Er, in my line of work, testers are paid. I was considering donating some of my time to help test new versions, but this just baffled me...
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I'm intrigued to know where you read about being asked to beta test anything?
Oh please. it is common practice in the gaming industry that you have to pay to get beta access to basically everything. Hell, i once sold a Betakey for an upcoming MMO for more than 150 Euros.
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Kickstarter reward tier, mate.
Oh wow. OK. Looking for victims, it seems. I remember beta testing games; I obviously didn't have to pay anything, that would be absurd. No matter how I look at it, this seems like an extremely shady practice. I'm baffled that they are doing something like this. Who in his right mind...
I was gonna volunteer to help them, but no thanks. That's seriously messed up.
I'm opening a new business btw, looking for employees. You can work for me if you pay me 15 bucks an hour.
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We also paid extra money to be a part of the Alpha/Beta in the first place, so from my perspective it's nice to automatically have access to future feature testing. You only pay if you want to be "upgraded" to beta level. Although I'm hoping they simply introduce a "beta pass" to let non-backers upgrade their accounts; and I would think the price would be fairly low.
"...1.2’s major Wings UPDATE..." i.e. not "paid EXPANSION"
You're obviously not familiar with common Kickstarter reward tiers?
Seriously, I see this argument a lot and it makes no sense to me. If testing a game is so horrible and tedious that in fact, you should be paid for it, then why are people complaining about having to pay? If it was such a horrible job, nobody would care?
The only reason you are complaining is because you actually want to test the thing. If you want to test it then that has value to you. Just as it had value to the original KS backers who incidentally would be being shafted if this was just granted gratis to anybody who wants it now. Also incidentally without KS there would be no game at all.
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I'm pretty sure they announced they had 140K Beta+ users in interviews towards the tail end of the Beta. Why on earth do you think they'd consider paying you (or anyone else) to join what is already a massive group of testers? Do you really believe that your input is so much more valuable than that of those who already paid extra in order to gain beta access?
They're merely offering a way for people who are not part of the Betas to test the features ahead of general release. If you don't want to pay extra then don't, nobody is going to miss your input.
So i guess you're not setting the navigation plotter to FASTEST ROUTE then from its default ECONOMICAL ROUTE then?
I'm the exception it seems - I'm more than happy to pay for beta access.
I assume that it comes with the other beta benefits - 25% off insurance, free eagle for new starts, etc?
As long as the price is close to the difference between the release and the beta versions (~£10?) I don't have a problem with this.
I assume that it comes with the other beta benefits - 25% off insurance, free eagle for new starts, etc?
As long as the price is close to the difference between the release and the beta versions (~£10?) I don't have a problem with this.
LOVE the 1,000 LY course plot , i have so waited for this looking forward to it very much!!!
I undertand your point but Frontier is doing it differently. I bought into the alpha because i wanted the earliest access possible and because i wanted to test. I knew this was going to cost a premium and I chose to do it. This is a OPTION that you do not have to exerise you wont have to wait since they plan on releasing to prod after a week of testing.
If your issue is just paying to get early access remember many(not all) of the MMO's you mention charge a monthly subscription fee. This game was/is crowdsourced has NO subscription fee. They have to make their money somewhere so I see no issue with this issue as I want them to continue development. Again You have the option of paying or waiting. your choice.
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Paying for ability to test 'betas'? Seriously?
I already paid £ 40 to test your 'released version' that by all means is nothing more than late alpha or very early beta.
I already paid £ 40 to test your 'released version' that by all means is nothing more than late alpha or very early beta.
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