
February 03, 2011, 20:05:01 |
#7
Quote (GoldfishGod @ 03 February 2011 19:57)

... in those "4 years" you weren't apparently paying enough attention to notice the multiple open betas, including one which would've given you immediate access which other people have right now (without having to wait for emails and activations).
It was the same for me though, I've been watching the Wakfu website since shortly after I started playing Dofus, which was in 2007.. and I do remember signing up for beta testing more than once, but was apparently just unlucky and never ended up getting picked. I wasn't aware that there was also with immediate access, either I missed that or I was too stupid to sign up for it correctly back then. lol
Quote (GoldfishGod @ 03 February 2011 19:57)

Most Closed Betas are not simply open gates. Most let you put your name down as an interested person...there is no "EULA", no "statistics" to say how much chance you have of getting in... if only you put your name down, maybe they let everyone in... 1 million people put their name down, Ankama probably don't have the hardware set up to handle that many people for "Closed Beta". Ankama can't say if people will just get in before they can actually gauge how much interest their is in join the CB... and they do that by counting how many people put their name down
Ok, all of that makes sense. But I for example am not a person who knows a lot about beta testing or company's capacities for occasions like this. How I understood it was that the time limit of signing up before the 31st actually made up the "closed" part, because that option hasn't always been there on the website. I figured that Ankama would have an expected/estimated average of people that would have signed up by that time and just let that lot go and beta test.
Maybe that assumption was very naive, but it looks as if a lot of us actually thought the same way.
Edit: And yes, the lack of communication after the 31st is a different matter, and I only got all my "enlightenment" about the fact that not everybody will be getting in and people are going to get access bit by bit from the NA forums. Because there has plainly been no official information at all on here. But I better not get into that again. ^^