Firaxis Games Public Beta Team

[Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS]

Firaxis Games is recruiting roughly 25 individuals, over the age of 21, who live in the United States, and would be willing to help us test patches and possibly future projects. If you're interested and meet the above criteria, please send an email to beta@firaxis.com. Put 'Public Beta Application' in the subject and include (in the following format):

1. Your Name
2. Date of Birth
3. City and State
4. Amount of time available to dedicate to testing
5. Why you want to participate (1 paragraph or less)

If you're selected, we'll contact you through email in the coming weeks. Thanks and good luck!

Jeff

[MarkG]

Apolyton's suggestions to the people who will want to mail Firaxis:
1) Only send a mail if you meet the criteria(that's a good way to help Firaxis as well!)
2) Dont expect a "Thank you, but no" reply. There's going to be a flood...

Jeff, check the news

[Gramphos]

Is the reason for the criteria that the testers need to be bound to American law? or is it just administrative reasons?

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Gramphos
Is the reason for the criteria that the testers need to be bound to American law? or is it just administrative reasons?

i'd say both...

[Comrade Tribune]

That must be a joke! Is it April 1, yet?

[Frank Johnson]

What's wrong with you guys, have something against college students?



Oh well, I guess we'll just have to use persuasion to get a look at those patches and help your programers who dont know jack about civ.

[MrWhereItsAt]

It's a shame that they only want those in the US.

Doesn't the Civ series have at least as much support in Europe as in the USA?

Judging by the posters here at Apolyton there are more Europeans than anyone else.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Frank Johnson
dont know jack about civ.

that's a good line in order to get on the team

MrWhereItsAt, it's not about having fans in europe or not. it's most probably easier to manage a group if the geographical area of the participants is smaller...

[Frank Johnson]

Hey mark, I'm 19 so I can be bitter if I want!

And face it, me and you know more about civ than some programer they pick up off the street. And they don't want you cause your greek. Come on and fight the system, it doesn't hurt if you've already been outcast.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Frank Johnson
And face it, me and you know more about civ than some programer they pick up off the street.

yes frank, the people who worked on civ3 every for the last 2.5 years know nothing about civ...

[Frank Johnson]

[Robert]

I'm 23, 11 years of civ experience..........
but I'm from europe......... thus I can't apply

c'mon Jeffrey, please don't stick to the 'only from the USA' requirement.............

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by MarkG
yes frank, the people who worked on civ3 every for the last 2.5 years know nothing about civ...

Yes markG, for the same reasons that building engineers don't always make great architects.


Some of them do though...

[TechWins]

Headline News!!! Civ3 goes beta and is looking for public participants to help out. However, you will stay be able to purchase your early stage game of Civ3 for $50 at your local electronic store.

I guess it's better late than never for Firaxis to do this.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by TechWins
I guess it's better late than never for Firaxis to do this.

i think you should bold the more important part of your post instead