Mark Jacobs :Open Beta, Preview Weekend, NDA, etc.

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Folks,

I'm going to be posting a lot over the next few days but here's a quick update/explanation of where things stand now:

1) As to the type of Open Beta that we are having, I've said for over three years that our Open Beta is not going to be a "Everybody come into the pool, the water's fine!" type of Open Beta. We have never been interested in just having hundreds of thousands of people beat against our servers just so a few thousand can get in. I'm not familiar with any MMORPG company offering an OB where they can support everyone who wants in to the OB. OBs are usually limited in the number of servers/amount of bandwidth that is available for the OB players. If you offer an OB with an almost unlimited number of keys (or keys that vastly outnumber server capacity), you're either really using to stress test your login process or doing it solely as a PR move. I'd rather have an OB where we know the size of the potential player pool and have enough servers and bandwidth so people can actually get into our OB.

2) As to the length of the OB, we have never said that it was going to be a month nor have we ever hinted at it that. The vast majority of OBs run by MMORPG companies have not lasted a month. Is a week too short? I wish we could have made it longer (maybe 2 weeks) but the timing just didn't work out. OB is the last hurdle before the game goes LIVE and with the added Preview Weekend, we lost a few days that might have been able to go into the OB. So, for those that pre-ordered the game, the added Preview Weekend gives you some extra time before the OB. For those that haven't pre-ordered the game and are upset that the OB isn't long enough of a time to tell if you like the game, then I'll say the same thing I've also said for years, then wait a few days or a week, etc. until after the game launches and decide then. Frankly, once the NDA lifts and with the information storm that will follow its release, I can't imagine that players won't have enough time and information to make an informed buying decision.

3) As to the lifting of the NDA and the start of Open Beta, I've been very clear on the fact that the two things are not related at all.

4) As to the NDA, we expect to lift it tomorrow morning. I was hoping it was going to be today but I wanted to wait till I got the beta reports from the weekend and we just didn't have enough time to get everything coordinated with our partners in order for the press release to go out today. This is not the fault of GOA at all, we just had a lot of data to go through and by the time we did that, it would have been too late to put out the release today. As to the three issues that were holding up the release, I'll be discussing them tomorrow. While I wish that we could have lifted the NDA a couple of weeks ago, I'll explain why tomorrow. Given how many MMOs/games don't lift the NDA until launch (or just before or in some cases, never), our lifting it more than 4 weeks (only slightly but it's still 4+ weeks out), is more than sufficient for all the information about the game to hit the Internet.

5) As to the "Why am I downloading the client weeks in advance" stuff, well, it's because we wanted to avoid the situation where we tell people that OB is starting in a week and then people couldn't get the client in time. If we had done that, there would have been lots and lots of posts saying "Epic Fail Mythic, I couldn't get the client in time for your OB!!!!' if things went wrong. By allowing people to download the client early, everybody will have plenty of time to get the client. While I'm usually quite willing to admit when we make a mistake, letting people get the client early is not a mistake, it is simply another way to make it easier for people to get the client. Given the issues with the Torrent solution we used, anyone who says that we are wrong to let people download the client early is simply looking to bash us for no reason.

6) As to how people are going to get the client, as has been speculated, we have added FilePlanet to our file distribution methods. As promised, you do not have to be a FP subscriber to download the client. By retaining both our current methods and by adding FP, we are once again making it more convenient for players to get our game. Additionally, when the game goes LIVE, we will be using our own Mythic Patcher to download updates to the game just as we did with DAoC in addition to other possible methods.

So, that's the quick update for now.

Mark

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Levee de NDA demain matin normalement



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Mark Jacobs a post a l'instant sur Warhammer Alliance (a 18h13)

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Just a little while longer (hours not days) on the NDA lift folks. As I've said elsewhere, we have a lot of moving parts and some of them required a little extra oiling this morning.

Mark
http://www.warhammeralliance.com/for...=55610&page=16

Patience .. ca approche
j'espere que jion va nous mettre son super article qu'il nous avait promis ^^
ou qu'il l'ai laissé au prealable a un de ses collegue
sinon demain ca veut dire a partir de minuit non ??
En vitesse :

1) Il s'explique le fait que l'Open BT n'a jamais été prévue pour accepter tout le monde blablabla... sur le fait qu'ils préfèrent savoir environ combien de personnes seront dans la BT pour s'apprêter.

2) Open BT d'1 semaine et il n'a jamais dit qu'elle serait de 1 mois. Il aurait voulu qu'elle soit plus longue genre 2 semaines blablabla...

3) Nada

4) Levée NDA demain matin (heure US ?)

5) On va pouvoir DL le client à l'avance pour éviter l'engorgement des serveurs si on le faisait juste avant l'ouverture des serveurs.

6) En gros tout le monde pourra DL (FilePlanet un FTP ?) Il n'y aura pas besoin d'être membre (création compte gratos) chez FP pour DL

Résumé à la va-vite ma lasagne refroidi !
Haha, c'est tout bon et dire que j'avais dit a un amis que le nda serait levé aujourd'hui pour faire tout juste 1 mois avant la sortie officiel.

Et ben, j'étais pas loin, humm on va pouvoir lire le gros dossier que Jion nous avait préparé aussi
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Mes vidéos de prises de forts n'attendent que ça.
Je n'ai pas réussi à faire de vidéos avec Fraps, ça ne marche pas sur la beta ... comment as-tu fait?
Et bien c'est super, surtout la levée du NDA. Par contre, comme il n'y a pas plus de précision que çà, la levée est complète?
Dans tout les cas, je vous prépare mon petit avis de Beta-testeurs sur l'ensemble de la Beta et un dossier plus ou moins complet sur l'Elu du Chaos avec quelques jolis screenshots!
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Et bien c'est super, surtout la levée du NDA. Par contre, comme il n'y a pas plus de précision que çà, la levée est complète?
Dans tout les cas, je vous prépare mon petit avis de Beta-testeurs sur l'ensemble de la Beta et un dossier plus ou moins complet sur l'Elu du Chaos avec quelques jolis screenshots!
y'a jamais eu mention que je sache de levée partiel ... donc oui c'est la totale
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Je n'ai pas réussi à faire de vidéos avec Fraps, ça ne marche pas sur la beta ... comment as-tu fait?
hmm je n'ai aucun problème à enregistrer des vidéos de la bêta, j'utilise fraps tout bêtement (version 2.9.4.)

J'utilise ensuite Vegas Pro pour l'édition/compression.
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j'ai surtout hate de voir se que nous on concocter certain redacteur du staff jol-war
Tu ne vas pas être déçu, le travail est énorme. Mais chuuut NDAB

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Demain le Comptoir de Marienburg va voir exploser son postcount
ça me rappelle les derniers jours de l' année ou fallait attendre avant de massacrer ses cahiers et classeurs de cours!

Faut un goûter, des pétards et des costumes là!!!
Plus sérieusement je suis impatient de regarder plein de vidéos et de pouvoir enfin me construire un semblant d' avis sur le jeu.
Je sens surtout qu'on va avoir le droit à de sulfureux débats :

/start
- Je pense que...
- Non tu as tort...
- Nan mais si il a raison...
- C'est pas que oui/non, c'est subjectif c'est tout...
- Nan mais faut avouer que ca, ca et ca...
- Ben moi j'aime bien...
- Pas moi...
/end of line
/repeat
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