WAR Guild Invites sent-out 8/8

[Jayce]

Any other questions?

How are we being told that we're in? Email, PM, Forum thread, etc?

If you have to ask...

He needs to know which window he should be spamming the f5 key in.

[WayAbvPar]

This is art.

[Dren]

Any other questions?

How are we being told that we're in? Email, PM, Forum thread, etc?

If you have to ask...

He needs to know which window he should be spamming the f5 key in.

Moonfire?

[sam, an eggplant]

This was just the notification that the guild would eventually get in, just like all those people that attended Gencon and game day and whatnot. They were told that they'd get into beta eventually, and most of them still aren't in, even though others were accepted that only had newsletter subs. So don't hold your breath, when it comes it comes. WAUGGGHHH is a fickle master.

That said, every time mythic lets in a new batch of testers I not only check my email but also login to the beta site to see if I was accepted, just in case the mail got lost. So far it hasn't.

[angry.bob]

Oh you cocksuckers better start spelling Waaagh right. How do you all keep fucking up a word that Orcs and 10 year olds can spell correctly?

[Der Helm]

Hm. I know I signed up in the old WAR-Beta thread that was stickified in this very forum.

Should I have applied for a beta spot on their website as well ? Or is that not neccesary ?

I just found my subscription to WAR-Europe (GOA!*shudder*)

[sam, an eggplant]

Real greenskins are above spelling flames.

[Merusk]

Real greenskins are above spelling flames.

'Dat onle cuz day no no iz spelt wrong

[El Gallo]

FYI, I'll need quite a few beta accounts to sell on ebay thoroughly betatest WARs 56-boxing functionality

[SnakeCharmer]

FYI, I'll need quite a few beta accounts to sell on ebay thoroughly betatest WARs 56-boxing functionality

Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick.....

[Merusk]

Yeah, that was linked in another thread before.  They claim it's not for gold farming but uh.... right. 

[Calantus]

Any other questions?

How are we being told that we're in? Email, PM, Forum thread, etc?

If you have to ask...

He needs to know which window he should be spamming the f5 key in.

Well it's more that the email I had listed when I posted in the signup thread is an email I no longer use so if schild just has a big list of names and emails and sends it out to those I'll not think to check it unless I know. Of course if it's going out via PM or what my email is now it's fine. Also I haven't done one of these beta thingies before because I haven't cared before so I don't know what to expect. :P

[Arrrgh]

My spam filter eats half of them. Be sure to check that folder.

Today my Gmail decided to put one of my Google alerts in the spam folder...

[Venkman]

FYI, I'll need quite a few beta accounts to sell on ebay thoroughly betatest WARs 56-boxing functionality

Ho Lee Krap.

I didn't bother with the thread. Are they claiming they can actually manage an entire raid force like that? I can't imagine how you could cognitively manage that many independent actions, unless it was like some easy-mode raid zone.

[Der Helm]

FYI, I'll need quite a few beta accounts to sell on ebay thoroughly betatest WARs 56-boxing functionality

Ho Lee Krap.

I didn't bother with the thread. Are they claiming they can actually manage an entire raid force like that? I can't imagine how you could cognitively manage that many independent actions, unless it was like some easy-mode raid zone.

As far as I understood that, there are not that many independant activities, just a clever setup of hotkeys and hardware solutions to send the keybord input from one keyboard to several PC's.

I wonder if this is something Blizzard allows, can't be that hard to track users like this down.

[Merusk]

So long as he's not hacking the client (other than add-on mods) why wouldn't they allow it?  Nothing says you have to be 40 individuals playing at once.

One of the folks there PvP'd with a similar setup.  He has a team of 5 or 10 High Warlord undead all with the same name, except for a single letter... one of the screenshots shows 'em.

And yeah, it's all KVM switches and /tell macros that execture macros on the other clients, if I remember right.

[Nerf]

L2Walker is still the most efficient setup for multi-boxing.  I still chuckle every time I think about PvPing with a group of bots running behind me healing/buffing/etc.

[Lantyssa]

Any other questions?

Can you bump me down the list if I'm not already there?  I'm going away until the end of September, so there's little point in me getting a spot before others.

[Miasma]

Any other questions?

Can you bump me down the list if I'm not already there?  I'm going away until the end of September, so there's little point in me getting a spot before others.

Ahh, trying to curry favour using a selfless/nice person angle eh?  That's cunning and ruthless, I like it!

[Lantyssa]

 

I laughed though.

[Tannhauser]

Give me Miasma's invite, no sense in it getting wasted.

/evil cackle

[Trippy]

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=10627.msg331828#msg331828

[Drogo]

So long as he's not hacking the client (other than add-on mods) why wouldn't they allow it?  Nothing says you have to be 40 individuals playing at once.

One of the folks there PvP'd with a similar setup.  He has a team of 5 or 10 High Warlord undead all with the same name, except for a single letter... one of the screenshots shows 'em.

And yeah, it's all KVM switches and /tell macros that execture macros on the other clients, if I remember right.

That must be really expensive to run. I wish I had enough disposable income to be able to run a set up like that. Although I think I would find other ways to spend my money.

[schild]

Just an update to be nice:

I have sent a list in to EA. I have not heard back from them. They asked for ridiculous shit to be given by me that you all already provided when you filled out their forms. The type of stuff you don't want to just be passing around, real names, directx information etc. I sent them exactly what I was asked for by someone at Mythic. EA changed it up on me. Or rather, everyone I suppose. I sent the sheet in for the first group of people the day after I got confirmation Bat Country had been accepted.

That's to say, EA still has some problems.

[Xerapis]

Thanks for the update.

EA.  It's exactly like that :P

I try to hate them fully, but my love for Sims 2 gets in the way.

[rtrd]

schild,  i may have done something to your desk yesterday.
when you find it, please, don't be alarmed or scream.  just have the janitors take care of it.


i live a shameful disgusting life. 

[schild]

Tard, I will make your life a living hell if that wasn't a joke. I'm a vindictive cunt when it comes to that sort of shit.

[rtrd]

hahaha of course i was joking...  but i bet you still looked and "sniffed" around for a few seconds.

[schild]

hahaha of course i was joking...  but i bet you still looked and "sniffed" around for a few seconds.

I found 6 slinkies.

It was worth it.

[WayAbvPar]

MarkJacobs, why hast thou forsaken thy beloved 'folks'?

[sam, an eggplant]

If he showed favoritism to one particular forum, all the others would explode.  It would have to be done quietly...

I've kept secrets that would curl your toes, most of them sufficiently epic to professionally frame and hang on your wall. Some involving mormons, Martin Landau, mangy marmots, mangos, McDonalds, Mandy Moore's mooseknuckle, smoked mozzarella, and midgets in oversized novelty hats and that's only the Ms! Mark, get me into beta and I'll tell all! Wait, that doesn't work. I mean, I can keep secrets, I'll never tell!

Worth a shot.

[taolurker]

Mark, get me into beta and I'll tell all! Wait, that doesn't work. I mean, I can keep secrets, I'll never tell!

NO... Keeping secrets does not make you a more likely beta candidate.

Developers should want people who will beta TEST.

Only problem is they'll get a bunch of peen waving monkeys wanting to preview the game, find out all the ins/outs classes/races and ways to min/max, or to get their guild the first ooh shiny hard to reach raid exclusive zone.

If anyone ever wonders why MMOs release in such craptacular fashion, this here is exactly why.

[sam, an eggplant]

They don't really expect players to individually beta test. Mythic has too much experience to be that naive.

They expect an aggregate of users to play the game exactly as they would on release, trying to exploit the hell out of it, grind for hours on end stockpiling penguin sphincters because it's 2.7% faster than playing through their cool dynamic world quests, generate truly representative load profiles, and bitch like tween girls fighting with their mothers on the internal forums. Then they mine all that data and tune away. Traditional "beta" testing is archaic; EA has internal QA teams for that.

[Abelian75]

They don't really expect players to individually beta test. Mythic has too much experience to be that naive.

They expect an aggregate of users to play the game exactly as they would on release, trying to exploit the hell out of it, grind for hours on end stockpiling penguin sphincters because it's 2.7% faster than playing through their cool dynamic world quests, generate truly representative load profiles, and bitch like tween girls fighting with their mothers on the internal forums. Then they mine all that data and tune away. Traditional "beta" testing is archaic; EA has internal QA teams for that.

Indeed.  I wish people would get this through their head so I could see less of the self-righteous "testing" rants every time someone uses the word "play" or "game" in a beta.

Which is not to say that reporting bugs you find (or even going out of your way to look for them) isn't helpful, it's just not the primary function of a beta.

[Surlyboi]

What is this War that you speak of?