100 winners announced....

[Dagrims]

Originally Posted by StyxNCa

OK, well the opinion of those 100 on how the game works for THEIR needs is great, however, judging by the forums, everyone uses the game in a different way. I guess fixing the things those 100 find for their desires is a good thing, but there is no way on earth that everything that each person wants or needs or expects will be addressed by release day, hence there will still be patches. I have discovered things in OOTP2006 that I had never seen addressed in any posts until I bought them up, but that is expected since each person looks at and for different things in a game.

It sounds as though you're asking for everyone to have access to a beta version to find the bugs that he (and possibly he alone) would find. That's happened in the past - it was called "release date". It didn't go over so well.

Originally Posted by StyxNCa

I know I will find things none of the beta testers have found or any of the previewers will find because I doubt anyone has manually taken 1 team, especially a historical one, and played an entire season with it. Obviously previewers don't have the time needed to do it, but so far everything I have seen posted by beta testers have been about "simming" seasons.

Or are you asking to be the one additional player who gets early access, because you'll find the remaining bugs?

[Oxydizer]

Originally Posted by StyxNCa

Then reverse the question, if it still isn't ready for release, what purpose do previews do if people are getting a glitchy program?

If the people who get previews come on here and start mentioning bugs they find, all that will do is open up the hornet's nest of people fretting about the quality of the game they will be receiving in a couple weeks and questioning you all about if this will be fixed and that will be fixed, etc.

Thats how you get rid of bugs.

[Oxydizer]

Originally Posted by SkySpy

Good post.

I didn't know it was a requirement to have "x" number of posts here at the OOTP boards or develop some highly touted mod to qualify for a preview copy.

I love baseball just as much as anyone here. I've had enough experience with other versions of OOTP to know what is good, what isn't, and what I'd like to see.

Nevertheless, I'll be enjoying my preview copy for the next five days.

I'll work on my post count after that.

No the previewers were not picked in any way, it was a "lottery" look it up!

[APujols5]

Originally Posted by zukes

Congrats to the winners. Woulda been a nice 30th birthday present (13th if you want to send presents,money, etc.), but I guess I'll have to wait.

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

Cool. I turn 30 on the 15th

and I'm in between you both with the 14th...

[StyxNCa]

Originally Posted by Dagrims

It sounds as though you're asking for everyone to have access to a beta version to find the bugs that he (and possibly he alone) would find. That's happened in the past - it was called "release date". It didn't go over so well.



Or are you asking to be the one additional player who gets early access, because you'll find the remaining bugs?

I reckon you missed my original post that I won't be able to get the game until March 26 at the very soonest. If I had been on the list of 100, I would have had to tell them to give it to someone else.

I was just asking a question as to the purpose of the "preview". The reason I asked isn't of any importance to anyone on these boards.

[StyxNCa]

Originally Posted by Oxydizer

Thats how you get rid of bugs.

Or at least the "bugs" those 100 people find. Everyone else will find their own little "bugs" when the game is released.

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by StyxNCa

Everyone else will find their own little "bugs" when the game is released.

That's true of EVERY computer game released, and has been for quite some time now. Some games, of course, are worse in this regard than are others.

[StyxNCa]

Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange

That's true of EVERY computer game released, and has been for quite some time now. Some games, of course, are worse in this regard than are others.

True of many games, though I do have a few that were good out of the box, but the more "customizable" a game is, the more "bugs" people seem to find.

[SkySpy]

Originally Posted by Oxydizer

No the previewers were not picked in any way, it was a "lottery" look it up!

I'm guessing you missed the sarcasitc tone I was using.

[Dagrims]

Originally Posted by StyxNCa

I reckon you missed my original post that I won't be able to get the game until March 26 at the very soonest. If I had been on the list of 100, I would have had to tell them to give it to someone else.

I was just asking a question as to the purpose of the "preview". The reason I asked isn't of any importance to anyone on these boards.

Yes, I missed it.

The purpose of the preview is to stand a better chance of eliminating a number of additional bugs before general release, by having extra sets of eyes look at it. Perhaps I will find a bug or two after it's been released, but possibly there will be five less that I would have found, that instead were squashed thanks to the preview.

[Rangersfan]

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

Cool. I turn 30 on the 15th

Ill be 32 on the 15th. Would have been a great birthday present if I was selected but it was not to be. I was hoping I would get a preview copy so I could see if I need to upgrade my video card before ootp7 is released in order to run facegen.

[disposableheros]

IIRC (and im sure someone will correct me if im wrong), the original idea for a 'preview' came from a beta tester to get more online league commishes to check out the product and pull them into the fold (sell games to 30 online league owners) and then that got expanded into a 'contest' to generate more pub and sell more preorders.

lets be honest here, its just a hobby for the user, but its a job for the creator.

[enuttage]

Originally Posted by disposableheros

IIRC (and im sure someone will correct me if im wrong), the original idea for a 'preview' came from a beta tester to get more online league commishes to check out the product and pull them into the fold (sell games to 30 online league owners) and then that got expanded into a 'contest' to generate more pub and sell more preorders.

lets be honest here, its just a hobby for the user, but its a job for the creator.

And to add to that, it's very clear that the SI team are very serious about making this a game that can be enjoyed online once more. I really appreciated the way they went about contacting online commishes, and seem to truly care that folks are satisfied. Whoever that beta tester is, they deserve free tickets to a ballgame.

If my HD hadn't just decided to dump on me and die, I'd be right in the mix, trying to figure out if there was anything I could find wrong.

I am cautiously optimistic about this game.

[Claymore]

Gratz to the winners....now post, darn it!

[Curtis]

Originally Posted by The Wolf

Competition is an insensitive ritual that reeks of capitalism and social Darwinism. Your loss is someone else's gain, and your gain is someone else's loss. Therefore, losers contribute to the community while winners detract from it. Being a winner is therefore unenlightened, selfish, unethical and solitary, while losers are enlightened, sharing, guilt-free and striving as a collective. In the modern spirit of diversity, inclusiveness, and collectivism contests should have no longer have any winners. Everyone should instead be declared a loser, and be made to suffer equally.

L - O - S - E - R ! ! !

[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by Curtis

L - O - S - E - R ! ! !

LOL

[Raidergoo]

Originally Posted by Curtis

L - O - S - E - R ! ! !

You need to have more F.U.N.

[Curtis]

Hyperlink is your friend, isn't it? Have you been collecting sound-bite sites recently?

That was my first exposure to Sponge Bob… and I'm hoping it was my last. I agree more with the 'U is uranium' guy.

[Oxydizer]

Originally Posted by SkySpy

I'm guessing you missed the sarcasitc tone I was using.

Yes, I did miss your sarcastic tone, since posts here don't kame a sound. you shouldn't assume someone understands a tone in a post.