also beta testing do not = as sales. myself I will chec the game just to see it, not gonna buy it, not gonna play it, i'm not a fool to play a sub game with CS, I have more important thing to see and play then lose my on this crap

Ah, I just hope this doesn't mean that the servers will keep crashing the first 24h.

Looking at past betas, there are good changes that issues will arise, but here's to hoping I won't be amongst those unlucky few~! :D

Still, possibly a great game and I can't wait to try it out.

Originally posted by Vindicta

Originally posted by Mors.Magne

If it's a real beta test, it will have a Non-Disclosure Agreement.

If it's a 'marketing beta', it won't.

 

Their site mentions no NDA, so I guess marketing beta it is

Unless they say no NDA, there is one.  Pre-purchasers had to accept it when they registered also.

Originally posted by HurricanePip

... are interested to see if Funcom can back up all their talk. 

"All their talk?" They've hardly opened their mouths at all about TSW. I have never ever seen this kind of secrecy and silence from a developer.

I bashed them for over-hyping AoC, but this is almost going too far -hardly a word yet, and 5 weeks to launch...

The game looks great from the distances that I've seen it from.  I'm going to get my hands on it tomorrow and make a call for myself.  Something to remember tho, the amount of people signing up for an open beta does not indicate in any way the measure of success the game will have.

This market is now almost entirely filed with people who move like nomads from one game to another, so betas like this are almost like free ice cream to this crowd.

Originally posted by Bjelar

Originally posted by HurricanePip

... are interested to see if Funcom can back up all their talk. 

"All their talk?" They've hardly opened their mouths at all about TSW. I have never ever seen this kind of secrecy and silence from a developer.

I bashed them for over-hyping AoC, but this is almost going too far -hardly a word yet, and 5 weeks to launch...

 

I have...Anarchy Online and Age of Conan...both where clamped down unitl just before release and they had to let more in for the stress test.

That is the one thing Funcom knows about...dont let people talk about how bad the game is until its too late for pre-orders to be effected.

Fool me once...fool me twice...they dont get a third chance. I will sit back for a year, then maybe i'll read up about it and if they have actually managed to learn from over 10 years worth of not being able to fix bugs, patch and upgrade their games in a timely fashion.

Originally posted by Bjelar

Originally posted by HurricanePip

... are interested to see if Funcom can back up all their talk.

"All their talk?" They've hardly opened their mouths at all about TSW. I have never ever seen this kind of secrecy and silence from a developer.

I bashed them for over-hyping AoC, but this is almost going too far -hardly a word yet, and 5 weeks to launch...

I see you don't have a Facebook account. It's all over that garbage pile.

Looking forward to this weekend since I have to go back to work Monday and will miss the GW2 event.

Originally posted by jtcgs

Originally posted by Bjelar

Originally posted by HurricanePip

... are interested to see if Funcom can back up all their talk. 

"All their talk?" They've hardly opened their mouths at all about TSW. I have never ever seen this kind of secrecy and silence from a developer.

I bashed them for over-hyping AoC, but this is almost going too far -hardly a word yet, and 5 weeks to launch...

 

I have...Anarchy Online and Age of Conan...both where clamped down unitl just before release and they had to let more in for the stress test.

That is the one thing Funcom knows about...dont let people talk about how bad the game is until its too late for pre-orders to be effected.

Fool me once...fool me twice...they dont get a third chance. I will sit back for a year, then maybe i'll read up about it and if they have actually managed to learn from over 10 years worth of not being able to fix bugs, patch and upgrade their games in a timely fashion.

I don't know about AO, but AoC was hyped to insane levels -I still remember the "armed combat demo video" it's prob. still on youtube. AoC's launch was delayed twice, but even before the first delay hype-videos were all over the place.

The launch of TSW is complete silence in comparison.

Originally posted by ShakyMo
I'm not sure gw2 fans have been bashing tsw, they seem to be more anti lazy wow clones

Well I for one am not. Love gw2, hope TSW will be as good as I think it could. Expecting to be in serious trouble when Planetside2 launches. A positive problem. Nice.

Yeah that is pretty interesting, I did not see a lot of hype for TSW. Especially after they hyped up AoC, we all know how that ended up.

Is it a good thing or bad? Who knows. Last minute I deicded to go ahead and give TSW a shot, I have no expectations other than a good story in the lore.

Originally posted by Bjelar

Originally posted by jtcgs

Originally posted by Bjelar

Originally posted by HurricanePip

... are interested to see if Funcom can back up all their talk. 

"All their talk?" They've hardly opened their mouths at all about TSW. I have never ever seen this kind of secrecy and silence from a developer.

I bashed them for over-hyping AoC, but this is almost going too far -hardly a word yet, and 5 weeks to launch...

 

I have...Anarchy Online and Age of Conan...both where clamped down unitl just before release and they had to let more in for the stress test.

That is the one thing Funcom knows about...dont let people talk about how bad the game is until its too late for pre-orders to be effected.

Fool me once...fool me twice...they dont get a third chance. I will sit back for a year, then maybe i'll read up about it and if they have actually managed to learn from over 10 years worth of not being able to fix bugs, patch and upgrade their games in a timely fashion.

I don't know about AO, but AoC was hyped to insane levels -I still remember the "armed combat demo video" it's prob. still on youtube. AoC's launch was delayed twice, but even before the first delay hype-videos were all over the place.

The launch of TSW is complete silence in comparison.

I agree, TSW is if anything underhyped, not only compared to AoC, but to other games out there right now. Heck, I remember the whole week before the first beta weekend of GW2, searching "guildwars2" on tweeter and was basically going faster than I could read, TSW has much MUCH fewer comments. I'm guessing that funcom is doing the opposite of what they did with Age of Conan, instead of overhyping the game leading to dissapointment when it launched in the state it was, keeping hype in check and try to woo players with the game (hopefully much more complete than AoC was) and let word of mouth spread.

Personally, most likely won't be playing it, not because of funcom (though that would have made me not play at releast but wait 1 or 2 months) but because of financial reasons (I'm in Venezuela, because of stupid laws I can't spend more than $400 a year online and I spent most of that in parts to upgrade my computer already and in GW2), but it does pick my interest enough to see how it does and where it goes after release, and I'll be testing this weekend since I got one of gamespot beta keys.

Originally posted by Caldrin

Originally posted by Tyroki

But this has been over a long period of time.

 

Meanwhile, Guild Wars 2 pulled that over the course of 2 days o.o;

yeah because GW2 is the second comnig of christ..

 

GW2 had a beta sign up quite some time before and also pre-orders qutie a bit before and millinos more spent on advertising the fact you would get into beta if you pre-ordered LOL..

 

Just wanted to point out the first pre order item for you "Beta Weekend"

http://www.thesecretworld.com/buy/

its a funcom game i feel bad for ppl that have high hope for the game

As other people have already stated I will wait on this game for at least 6 months it could be a good game but going to wait and make sure based on Funcoms past.

I have very little faith in Funcom but I'll give this game a fair shot tomorrow. You never know, I may be surprised.