Guild Wars 2

Let me call my trained specialist over to squash this forum bug for you.

lordkrall.7241:

That is of course assuming that friends and family:

1: Don’t already have access to the alpha.
2: Will outright lie about the game if they find it bad.

I don’t know about you, but when I ask for feedback from friends and family they usually don’t lie about what I am doing bad.

I may have express myself wrong. When i said family and friend, in this case actually wanted to say: people who i won a good review from, or people that have a lot of influence in the internet community and can help me sell this for free (or little investment).

Imo all that Brighton and previous events were an investment for anet, in order to obtain a bunch of “influencial friends” on their pocket. it is so much cheaper and probabbly most effective than using the ussual marketign campaigns so i agree is a good idea.

And it is important to know the difference between kittensual friend and this kind of friend.

This kind of freind gets new subscribers on their channels if they talk about HoT. And the better they talk about HoT, the more chance they’ll got to continue talking about it (cause they’ll be invited into events, they’ll have exlusives for their channels and stuff to show or talk about).
It is a win-win for both sides: You talk good of me, ill give you more stuff to talk. and the more you talk, more subscribers you’ll get. And all almost for free.

That is what i would do: put in the betas to my friends, those friends who has a professional relationship with me and is in the best ineterest for both of us to talk good about the beta. And thats why i dont expect to be chosen, or the 90% of the community.
But again, this is what i would do if i were there. Who knows what they will actually do and how they manage to deal with the lack of NDA of this betas. I guess only time will tell.