blitzen Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 I read that there will be a beta release in October. That doesn't leave much time for fixes and gameplay changes. Anybody signing up for it? I assume there's an NDA so there won't be any new info provided from players during the beta testing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zanity Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 The REAL BETA, which has industry meaning, is the INVITE ONLY testing Beth says it will do sometime before the DEMO posing as a beta appears weeks before the game goes on sale. The real beta will have NDA restriction. But better for Howard, the real beta will avoid exposing the "play with my mates" fallacy, for the randos chosen for the real beta will have no expectation of controlling who they play with. The demo posing as a beta can be delayed to as little as a week (or a few days) before the release date with no legal fallout for Todd Howard. The demo posing as a beta is available for all (pre-order peeps) and will have no effective NDA. But the game will be set in stone (gone gold) at that time. Today, the changes come after a game releases, so 'going gold' doesn't have the same significance it once had. Feedback from the actual beta will be dismissed (as industry SOP) as issues that will be "obviously fixed" before release. 95% of people lined up to buy Fallout:76 get no info from 'difficult' outlets, and firmly believe the game is just like Skyrim and Fallout 4, but with a multi-player option. Beth hopes for a massive Xmas pressie market, cos that is also critic proof (for a previously beloved IP). Anyway nothing magic is happening this side of Xmas. Fallout:76 is 100% from the mind of Todd Howard until release. It is what happens AFTER release, and the state of the game a year later, that should be of interest to every sane informed gamer. Beth is currently throwing stupid amounts of internal resources at this title, without any proper plan. Because it is easy, I'd imagine a ton of this is paid cosmetic cr-p to be hosted on the CC. For Todd, the test is post release revenue from 'gaming as a service'- ie CC sales. The demo posing as a beta is probably going to try to leverage gamer 'vanity' to sell as much CC cr-p as possible in the weeks before release. Fortnite discovered that vanity in a f2p game can make billions. To PAY to look 'boss' in a multi-player game where the 'paupers' all look the same is an idea that makes Todd drool so hard, I'm suprised he hasn't drowned in a pool of his own saliva. Indeed, I HATE to say it, but if were Todd Howard, I'd have my team creating UNIQUE outfits to be owned by only one player that sell for hundreds of dollars at least. You trad Fallout and Skyrim players are not going to believe what goes down in the early days of Fallout:76. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sopmac45 Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Perhaps Skyrim and Fallout4 ( Fallout New Vegas ) were so good that they cannot create anything else to top them off so they are throwing Fallout 76 as the best game ever but we know it is not, or at least, it is not what we expected. I am perfectly ok playing away from the world with more than 10k mods ( combined between Skyrim, New Vegas and FO4 ) at my disposal to choose from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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