2014-10-12, 03:05 AM
CarrionCrow Wrote:Yea, that goes for some of the more hardcore fans. Those aint nearly enough to keep the game alive, though. I don't want another game that fails just because the publishers have no notion about the importance of marketing. Imagine the horror of them opening up just to close down again a year later. My Hell Freezer deserves beter.
I think that Neople will need to advertise a ton for DFOG to survive for a long period of time. On the other hand, I think the late beta release won't affect the long-term health of the game. All of the people who played during the alpha will be brought back easily if Neople targets an audience who haven't tried and played the game before -- which they'll need to in order for the game to thrive.
The only people that they could be losing from releasing the beta late are people who played during the Alpha; and these players are generally more a "core" audience that are going to be playing once the beta hits regardless of its release date.
Arrol Wrote:I'm more concerned on who'll classify enough to get an invite.
I'd imagine that they'd bring back all the people who played during the Alpha. Closed beta should theoretically be short; it's probably going to be mostly a server/netcode stress test. It could also gate the "outer core" of players temporarily to make sure that the game won't have any bugs that would deter them from playing long term, while also hyping them up to play while they can't get in like Hearthstone ended up doing during its CBT.