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Czzarre 12/27/07 11:05:16 PM
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Joined: 9/10/07
MMORPG Character Monuments ...When its time for your character to take a well deserved rest... |
So, as with all players who do NOT have a beta key, I begin to be concerned about my odds. At last look there are 513,638 applicants. I remembered my application and it made me wonder. You had to fill in three 1000 character essays. What does it take to actually review this portion of the application.
A few assumptions
Each application is an individual player, not duplicates
Each applicant filled out all 3 essays
Each essay used at least 750 characters of the 1000 max.
The applications were English.
So, that means each applicant types in 2250 characters. Researching on the net shows that The average length of an English word is five characters (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/secnews/articles/itproviewpoint100504.mspx). Using that approximation that means each applicant types out 450 words.
The average reading speed for average readers is around 200 wpm with a typical comprehension of 60% (http://www.readingsoft.com/). We will assume that Mythic employees are typical readers and comprehended 100% of what we wrote and did not have to read it twice. So for each application it would take 2.25 minutes to review.
If you assume that Mythic employed 20 people working 40 hours a week just to review all the applications and do nothing else. Each at 2.25 minutes per application. I would take 6.01 months to read them all.
What I gained from this exercise..
Torrential |
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Sornin 12/28/07 1:10:56 AM
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Joined: 2/28/07
Too weird to live, and too rare to die |
There is no way they review them all. My guess is that they first select a group based on their associations (contest winners, event participants) and their DXDiag file. Then, maybe, they read the information of the people in that group and further whittle it down to the people they actually invite. Chances are, our applications were not read at all. It is simply not logical for them to sit there and read each and every one, order them, and then go down the ordered list and invite. |
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johanrönn 12/28/07 1:27:52 AM
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Maybe its time to take my older computer out of the closet..maybe just maybe they wanna see how the game runs on low end comps. XD
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Shifty360 12/28/07 12:56:59 PM
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Joined: 12/17/07 |
I knew I shouldn't have submitted a DxDiag on my laptop |
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Aczero 12/28/07 12:59:12 PM
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Joined: 1/26/06
A guy at work bought a car out of the paper. Ten years later, Bam! Herpes. |
Originally posted by Shifty360 You can still change it if you want to, just log in and go to profile and change it. |
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BrianAddison 12/29/07 4:08:02 AM
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Joined: 4/25/06
WAR is coming.. |
I'm kinda upset with the whole thing, I've been guaranteed a spot since June and still have not received an invite. |
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Shifty360 12/29/07 4:23:45 AM
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Originally posted by AczeroI know.  My laptop is a hauss at running games, but unfortunately they may not the fact that it is a laptop. Who knows *shrug* Oh well, I'm still waiting for my invite. |
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Czzarre 12/29/07 11:26:57 AM
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Joined: 9/10/07
MMORPG Character Monuments ...When its time for your character to take a well deserved rest... |
I wonder whats the most important aspect they are looking for in the DXDiag file. Oporating system, graphics card, memory, processor? Heh, I suppose you could also just grab some other computers DXDiag file and make it look like your runnig the best Torrential |
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ElendilasX 12/29/07 12:01:14 PM
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Joined: 8/20/07
http://uzdarbis.lt.myminicity.com/tra |
Originally posted by Czzarre
I think they just run a scan through DXdiag and choose those who is better in all aspects of their set requirements. Visit a twon http://uzdarbis.lt.myminicity.com/tra |
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zeroburrito 12/29/07 3:04:01 PM
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