Look at the Halo 3 beta, wasnt that delayed by 24 hrs ? I would also guess there was more people trying the MGO thing than copies of Crackdown sold and other beta offers. No excuses though, they should have realised how many people wanted to try this, one problem may well of been all the US PS3 owners without keys, was trying to log onto the EU servers at the same time as us. Im not surprised one little bit TBH it all went a bit pear shaped lol! When the actual game is released im pretty sure the load on the servers will be less due to time zones and not everyone trying to log on to the servers at once. I'm sure most will be playing the MGS4 at first rather than MGO.
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Look at the Halo 3 beta, wasnt that delayed by 24 hrs ? I would also guess there was more people trying the MGO thing than copies of Crackdown sold and other beta offers. No excuses though, they should have realised how many people wanted to try this, one problem may well of been all the US PS3 owners without keys, was trying to log onto the EU servers at the same time as us. Im not surprised one little bit TBH it all went a bit pear shaped lol! When the actual game is released im pretty sure the load on the servers will be less due to time zones and not everyone trying to log on to the servers at once. I'm sure most will be playing the MGS4 at first rather than MGO.
Wasn't it more like 4 days the Halo 3 one was delayed by?
I just fear for GTAIV as that hasn't had a public beta and Xbox Live and the PSN are gonna melt.
i dont know about halo3 beta is that not a xbox game? so not really relevant
point is beta products are not supposed to be broken, buggy and rubbish simply not
anyone who has coding experience or taken part in pc betas will know this
looks to me the problem is cant cope with demand nothing to do with buggy and broken coding
Wrong thread but as GTAIV multiplayer requires all the resources to render the entirety of Liberty City I don't think a beta was on the cards, best not get our hopes up for next week, realistically we should regard April 29th as the start of the GTAIV multiplayer beta.....
Halo 3 is relevant as you was talking about Beta testing and Halo 3 was probably the last "big" console game to do a form of public Beta testing, much like the MGO beta test. Not sure what youre getting at though? The beta has been stopped in the EU/US so they can stabilise the servers in JPN first of all then they will start the other regions when JPN is OK. So are you trying to say the MGO beta is buggy, broken etc or that its the overwhelming demand causing the problems like i already said?
It is the same thing really, it shows the scale of large open Beta's and what happens.
Beta's are by nature buggy and do not work, if they where not buggy and worked 100% then they would be the Gold Master (even then these days they tend to be broken)
I have taken part in quite a few PC beta's mainly MMO's and they have always been buggy and can't handle loads, hence stress test weekends etc. That is why they do betas, and they are finding that out now with MGO.
What's it going to be like when Killzone 2 does its beta too
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Idiots! Konami are.... IDIOTS!
Now we have to wait 2 more days to join the BETA because they thought one small server based in Mexico would be able to cope with millions of people from all over the world.
They dont half narc me off when they arrange release for a specific date and its delayed... look at the Halo 3 BETA.
Due to such high demand it didnt go live until 24 hours after its scheduled release date and it blew XBOX Live up for 1 day!!!!
pfffttttt.... all the money and they still cut corners!
Now we have to wait 2 more days to join the BETA because they thought one small server based in Mexico would be able to cope with millions of people from all over the world.
They dont half narc me off when they arrange release for a specific date and its delayed... look at the Halo 3 BETA.
Due to such high demand it didnt go live until 24 hours after its scheduled release date and it blew XBOX Live up for 1 day!!!!
pfffttttt.... all the money and they still cut corners!
tbh, you can say it's "free" etc etc. BUT this video game business doesn't half annoy me. It's getting to the point where you shell out 30 - 50 quid for something that either isn't finished, or has another problem with it. Any business other than the video game one that gives a product to the consumer which isn't 100% would be shot out of the water!!! Why oh why do these companies make millions and get a way with it... They told everyone they were going to do something, they didn't deliver, and it's not on anymore. Konami should have got it right, regardless of it being a BETA.
Well as i have already said, i would rather this happened during the free beta, where you take you chance of it working or not, rather than after i spend my 40 quid on the game and find out the online wont work for days.
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I cant understand why people think its acceptable for Konami to misjudge server requirements in this day and age......they're are truely awful at anything online and its not on frankly
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silly silly konami
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I understand the need for a beta to get rid of bugs but not having a server which can cope with the obvious demand is the basics of any online game. So its not really a bug just poor judgement. I am glad they are doing a beta, becuase if MGO turns out anything like pro evo in the final product there would be trouble
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Hi found this on offical beta page so if your wondering if you will beable to play it today forget it
We would like to add that due to the above reasons, we will be making the following changes to the schedule:
1) Suspend beta test: As of 21/04/2008 08:00(CEST)
2) Restart date: TBA. We will be making another announcement on 22/04/2008 08:00(CEST)
3) Beta Test closure: This will now be on 11/05/2008 at 24:00(CEST) rather than 06/05/2008 at 24:00(CEST
We would like to add that due to the above reasons, we will be making the following changes to the schedule:
1) Suspend beta test: As of 21/04/2008 08:00(CEST)
2) Restart date: TBA. We will be making another announcement on 22/04/2008 08:00(CEST)
3) Beta Test closure: This will now be on 11/05/2008 at 24:00(CEST) rather than 06/05/2008 at 24:00(CEST
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Sorry lads its the sleep depravation i had last hoping to get on never mind if its anything like pro 6 its going turn into a floating fish and take 4 month to get patched .