Battlefield 2142 1.1 Public Beta

@LeGIt wrote:

I have experienced it (but not for EA) and I will continue to slag them off all day long 🙄

I agree but specifically saying it’s the fault of the testers is simply not true which is where I was coming from . I am not defending EA/DICE and what they decide to put out in the public domain that’s there call and nobody else. You can test and test and test and report problems but at the end of the day EA/DICE decide what gets fixed nobody else.

The reality is no game is perfect and that goes for any game developer and people will always find bugs or things they don’t like, it comes with the territory.

@LeGit wrote:

/Gets on soap box

I also was on the 2142 beta, the first ever thing I saw when I joined a server was someone being insulted via some form of faggotry. Most of the beta testers were just there to play the game before any of their mates and gloat, they really didn’t seem to give a shit about being constructive in any shape or form, so yeah….. most beta testers = public server smacktards… = no confidence in the system.

To be honest with you that was a PR excersice after the problems with BF2 to get people to try before you buy and get the communities talking about 2142 very much a marketing ploy. The Public Betas are just that unfinnshed content released to the community to play around with and I can assure you those people you came across on those public servers were not what I call Beta Testers, they were as you quite rightly said, people who got the content early for bragging rights. Again EA/DICE call and something I personally believe doesn’t add any significant value other than to run the content across multiple hardware and software platforms and try and catch any compatability issues before going to full production.

What I find most amusing is those same people who claim to beta test (Public beta tests) are usually with most vocal on forums about how much they hate the game and how EA/DICE sucks. Rather ironic really.