Beta test cost

donkeyoti · Post by **donkeyoti** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:33 pm

If I beta test will it cost me?

firepowerjohan · Post by **firepowerjohan** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:58 pm

donkeyoti wrote:If I beta test will it cost me?

Of course it is free

donkeyoti · Post by **donkeyoti** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 10:02 am

Well best I sign up then.

Sir_William · Post by **Sir_William** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 6:32 pm

donkeyoti wrote:If I beta test will it cost me?

quit giving them ideas

donkeyoti · Post by **donkeyoti** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 7:30 pm

Oops sorry about that.

But we do have it here in black and white that it is free.

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 8:06 pm

Are you seriously telling me that some companies want you to PAY them to beta test?

That's just sick. I've done years of beta-testing of various games, a list as long as my arm, and never been asked to pay.

borsook79 · Post by **borsook79** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:11 pm

possum wrote:Are you seriously telling me that some companies want you to PAY them to beta test?

That's just sick. I've done years of beta-testing of various games, a list as long as my arm, and never been asked to pay.

There are companies that let into a beta of one product if you've bought another one. Which is not strictly paying for but I've known people who bought the said product just to get into the beta, so maybe the idea is not that crazy...

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:52 pm

Sigh. I can see that.

I'm a recovering MMORPG addict. And I know from experience that the best way to play an MMORPG is to find a new one and get into the beta.

That way when the servers go live on Day 1 of retail launch, you hit the ground running. You know the game system, you know the game world, you know where to find things and how to advance, you've already made the obvious mistakes in character creation and learned from them.

And so you at least have a chance to achieve some prominence and importance in the game community, to be among the Movers & Shakers, in short to do what we play MMORPG's to do. Which is to achieve some fame or notoriety in a virtual world, in pleasant contrast to our wretchedly and anonymously mundane little lives in the real world.

And of course there's more, for no achievement means much without an appreciative audience. And in all honesty, the social aspects of game community are often what keeps me coming back after the game system itself gets old.

So, yes. I can see people moving heaven and earth to get into the beta of something that looked tasty. I felt that way about Tabula Rasa, but it turned out to be disappointingly mediocre visually, and strange as it may sound, the uninspired artwork just totally failed to fire my imagination.

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