Alpha testers in to phase 1 beta?

[MrKupo]

You can have fun "playing" in the beta, while Testers do their "job" at finding bugs... it's not hard to do both.

You really have to let the bugs come to you and not ignore them like it's a little thing. A little thing to you can be gamebreaking for a lot of people.

Me: Running around killing monsters ( Fun part)
Me: Notices that this monsters won't die at zero HP/Notices this monsters HP won't drop below 50%. ( Doing your job part).
Me: Reports it in for SE to fix this issue ( if I don't send it in there's a possibility it can effect launch.

You can have fun in Beta, no one is saying to not have "fun". but you also have to do your job, If you spot ANY bugs, report them ASAP.

I agree to this wholeheartedly. Often, betas are meant to be played as normal, to see how the game handles and to find bugs just by shear numbers of players. They may not even be asking us to go out of our way to find bugs, they may merely want us to play with the new features and see if anything goes wrong. Of course you are open to try and find ways to get under the world, find possible exploits, and try to confuse the AI of the game, but in my opinion this is not required of a beta tester.

What IS required is to actually play the game, as often as you can or on the dev's schedule. The more you play, the more likely you will find the bugs they are looking for.

[Starlord]

I agree to this wholeheartedly. Often, betas are meant to be played as normal, to see how the game handles and to find bugs just by shear numbers of players. They may not even be asking us to go out of our way to find bugs, they may merely want us to play with the new features and see if anything goes wrong. Of course you are open to try and find ways to get under the world, find possible exploits, and try to confuse the AI of the game, but in my opinion this is not required of a beta tester.

What IS required is to actually play the game, as often as you can or on the dev's schedule. The more you play, the more likely you will find the bugs they are looking for.

Exactly, all a Tester has to do is:

1) Play the Beta
2) As you play if you run into any bugs Report them
3) Have Fun!

Simple, it's really not a hard job to do. =)

[yukikaze_yanagi]

bug finding is part of betas but right, the big part is playing and send feedback on what you think something should be (stupid example, "i think this ability should do this instead of that").

[strallaalaa]

sucks, i was checking regularly for alpha invite and didn't see it then i go to check for beta and there it is. i could of played alpha>< bet i don't get in beta now though. ...what luck.

[Yrusama]

This place will be a ghost town.

I'll probably pop back in here from time to time, but mostly to check on the Meme thread to see if it's still active.