Do i MUST play the Beta?

[Catapult]

While it may sound like a long time, taking one month to copy data, format it correctly for the brand new system, check and double-check for errors, all while closely monitoring the open beta for issues, is something I can understand will take a while. Especially if it helps someone avoid losing any gear/history/progress from version 1.0 just because the transfer was done carelessly.

While this is unconfirmed (they haven't locked down their schedule yet) I'm not anticipating the version 1 servers to go down till the open beta starts in Winter. It would make little sense to take things down as early as the autumn* alpha testing. Indications so far are that we have till November with this version of the game.

*for all the yanks out there, autmn means fall.

[Gokulo]

The PC-Beta Phase is marked as "Free Trial Period" in the Roadmap from October to January. So which Beta are you talking about? And btw.. Beta is always Free Trial.. most people wouldnt pay to play a Beta.

If you are not going to look for the quote, you shouldnt pull out statements like that if you are not able to back it up. Like i said before, i dont care either way. Beta progress probably wont be saved, like usually. But doesnt change the fact that SE neither confirmed or denied it.

I found the quote I was thinking about, and having re-read it I must say I remembered wrong. So, sorry about that and I'm going to agree that nothing has been said about beta progress being saved or not, unless I'm still forgetting something ^^;