyone have news???

I seriously doubt you will have to keep paying your monthly subscription during the beta month (or however long it'll be). That would be madness. The only sensible thing would be to stop billing when the beta starts, then resume billing after your free v2 month is over.

Using your current characters during beta is obviously not going to be possible, both due to the database conversion process, and the fact that whatever items or quests you do in the beta test might be significantly changed in the final version, and because we might even get some corrupted character data, depending on how stable the servers are.

We are testing the stability and efficiency of their servers, after all. That means our characters are stored on potentially unstable servers. If we get data corruption during the beta process and were using our "real" characters, we might get in a situation where our character data became corrupted and unusable in v2. That's not something I would want to risk, and SE probably doesn't want to risk it either, considering it would be their support centers that would be flooded by desperate players who lost their alljobslv50 characters.

Cool, Thanks for all the info, It was helpful to see that most people felt or thought the same way I did.


(Now if a dev would post with information, considering we are one patch away from imminent beta doom.) /prod /prod

The official word on this is already out

1) we will not be able to use our characters for beta, we will need to make new ones
2) our characters will become available one month or so after beta begins, this is due to character transfering data to 2.0 format

no data will be lost, we just wont be able to use them at the start of BETA, and BETA will not carry over til 2.0 anyway

yes sooo much info!~ that was a joke right? lol

But, no, our chars. Are not going to be used in beta. During the beta time they are going to be transfering our chars. to the new servers. We will be starting from scratch. Those beta chars. Will not be used in the final product either as far as I can understand.

No, we wont be paying for the game when these servers close, there will also be a free month after the beta.

{Hmmm....}