Originally posted by GTwander

Dude, you could even replace the word 'secretary' for 'intern' with little difference in the outcome, and I've done plenty of clerical work with little more than hours until it's due. It's not as hard as you seem to think.

Nitpicking aside, you know this is a fact. Quit it.

For pewpz and giggles, let's pretend that is fact. Isn't it now a fact that you're not only paying extra hours to have your team generate content  for major development points such as graphics, models, animations, sound, gameplay mechanics, and their aimed "goal" for the product, but also paying extra hours to have your secretary handle the second step of these things? Several of those secondary steps being, depending on the content being released:

• video editing
• copy editing
• techinical writing
• image branding

GT, it seems 'just two lines of code' easy to you because you haven't done it. You haven't tried to generate the content the OP is talking about while meeting the existing deadlines for the project. You haven't tried to put the content in layman's terms. You haven't tried to manage the barrage of comments, questions and feedback resultant from this kind of content either. You haven't tried to corral devs to get this content done.  

It seems simple because you don't understand the scope of the task you're handwaving about and, when it is explained to you by someone that has done it, your answer is "What I say is fact. Quit it."

More power to ya, man. 

Originally posted by Zippy

The one big difference in MMO betas today is the players.  The vast majority do not have the patience, maturity or attention span to play MMOs.  Developers have to limit their exposure to the game.  If they let them in to a long beta or long open beta they will simply become bored and move on to the next game.  if they limit their access to a somewhat polished open beta weekend then pull their access the players suddenly cannot play the game whenever they want.  It is only natrual they end up wanting and missing the game more.  Simply because they have to wait to play it again.

A lot of great points there. Another reason for the beta weekends, though, is to keep the players more densely packed. When beta testing throughout a week, you have your players more spread out. Even if the difference is just from spreading the evening players over 3 days instead of 7, it makes a big difference in the experience of the players and the info gained from internal testing. 

Originally posted by Loktofeit

Originally posted by GTwander

Dude, you could even replace the word 'secretary' for 'intern' with little difference in the outcome, and I've done plenty of clerical work with little more than hours until it's due. It's not as hard as you seem to think.

Nitpicking aside, you know this is a fact. Quit it.

For pewpz and giggles, let's pretend that is fact. Isn't it now a fact that you're not only paying extra hours to have your team generate content  for major development points such as graphics, models, animations, sound, gameplay mechanics, and their aimed "goal" for the product, but also paying extra hours to have your secretary handle the second step of these things? Several of those secondary steps being, depending on the content being released:

• video editing
• copy editing
• techinical writing
• image branding

GT, it seems 'just two lines of code' easy to you because you haven't done it. You haven't tried to generate the content the OP is talking about while meeting the existing deadlines for the project. You haven't tried to put the content in layman's terms. You haven't tried to manage the barrage of comments, questions and feedback resultant from this kind of content either. You haven't tried to corral devs to get this content done.  

It seems simple because you don't understand the scope of the task you're handwaving about and, when it is explained to you by someone that has done it, your answer is "What I say is fact. Quit it."

More power to ya, man. 

Dude...

Technical work is as hard as you envision it, blogging about it ISN'T. You could hand it off to a monkey and have it pass, and you don't need a video presentation in the majority of instances either. In the cases you do, boobs seem to fly just as fine in the place of pigs.