What is the point of this CB?

beans
beans Posts: 0 Arc User
edited August 2008 in General Discussion
Ok, before you tear into me with a vengeance, I don't mean "What is a CB", I know what a CB is and I've participated in a few. What I meant to say was, what was the point of THIS CB ? I know the rank and file answer is "To find glitches and bugs"... but I don't think thats the case. Think about it... 4 hours after the CB is the OB, unless we have some magical cure-all to every glitch and bug, I think the "OB-version" is going to basically be a transcription of the CB.

So what is the point of this CB? Was it to simply give people a taste and delete all the fast levelers? Or was it to say that the game had a CB and that way delete CB and say that they have an OB? I don't get it. :(

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  • tinkus
    tinkus Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    I really think it's mainly to stress-test the servers and see how well the translation goes over with the fans.

    Well, I hope the translation part is true...
  • blazmeen
    blazmeen Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Hmmm who knows? Maybe give new players a flavour of the game before open beta; after that people will start to take the game more seriously. A chance for the community to...socialize..grow, spread the word. That's all I can come up with atm.
  • ganja
    ganja Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Thats a good question, but I guess they needed to be 100% sure there wasnt any major bugs.
    Because now they know the game is 100% bug-free; just imagine what would of happen if they just go OB and its full of bugs, everyone would be bitching right now.
  • soukyuu
    soukyuu Posts: 809 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    100% bug-free? How about patcher not patching for many people, the installer bitching about files that aren't corrupted? I count it to "game bugs" too. Even though i didn't have any problems on 3 of my PCs, thank god, i can imagine how all the people who did have probs feel.

    If that happens in OB... PW-Intl will most likely lose players.
    So, this CB was a test run with a limited amount of people to stress-test the servers and to see what problems with installation/game will happen. Now i hope most of the issues get fixed.

    Honestly, i think the installer & patcher of PW suck. I made myself my own installer, but i can't replace the patcher, obviously.
    PW has been endless frustration for me #2
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  • infrequentia
    infrequentia Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    To test bugs and glitches and such. To see that everything works.
    Not to mention to try out diffrent builds and have new players learn a bit about the game before they start (mess with builds and armor and classes).
  • tenkei
    tenkei Posts: 63
    edited August 2008
    soukyuu wrote: »
    100% bug-free? How about patcher not patching for many people, the installer bitching about files that aren't corrupted? I count it to "game bugs" too. Even though i didn't have any problems on 3 of my PCs, thank god, i can imagine how all the people who did have probs feel.

    If that happens in OB... PW-Intl will most likely lose players.
    So, this CB was a test run with a limited amount of people to stress-test the servers and to see what problems with installation/game will happen. Now i hope most of the issues get fixed.

    Honestly, i think the installer & patcher of PW suck. I made myself my own installer, but i can't replace the patcher, obviously.

    Small hole in this. The amount of CB Licenses is no were near what whould be considered a "Limited Amount" I mean even as CB started you could still get a license and play. In all aspects this CB was almost an OB already, the only really qualifying definitions that keep it a CB is they are going to wipe character data and OB won't need licenses.

    This closed beta seemed to be more for a stress test / Marketing promotion / Market testing. The fact that it shrunk from 1 month to a few days means all 3 passed with flying colors, at least to what should be expected.

    Really got to face it, no program is ever perfect and all will always a form of definition that would be considered a "Bug" because it was unexpected but is working right to the code that the developer building it just completely missed the mark on what it is ment to do.
  • soukyuu
    soukyuu Posts: 809 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    tenkei wrote: »
    Small hole in this. The amount of CB Licenses is no were near what whould be considered a "Limited Amount" I mean even as CB started you could still get a license and play. In all aspects this CB was almost an OB already, the only really qualifying definitions that keep it a CB is they are going to wipe character data and OB won't need licenses.
    That's one thing i didn't like about this "CB". If there had been less keys available, the devs wouldn't been able to stress-test the servers properly, but at least there would be less people asking for rewards... he...he...:o
    PW has been endless frustration for me #2
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