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Global Agenda News - Dev Blog: Very First Beta Testers

Posted by Dana Massey on Jul 23, 2009  | 4 comments in our forums

Our exclusive Global Agenda developer blog has received a new entry, where Michal Adam of Hi-Rez Studios tell us about the first few Beta testers in their sci-fi shooter.

Global Agenda's very first beta testers just leveled up.

Inside the Studio, Thursdays are typically New Tester Day (OK, internally we call it 'N00b' day), when we invite new people in to the studio to test Global Agenda.

Today, our NooBs got a special treat. While Global Agenda’s Closed Beta does not officially begin until tomorrow (July 24), we allowed the tester's to login early and be the first on our Beta Servers. So, if you are one of our Closed Beta testers and you login right at the start tomorrow and see a few players already tooling around 10 levels ahead of you – you know they were probably among the group that was at Hi-Rez today.

Read more here.

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Sandblox writes:

I follow this title loosely and I think it could be fun, really dunno just yet but I am turned off by this article. Some may think this is stupid of me but seeing their room full of beta testers being a bunch of 10 year old children....rubbed me the wrong way and made me think of a kiddie game and shoddy testing with trying to market to children.

I am almost 30 and I guess if I saw a room full of adult gamers beta testing the game and knowing the game was being made for adult gamers then I would feel a lot better then seeing a room full of children ><

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7/23/09 10:48:03 PM
 
templarga writes:

Straight from the article:

"New testers came to the studio when Hi-Rez first announced its Tour & Play Program, an initiative geared toward Georgia-based schools, universities, technical colleges, and clubs, with the aim of exposing budding video game creators and enthusiasts to the development process to help cultivate Georgia's gaming industry. Last week we hosted a group of kids from a computer camp based at Emory University; prior to that we had folks from the State of Georgia's Economic Development office - even the Commissioner himself."

The colored text is mine and added for emphasis. I suspect the pics are from that event, which is a very nice event and a good way to reach out to the community.

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7/23/09 10:50:53 PM
 
Sandblox writes:

Ahh my bad, I admit that the article was a bit long and dry at times and so I skipped over parts. I retract my previous statement and kudos to them for hosting a community event. I feel like a dumb ass now :P

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7/24/09 12:57:55 AM
 
templarga writes:

No worries....I just figured there might be more to the story when I read your comments. :)

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7/24/09 12:12:59 PM
 
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