Guild Wars 2

Why did you have such short beta windows to participate?

I missed the first one and read the other dates as on the midnight of 27th and morning of the 28th and missed all three now.

It’s to give the illusion that players opinions matter when really all they are testing is whether the whole thing runs with real players. At this late stage in development there won’t be any major changes and it’s more of a marketing ploy than an actual test.

It’s the first one. Basically a copy of the demo. They didn’t even test elite specializations to my knowledge. There will be more betas in the future. More extensive ones with more content to test. Calm down.

Baldrick.8967:

It’s to give the illusion that players opinions matter when really all they are testing is whether the whole thing runs with real players. At this late stage in development there won’t be any major changes and it’s more of a marketing ploy than an actual test.

Why would player opinions matter in a stability or servers stress test beta?

You do understand that beta’s are held for different reasons, and one this short will certainly not be focused on player feedback as far as game changes go.

Some people, really…

PS. while at it, going by your posting history, you might want to take a break from something you are this negative about. Come back for HoT and enjoy the game. People on the forums don’t have to deal with a negative nancy and you get to play something you enjoy. It’s a win-win.

That’s a terrible idea. Telling someone to quit until expac and then having the pay when they return to play it?
Why would they come back at all? :s

The beta is not for you. It’s for ArenaNet.

Stressssss tessssst.

This was just meant to put some strain on the system to see what breaks so they can adjust and apply that to other things to see if they will break as well and hopefully get ahead of it before they do a proper open beta which will last longer.

Gibson.4036:

The beta is not for you. It’s for ArenaNet.

Exactly.

Anyone who thinks otherwise should take a look at their entitlement issues.

wow glad i didnt waste my time farming portals

Like other people said the point was to stress the servers.

They probably did the short window so they could run it, see how things went, try to fix things in the 2 hours in between then run it again.

I know the first session had a lot of lag (at least on the EU servers) for example, and hopefully that was better in the later sessions, but I couldn’t play them to find out.

A beta is not a demo

Crystallize.8603:

That’s a terrible idea. Telling someone to quit until expac and then having the pay when they return to play it?
Why would they come back at all? :s

Good question, but why should they stay in the first place when they are obviously not enjoying the game?

Sometimes it’s best to take a healthy break. No reason to chain ones self to a game that one does not enjoy. If they return in the future, great. But that decision is more likely to be positiv and happen after some time away from the game instead of a permanent negativ attitude drag along.

Likely they had the servers in debug mode churning out log reports to read from the server client/app (ass opposed to the entire server on a stress test). So from three two-hr blocks, they took enough data to work with for a while. Likely we’ll see more testing once they make tweaks and/or move to test out other new systems.

This isn’t the first nor the last beta test of the series; there will be more. Plus, as others have noted, it isn’t meant to be a demo (at least, not primarily).

Extreme.8350:

wow glad i didnt waste my time farming portals

lols, yeah same here, I had a feeling it wasn’t going to worth the time to grind for a portal.