Originally posted by blackcat35
I remember a mmorpg that was so bad people at gamestop where returning. They had no problem accepting the return, because they returned it themselves. Basically the game was unplayable out of the box. The programmer expected me to help them test their ALPHA code and I was like, I'm not getting paid to test. I'm supposed to be having fun playing a game, not struggling to get it to work. The game was kind of cartoony and you controlled alot of characters. It looked interesting, but not being able to play it out of the box at all made the game flop. I cannot remember many games that just failed to work at all when buying it retail. Even War of Magic I bought worked a little, even if it was still in beta and was buggy. I remember codemasters, and they made some good games, that were fun. Too bad they couldn't keep with the times.

which mmorpg are you talking about?surely not dragons empire as it as never released and was in only a select few beta not even proper beta yet,it got canned few weeks before the real beta started.

Originally posted by vanderghast

I was a beta tester for dragon empires, very early tester.  This game was never at any point with any build ever shown to beta testers remotely not even a millenia away from being 2 weeks from release when it was cancelled.  Any dates that were out there were completely bogus as this game never made it very far at all.

 

As long as this is the game i'm thinking it is, we never even saw actual mobs in the beta to fight.  It was a big empty world.  I think I was in the test like 2 months before it got cancelled.  If memory serves they only tested a couple days a week.  The entire time in beta we never saw any progress whatsoever, no patches no nothing.  Just these empty world tests and they were laggy and you got kicked constantly which backs up the story that the server code was lacking.

 

After about awhile in beta, and very little communication from the devs on the beta boards i remember someone posting asking the devs for an update which was met with silence.  The beta community was very small at this point.  I remember making a post saying that my hunch was this game was going to be cancelled in the near future as all signs were pointing to that.  I remember most of the other testers telling me i was nuts and that codemasters had too much money into the game to do that.  Not a week later there was a post on the board and an email to all testers saying that the game was being cancelled.

Taking your words for truth, this is pretty interesting, thanks.

It is weird how long ago 2004 is, now we are almost 8 years past it.  The worst part is the state of MMOs hasn't made any proper progression since then, except in graphics theres been a huge improvement.