When does Open Beta Begin?

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Demigod tentative schedule

By Draginol Posted July 10, 2008 22:02:03

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December. Beta 3. This may or may not be a public beta depending on how things go.  What we have done in the past is give players who have been particularly helpful access to late betas so that we can keep tweaking and enhancing with their feedback.
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According to a few sources, including here: http://forums.demigodthegame.com/317858 open beta should be comming out relatively soon (tommorow if it is comming with Beta 3). I'm wondering if the link is accurate and with Beta 3 will come open beta for the rest of the public (or soon afterwards).  I appologize if this has been answered somewhere but I've looked around quite a deal and haven't been able to find any recent information on the subject.

I ask because Supreme Commander's open beta was extremely helpful in terms of finding bugs as well as assuring me that I was going to buy a solid product, and to be quite blunt I'd like the same experience again.

Thanks for your help.
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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

I doubt you will see an open beta till late march!!!  You can pre-order today and have access to beta 3 when it comes out

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

I appreciate your response, thank you, is there any more official word then this though?  The reason I ask is that if is indeed in March then there really won't be any time for additional testers to give any feedback before the game is released, just a thought though.

Thanks again :)

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

If you want to influence this game then pre-order it now so you can get in beta 3. open beta will only be able to do some very final balance testing.  We already have a pretty opinionated active beta group that is providing a ton of information as you can see our forums are rocking with new suggestions.

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

Also you quoted a statement in July of last year they are already at least 2 months behind that schedule

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

I quoted that statement because it was the most recent one I could find that have both Beta 3 and Open Beta referenced in them and a tenative date. Also if you read the post there is another 2 months in that calender before the release of the game (sound familiar?). The reason I'm bringing up this issue is because many gamers don't like to commit money to a game that little has been released about as well as a game in such a state of flux.

It's true many people will be using the open beta as a demo, and while I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't going to try out the game in such a sense between identifying bugs and tweaks myself. I think it would be beneficial (I quoted Supreme Commander because I believe they did such an extrodanarily good job in this area) for the game if it were to have an open beta at a good stage before release.

All this is besides the point though, all I really want to know is a rough official approximation, if not an exact date to when the open beta will be released, assuming one is indeed comming.

Reply #6 from Demigod Forums Top

Anyone who pre-orders can join the beta.

But there is no "open" beta in the sense that anyone can just download and play it. We'll have a demo after release.

Reply #7 from Demigod Forums Top

A bit disappointing, but there's nothing I can do about that.  Thanks for the prompt response.

Reply #8 from Demigod Forums Top

Yeah, the comment referenced in the OP was about NDA vs non-NDA testing. Still takes a preorder either way.