Guild Wars 2

While I know the arguments against keeping stuff, and there are very good reasons, it means things like the beta weekends do not present a good test of how I use GW2 day-to-day. If I normally am doing a boss fights who would I send the beta test weekends, the character than can keep the rewards or one that can not?

I am not sure of what would be a good solution. Just that it is not making a representative test.

Seems like you care more about personal gain, and not actually testing for bugs and glitches.

It’s beta for making the game better later on, not so you can get a free trial and get free stuff.

Respect what a beta test actually is

I guess it’s because it’s not to test how you play the game day to day but to play the game in such a manner as to find bugs and to see where the new profession or the new set of skills is lacking.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I guess it’s because it’s not to test how you play the game day to day but to play the game in such a manner as to find bugs and to see where the new profession or the new set of skills is lacking.

Yea I mean should the people who only login for daily login rewards test how they usualy play aswell?

I made 300g last beta weekend.
There must be some new materials for HoT that they don’t want us farming yet. Beta Testers are underpaid.

Monk Tank.5897:

Beta Testers are underpaid.

I have heard they paid for the beta access (pre paid).
So … yeah they are.

To be sure, this does put a crimp on a lot of feedback.

But at the same time, the potential dangers to the live economy are huge.
Lets say next BWE they’ve tweaked Rev a bit and it turns out super OP.
Or rewards for some event are badly out of balance.
Tons of people flock to it and farm everything effortlessly, flooding the market with a lot of otherwise harder to obtain stuff, crashing prices (or driving them up, as more people have lots more money to throw around), etc.

While some of us would say yay cheaper stuff, or yay more money, that’s not really good for the long term health of the economy. and imagine not participating, your carefully saved up 300g all of a sudden buys a tenth it used to because people are throwing around huge amounts of money.

Even the launch is going to carry some risk, but the hope is for the beta to reveal the big issues so they can be quietly fixed before launch.