Originally posted by minocin

Is this an OPEN beta or is it for pre-orders only?

It is for those who preordered ja prepurchased the game. Though FilePlanet is giving out free open beta keys starting at 1st of September so if you haven't bought you try to get key from there.

you need a key to play it. at the moment, you have to pay for a key lol, what a negative impression. phishing.

I heard there are other sites giving out keys as well. Although I don't know which ones.

This kind of sucks, I'm not going to preorder this game, but would really like to test out what improvements have been made with the new patch.

well i dont know about everyone else but my client size is 18 gig and its apprently been doing something while im asleep cuz it will keep popping up with ready to play so idk but im downloading the patch anyway just to be safe

Yipee yet another EQ clone with shitty point and clicky combat. Just what we needed !

When are people going stop buying into the crap that the games companies are putting out.

Yep, this is going to be 1.5 for the open beta.

It seems to me that people have forgotten what Beta Testing is all about. Their test to see how their game is going to play out. It isn't as much test to see how it will run our machines or to see if we want to consider forking over our money into their game.  Great sites like this offer a plethora of information which should give you enough knowledge to make a well informed decision whether this is the game for you.  Still, I'm glad companies do keep us in mind and offer us chances like this.  I think ncsoft has earned the rite to set a few ground rules for their open beta. It IS open because the only thing restricting you from playing is either paying for a subscription from fileplanet(or another site) or buying their game. It is in your control whether you can play or not. Some people subscribe to these sites specifically for exclusive rites to things like this.

I remember Beta Testing back when it was about actually testing a game and giving regular feedback to developers. I think these freebie MMOs have made people soft.
 

Agreed.

Beta testing just isn't same anymore. It used to be a privilege to get in, and to help mold the launch version, but now people feel like it's their right to play the game for free. 

Oh for the days when testing was for testing, and not free play.

Originally posted by Outlawfencer

Agreed.

Beta testing just isn't same anymore. It used to be a privilege to get in, and to help mold the launch version, but now people feel like it's their right to play the game for free. 

Oh for the days when testing was for testing, and not free play.

I won't disagree, but paying someone to test their product I find equally ludicrous.

Originally posted by Dunden

It seems to me that people have forgotten what Beta Testing is all about. Their test to see how their game is going to play out. It isn't as much test to see how it will run our machines or to see if we want to consider forking over our money into their game.  Great sites like this offer a plethora of information which should give you enough knowledge to make a well informed decision whether this is the game for you.  Still, I'm glad companies do keep us in mind and offer us chances like this.  I think ncsoft has earned the rite to set a few ground rules for their open beta. It IS open because the only thing restricting you from playing is either paying for a subscription from fileplanet(or another site) or buying their game. It is in your control whether you can play or not. Some people subscribe to these sites specifically for exclusive rites to things like this.

I remember Beta Testing back when it was about actually testing a game and giving regular feedback to developers. I think these freebie MMOs have made people soft.
 

I agree with you completely, except for this little statement. Are you completely excluding the need for software/hardware optimization? I would say that this is a major component of beta testing: to see how the game engine runs on a wide variety of hardware, and to fix any glaring compatibility and/or optimization issues before launch.

Neither me nor any of my friends gets more than * 40 kb/s through ANY source atm. Fileplanet, Torrent, Launcher, its a mess. Pretty much Jim, Joe and everyone's mom is downloading it, so it's a crawl. Not to speak that the launcher always restarts when you stop your 6+3 GB anywhere.

Given the fact I already paid the game to NCSoft I would have expected some more support in terms of download speed. I am so disappointed about them.

Originally posted by FreedomBlade

Yipee yet another EQ clone with shitty point and clicky combat. Just what we needed !

When are people going stop buying into the crap that the games companies are putting out.

Don't play it then man...LOL

I just downloaded the full client in 44 minutes at 3.5MB per sec from the link below;

http://www.gamearena.com.au/downloads/details.php/aion-open-beta-client

Originally posted by Pawpower1995

 Well that just turned me off.  I was thinking of looking at this game, but if you have "pay" for the open beta, not going to do it.  Good luck with your game experience.

Have you all been living in caves? when's the last time you remember an Open Beta being that.... an actual Open Beta...

Champions Online OPEN BETA just ended, guess what.... pre order too ;)

welcome to the future.... i swear some people live under rocks, when it comes to keeping up with the current market. Not that i care, it's not like i paid anything when i preordered CO and i got the open beta and the headstart offer for free :) got to love the ability to cancel without any obligation

at least with Aion i'm looking forward to it. (although i avoided CB6, i didn't see much point in that one)

Do anyone know if it is a point and click combat game like all the other poorhouse productions ?

I hate when i cant move with the usualy keybord controles 

9gb

Originally posted by Dunden

It seems to me that people have forgotten what Beta Testing is all about. Their test to see how their game is going to play out. It isn't as much test to see how it will run our machines or to see if we want to consider forking over our money into their game.  Great sites like this offer a plethora of information which should give you enough knowledge to make a well informed decision whether this is the game for you.  Still, I'm glad companies do keep us in mind and offer us chances like this.  I think ncsoft has earned the rite to set a few ground rules for their open beta. It IS open because the only thing restricting you from playing is either paying for a subscription from fileplanet(or another site) or buying their game. It is in your control whether you can play or not. Some people subscribe to these sites specifically for exclusive rites to things like this.

I remember Beta Testing back when it was about actually testing a game and giving regular feedback to developers. I think these freebie MMOs have made people soft.
 

this is not Beta, this is "Open Beta" which is an entirely different thing.  If the views were related to closed beta sessions dating back to several months that I would agree, but they are related to the state of the game that's due to launch.

Open Beta is a marketing tactic.  It's a means to spread the game's existence through word of mouth. 

But I do agree that too many get into Closed Beta, which is actualy the testing and improvment phase, thinking it's a preview of the game.  What's worse is where you have some e-idiot thinking that cause they were in "beta" they are warranted the right to claim a game is crap when they really don't know their heads from their asses when relating to "This Game is Not Finished". 

Originally posted by FreedomBlade

Yipee yet another EQ clone with shitty point and clicky combat. Just what we needed !

When are people going stop buying into the crap that the games companies are putting out.

When are you going to find something to do with your free time other than play MMO's? 

It's obvious that's where the genre is at the moment and what most people want to play.  If you don't like it, don't play it.  If enough people feel the same way you do, eventually the genre will change.

Originally posted by FreedomBlade

Yipee yet another EQ clone with shitty point and clicky combat. Just what we needed !

When are people going stop buying into the crap that the games companies are putting out.

obviously you have not played this game if you think it has point and click combat...

Originally posted by Psycrovv

Do anyone know if it is a point and click combat game like all the other poorhouse productions ?

I hate when i cant move with the usualy keybord controles 

You can do both.  First thing I did was disable the click-to-move thing, since I hate it.