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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ross Moorhouse [B]We have only ever done an open beta once. That was on a patch for UV. Some of those testers are now under an NDA and working on WitP. As a rule we do not do open betas on a full game. Why? Because we don't. If other game companies want to thats fine for them. So you can have a poll in this thread but thats as far as it will go. :) Opening the game up to heaps of input only delays its developement. Sure people can say that we should take all the time in the world to develope but you also have to consider that like other companies we need to have income so we have to get games out the door. We appreicate your concern but rest assured all of our testers are old hands at the orginal game. Thats why we ask the question about having played the board game. ;) [/B][/QUOTE] Well, to take less time and put out a bad game and then charge people 60 bucks (which by the way is a heap of money), would really suck and would certainly make it so I would never buy another game from you ever again, which, in the long run, would just hurt your income. As far as the people who are doing the testing, as a software developer, I always want a wide range of people testing any of my code. The wider range of people, the better the testing will go. If you only get people who know how to play the game already, then how will you know how someone who has never played the game will mesh with the software? This is like saying, to do this press this. But what if they don't press this? then what? Or if someone doesn't know the rules and tries to do something outside of the rules, how is your code going to act then? This method of experienced only, I don't understand. I applied to be beta tester, so I am a little bit bitter, since I have played the game about a zillion times and read the rule book more than a priest has read the bible, but anyways. Good luck in the development and I await the release in dire pain. :) ps. For the purposes of this poll, I voted for an open beta, as to me, it makes much more sense as a developer, but probably not as a businessman. Oh, well.
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