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^^ Well said that man!
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having an alpha SO close to its beta release is dumb....they could have started this alpha testing weeks/months ago
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With what? Do you think they've been sat on this build for months? Come on use your head.
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for a game that's APPARENTLY been in development longer than dayz and only brings out an alpha now.....yup
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I give up.
They release an alpha build, you choose to buy it and then you say they should have released it earlier because its not good enough.
/facepalm
jesus.
ALPHA
BETA
CHARLIE
delta
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I could go on!.........
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i didn't buy it lol...im not going to buy a game that's only released an alpha few weeks before its beta release..its plain stupid
lol.... just type "warz alpha" into youtube and you get gameplay from over a month ago, just because we didn't get access to alpha until this week doesn't mean that there hasn't been an alpha. They started a while ago.
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I honestly think they've used the term alpha to cover up the problems they are having getting it up and running while open to the public. They obviously wanted to get it out before Dayz is committed to a date.
Like people said maybe a closed alpha with more people and pre orders on beta would have caused them a smaller backlash.
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WOW a whole month...planetside 2 was in alpha for god knows how long lol
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really..who would have thought....you are so wise my friend
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It don't matter if beta is out next week, month the testing will still carry on till game go's gold. A lot can change over theses next couple weeks.
This is the problem with, for lack of an earlier reference, "Minecraft Style" release that has become popular with smaller devs.
They want to involve the community and release early builds of games.
Some of the time it works great, people really enjoy the game find bugs stuff gets fixed, game gets good publicity and everyone is happy when a more polished beta comes out.
The other times the alpha is too buggy and broken to really be released (which is fine for a small internal or invite test community) and people complain and the publicity is very negative, which causes less people to play, less bugs to be fixed and much more of a failure.
The idea of releasing an alpha to the public needs to be considered more carefully by some of these dev teams.
They want to involve the community and release early builds of games.
Some of the time it works great, people really enjoy the game find bugs stuff gets fixed, game gets good publicity and everyone is happy when a more polished beta comes out.
The other times the alpha is too buggy and broken to really be released (which is fine for a small internal or invite test community) and people complain and the publicity is very negative, which causes less people to play, less bugs to be fixed and much more of a failure.
The idea of releasing an alpha to the public needs to be considered more carefully by some of these dev teams.
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The games industry isn't immune from rush jobs.
I don't see why people can't refute the game before it's released, I mean these guys haven't got a decent track record with the game so far and all the stuff surrounding it.
okay lets break this down
alphas betas and so on are based on different builds its not just alpha then beta there will be numerous different alpha builds and beta builds
Actually it is a linear progression. If that's what you were saying it wasn't.
I might be mistaking what you're saying though!
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We all know you hate the game, you won't buy it. So what exactly are you still doing in the WarZ thread? Ahh trolling
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when did i say i hated it....i clearly said the way they released alphas/betas was dumb
if that means i hate the game as a whole then ...erm ok
if that means i hate the game as a whole then ...erm ok
Your name describes your level of intelligence quite well.
This thread needs moderated, it is a disaster with blind haters and fan boys, I want to see discussion about the game, not bitching because you prefer DayZ, this is a cash in, or DayZ sucks.
@ Above, the way they released it isn't dumb, they have tonnes of people bug testing for them and many of them enjoying having it early and having fun.
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