Age of Conan

Well, its there job to test everything before release, why wasn't all this crap found, reported and fixed allready?

Too many people wanting to play the game before anyone else instead of actaully testing the bloody thing? me thinks.

As an alpha and beta tester for the game, blaming us would be ridiclous.

We can only find the bugs, make the suggestions and hope they are fixed. They werent fixed, we have no control over that, and we never have control over things like that in any beta test. They made the choice, between a finished client and meeting their deadline and they chose their deadline.

They fucked up, just like the devs did in vanguard.

You must not have been here in the weeks before release.  :)

Originally posted by TheDoughboy

You must not have been here in the weeks before release.  :)

 

 

I was in there all the way until i seen the last state it was in before i cancelled my preorder.

I'm sorry , your assumption is not acceptable. we  beta testers pointed out, many times, the flaws, bugs, inconsistencies and general malfunction of ..well almost everything you people are complaining about.

the fact they preffered to ignore what we reported is not our fault.

And to make things even worse, many og us come here and to other forum and tried to warn people of the problems, but most times we ended up insulted or called liers, or worse by fanbois and teenagers on steroids that couldnt cope with the reality that their hyped product was not as perfect as they wanted it to be.

And now you are pointing the blame at us? We were exactly what you called us beta TESTERS. We didnt had the power to change anything, we could just give feedback that rarelly was considered by either Funcom or the community that now appears to .... blame us?

Originally posted by DeserttFoxx

As an alpha and beta tester for the game, blaming us would be ridiclous.

 

We can only find the bugs, make the suggestions and hope they are fixed. They werent fixed, we have no control over that, and we never have control over things like that in any beta test. They made the choice, between a finished client and meeting their deadline and they chose their deadline.

 

They fucked up, just like the devs did in vanguard.

I applaud people like you, the ones that actually want to test a game and make it better.  unfortunatly I wonder how many of the total testers allowing to the game actually did this.

I never played AoC beta but I knew several people in my TF2 clan that did and they just played it, they never tested anything but where enjoying the fact that they were playing it.  I don't believe this was an isolated incedent, I reckon several hundered were doing the same.

What I'm wondering is maybe if there was a combind effort where all testers actually tested then maybe things would be different.

I do beta test games, last one I did was Everquest 2.  They has thier fair share of muppets too.

Hilarious.

Lets say you blame us/them. What's the point exactly?

o no hes right lets burn their houses down rape their daughters, salt their fields and thow dead bodies down their wells.

At the same time lets go on playing Aoc and give Fc more money, its not Fc's fault the game is bad its the tester's right? right?

Originally posted by DeserttFoxx

Originally posted by TheDoughboy

You must not have been here in the weeks before release.  :) 

 

I was in there all the way until i seen the last state it was in before i cancelled my preorder.

My reply was to the OP.  You and I posted within seconds of each other.

Anyway, in the weeks before release, there were a number of testers on this very forum who were saying the game was not ready.  The hardcore fanboys tried to shout us down.  Where are those people now?  Avery, I'm looking at you, among others.  hehe.

Personally, I was hoping AoC would be worth playing, but I could tell from the so-called "open" beta that it was a mess and not worth buying. 

Originally posted by Dkevlar

I'm sorry , your assumption is not acceptable. we  beta testers pointed out, many times, the flaws, bugs, inconsistencies and general malfunction of ..well almost everything you people are complaining about.

the fact they preffered to ignore what we reported is not our fault.

And to make things even worse, many og us come here and to other forum and tried to warn people of the problems, but most times we ended up insulted or called liers, or worse by fanbois and teenagers on steroids that couldnt cope with the reality that their hyped product was not as perfect as they wanted it to be.

And now you are pointing the blame at us? We were exactly what you called us beta TESTERS. We didnt had the power to change anything, we could just give feedback that rarelly was considered by either Funcom or the community that now appears to .... blame us?

 

 

Don't take it the wrong way, I asked "should we.." not your to blame.

I'm just prompting a discussion on the ethics of testing and how wayward beta testing has become.