Feb14: RON BETA CONTEST!

[RONS_thesimss]

Hey I had to do what was right...........Anyways im going to try as much as i can to get a copy of it. And if i do i promise that i won't run my mouth and make people that didn't get 1 feel bad. Who knows maybe i might share it with a few people if i win it.

[RONS_thesimss]

I was thinking about these 2 things and i wanna hear what everyone has to say about this. First of all what i mean by share is i will help anybody who didn't win get there chance to play Rise Of Nations. We are all a family here so i feel its the best thing to do. Second these is what i really want you guys to think about and need your ideas and help. Has anyone every been to provinggrounds.com? well if you know what it is good if not ill explan. Its a site where clans and people go one on one to prove themselfs and try to become number one. Im a member of it. I was think what if i started a site like this? We have Clans fight to see whos number 1 and we have people fight one on one to see whos the top player on the website. And say every few months we have a big torny with players all over the world to see whos the best. if you guys have any ideas or think its good or bad or would like to do im willing to do whatever i can to make it real. If anyone wants to help me and start a team to work on it than talk to me a little more and we can start planing this.

[MarkG]

First of all what i mean by share is i will help anybody who didn't win get there chance to play Rise Of Nations.

that's certainly NOT what bhg and ms have in mind....

[HuangShang]

but i dont understand why BHG and MS wants only 1000 testers

[One_Dead_Villy]

They have much more then 1000 testers. This is a public beta contest. They've had beta testers on it since at least the E3 show during the beginning of the year, there are also inhouse testers at BHG, PLUS zounds of inhouse testers at MS. The public beta contest is more for the benefit of the fans then for the benefit of the game.

[RONS_thesimss]

Trust me Mark i won't be ripping off BHG. What do u guys think about my site idea?

[One_Dead_Villy]

you can start one but there are already many established clan and tourney sites that you can join.

[WarpStorm]

Originally posted by One_Dead_Villy
They have much more then 1000 testers. This is a public beta contest. They've had beta testers on it since at least the E3 show during the beginning of the year, there are also inhouse testers at BHG, PLUS zounds of inhouse testers at MS. The public beta contest is more for the benefit of the fans then for the benefit of the game.

I agree. This is a marketing ploy, they won't get thousands of testers. They'll get thousands of players. Of the 1000, very few will test and honestly try to break RON (after all this is the point of testing, to make it break) and carefully document what went wrong and try over and over to recreate the errors to isolate them. For finding bugs, a few dozen pros will find and document more errors than this thousand will.

The main time you would actually want this many beta testers is to stress test a gaming service.

[Peter Triggs]

Exactly. As I recall, there was initially incredibly little interest in this game . But BHG got a great response when they released the first press beta. Giving away 1000 copies of the second beta to fans who frequent the game sites and will post thereon, is bound to create even more interest. It also shows how confident they are in the quality of their product.

[HuangShang]

Originally posted by One_Dead_Villy
you can start one but there are already many established clan and tourney sites that you can join.

like which one?

[One_Dead_Villy]

Originally posted by HuangShang
like which one?

clans you mean or tourney organizations?
clans you can find any established RTS or whatever clan thats interested in RoN and join, maybe they will adopt RoN when it comes out. Of course u can alyways start one yourself. Tourney orgs...i am sure some fansites will organize some..

[One_Dead_Villy]

Originally posted by Tassadar5000
Isn't it random?

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yes thats how they will get more newbies and people who never heard of or looked into RoN seriously to be interested.

[RONS_thesimss]

U guys all signed up?

[Alex]

I signed up in the official contest, but not in Apolyton yet.

[RONS_thesimss]

i did here and i picked spain. I thought i knew all of them but im not too sure if i did get them.