Does it piss anyone else off that so many freaking SC2 beta keys were given to a bunch of either, legit nubs, people who don't play SC, and people who don't like RTS's? I've seen so many posts on the SC2 beta site talking about how they hate SC and play WC instead and then they bash the game. I've seen so many people saying I dunno how to play this i r @ nub how r ! wrk this? And people who got the keys and just **** talk SC, or RTS's all together. And it's like..wtf? Why not give the keys to dedicated fans. I've been playing SC since freaking 4th grade and that's almost been 8-9 years. I'd say being such a dedicated fan to the series should put my *** to the top of the list for people whom should get keys. =/ Jus sayin.
Hey, yea i agree totally they should atleast send some invites to (veteran) high ranked sc1 players. Im giving players a chance to get one tough, if your interested check my profile website...
yeah, they do need to make sure the ranking and auto-matching systems of bnet work like they should. still, the people who said they were interested enough to sign up for a beta key should have at least used it. jerkoffs.
Its not really in our grounds to tell them what to do with their BETA keys. Sure, they can be nice and perhaps give it away or something. But...some geeks these days prefer to be douches.
It's all to do with statistics. The purpose of the beta isnt to please the fans with an early 'demo', it's to sort out balance and bugs. If they only included die-hard blizzard fans, the sample would be biased. A large random sample is the only (mostly) surefire way of getting a good mix of testers. But I do agree that statistics is a *****.
The Beta is to test the game play for glitches, fairness, equality of races, and skills and yadda yadda. Some random scrub off the street aint gonna be able to help with anything like that beyond nub level. Asking the long time SC playing people to help them test it in the beta would be way benificial then asking a WC guy or some random nub. We know the basics, we know the advanced stuff, we know how to play...most of us. I mean I've been playin for almost 8 years like a I said and I'm still no pro, I could do just as good saying the ranking system is ****ed up as some other fool plus be able to seriously test the game play.
Yes you and the other 10+ million people world wide who are also dedicated fans of the series. I actually agree with giving evenryone a chance to get a btea key and not only the dedicated fans. As most fans have a favoured race and are biased in their opinion. As in they could tell blizzard their the 2 races they don't played are too strong and need balancing and their race they play is too weak. Stuff like that where their feedback to blizzard is a little biased. But a noob as they are called has no idea what race they like. And to them they will report things as they see them. I'm just saying Blizzard need a good mix of SC experienced players and noobs who've never played SC before.
blizzard doesn't know your veteran rank... I mean how could they all they do is look at your battle.net account and opt in settings......... Lol who am I kidding I got 3 accounts just yesterday with invites who I never opted in with... Interestingly enough all they had on them were wow accounts I used for mules.
they NEED noob players because a HUGE number of people who buy SC2 will be noobs. they need to make sure the tutorial, challenges, "training" and general learning curve is easy enough.
Yes but beta has no tutorial, challenges, "training" or other such things. Just multiplayer games. Sure the noobs can learn the "general learning curve" from this. But there is a lot not in the beta the noobs will use then retail comes out.
I played SC for the first time ever last night. A long time friend and SC fan gave me his other beta key. I did absolutely awful, obviously; only winning 1 of the four games I played. I won the last one because I finally got a concept of how things worked. I wish there had been a short tutorial (I know I know, an RTS is an RTS; but the UI and things are slightly different), since I had to face a learning curve while playing against people who KNEW how to play. Once I understood how things worked (which I picked up relatively quickly), it got to be pretty fun. However, this thread seems to paint a poor light on the SC community. Sorry you think getting more players interested in the game is a waste of beta keys. From a marketing standpoint, you're dead wrong. In fact, it would probably benefit them MORE to give most of the keys to people who don't know about the game and get some self-working PR rolling for release. I'm probably stereotyping, but I'm not sure I want to play a game with people who harbor such a holier-than-thou attitude.
Agreed. From a PR point of view new to SC2 people are better. But from a testing and giving Blizzard accurate bug and balancing feedback, the long time pros are better.
This isn't about letting us try the game earlier; it's about getting feedback from a wide variety of people on different computers. Yes, I'm a bit upset and I wish they'd focus on balancing the game for the highest level of play but that doesn't mean it's wrong.
nope, they still need noobs. they have to make sure that spells and units are balanced and usable even without crazy micromanagement. say, if they reduced the area of psi storm's effect, pros would still be able to use it effectively but it will make it much less useful for noobs. the game has to be balanced at all levels of play, not just for pros. now if anyone mentions MBS, i'm going to smack them.
That's not what I meant. I meant pros understand when a unit needs a nerf and when a unit needs a buff for example. And a noob would not understand this. Pros could also give more detailed feedback as to why units need a fix or whatever. From their experience as a SC player. I agree with you that they still need noobs for what you're talking about. But that's just different to what I was going on about.
And the fact that some people have gotten multiple beta keys is freaking beyond me. Blizzard royally screwed that up. I know someone who recieved like 5 different beta keys and you know what he's doing with them? He's using one and wiping his *** with the other 4. =/ I mean come on. I know nubs and scrubs are needed to help out for the PR and testing and such, but when it comes to a BETA test, they seriously should be leaning way more torwards long term veteran players for testing. Just makes more sense. ****, I don't get why they don't just freaking give everyone a BETA key, it's just basic multiplayer and such, so it would wet everyone's whistle's and make them salavate again since the last release date.
Just so you know: unused (i.e. duplicate keys) are reused in the next wave. It doesn't really hurt your chances, just means you'd get it later if you got it at all.
