Closed beta test VS Open beta test

[Krubs]

I get out for Spring Break!

yayz!

starting today.

plenty of time to play with my....... video gamez.

[Everything]

i got out yesterday (Wed) w00t

[nex nicholai]

This week was "break" for me. Pretty much useless in my opinion. Then again, I spent time in the real world before committing to school. I guess I dont like the break because Im paying for those classes, and why would I want less for my money?

Well that and my midterms are AFTER break, not before... ick.

[IvaQuaL]

the thread topic is now "Schtoofa vs Bizarro Schtoofa"

[PsYcNeT]

Bizzarro Schtoofa would kick Schtoofa's narrow white boy ass into the dirt with his cosmic eye-ball death rays.

And then would promptly force the FF team to stop working and release FF as is and never update it again.

Oh and we'd have hourly frontpage updates about how there's nothing to update about

[mervaka]

Originally Posted by TACKTITSDUDE

Is there any logic to why you are so dumb and think its ok that FF hasn't been released yet? Or is it just because you can beta test and no one else can. Die in a fucking fire, and no I'm not trolling I'm torching this tool.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

what a poorly formed insult. i'd better throw one back. poohead.

[Lost]

Whoa Merv, you were torched, yo.

[OCDCured]

Lol yeah!

Hmm, I spammed a lot, check my postcount! All that in 1 month

[nodnarb]

what, -6378?

[Nezumi]

See that? Random postcounts cause WAY more spam.

[Agret]

No spring break here (Australia), our holidays are quite different to your system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academi...nd_New_Zealand

[IvaQuaL]

Originally Posted by Nezumi

See that? Random postcounts cause WAY more spam.

Once the novelty wears off they'll just be ignored. Maybe people new to the forums will post once about it, just like they did reacting to Circ's postcount.

[Nezumi]

Originally Posted by IvaQuaL

Maybe people new to the forums will post once about it, just like they did reacting to Circ's postcount.

Actually, that's a good point.

[Ihmhi]

Question and a suggestion.

Question: Defrag said they "ruined" BF2. I have never played it, so, could someone explain to me what he means?

Suggestion: One of the reason that FF keeps getting flak is due to the lack of media releases. A good idea to fix this problem would be to make a spot on the dev team for a dedicated Public Relations person. I mean, there must be a hundred people on these forums who have skills in editing videos, photoshopping, etc. All the Dev Team would have to do is provide them with the source material (i.e. screenies) and they could handle the P.R. In turn, the P.R. dude gets to play in the beta. Moreover, part of his/her job would be recording demos during the beta and using it to make videos. Mr. Beefy already has done an excellent job with the Dustbowl video, of course, but you need to get out more stuff of this quality. There is surely an abundance of people with these skills who are willing to get the message out via videos and media releases, and with the incentive of being on the dev team (and hence having access to the beta), I am sure that if you created the position and solicited talented people (who could provide a portfolio of existing material, of course, to prove their mad skillz) you would have one within a week.

[mervaka]

Originally Posted by Dospac

Yeah.. It's gettin closer for sure. The same problem we've always had continues to rear its head though. There are members of the dev team that the game is simply waiting on, no other way around it. When they can't spend the time needed to complete the release task list, we have to find other people who can, or wait. We're doing both right now, and we have been all along, basically.

This is why we can say with reasonable assuredness that the end of 2006 wasn't an impossible time frame for release, but also be 3+ months past that, still with no release. If we got 8 hour days for a week or two from a handful of key people on the team, I don't think it's far fetched to say that we'd only be a week or two away from where we want to be for the first release.

Unfortunately this type of commitment simply does not exist for us, for this project, or projects like this in general. So we've made a good effort to prioritize and cut what isn't required for the first release, and continued to look for suitable people to do the work needed.

Even with marginal time commitments that come with this type of undertaking, the project is moving forward and the first release is in sight. The lack of updates is mostly due to a general attitude amongst the team that we want to get the game out and stop posting pictures or talking about it. This may or may not be the right path to be on, and it definitely isn't popular with FF fans on the forum here.

This is just feedback to those of you asking to play or see more of the game and to provide an alternate view to the one stating that FF is vaporware or it will never be released.

I think we're at a point now where dev journaling the release task list and progress being made might be interesting for the community to see. I'll see what I can do for ya'lls on that point.

can i just bring this back up? FF is so close, yet we are all waiting ages to get this whole thing polished off.

[Guy Incognito]

I reckon the people would be happy with a 2fort map and 3-4 finished classes to tide em over till full release?

[mervaka]

finishing classes is not the problem, it's tweaking and balancing them. contentwise they're to my knowledge pretty much all there. as for 2fort, well the beta team hasn't seen it yet

[Guy Incognito]

Arr! I can only hope it's more the size of 2fort5 from QTF Arr!

And as far as editing video's and all that jazz for media releases and such, I do such. http://www.landpirates.ca

[Ihmhi]

Originally Posted by Guy Incognito

Arr! I can only hope it's more the size of 2fort5 from QTF Arr!

And as far as editing video's and all that jazz for media releases and such, I do such. http://www.landpirates.ca

See it is not even official yet and you already have one post within three hours! (|:

[GhOsT]

Originally Posted by Ihmhi

Question and a suggestion.

Question: Defrag said they "ruined" BF2. I have never played it, so, could someone explain to me what he means?

Suggestion: One of the reason that FF keeps getting flak is due to the lack of media releases. A good idea to fix this problem would be to make a spot on the dev team for a dedicated Public Relations person. I mean, there must be a hundred people on these forums who have skills in editing videos, photoshopping, etc. All the Dev Team would have to do is provide them with the source material (i.e. screenies) and they could handle the P.R. In turn, the P.R. dude gets to play in the beta. Moreover, part of his/her job would be recording demos during the beta and using it to make videos. Mr. Beefy already has done an excellent job with the Dustbowl video, of course, but you need to get out more stuff of this quality. There is surely an abundance of people with these skills who are willing to get the message out via videos and media releases, and with the incentive of being on the dev team (and hence having access to the beta), I am sure that if you created the position and solicited talented people (who could provide a portfolio of existing material, of course, to prove their mad skillz) you would have one within a week.

Myself and others have suggested this before but I guess it either wasn't seen or it wasn't something they wanted to do.