Well, after the 48 hours, I haven't heard a word, so.... did anyone got the invite already?

Didn't they say March, somewhere?

So that gives us second half of next week.

I may had missed the info. I went to the official site and didn't find nothing nor they said anything in the e-mail I got after I applied for beta testing.

Originally posted by NBlitz

Didn't they say March, somewhere?

So that gives us second half of next week.

well they had an announcement saying they would ramp up the beta invitations through March and April so this would be the best guess...them making beta weekends and only in end April having the trial/open beta weekend...if the servers are stabil enough anyway.

atleast I havent seen concrete dates, as to if it is early march or not they will start invite people, but Ive had situational blindness before ;P

Even just saying you're in the beta would be a breach of the NDA.

Originally posted by DecoyTrooper

Well, after the 48 hours, I haven't heard a word, so.... did anyone got the invite already?

Impatient much!  You dont think sifting through 1 million peoples system specs to best match whatever part of the game they are trying to test doesnt warrent a few days of time?  Give it a rest.  The phrase, the game will be ready when its ready can be applied to this situation as well.  The beta acces will come when it comes.

Originally posted by JoeyMMO

Even just saying you're in the beta would be a breach of the NDA.

Depends. Firefall beta allows you to say I AM in beta but not post pictures and stuff.

Originally posted by Purplehazz

Originally posted by DecoyTrooper

Well, after the 48 hours, I haven't heard a word, so.... did anyone got the invite already?

Impatient much!  You dont think sifting through 1 million peoples system specs to best match whatever part of the game they are trying to test doesnt warrent a few days of time?  Give it a rest.  The phrase, the game will be ready when its ready can be applied to this situation as well.  The beta acces will come when it comes.

I think they will have a computer select those people with the needed specs... less then a day of work

Originally posted by Flex1

Originally posted by JoeyMMO

Even just saying you're in the beta would be a breach of the NDA.

Depends. Firefall beta allows you to say I AM in beta but not post pictures and stuff.

Yes, but the GW2 beta faq on the NDA explicitly states that you will NOT be allowed to say you are in beta.

Originally posted by sidhaethe

Originally posted by Flex1

Originally posted by JoeyMMO

Even just saying you're in the beta would be a breach of the NDA.

Depends. Firefall beta allows you to say I AM in beta but not post pictures and stuff.

Yes, but the GW2 beta faq on the NDA explicitly states that you will NOT be allowed to say you are in beta.

can you say that you are no longer allowed to disclose if you are in beta or not because of agreeing to an NDA?

Originally posted by SoSuMei

Originally posted by sidhaethe

Originally posted by Flex1

Originally posted by JoeyMMO

Even just saying you're in the beta would be a breach of the NDA.

Depends. Firefall beta allows you to say I AM in beta but not post pictures and stuff.

Yes, but the GW2 beta faq on the NDA explicitly states that you will NOT be allowed to say you are in beta.

can you say that you are no longer allowed to disclose if you are in beta or not because of agreeing to an NDA?

 Well, as long as it's just "agreeing to an NDA" and if there are other betas out there that also have this in their NDA then I don't see why not. If no other current NDA requires this, then I wouldn't talk about that either.

Originally posted by Purplehazz

Originally posted by DecoyTrooper

Well, after the 48 hours, I haven't heard a word, so.... did anyone got the invite already?

Impatient much!  You dont think sifting through 1 million peoples system specs to best match whatever part of the game they are trying to test doesnt warrent a few days of time?  Give it a rest.  The phrase, the game will be ready when its ready can be applied to this situation as well.  The beta acces will come when it comes.

lol back down a bit maybe? It's a valid question, and if he IS impatient... welll, it's good to be excited about stuff.

A for 'sifting' through a million apps... you think they have one man at a desk with a magnifying glass on the job or something?

Given how elaborate their system was for tracking applications as they came in, plus the complexity of sifting through what they had to have anticipated would be hundreds of thousands of applications, it's a very good bet that selection will be made by the computer.

I can imagine they will weight a number of factors into the choices, tryiing to get the maximum number of combinations of hardware, drivers and versions of Windows. They tracked exactly where each application came from, based on the i.p. address, to with in 50 miles, so I'm sure they will want a broad spread of applicants geographically. (If I remember correctly, they said most applicants would be selected from the primary market region covered by the U.S. based servers, but people from around the world were allowed to sign up and they would likely select a few people from distant locations to test how well the game worked for people with higher latency to U.S. based servers).

I also expect they will continue to ramp up invites at a steady rate once the process begins, so they can test vs. biggger and bigger loads, while replacing testers they lose to "attrition". (I've seen peole post that if they get in, they don't plan on playing much, just want a taste with out spoiling anything).

BTW, yes, my understanding is that the NDA will forbid one from even saying they are in the beta. Don't ask for the source, there was information overload the past two days with most of that coming through twitter and I can't pull the source, but it was said by an official source.

In meanwhile when your waiting this 45min video is great entertainment to watchhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mzQCi7c0DuY&gl=NL

First rule of Beta.. you dont talk about beta

(someone has to drag out that old joke)

I got invited...........................................................................................for TSW.

Originally posted by Skarecrow7

First rule of Beta.. you dont talk about beta

 

(someone has to drag out that old joke)

That depends on the stage of beta... With the NDA allready lifted for the press, i can't imagine that there will be much of an NDA left for the players invited to the next Beta stage...

However we will not know untill those invites are send...

I got an email saying i am selected but got no download links or anything ;(

Soon™