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http://www.mmorpg.com/contests/metin2_promo.cfm

Is that what you are looking for?

I love sand box, I HATE having to play a game the way some one tells me it aught to be played. I hate the hand holding of step by step progress.

Agreed no risk no reward.  Im ok with no corps run or no exp loss but not boath.

It was in CoX that I for the first time realy begain to like having a base of operations. i had always over looked such parts of the games.

I know I know it is like when my wife yells at me for giggling when I fart. At times I am a two year old. I really figured they would have changed the name from chapters to some other thing before they hit 11 maybe back to publish or something. Chapter 11 In the US has a meaning for businesses that is synonymous with bankruptcy. Maybe they will change them but I giggle every time I hear chapter 11.

I agree with you a game like SGW can lend its self easly to such a concept. In the shows there is a lot of go back to the home base of operations.

  I have to agree with both of you. I had originally posted my amazement that I was but 1 of 35 to not be admitted.   9 days later I have heard noting and wondered if any of the other 34 have. I don’t know maybe some of them are here on the boards. I must have read too much into the post as I got a little exited thinking wow they see they missed some of us and are looking at it I will be in shortly. I am not under 18 and agreed to the beta test agreement.  That’s when someone jumped at me about system requirements that where talked about long after I had already been told I had supposedly won a spot.

  Guess it was me reading too much at face value and not enough into it but it sounded to me in the post from Mark Jacobs that Closed Beta is limited to players 18 years of age or older, and requires the acceptance of the Beta Test Agreement Who would be selected to be part of beta would be based on a variety of factors, including computer system specs, game experience, newsletter subscription, and community involvement. When the question about what if you had won a spot Which I know I’m out on a limb here means you have already been selected the response was  If you have won a slot and meet all eligibility requirements you will get into the closed beta. Ok, I guess I should read that differently and  insert selection criteria as a requirement even though clearly the only requirement that is discussed in the post is 18 years of age or older, and acceptance of the Beta Test Agreement.

  I have already said it is there pony and show to do with as they see fit they hold the cards and give you your hand. What I was looking for was a place to effectively wave and say yoo-hoo you missed me. Since there are no official boards I have to go to 3^rd party sites to have a voice. I prefer it here as you do not have to suffer a litany of people who want to bash you for trying to speak. 

Call me a special precious snow flake if you want but if there is really only 35 people to not get in but have “won” a spot I guess it was too much to think someone might have been able to drop them a simple line saying hey sorry but we cannot let you in now because you are either under 18 or have failed to agree to the agreement and or your dxdiag indicates your system does not meet our current threshold.  I would bet in getting that number they had a list by email of who the 35 where.  

  Cheese yourself if it will make you feel better. I’m sorry if pointing out what is going on with my status makes you unhappy.

  My issue is I would like to test a game they told me I would be testing. A position they told me I earned by my being an active part of the pre game ramp up that they began working on a year ago. I have a history of beta testing. I have no interest in going into a beta where I am let in to ohh and ahh and look around do some simply stress testing and build some more hype.  To me the greatest joy is in working with the team to get things right and finding holes and broken things before the rest of the world ever knows it was ever broken. They should not have told me I had won a spot if they were not going to follow threw on it in anything that resembled timely.  I would have been vary content to be hoping that I might get picked but to have been picked and told to stay seated not so much.

True, but it does not make it feal anny beter to have been told I won a spot in beta threw the news leter just to be still riding the bench 4 mounths going onto 5 later.  It is a shure fire way to have me lose intrest but it is there pony and there show so they can do what they want with it all.

More then a week later, I wonder if the other 34 got in? I still have not.

* shurg just pointing out that EQ2 started before NGE.  I could be wrong but the argument that is made boils down to what they did with CU folowed by NGE caused and causes them more harm then good. If they would relase sub numbers anny of us might be beter able to talk about what  games do well and what  ones do not. With out thouse numbers for boath sides it comes down to conjecture and anecdotal evidence.

Originally posted by Kesran

 

Originally posted by LynxRufus

 

 

SOE won't ever have another success either.  The NGE sank them for good.

 

 

EQ2 is a failure?

EQ2 predates NGE by almost a year

wow so I am just one of 35 people who still has not goten into beta after being told i won a spot, good to know.

OP Way to necro your own post more then 2 mounths after it died.

You earn a golf clap 

  I have also always found it interesting that in most cases what is being talked about is MMORPG’s but few see issues with the RP part of the equation dropping off or are completely relegated to a single server or so.  It is a game and that being said it is hard to make people play it the way we what or in many cases even the way it was designed. The one thing that’s always true is that someone will figure out a way to make things do what they were never intended to.

I think in part the issue may be that multy player does not implicitly imply a need to group. In the past in many ways it was seen that way but the games changed to incorporative more of the social and trade aspects which are also parts of multy player. I see a significant aspect of multy player as having other living players to measure your accomplishment against.

   I think instancing has hurt the massive aspect of the games as there is no longer competition with the rest of the population for opportunities. Each player or group has their own instance instead limited of the need to compete for them.

It is Caveat Emptor not Carpe diem which is seize the day.

 Ohh I know it, to me was one of the weaknesses of DAoC. But in a game that had built in strife between factions it was probly the right call as it did not make for an area that the three factions could squable in.

  That does not change that it bites when it comes to giving and geting information. If there was offical boards I could get to I might be able to find out if being a WAR Newsletter Beta Winner will ever get me into beta. On the fan boads I have seen people are eather rude or just anoying when it comes to such questions. Most of that is born of miscommunication.