Quote Originally Posted by Valmonte View Post
Staying in context here. 2000 Beta testers is not a very happy medium when your aiming for hundreds of thousands of subscribers with over a million possible hardware combinations. if that's all there going to use there going to miss things.

a happy medium would be around 10,000 for a game of this nature.

2000 is a made up number. don't use it. I never did. I never will.

I meant in general. you want a happy medium. it is not 'the more the merrier' while it is true you generally want to maximize the number of people to get a better sample.

Also, by asking for specs you can cherry pick certain hardware configurations. there are families of cards/boards/processors that generally behave the same. you don't need to test every possible combination. in generally you want to test the big groups. someone with a rare setup is on their own for the most part. but they generally already know that.

i'm sure they have access to data about what PCs are selling and the most common configurations. you want to test for those. you also want people with high end rigs, because they are tech savvy and will generally help troubleshoot.