03-18-2004, 11:57 PM
JustAGuy,Mar 18 2004, 05:42 PM Wrote:Some people would pay to beta test, and I'm not entirely sure if I would be one of them...My reference to "pay to beta test" is referring to paying to buy and play a game at release that has so many bugs it may as well be considered a beta. Anarchy Online, WWIIOL, et al had this problem. Major imbalances, frequent crashes to desktop (an alpha issue really), etc. Those should not exist in a release product (or at least not in number).
As for beta testing, it is not about getting to try out the game first, it is about finding bugs and testing the system out. Most people just want to beta test to be able to say they did and got to play first. They have no plans of actually testing the game out.