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Am I the only one who is sick of them saying they are appalled that Beta is ending and Blizzard is making an awful mistake by releasing this game. I was in the stress test and the feelings were pretty unanimous there. Everyone loved the game and the most consistent feedback I heard was "Please let us pay right now!!!". That was the best mmo experience I have ever had and by this lot ranting and raving they are only delaying my chance to become a World of Warcraft paying customer. I realize that this doesn't begin to apply to all the beta testers out there, but to the ones that it does apply to I can only say jeez people, will you shut the heck up?!? World of Warcraft is a fantastic game, I've tested it, I've loved it, and so have the 100,000 stress testers who were begging for more time to play! You do not have the right to attempt to bully Blizzard into letting you have more free play time at my expense!
I have played the stress test too. I agree with you that the game is ready except for talents that will be finished soon. So i am really starting to think that beta testers are aware that the game exit couse they will have to start to pay it. That's my opinion.
The same people that are screaming to postpone the release are the ones that make posts like
"NURF ROGUES, OMG they are so powerful! I am lvl 25 and a lvl 23 rogue killed me that should NEVER happen!"
All beta testers are not created equal. And for the love of god we don't need to postpone release because we could use a couple more lvl 250+ skill crafting items!!!!
The game isn't ready for retail but it's certainly ready for open beta. It's up to Blizzard whether they want OB to last a week, two weeks or a month. They'll have time to tweak everything and this would be the perfect opportunity for sustained testing of the servers with a load equivalent (or close) to that of retail. IMO most of the CB testers who are against OB simply don't want to lose their characters and (more importantly) their "elite" status as CB testers.
from the quality of the majority of CB tester forum posts, it's pretty obvious that a large chunk of the testers are young and probably only in the beta because they get to play a game for free. Cry me a river, but I will happily hand over my $50 and my $14 per month, heck, make it $20 a month, I really don't care because I have a job and this is my hobby and, truth be told, video games aren't really that expensive of a hobby anyway.
Am I the only one who is sick of them saying they are appalled that Beta is ending and Blizzard is making an awful mistake by releasing this game. I was in the stress test and the feelings were pretty unanimous there. Everyone loved the game and the most consistent feedback I heard was "Please let us pay right now!!!". That was the best mmo experience I have ever had and by this lot ranting and raving they are only delaying my chance to become a World of Warcraft paying customer. I realize that this doesn't begin to apply to all the beta testers out there, but to the ones that it does apply to I can only say jeez people, will you shut the heck up?!? World of Warcraft is a fantastic game, I've tested it, I've loved it, and so have the 100,000 stress testers who were begging for more time to play! You do not have the right to attempt to bully Blizzard into letting you have more free play time at my expense!
I dont know whats worse the whiny beta testers or the whiny people who didnt get into beta. The game is not ready for retail there are still has alot of bugs and balance issues. Your 10 days as a play tester in the stress test dosnt make you an expert on the state of the game.
I dont know whats worse the whiny beta testers or the whiny people who didnt get into beta. The game is not ready for retail there are still has alot of bugs and balance issues. Your 10 days as a play tester in the stress test dosnt make you an expert on the state of the game.
Yeah they're bad too but the worst are those who whine about the whining of those who didn't get into beta.
After playing the Stress Test, I definitely did not feel this game was complete or even ready for launch by most accounts. Even the most completed areas in WoW, those being the Alliance and Undead starting areas, did not really feel complete. Other than service NPCs, no other NPCs talked to you. There's a feeling of emptyness in many of the capitals, Horde content is incredibly lacking. Balance and progression through the areas is off, and the combat engine feels rather unpolished. Some classes are really untuned, and may need some reworking in order to feel right and are fun to play, though I suspect this won't happen until well after launch. The game doesn't feel complete or ready for retail at all, yet.
However, there's still plenty of time to correct these issues and patches have already come in since the Stress Test to allow players to test and see if many of these issues are fixed. One patch probably won't fix them all, but with a few more patches on the way, Blizzard should probably have all or nearly all the major problems in the game complete by launch. Open beta will definitely help get a feel for how much left needs to be done.
I've been annoyed by the closed beta whiners for a while now. First they didn't want to play with the stress testers, now they don't want the open beta to start. Some even seem to be trying to get their favorite class to be more powerful than others in PvP. What really gets my goat, though, is that some of them want some sort of reward for the "tough work" of being a closed beta tester.
It's almost enough to make me want to put any closed beta tester on my /ignore list as soon as retail arrives.
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