The next Star Trek MMORPG: Another Epic Fail?

[Alcibiades]

Err... when I downloaded from fileplanet, the downloader was very small, under 50 MB.  It then forced a download from Cryptic of 8gb+, which took two days.

Huh both of the downloads i'm doing from fileplanet have been 7+ gigs

It *says* 100 kb/sec, but its really much slower.  I've been downloading for 45 minutes as of right now and I have completed 103 megabytes. 

Edit:  the reason it is so much slower is because it goes in bursts.

[katmai]

Hey alci when you dl'd the client and start game you'll have 172mb dl'd to get too.

[Alcibiades]

A lot better than 7.7 gigabytes. 

[Grey Fox]

Downloading is done & installed. All ready to go, well except that ~150 mb patch. Couldn't log in, apparently their are doing maintenance.

Damn, Tentonhammer, me & my inability to wait.

[MadBurgerMaker]

I am: downloading the beta client.  Beeb made it too easy with that link (thanks for the link). 

[Tamas]

NOOOOO! I went home for lunch and forgot to launch the client download!!!!!!!! NOOOO!!!

[Grey Fox]

Dude, go back.

[Tamas]

Can't Won't be playing this before Tuesday night by the looks of it

[DisturbedPervert]

Got a key, thanks for the link BB.

[Tamas]

Can't Won't be playing this before Wednesday night by the looks of it

[Berkut]

Then they are lieying, this is not an Open beta. I don't see how they are going to properly test their systems without handing out free keys. There probably isn't enough pre-orders.

Isnt there a way to stress test their system by adjusting for the amount of players they do have?  In other words, if the only way they can properly test before launch is to have all the players on that will be playing at launch then isnt it impossible to test before launch?

GF is talking out his ass - an "open" beta does not mean anyone can test, it means the beta is not covered by an NDA. They are not under any obligation to give everyone total access at all.

[Grey Fox]

Fair Point but it's still suck.

Anyway, there's free keys available.

[grumbler]

GF is talking out his ass - an "open" beta does not mean anyone can test, it means the beta is not covered by an NDA. They are not under any obligation to give everyone total access at all.

I never knew that.  I assumed it meant what GF assumed it meant.

[DisturbedPervert]

Every use of open beta I've seen means open to most anyone or at least a very large group.  They typically do drop the nda at the start of open beta, it'd be impossible to keep anyway.  You could have a closed beta with no nda though, Warhammer online lifted the nda during their closed beta.

[Berkut]

Every use of open beta I've seen means open to most anyone or at least a very large group.  They typically do drop the nda at the start of open beta, it'd be impossible to keep anyway.  You could have a closed beta with no nda though, Warhammer online lifted the nda during their closed beta.

Open means it is open - the people in the beta are not under any NDA, and it is usually a larger group not specifically selected for by the developers. Obviously it does not mean that everyone and anyone gets to play - they are still going to limit the numbers in SOME manner. Sometimes that is by requiring people to register, or download from fileplanet, or whatever.

Sometimes it may mean everyone who wants to play can - that is certainly an open beta as well (obviously if you are letting a large number of people play, it is open, since you are not expecting them all to abide by an NDA).

But it doesn't mean that you have to let anyone get a key. In other words, yeah, if you do let everyone get a key, then it is certainly an open beta, but that does not mean all open betas include giving away keys to anyone.