Has the beta ruined the game for you?

[ALVn]

Genuinely played since 3pm today with no issues what so ever, just the odd beta bugs.. Its bareable.. Playable.. And im defo keeping my preorder Completely satisified.

[Exar0s]

I swear this is getting old. You people knew, or should have known what a day 1 MMO beta release would be like. Have you never played another MMO on release day? No, cause if you have you wouldn't be here whining like a little girl. 100%, not 99%, 100% of MMO's have this exact same problem on day one of a beta release and day 1 of the retail release. The whole point of the beta is not for you to get a demo of the game, if that was the case everyone could download it. It is for you and other to stress the servers (we are doing a good job mind you) and report bugs, which I'm sure 99% of you are not doing.

The game will be fine, the servers will stabilize and all will be good.

[Lucent]

No it has convinced me to buy it actually. Though I will now be getting the PC version as opposed to the Xbox. The lag isn't really the issue but the incredible difference in aliasing and blur is. Game plays the same on both versions though so either way it is win if you buy.

Really enjoying the game so far.

Yeah, my husband got the PC beta (my laptop can't run it so....) and I am jealous at how much prettier it looks. Plus it's fully integrated with the Xbox controller interface. Ehhh, I like being on XBL though, so I am torn. Pretty or my community?

EDIT: And to answer the thread: no, the beta is not ruining the game. It's not a demo. It's a beta...

[Roeh]

I'm still going to get the game, its good been playing the PC version till 360 gets patched tonight

[ironhands]

no it was not but as for the now bata today i have not been able to log in for 2.5 hrs

they're patching now

[siriusjws]

Ive played in the Betas for ALOT of MMOs and Exar0s is correct they ALL have lag and log in issues. It took me a few hours to be able to log in this morning and when i did the game was basically unplayable because of the lag. After I logged out i have been completely unable to log back in because of the same username error that stopped me before. But its all something im used to with Betas/ Stress tests. And all of those other MMOs that had the same issues all turned out good once they got the bugs worked out. Im getting the 150 Gamestop version and the 2 hours of play I was able to tell even through the lag that the game has ALOT of potential and once these COMPLETELY normal MMO related server issues are fixed the game will be really good. I havent doubted preordering it even once thought all day of trying to get back in/ back in .. and the lag issues the short time I was online. Be patient every MMO has these same problems. Day 1 is almost always unplayable. Some games take a few days to get these things fixed. Even after beta alot of them have problems for the first few days. They try there hardest to limit them with these betas but you can never really prepare for the massive amount of people logging in day one. Plus i dont know about anyone else but I never selected a server when I created my toon. Which tells me chances are there only running one server to gage server load. When the game launches they will probably have a nice long list of servers and lag shouldn't be an issue. Im sure the log in issues will be fixed sometime tomorrow also. Be patient and remember having these things happen now is MUCH better then having them after you have paid money for the game. You should never make judgement on a game because of beta problems .. you should only judge it if looking through the issues you dont like the game play or some other aspect of the game that issues are not server related. Im sure by the end of the beta period the game will be running much smoother.

[gamerx32104]

If anything the beta made me glad that I preordered the collectors edition as I love the game even with the issues I encountered.

[Jafo]

Its definitely made my reconsider my choice of platform. Seriously, even for a beta...this is absurd. I will give them until the end of the 360 beta to iron out the servers. If they aren't perfect by then, I'll either switch to pc, or just cancel. There's a few other games coming out that I can get instead of this. Neverwinter for one, although I'm not sure what the release is for that. And then of course we have Elder scrolls online.

And next gen is right around the proverbial corner.

One bad thing pushing me to cancel: the side missions are (so far) all the same. I've been like 6 and they are all activate 3 consoles and drop off at a mailbox. Not a lot of variety. This kind of thing gets terribly old, terribly fast

[Vexx 7s]

I hope you understand that these issues are going to happen in betas, and that this is in no way a view of what the full game will be like. It's out job as beta testers to find these things no matter how major or minor they may be. The server issues have gotten the attention of the staff already and are being fixed during the current maintenance. Hopefully afterward the servers will run much smoother!

Personally looking past the lag, I see HUGE potential in this game.

[jewishsweed]

No... and your issue with the lag is purely console issues cause I've also been playing the PC beta and I haven't had any of the issues I've had on the 360.