MrVic's Wall O Text

lammaer, on 07 January 2011 - 03:35 PM, said: Fully agree with Tantrum.
And regarding the "beta" claim, I always have fuzzy feeling because:
- the game is not beta in Russia.
- there is a russian beta server getting patches way earlier than we.
- we get the SAME patches what the russian production release get but several weeks LATER
Put the facts above together, and tell me, what is the beta here in the EU/US release ? (apart from the hardware testing we make)
Nothing is tailored to the EU/US needs, nothing special is added to the EU/US server, thus I see no beta purpose.
I don't really see beta tester/dev interaction around the EU/US CB, if people reveal some facts they get some penalty... and really, the beta testers are kept in dark sometimes.
On the positive side, we get the same stuff what the Russian paying customers get for free, so Im happy to be beta tester for a bit more time, but the release what we play on is NOT BETA. So faults cannot be labeled as "oh, shut up, this is a beta"


Gnaw, on 07 January 2011 - 11:22 PM, said: Make up your mind please, is the game not Beta in Russia or is the Russian Beta server getting patched? In reality the game is released in Russia, so what? World of Warcraft was released before they actually included all the content, that game is dong well. Its an MMO, that means it will be constantly adjusted and rebalanced, just because its available in a certain market does not mean it will not be available elsewhere or that it is biased. The reason we get patches LATER then Russian server is because Russians speak Russian Language something I guess majority of EU and North American players will not understand. It takes time to localize the game into a different language, it takes time to check that localized release, thus the delay in patches. Regarding the game being tailored to EU/US needs? Yes it is, the servers were in EU prior to September and are now in NA. Do you think you would have the same exact experience playing this game if you had to connect to the Russian servers?
There are a lot more factors that determine if the game is Beta or not and just because the game is released in one region does not mean it can be released in another. Issues like localization, publishing, server hosting (and the large amount of contracts involved with server hosting), advertising and market research are all part of releasing a game.