You guys say you won’t have the man power and time to create a beta build. That’s fine. But you guys can make a build for the NFL draft players? You have time to screw off with Conan? You can’t give us two maps and two multiplayer modes, yet you have time for these shenanigans.
/ventoff
Sorry, I had to.
There is a Beta, just not a public one, as public Betas take up massive amounts of effort from the dev studio that would be better spent actually making the game better.
So a beta build for celebs and professional players are more important than their community? Makes sense.
It does. 343i are showing their product off to the people that matter. It’s called marketing.
Pretty sure the beta is mainly internal, for the full-time testers. Maybe they’ve given some VIPs exclusive access to this internal beta, but that doesn’t mean it was built for them specifically.
> So a beta build for celebs and professional players are more important than their community? Makes sense.
You would still be complaining if the some members from the community got to play and you didn’t.
> > So a beta build for celebs and professional players are more important than their community? Makes sense.
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> You would still be complaining if the some members from the community got to play and you didn’t.
I actually want to play a beta so I know if I want to buy it or not. Lost faith in the franchise since Halo 3.
> So a beta build for celebs and professional players are more important than their community? Makes sense.
TLDR: “WAAH I want free stuff, and am completely okay with ignoring logic and making ridiculous accusations in the deluded belief that this will in some way help my childish cause”.
I know you’re just posting this crap to up your post count. I don’t blame you. Internet is your only friend. Thanks for your stupid input.
EightBit NES;886159 wrote:
So a beta build for celebs and professional players are more important than their community? Makes sense.
TLDR: “WAAH I want free stuff, and am completely okay with ignoring logic and making ridiculous accusations in the deluded belief that this will in some way help my childish cause”.
^“TLDR”, but made it longer.
> I actually want to play a beta so I know if I want to buy it or not. Lost faith in the franchise since Halo 3.
If you view the purpose of a beta as “try before you buy,” you’ve missed the entire point.
> You guys say you won’t have the man power and time to create a beta build. That’s fine. But you guys can make a build for the NFL draft players? You have time to screw off with Conan? You can’t give us two maps and two multiplayer modes, yet you have time for these shenanigans.
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> /ventoff
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> Sorry, I had to.
Publicity my friend. Wouldn’t mind if they got some actual halo fans to play it from a contest, but the fact that they got random celebs…
> > > So a beta build for celebs and professional players are more important than their community? Makes sense.
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> > You would still be complaining if the some members from the community got to play and you didn’t.
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> I actually want to play a beta so I know if I want to buy it or not. Lost faith in the franchise since Halo 3.
You whole overview of what a beta is extremely skewed. If you view an alpha beta build as a determining factor in purchasing the game, then you need to rethink everything. The whole purpose of a the H3 and REACH beta made to the public is primarily networking and stress tests on their servers. That was the whole purpose of any prior public betas. Bringing in random celebs and having a 6+ month old build of a playable to a select few is much less demanding than having a public build ready for the thousands of eager fans ready to play.
What 343i is doing is marketing and publicly making their game known to big names out there for future sales, etc. Hard to believe this, but money matters. You flame and bash the developers for something so silly, and your reasons behind it are even sillier.
> > I actually want to play a beta so I know if I want to buy it or not. Lost faith in the franchise since Halo 3.
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> If you view the purpose of a beta as “try before you buy,” you’ve missed the entire point.
Betas are there for testing, meaning, finding loop holes in the coding, bugs, balance issues. Beta’s are not for “Try before you buy” that’s what DEMOS are for.
As for the beta these celebs got to play, it was a month old, and the celebs aren’t just celebs to the general public, there are celebs of the sub communities here in the large Halo community.
Sorry for the misunderstanding guys. I was simply just saying that their reasoning for no public beta is a time issue. I was just SIMPLY arguing that fact. You can take your forum police hats off now.
Marketing FTW.
I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more effort involved in releasing a public beta for hundreds of thousands of players to play than a few people playing it on a few Xboxes.
It’s called promotion. They’re hoping they can sell the game to people who don’t even want it or don’t even like playing videogames.
> It does. 343i are showing their product off to <mark>the people that matter</mark>. It’s called marketing.
So we don’t matter?
Hmmm…
bring a few development test Xbox’s, allowed to run unsigned code direct from the developer to a few people over a LAN
or…
Develop a finely tuned, officially signed and closed code, test it to make sure it is stable, find a way to massively distribute it via live, start up a large selection of servers capable of handling the millions of users, keep a team for maintenance of the servers, deal with the people screaming and hollering over lag, slow search times, and server downtimes, spend resources and employees to improve the beta experience, oh, and finalize a networking model that works with Xbox LIVE’s transfer protocols.
I’d rather them get the game out to the masses in a finalized version, and THEN have us find a few things that can be fixed up and resolved.
yet another post dedicated to self entitlement and ranting about 343. aren’t these getting old?